Moses In The Bulrushes. A Sacred Drama (Hannah More Poems)
"Let me assert eternal Providence,And justify the ways of God to Man." ~ Paradise Lost.Persons Of The Drama.Hebrew Woman.Jochebed, Mother ...
Drama Poems (88 Poems)
Vera (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IA silent world,-yet full of vital joyUttered in rhythmic movements manifold,And sunbeams flashing on the face of thingsLike sudden smilings ...
Mac Duff’s Cross (Joanna Baillie Poems)
MAC DUFF'S CROSS,A DRAMA.PRELUDE.NAY , smile not, lady, when I speak of witchcraft,And say that still there lurks amongst our ...
On the Bill Which Was Passed in England For Regulating the Slave-Trade (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
The hollow winds of night no moreIn wild, unequal cadence pour,On musing fancy's wakeful ear,The groan of agony severeFrom yon ...
Address For The Opening Of The Fifth Avenue Theatre (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3, 1873HANG out our banners on the stately towerIt dawns at last--the long-expected hour!The steep is climbed, ...
Lucinda (Karl Heinrich Marx Poems)
A BalladLife seems wed to gaietyAs the dancers tread the measure.Each feels chosen speciallyFor the sacred vows to pleasure.Rosy cheeks ...
TO TRAMPS, The Unemployed, The Disinherited, and Miserable (Lucy Parsons Poems)
A word to the 35,000 now trampingthe streets of this great city,with hands in pockets, gazing listlessly about youat the ...
My Dream. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
I had a dream this morning off Madeira,About my poem and its publication.Methought it was still-born, and I could hear ...
The Assembly (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
THE theme my verse unfolds, ye Bridgetown Fair,Is one which late has claimed your constant care,Tis one so dear to ...
To George Felton Mathew (John Keats Poems)
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song;Nor can remembrance, Mathew! bring to viewA ...
Visit Of The Wrens (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
FLYING from out the gusty west,To seek the place where last year's nest,Ragged, and torn by many a routOf winter ...
The Diary of Ana (Ana Poems)
'Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
Address, Spoken At The Opening Of Drury-Lane Theatre. Saturday, October 10, 1812 (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
In one dread night our city saw, and sigh'd,Bow'd to the dust, the Drama's tower of prideIn one short hour ...
To my Friend Mrs. Lloyd (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
My very dear friendShould never dependUpon anything clever or witty,From a poor country wightWhen attempting to write,To one in your ...
Drury-lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick (Samuel Johnson Poems)
1 When Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes2 First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespear rose;3 Each change of many-colour'd life ...
Address For The Benefit Of James Sheridan Knowles. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Nay, Mr. Simpson!--'Tis not kind--polite--To shut me out, sir?--I'm in such a fright!--I can not speak the lines, I'm sure!--Oh, ...
To Mrs. Siddons (Joanna Baillie Poems)
GIFTED of Heaven! who hast, in days gone by,Moved every heart, delighted every eye,While age and youth, of high and ...
Life’s Trilogy (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
_Youth_ dreams of all the years shall hold,--Of poems writ, of battles won,Of statues made, of love, of gold,And honors, ...
Late March (Edward Hirsch Poems)
Saturday morning in late March.I was alone and took a long walk,though I also carried a bookof the Alone, which ...
The Poet’s Lesson (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
There came a voice from the realm of thought, And my spirit bowed to hear,-- A voice with majestic sadness fraught, By the ...
Prologue, Intended for “Vortigern” (Henry James Pye Poems)
The cause with learn'd investigation fraught,Behold at length to this tribunal brought,No fraud your penetrating eyes can cheat,None here can ...
Nothing is really mine except Krishna. (Mirabai Poems)
Nothing is really mine except Krishna.O my parents, I have searched the worldAnd found nothing worthy of love.Hence I am ...
Theater (Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev Poems)
All of us - righteous and sinners,Born in prison, raised at the altar,All of us are funny actorsIn the theater ...
Old Cattle Town (Lex McLennan Poems)
Forgotten by time and lonely, asleep on the sloping plain,she dreams of the dead days only, since only the dreams ...
Sonnet XXXVIII. Epiphany (Henry Alford Poems)
As some great actor, when the rhythmic strain Of music, and the step of even dance, Hath ceased, in conscious pride is ...
The Sum (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
A little dreaming by the way, A little toiling day by day; A little pain, a little strife, A little joy,--and that is ...
I Think Of You… (Nazim Hikmet Poems)
I think of youand I feel the scent of my mothermy mother, the most beautiful of all.You are on the ...
From Mancha (Halina Poswiatowska Poems)
The wind caught in the arms of mills mocks the dramaof minutes floating across the sky. Don Quixote of the ...
The Visit (Zorika Petic Poems)
I stand in quiet by the stream,and wait for a key.Either I was left behind or Ileft something close;a part ...
Epilogue (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
(THE GRAVEYARD OF SPOON RIVER. TWO VOICES ARE HEARD BEHIND A SCREEN DECORATED WITH DIABOLICAL AND ANGELIC FIGURES IN VARIOUS ...