Aechdeacon Barbour (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shedA dubious light on every upturned head;On locks like those of Absalom the ...
Poems about misrule (21 Poems)
The Convocation: A Poem (Richard Savage Poems)
When Vertue's Standard Ecclesiasticks bear,Their sacred Robe the noblest Minds revere.All to its Guidance do their Thoughts submit,But such who ...
The Slave Trade, A Poem (Hannah More Poems)
If heaven has into being deign'd to callThy light, O Liberty! to shine on all;Bright intellectual Sun! why does thy ...
Queen Mab: Part VI. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
All touch, all eye, all ear, The Spirit felt the Fairy's burning speech. O'er the thin texture of its frame The varying periods ...
Fragment: Supposed To Be An Epithalamium Of Francis Ravaillac And Charlotte Corday (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
'Tis midnight now--athwart the murky air,Dank lurid meteors shoot a livid gleam;From the dark storm-clouds flashes a fearful glare,It shows ...
Tenebrae (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
He was so tired that he was scarcely able to hear a note of the songs: he felt imprisoned in ...
All Saint’s Day (John Keble Poems)
Why blow'st thou not, thou wintry wind, Now every leaf is brown and sere, And idly droops, to thee resigned, The fading chaplet ...
The Dying Old Year, 1867 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Avaunt, away! dread shapes of hate and fearThat hover round me," moan'd the dying Year:"Dark treason, superstition, and misrule!Man, 'neath ...
Alphabet And Bayonet (Mary Baker Eddy Poems)
If fancy plumes aerial flight, Go fix thy restless mind On learning's lore and wisdom's might, And live to bless mankind. The sword is ...
The Brothers, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Mr. FISHER AMES BUELL, died at Hartford, May 19th, 1861, aged 25, andMr. HENRY R. BUELL, on his voyage to ...
The Perfect Playmate (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Roger Charles Noel Bellingham. Before Ypres, March 4th, 1915The Perfect Playmate, whither does he strayThat now no more his feet ...
The Fate of Maximilian of Mexico And His Empress (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Take physic, Pomp!" Look on that noble brow—Of what avail thy garish splendours now—The crown of Empire, worn for three ...
Respublica (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
The strident highcivic trumpetingof misrule. It iswhat we stand for.Wild insolence,aggregates withoutdistinction. Courageof common men:spent in the rucktheir remnant witnessafter ...
The Walk Home From Beldagon (Ernest Jones Poems)
AFTER A CHARITY SERMON. The rich are going to their homes, The clouds of dust arise;For rich men always ...
The Midnight Storm (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
NOW thickening darkness spreads her solemn shade,What awful sounds the startled ear invade,Awake the hallow'd silence of the night,And strike ...
After The Centennial (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
(A Hope.)BEFORE our eyes a pageant rolledWhose banners every land unfurled;And as it passed, its splendors toldThe art and glory ...
The Day of The Lord (Charles Kingsley Poems)
The Day of the Lord is at hand, at hand:Its storms roll up the sky:The nations sleep starving on heaps ...
M’Fingal – Canto III (John Trumbull Poems)
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
ROSALIND, HELEN, and her Child. SCENE. The Shore of the Lake of Como. HELEN Come hither, my sweet Rosalind. 'T ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Paradise Lost: Book 07 (John Milton Poems)
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...