Defeats Poems (398 Poems)
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Ambition – Appeal ) (Henry Baker Poems)
Ambition. The Sisyphus is he, whom Noise and StrifeSeduce from all the soft Retreats of Life:To vex the Government, disturb the LawsDrunk with the Fumes of popular Applause,He courts the giddy Crowd to make him great,And sweats, and toils in … Continue reading
Another Piece Of Advice To Sinners To Come To Christ (Rees Prichard Poems)
COME all that are laden with vice, and with sin,Come to your Redeemer, who bids you all in,Come all to be eas’d of your fears, and your crimes,He’ll give you all rest, if you’ll come but betimes. Come all to … Continue reading
Gettysburg: A Battle Ode (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
IVictors, living, with laureled brow,And you that sleep beneath the sward!Your song was poured from cannon throats:It rang in deep-tongued bugle-notes:Your triumph came; you won your crown,The grandeur of a world’s renown.But, in our later lays,Full freighted with your praise,Fair … Continue reading
Vision of War (Lincoln Colcord Poems)
1.I went out into the night of quiet stars;I looked up at the wheeling heavens, at the mysterious firmament;I thought of the awful distances out there, of the incredible magnitudes, of space and silence and eternity;I thought of man, his … Continue reading
Protestant Popery: Or, The Convocation – Canto IV (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
The Worldling Churchman, raging with Defeat,Renews his Hate, and burns with double Heat.Tho’ foil’d in Synod, he laments the DayThat snatch’d his Pow’rs, his darling Pow’rs away;Tho’ spoil’d of all Authority Supreme,He sees his Empire vanish like a Dream.The free–born … Continue reading
Dance Of The Seasons (Harriet Monroe Poems)
I-Spring AllegroWake ! wake !Out of the snow and the mist,In rain-wet wind-blown gauzeOf amber and amethyst,Cometh Spring like a girl.Trembling and timorousShe peers through the thin white thaws,Afraid of the winds that whirlDown paths all perilousWhere her so tender … Continue reading
Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I In a nation of one hundred fine, mob-hearted, lynching, relenting, repenting millions,There are plenty of sweeping, swinging, stinging, gorgeous things to shout about,And knock your old blue devils out. I brag and chant of Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan,Candidate for … Continue reading
The Human Music (John Freeman Poems)
At evening when the aspens rustled softAnd the last blackbird by the hedge-nest laughed,And through the leaves the moon’s unmeaning faceLooked, and then rose in dark-blue leafless space;Watching the trees and moon she could not bearThe silence and the presence … Continue reading
The Bottle-Scrue (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
The Patten, Fan, and Petticoat,Three modern Themes of special Note,In parlous Rhimes immortal live,If Rhimes immortal Life can give;The Mouse–Trap in sonorous laysTrensmits thro’ Ages Taffy’s praise;While still unsung in pompous Strains,Oh! shame! the Bottle–scrue remains,The Bottle–scrue, whose Worth, whose … Continue reading
America (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
NOR War nor Peace, forever, old and young,But Strength my theme, whose song is yet unsung,The People’s Strength, the deep alluring dreamOf truths that seethe below the truths that seem. The buried ruins of dead empires seek,Of Indian, Syrian, Persian, … Continue reading