The New Wife and the Old (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Dark the halls, and cold the feast,Gone the bridemaids, gone the priest.All is over, all is done,Twain of yesterday are ...
Brain Poems (1987 Poems)
To The Reader (John Bunyan Poems)
The title page will show, if there thou look,Who are the proper subjects of this book.They're boys and girls of ...
At The Commencement Dinner (James Russell Lowell Poems)
IN ACKNOWLEDGING A TOAST TO THE SMITH PROFESSORI rise, Mr. Chairman, as both of us know,With the impromptu I promised ...
A Dispute With Death (Guido Cavalcanti Poems)
0 SLUGGISH, hard, ingrate, what doest thou?Poor sinner, folded round with heavy sin,Whose life to find out joy alone is ...
The Last Survivor (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
YES! the vacant chairs tell sadly we are going, going fast,And the thought comes strangely o'er me, who will live ...
Our Battlefield (Jared Barhite Poems)
There are fields of martial glory Where the slain are ne'er bemoaned; There are victories though silent, Where grim monarchs are dethroned; There are ...
The Angels of Buena Vista (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Speak and tell us, our Ximena, looking northward far away,O'er the camp of the invaders, o'er the Mexican array,Who is ...
Voluntaries (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
I.Low and mournful be the strain,Haughty thought be far from me;Tones of penitence and pain,Moanings of the tropic sea;Low and ...
The Five Senses (Jared Barhite Poems)
THE EYE. Some eyes are trained to scan large field Till instantaneous glance may yield A knowledge full and plenty; While others keep a ...
Afar in the Desert (Thomas Pringle Poems)
Afar in the Desert I love to ride,With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side:When the sorrows of life the ...
Verses For Alfeo Faggi’s Stations Of The Cross (Padraic Colum Poems)
IHERE Pilate's Court is:None may clatter nor callWhere the Wolf giving suckTo the Twins glares on all"Strip Him and scourge ...
The Face On The Barroom Floor (Hugh Antoine D Arcy Poems)
'TWAS a balmy summer evening, and a goodly crowd was there,Which well-nigh filled Joe's barroom, on the corner of the ...
The Lament (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
Supposed to be written by the VICTIM of an ill-placed AFFECTION."Enchanted grounds o'er which I vacant stray'd,In bow'rs of fragrance ...
Our Willie (Henry Timrod Poems)
'Twas merry Christmas when he came,Our little boy beneath the sod;And brighter burned the Christmas flame,And merrier sped the Christmas ...
The Oceanides IV (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
THE SUNKEN ROCK.A gentle ship was sailing Upon the Indian seas,O lovely looked she sailing, So fair were wave and breeze:Yet sunken ...
Fulfilment (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
We cried, " How long ! " We sighed, " Not yet; "And still with faces dawnward set" Prepare the ...
A Warning, Or Admonition, To Every Man, To Think On God In The Morning (Rees Prichard Poems)
WHEN first thou wakest, each succeeding day,Lift up to God above thy grateful eyes,And due respect to him be sure ...
The Brother Of Mercy (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Piero Luca, known of all the townAs the gray porter by the Pitti wallWhere the noon shadows of the gardens ...
The Celebration Of The Lizard (James Douglas Morrison Poems)
Lions in the street & roamingDogs in heat, rabid, foamingA beast caged in the heart of a cityThe body of ...
Voices Of The Night : Prelude (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Pleasant it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low,To lie amid some sylvan scene,Where, the long drooping ...
The Three Urgandas (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Cast on sleep there came to me Three Urgandas; and the sea In lost lands of Briogne Sounded moaning, moaning: Cloudy clad in awful ...
Beautiful Snow (Joseph Warren Watson Poems)
Oh! The snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and the earth below, Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of ...
Prelude (George Wither Poems)
(From _The Shepherd's Hunting_)Seest thou not, in clearest days,Oft thick fogs cloud Heaven's rays?And that vapours which do breatheFrom the ...
Verse (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
1FriendsThe old word is dead.The old books are dead.Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.Dead is the mind ...
To My Old Readers (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
You know "The Teacups," that congenial setWhich round the Teapot you have often met;The grave DICTATOR, him you knew of ...
Old Cambridge (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AND can it be you've found a placeWithin this consecrated space,That makes so fine a show,For one of Rip Van ...
An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford to hasten Him into the Country (Thomas Randolph Poems)
COME, spur away, I have no patience for a longer stay, But must go down And leave the chargeable noise of this great ...
War (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurledDeath, fate, and ruin, on a bleeding world.See! on yon heath what countless victims ...
GOLIAH’S Defeat. In the Manner of Lucan. (Mather Byles Poems)
When the proud Philistines for War declar'd,And Israel's Sons for Battle had prepar'd,Before the Heathen Camp a Monster stalk'd,And awful ...
De Rerum Virtute (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
I.Here is the skull of a man: a man's thoughts and emotionsHave moved under the thin bone vault like cloudsUnder ...