Art Poems (5300 Poems)
Extracts From Leon. An Unfinished Poem (Joseph Rodman Drake Poems)
It is a summer evening, calm and fair,A warm, yet freshening glow is in the air;Along its bank, the cool stream wanders slow,Like parting friends that linger as they go.The willows, as its waters meekly glide,Bend their dishevelled tresses to … Continue reading
The Conflict For Civil Rights (Henry McNeal Turner Poems)
I.A Golden House on golden columns raised,In redly tinted skies bespangled blazed;With opening doors diffused a gladsome light,And glorious gleams refreshed the Freedman’s sight.This was the Almighty’s work; no fictitious sky,That held this burnished Temple flaming highLike precious jewels in … Continue reading
Eleonora : A Panegyrical (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Dedicated to the Memory of the Late Countess of Abingdon. As when some great and gracious monarch dies,Soft whispers first and mournful riseAmong the sad attendants; then the soundSoon gathers voice and spreads the news around,Through town and country, till … Continue reading
The Believer’s Soliloquy; Especially in Times of Desertion, Temptation, Affliction (Ralph Erskine Poems)
Sect. I.The deserted Believer longing for perfect freedom from sin. Ah mournful case! what can affordContentment, when an absent LordWill now his kindness neither proveBy smiles of grace, nor lines of love! What heart can joy, what soul can sing,While … Continue reading
The Waes O’ War : Or The Upshot Of The History O’ Will And Jean. In Four Parts (Hector MacNeill Poems)
PART I. Oh! that folk wad weel consider What it is to tyne a–name,What this warld is a’ thegither, If bereft o’ honest fame! Poortith ne’er can bring dishonour; Hardship’s ne’er breed sorrow’s smart,If bright conscience taks upon her To shed sunshine round the … Continue reading
British Georgics. June (James Grahame Poems)
Beneath the fervour of the noon-tide beamAll Nature’s works in placid stillness pause,–Save man, and his joint labourer the horse,The bee, and all the idly busy insect tribes;Even ‘mid the deepest groves, the merry birdSits drowsily, with head beneath its … Continue reading
Advice To Serve God (Rees Prichard Poems)
ALL, who wou’d ease and happiness obtain,And wish in health and wealth and peace to live,Must, whilst they in this vale of tears remain,To serve their God with all their spirit strive. Whoe’er besides wou’d covet to escapeLosses, calamity, and … Continue reading
Biography (John Masefield Poems)
When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts, And long before this wandering flesh is rotten The dates which made me will be all forgotten; And none will know the gleam there used to … Continue reading
Fingal – Book Vi (James Macpherson Poems)
ARGUMENT. Night comes on. Fingal gives a feast to his army, at which Swaran is present. The king commands Ullin his bard to give ‘the song of peace;’ a custom always observed at the end of a war. Ullin relates … Continue reading
Scholar And The Carpenter (Jean Ingelow Poems)
While ripening corn grew thick and deep,And here and there men stood to reap,One morn I put my heart to sleep, And to the lanes I took my way.The goldfinch on a thistle-headStood scattering seedlets while she fed;The wrens their pretty … Continue reading