Classical Poems
| Title | Poet |
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The Last Chrysanthemum
Why should this flower delay so long
To show its tremulous plumes? |
by Thomas Hardy on 1/4/2003 |
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The Last Coach
Before her mirror in a pouting mood,
Afraid to weep lest anger should revoke |
by Dora Sigerson Shorter on 9/29/2010 |
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The Last Conqueror
Victorious men of earth, no more
Proclaim how wide your empires are; |
by James Shirley on 4/15/2010 |
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The Last Contention
I
Young captain of a crazy bark! |
by George Meredith on 4/15/2010 |
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The Last Day
The day was cloudy. No one could come to a decision;
a light wind was blowing. ‘Not a north-easter, the sirocco,' someone said. |
by Giorgos Seferis on 4/15/2012 |
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The Last Day (excerpt)
Sooner or later, in some future date,
(A dreadful secret in the book of Fate) |
by Edward Young on 1/1/2004 |
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The Last Defeat
Across the field of day
In sudden blazon lay |
by Edith Nesbit on 4/19/2010 |
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The Last Department
Twelve hundred million men are spread
About this Earth, and I and You |
by Rudyard Kipling on 1/3/2003 |
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The Last Ditch
LOVE, through your varied views on Art
Untiring have I followed you, |
by Edith Nesbit on 4/19/2010 |
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The Last Elegy Of The Third Book Of Tibullus
Propitious Bacchus come—so round thy brow
Be with the mystic vine the ivy wove; |
by Henry James Pye on 9/27/2010 |
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The Last Envoy
THIS wind, that through the silent woodland blows,
O'er rippling corn and dreaming pastures goes |
by Edith Nesbit on 4/19/2010 |
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The Last Eve Of Summer
Summer's last sun nigh unto setting shines
Through yon columnar pines, |
by John Greenleaf Whittier on 4/6/2010 |
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The Last Evening
Over sea the sun in a mystery of light
Burns across the waters, on the blown spray glancing: |
by Robert Laurence Binyon on 9/1/2010 |
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The Last Evening
And night and distant rumbling; now the army's
carrier-train was moving out, to war. |
by Rainer Maria Rilke on 1/13/2003 |
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The Last Flight
Ud Jayega Huns Akela,
Jug Darshan Ka Mela |
by Kabir on 1/1/2004 |
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The Last Flower
O Golden-Rod, well-worshipped of the sun! |
by Francis Joseph Sherman on 5/2/2012 |
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The Last Flower
Rich the first flower's graces be,
But dearer far the last to me; |
by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin on 3/31/2010 |
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The Last Furrow
THE SPIRIT OF EARTH with still, restoring hands,
Mid ruin moves, in glimmering chasm gropes, |
by Edwin Markham on 4/21/2010 |
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The Last Giustianini
O WIFE, wife, wife! As if the sacred name
Could weary one with saying! Once again |
by Edith Wharton on 4/20/2010 |
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The Last Goal
I, Zinedine Zidane,
the stranger you feel like stabbing |
by Koyamparambath Satchidanandan on 9/7/2012 |
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The Last Hero
WE laid him to rest with tenderness;
Homeward we turned in the twilight’s gold; |
by George William Russell on 5/7/2012 |
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The Last Hero
The wind blew out from Bergen from the dawning to the day,
There was a wreck of trees and fall of towers a score of miles away, |
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton on 1/1/2004 |
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The Last Hero
The wind blew out from Bergen from the dawning to the day,
There was a wreck of trees and fall of towers a score of miles away, |
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton on 1/3/2003 |
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The Last Invocation
At the last, tenderly,
From the walls of the powerful fortress'd house, |
by Walt Whitman on 1/3/2003 |
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The Last Irish Grievance
As I think of the insult that's done to this nation,
Red tears of rivinge from me fatures I wash, |
by William Makepeace Thackeray on 4/7/2010 |