Lines Written In Wilford Churchyard (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Here would I wish to sleep. This is the spotWhich I have long mark'd out to lay my bones in.Tired ...
Contemplation Poems (841 Poems)
Stanzas To The Moon (Maria Logan Poems)
TO thee, bright Orb, my humid eyes I raise; To thee I sigh, reflecting as I gaze,How dark earth's transitory scenes ...
Dialogues (Pietro Aretino Poems)
ANTONIA What did you see? Tell me, please!NANNA In the cell I saw four sisters, the General, and the three ...
Christmas (Henry Timrod Poems)
How grace this hallowed day?Shall happy bells, from yonder ancient spire,Send their glad greetings to each Christmas fire Round which the ...
“Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones,” (Jetsun Milarepa Poems)
Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones,Once lived a Saint, known as the second Buddha;His fame was heard ...
The City (Jaime Saenz Poems)
-- for Blanca Wiethuchterand Ramiro Molina With the smoke and with the fire, many people muffled and silent on a street, on ...
Song Of Azael. (Harriet Annie Wilkins Poems)
I heard the voice of the Death Angel speak, As slowly he pass'd me by,And I saw him throw snow on ...
Substratum (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Hear you r o music in the creaks Made by the sallow grasshopper, Who in the hot weeds sharply breaks The mellow dryness ...
Watch-Night (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
Midnight,-musical and splendid,- And the Old Year's life is ended,-And the New, "born in the purple," babe yet crowned, among us ...
Cui Bono? (Henry Kendall Poems)
A CLAMOUR by day and a whisper by night, And the Summer comes-with the shining noons,With the ripple of leaves, and ...
By Flood and Field 2 (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
They have saddled a hundred milk-white steeds,They have bridled a hundred black.-Old Ballad.'He turned in his saddle, now follow who ...
The Royal Hermitage: a Poem (Jane Brereton Poems)
While to our Queen each duteous Bard conveysThe faithful Tribute of exalted Praise;While Genius, Learning, all their Force combine,To make ...
Samadhi (Paramahansa Yogananda Poems)
Vanished are the veils of light and shade,Lifted the vapors of sorrow,Sailed away the dawn of fleeting joy,Gone the mirage ...
The Shepherd and the Philosopher (John Gay Poems)
Remote from cities liv'd a swain,Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;His head was silver'd o'er with age,And long experience ...
An Hypothesis (Judith Sargent Murray Poems)
Last night unpleasing visions round my head,In horror clad, their baleful influence spread!Spectres most ghastly rose before my view,And every ...
The Little Grand Duchess (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHAT a pure and chastened splendor,What a grace of joyance tender,Like to starlight or to moonlight,Melting into fairy Junelight,Sleeps my ...
A Student’s Evening Hymn (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
I.Now no more the slanting raysWith the mountain summits dally,Now no more in crimson blazeEvening's fleecy cloudless rally,Soon shall Night ...
Wamberal (Henry Kendall Poems)
Just a shell, to which the seaweed glittering yet with greenness clings,Like the song that once I loved so, softly ...
My “Promenade Solitaire” (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Up and down in my garden fair,Under the trellis where grapes will bloom,With the breath of violets in the air,As ...
The Rival Swans (Janet Little Poems)
WHILE o'er the plains stern winter bore the sway,And Sol from Capricorn diffus'd his ray,Nigh Bolton Gate, beneath a hawthorn ...
Evening Thoughts on Death (John Bowring Poems)
The good man dies—it grieves us:Why should the good man die?He dies—but, dying, leaves usA lasting legacy.And this becomes our ...
The Aspen Leaf (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
I would some instruction draw,And raise pleasure to the height,Through the meanest object's sight.By the murmur of a spring,Or the ...
Written In The Prospect Of Death (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Sad solitary Thought, who keep'st thy vigils.Thy solemn vigils, in the sick man's mind;Communing lonely with his sinking soul,And musing ...
Over The River (Nancy Wakefield Poems)
OVER the river they beckon to me,- Loved ones who 've cross'd to the farther side; The gleam of their ...
My Dream (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
In my dream, methought I trod,Yesternight, a mountain road;Narrow as Al Sirat's span,High as eagle's flight, it ran.Overhead, a roof ...
The Hermit (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
IT was a cold and bitter winter night.The keen winds howled around like beasts of preySeeking for victims. A white ...
The World Is A Playground (Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Khan Poems)
Baazi-cha-aie-Atfal Hai Dunia, Mere AageHota Hai Shaboroze Tamasha Mere AageIk Khel Hai Aurang-e-suleman, Mere NazdeekIk Baat Hai Ajaaz-a-Maseehah, Mere AageJuz ...
Ode On The Divine Omnipresence (Henry James Pye Poems)
A College ExerciseI. O sacred Muse! thy aid impart, To rapture wake the sounding lyre! And kindle in my panting heart A spark of ...
Oceanus’ Mirror, Trinity Lake, N. Y. (Jared Barhite Poems)
I've been charmed by many a picture, That has brought its master renown; I have looked on beautiful valleys From the mountain's lofty ...
The Beggar Family (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
Within the court, before the judge,There stand six wretched creatures,They're lame and weary, one and all,With pinched and pallid features.The ...