All Poems
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Ghazal 1 (With English Translation)
© Inshaullah Khan Insha
O Insha! Who gets respite from the turns of fortune!
Its blessing indeed that a few friends are still with us!
J. C. M.
© George Meredith
A fountain of our sweetest, quick to spring
In fellowship abounding, here subsides:
And never passage of a cloud on wing
To gladden blue forgets him; near he hides.
The Suburbs
© Enid Derham
MILES and miles of quiet houses, every house a harbour,
Each for some unquiet soul a haven and a home,
The Bride Of The Nile - Act I
© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Act I Governor's Palace at Alexandria.
Act II Garden House of the Makawkas at On.
Act III On the Banks of the Nile. Time, th Century, A.D.
Requital
© John Greenleaf Whittier
As Islam's Prophet, when his last day drew
Nigh to its close, besought all men to say
A Dream
© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I dreamed
A dream of you,
Not as you seemed
When you were late unkind
The Hillside Grave
© Madison Julius Cawein
Ten-hundred deep the drifted daisies break
Here at the hill's foot; on its top, the wheat
Threnody.
© Robert Crawford
Dark Pine that moanest long,
Sad, solitary tree!
As if the world's wrong
A tongue had found in thee,
Der Tausch an Hr. W.
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Ein Maegdchen, das Verstand und Geist
Gemeiner Schoenen Zahl entreisst,
Epistle To Augusta
© George Gordon Byron
I.
My sister! my sweet sister! if a name
Dearer and purer were, it should be thine;
Mountains and seas divide us, but I claim
America's Welcome Home
© Henry Van Dyke
Oh, gallantly they fared forth in khaki and in blue,
America's crusading host of warriors bold and true;
They battled for the rights of man beside our brave Allies,
And now they're coming home to us with glory in their eyes.
A Colloquy: (For M. W.)
© Katharine Tynan
"When you get to Heaven, seek and find my boy.
Mother him!" "Until you come?" "I shall never come.
Earth was good enough for me who had all my joy
In my Love, my Light of home.
Sonnet 20
© Richard Barnfield
But now my Muse toyld with continuall care,
Begins to faint, and slacke her former pace,
The Horses
© Katharine Lee Bates
"Thus far 80,000 horses have been shipped from the United States to the European belligerents."
WHAT was our share in the sinning,
Which are You?
© Wilcox Ella Wheeler
There are two kinds of people on earth to-day;
Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.
Olney Hymn 23: Pleading For And With Youth
© William Cowper
Sin has undone our wretched race;
But Jesus has restored,
And brought the sinner face to face
With his forgiving Lord.
Occasional Address
© Charlotte Turner Smith
Written for the benefit of a distressed Player, detained
at Brighthelmstone for Debt, November 1792.
WHEN in a thousand swarms, the summer o'er,
The birds of passage quit our English shore,
By various routs the feather'd myriad moves;
The Becca-Fica seeks Italian groves,
Ancestors
© Cesare Pavese
Stunned by the world, I reached an age
when I threw punches at air and cried to myself.
