Mirage (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Is it a will-o'-the-wisp, or is dawn breaking, That our horizon wears so strange a hue? Is it but ...
Conscience Poems (448 Poems)
On An Infant Dying As Soon As Born (Charles Lamb Poems)
I SAW where in the shroud did lurkA curious frame of Nature's work;A floweret crush'd in the bud,A nameless piece ...
Admiral Dugout (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
He had done with fleets and squadrons, with the restless, roaming seas,He had found the quiet haven he desired,And he ...
Enigma XI. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
OF virtuous Agrippina's son,Who on proud Rome's imperial throne, Succeeds Tiberius dead;The muse with unfeign'd sorrow sings,And all-reluctant tunes ...
Our Black Brudder (C J Dennis Poems)
O, fellow Australians, listen, attend: We must cease our contemptuous swearingAnd cursing and sneering at Bull's colored friend, For our ...
To a Friend, on Taking Leave of Oare (Caroline Fry Poems)
Let us loiter awhile on this beautiful hill,—The last time, perhaps, we shall meet on its brow;The days that so ...
What Owest Thou (Abner Cosens Poems)
In blood bought Belgian trenches, On stormy Northern Sea, Brave hearts of oak are watching, ...
To The Bee (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
HAIL harbinger of spring! Already on the wing,Humming thy lengthen'd notes along the vale; ...
Conscious Madness (extract from Saul) (Charles Heavysege Poems)
What ails me? what impels me on, untilThe big drops fall from off my brow? Whence comesThis strange affliction?--Oh, thus ...
Self-Interog (Emily Jane Bronte Poems)
The evening passes fast away.'Tis almost time to rest;What thoughts has left the vanished day,What feelings in thy breast?The vanished ...
In The Cup (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
There is grief in the cup!I saw a proud mother set wine on the board;The eyes of her son sparkled ...
Better Than Gold (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Better than grandeur, better than gold,Than rank and titles a thousand fold,Is a healthy body and a mind at ease,And ...
The Aged Cottagers (Christian Milne Poems)
A THOUSAND joys has happy Age,When Youth has left no sting;A conscience sound makes life's last stageGlide smooth on lighter ...
Bachin’ (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
Our lives are hid; our trails are strange;We're scattered through the WestIn canyon cool, on blistered rangeOr windy mountain crest.Wherever ...
On Silence (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
WITHDRAWN from busy man, the mind regainsIts wonted strength when solemn stillness reigns;For silence proves a shelter for the mind,When ...
The Inconstant Lover (Christian Milne Poems)
O! DAMON ! how much thou art chang'd--How cold that false bosom of thine;Since late, on Dee's banks as we ...
Do You? (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
YOU pay what you owe to your neighbor, I know,You do the square thing by your brother,Your word is as ...
Money (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
HE'D made a fortune out of stocks, he couldn't count his worth; He 'd hoarded up a store of gold, ...
Evening (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
SOFTLY , Evening shades the skies,Quick the golden lustre flies;Calm we see the day retire,While Evening's sober thoughts inspire.Pensive pleasures ...
The Order Of Pure Intuition (Edward Caswall Poems)
HAIL, sacred Order of eternal Truth! That deep within the soul, In axiomatic majesty sublime, One undivided whole,- ...
Faith (Caroline Fry Poems)
Faith, like a simple, unsuspecting child,Serenely resting on its mother's arm,Reposing every care upon her God,Sleeps on his bosom, and ...
From Third Avenue On (Djuna Barnes Poems)
AND now she walks on out turned feet Beside the litter in the street Or rolls beneath a dirty sheet ...
Safe Conduct (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
There isn't any danger in the kindly things you say,There isn't any sorrow in the fine and manly deed,No deep ...
A Good Name (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Men talk too much of gold and fame,And not enough about a name;And yet a good name's better farThan all ...
Consolation of Early Death (Beaumont and Fletcher Poems)
Sweet prince, the name of Death was never terribleTo him that knew to live; nor the loud torrentOf all afflictions, ...
Catharine Of Arragon (Eloise Alberta Bibb Poems)
So tired! so weary — The race — has been long,And the paths have been rugged, The winds have been ...
The Average Man (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
MINE is a song of the average man Who has been on earth since the world began!You'll find him kind ...
On A Group Of Justice And Charity (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
WHAT do the scales of Justice hold, Poised even in that steady hand?-- What is that measure closely scanned? Is ...
Huswifery (Edward Taylor Poems)
Make me, O Lord, Thy spinning-wheel complete.Thy holy word my distaff make for me.Make mine affections Thy swift flyers neatAnd ...
To A Child (Christopher Morley Poems)
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years ...