A Poem On The Fugitive Slave Law (Elymas Payson Rogers Poems)
Law! what is law? The wise and sage, Of every clime and every age, In this most cordially unite, That ...
Poems about blights (21 Poems)
How Old Bown took Harper’s Ferry (Edmund Clarence Stedman Poems)
John Brown in Kansas settled, like a steadfast Yankee farmer, Brave and godly, with four sons, all stalwart men ...
The Child Of The Islands – Conclusion (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
I.MY lay is ended! closed the circling year, From Spring's first dawn to Winter's darkling night; The moan of sorrow, ...
The Wires (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I lay beneath the long slim wires,And heard them murmur like desires,Till, drowsy with the heat, my thoughts Set ...
False Friendship Delineated (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
HE never yet consulted friendship's laws,Who would not suffer in her glorious cause;Who would not sacrifice the proffer'd gain,But let ...
Lines (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
Descriptive of the character of an ingenious Youth, whose brilliant talents shone conspicuously among his admiringfriends, who were unexpectedly called ...
Brown October (Albert Pike Poems)
October, brown October, with his slowAnd melancholy step, has left the hills And comes upon the plains. The wild winds ...
Thirty-Eight (Charlotte Smith Poems)
ADDRESSED TO MRS. H------Y. IN early youth's unclouded scene,The brilliant morning of eighteen,With health and sprightly joy elateWe gazed on ...
Fragment. “It was the harvest time: the broad, bright moon” (Frances Anne Kemble Poems)
It was the harvest time: the broad, bright moon Was at her full, and shone upon the fields ...
Can’t (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is ...
On Poverty (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
DARK is the cloud which hov'ring o'er the mind,Shades the bright promises of early youth;Nips all its blossoms, blights the ...
In Memoriam Frederick Douglass (Eloise Alberta Bibb Poems)
O Death! why dost thou steal the great,With grudging like to strongest hate,And rob the world of giant minds,For whom ...
A Retrospect (Frances Anne Kemble Poems)
Life wanes, and the bright sunlight of our youth Sets o'er the mountain-tops, where once Hope stood. O ...
Lines- (Eliza Acton Poems)
Yes, thou art like the blasting breath,Of that wild desert wind,Which leaves, in its career of death,No living thing behind;Ne'er ...
In The Meadows Of The Sky (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
When the great sower, Night,Lets down his sable bars,He goes into his endless fieldsTo plant his seed, the stars.And then ...
The Lacking Sense Scene.–A sad-coloured landscape, Waddon Vale (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I "O Time, whence comes the Mother's moody look amid her labours, As of one who all unwittingly has wounded ...
Love and Friendship (Emily Bronte Poem)
Love is like the wild rose-briar, Friendship like the holly-tree -- The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms But ...
255. Verses to Miss Cruickshank (Robert Burns Poem)
BEAUTEOUS Rosebud, young and gay, Blooming in thy early May, Never may'st thou, lovely flower, Chilly shrink in sleety shower! ...
London (William Blake Poems)
I wander thro' each charter'd street. Near where the charter'd Thames does flow A mark in every face I meet ...
The Demon In Me (Marina Tsvetaeva Poems)
The demon in me's not dead, He's living, and well. In the body as in a hold, In the self ...
Whene’er I See Those Smiling Eyes (Thomas Moore Poems)
Whene'er I see those smiling eyes, So full of hope, and joy, and light, As if no cloud could ever ...