All Poems
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The Wild Geese
© Katharine Tynan
Wild geese fly overhead
In the wild Autumn weather.
Souls of the newly-dead
Crying and flying together.
The Passengers Of A Retarded Submersible
© William Dean Howells
THE GHOSTS OF THE LUSITANIA WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Oh, kind kin of our murderers, take us back when you sail away;
Our own kin have forgotten us. O Captain, do not stay!
But hasten, Captain, hasten: The wreck that lies under the sea
Shall be ever the home for us this land can never be.
Sonnett - XII
© James Russell Lowell
SUB PONDERE CRESCIT
The hope of Truth grows stronger, day by day;
I know the night no longer
© Odysseas Elytis
I know the night no longer, the terrible anonymity of death
A fleet of stars moors in the haven of my heart
O Hesperos, sentinel, that you may shine by the side
Of a skyblue breeze on an island which dreams
Senex To His Friend
© Paul Hamilton Hayne
YOUR hair is scant, my friend, and mine is scanter,
On heads snowed white by Time, the disenchanter;
In place of joyous beams and jovial twinkles,
Behold, old boy, our faces scored with wrinkles!
Now Moses
© Henry Clay Work
Now Moses, you'll catch it! Now Moses, don't touch it!
Now Moses, don't you hear what I say? (don't you hear it?)
'Tis thus without stopping, the music keeps dropping,
For night after night, and for day after day.
The Truce And The Peace
© Robinson Jeffers
(NOVEMBER, 1918)
Peace now for every fury has had her day,
To Atthis The Inconstant
© Sappho
Ah, long ago!
As Aphrodite's handmaid bright
As gold wert thou then in my sight.
A very queen of love to me
Solid Earth
© William Rose Benet
Scurvy doctrine, that the world is a bubble
It is much more solid than that!
Couplet 1
© Amir Khusro
Farsi Couplet:
Naala-e zanjeer-e Majnun arghanoon-e aashiqanast
Zauq-e aan andaza-e gosh-e ulul-albaab neest
The Moon
© Charlotte Turner Smith
Queen of the silver bow, by thy pale beam
Alone and pensive I delight to stray,
The Garden Of Epicurus
© George Meredith
That Garden of sedate Philosophy
Once flourished, fenced from passion and mishap,
If Blame be my sideforfeit Me
© Emily Dickinson
If Blame be my sideforfeit Me
But doom me not to forfeit Thee
To forfeit Thee? The very name
Is sentence from Beliefand House
The Borough. Letter XV: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Clelia
© George Crabbe
Another term is past; ten other years
In various trials, troubles, views, and fears:
Of these some pass'd in small attempts at trade;
Houses she kept for widowers lately made;
For now she said, "They'll miss th' endearing
Hymn After The Emancipation Proclamation
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
GIVER of all that crowns our days,
With grateful hearts we sing thy praise;
Through deep and desert led by Thee,
Our promised land at last we see.
Song Of The Night At Daybreak
© Alice Meynell
All my stars forsake me,
And the dawn-winds shake me.
Where shall I betake me?
