Skip to main content
Home Poem Lake

Filter by collection:

  • English (2) Apply English filter

Filter by poet:

  • Bret Harte (1) Apply Bret Harte filter

Filter by title:

  • (-) Remove language filter language
  • (-) Remove di filter di
  • english (1) Apply english filter
  • hundred (1) Apply hundred filter
  • james (1) Apply james filter
  • lyrical (1) Apply lyrical filter
  • plain (1) Apply plain filter
  • poems (1) Apply poems filter
  • second (1) Apply second filter
  • series (1) Apply series filter
  • truthful (1) Apply truthful filter

Filter by year rounded:

  • 1800 (1) Apply 1800 filter
  1. language
  • Plain Language from Truthful James

    Popularly Known as “The Heathen Chinee”

    WHICH I wish to remark—
      And my language is plain—
    That for ways that are dark
      And for tricks that are vain,
    The heathen Chinee is peculiar:
      Which the same I would rise to explain.

    Ah Sin was his name;
      And I shall not deny
    In regard to the same
      What that name might...

    Bret Harte

  • The Hundred Best Poems (lyrical) in the English language - second series

Get the book

Do you prefer hearing a poem to reading it?


Get Poem Lake for Amazon Alexa

  • Home
  • Login
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use Agreement & Disclaimer
  • Printed and Kindle Poem Collections