How Shirwi ascended the Throne, by Ferdowsi
From the Shahnameh Now when Shirwi sat on the ...
Sheep Poems
During the Plague, 1665, by Florence Peacock
Supposed to be spoken by one who had been a tro...
The Shepherdess, by George Houghton
A hill of heather 'gainst a yellow sky;
And o...
The Summer Storm, by George Houghton
In a scurry of clouds
Sudden day fell,
What ...
To Mæcenas, by Horace
Descended of an ancient line,
That long the T...
Long Island in Late October, by Isaac McLellan
October's flaming banners, of purple and of go...
Rabbit, by Isaac McLellan
'Tis a fair haunt, a lovely scene
With vale a...
Wolf, by Isaac McLellan
In winter, when the snows lie deep
In shapele...
The Plains of Arizona, by Joaquin Miller
THOU white and dried-up sea! So old!
So strewn...
Indian Mascot, by Joshua Knight
Filling in for an absent teacher
at a middle s...
Knebworth Park, by Katherine Gallagher
A cave of air softens,
hovers over our heads....
Honor Well the Shades, by Leonidas of Tarentum
Shepherds that on this mountain ridge abide,
...
Confutation of Other Philosophers, by Lucretius
And on such grounds it is that those who held
...
The Coyote, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman
Forth from his lonely haunt,
Lean, evil-eyed...
Saved!, by Mary Dow Brine
Found, far out on the snow-mapped moor,
The ...
Somebody's Mother, by Mary Dow Brine
The woman was old and ragged and gray,
And be...
Life in the Country, by Mary T. Lathrap
Spring Arbor, July, 1860. O! Beautiful spot ...
Europa, by Moschus
Cypris, when all but shone the dawn's glad bea...
Fight, by Percy MacKaye
The Tale of a Gunner at the Battle of Plattsbur...
Letter From Stonehenge, by Rick Lupert
from Stolen Mummies Dear Reader
I write to yo...
The Country Road, by Robert McIntyre
Old meandering country road, to thy track I tu...
Pictures of the Past, by Robert McIntyre
God is good to let us keep in mind the pictures...
The Family Has Been Informed, by Roger Elkin
not of the salt-mill of stars
in the bleak nig...
The Week of Prayer, by S. Moore
Let supplicating prayer to heaven ascend,
Pra...
Horatius, by Thomas Babington Macaulay
A Lay Made about the Year of the City CCCLX I ...