For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry (excerpt, Jubilate Agno) (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.For ...
English Poems (766 Poems)
Anadyomene (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
GIVE o'er the strife! The poet criesThe maiden mercy, in whose eyesHe sees the light of paradise.Beyond the coppice, at ...
Tobermory Bay (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
In the vapour and haze on the ocean, Where the skies and the waters meet,There's a form that drifts, phantom-like, onward As ...
The Two Elizabeths (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Read at the unveiling of the bust of Elizabeth Fry at the Friends'School, Providence, R. I.A. D. 1209.AMIDST Thuringia's wooded ...
The Inn Of A Thousand Dreams (Gilbert Frankau Poems)
Where the road climbs free from the marsh and the seaTo the last rose sunset-gleams,Twixt a fold and a fold ...
Boston (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Sicut Patribus, sit Deus Nobis)The rocky nook with hilltops threeLooked eastward from the farms,And twice each day the flowing seaTook ...
The Escape Of The Empress Matilda (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Through changeful clouds of nightThe winter moon was gliding,Like a bird with wings of lightOn the buoyant breezes riding;Fair was ...
Heroes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Children, when you sat wishing,Down last night on the sands,Beckoning moments of glory,With little helpless hands,I heard you saying and ...
Dawgs of War (Henry Lawson Poems)
Comes the British bulldog first-solid as a log-He's so ugly in repose that he's a handsome dog;Full of mild benevolence ...
The Story Of The “Orient” (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
'T was a pleasant Sunday morning while the spring was in its glory,English spring of gentle glory; smoking by his ...
Lines Written After Reading Sir Edward Seaward’s Narrative (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Brave beauteous pair! if e'er indeedYour names were clothed in mortal weed;If ye are more than lovely gleams,Whose dwelling is ...
Cromwell (Henry Lawson Poems)
They took dead Cromwell from his grave, And stuck his head on high;The Merry Monarch and his men, They laughed as they ...
After A Lecture On Wordsworth (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
COME, spread your wings, as I spread mine,And leave the crowded hallFor where the eyes of twilight shineO'er evening's western ...
Betti o Lansantffrai (John Jones Poems)
Old King Solomon once said, before all thegreat people, that there was a time for everyactivity in the world. Some ...
Christmas Creek (Henry Kendall Poems)
Phantom streams were in the distance — mocking lights of lake and pool —Ghosts of trees of soft green lustre ...
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 ...
A Song Concerning The Devil And The Drunkard (Rees Prichard Poems)
FROM the fraudulent fiend, that still without end Most mortals trepans and beguiles,Who wou'd hook us all in, to do ev'ry ...
The Hotel (Harriet Monroe Poems)
The long resounding marble corridors, theshining parlors with shining women inthem.The French room, with its gilt and garlandsunder plump little ...
Unser Gott (Karle Wilson Baker Poems)
They held a great prayer-service in Berlin,And augured German triumph from some wordsSaid to be spoken by the Jewish GodTo ...
Ione (Marietta Holley Poems)
I might strive as well to melt to softness the soulless breast Of some fair and saintly image, carven out of ...
Ireland-1882 (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
"ISLAND of Destiny! Innisfail!" they cried, when their weary eyesFirst looked on thy beauteous bosom from the amorous, ocean rise."Island ...
Ballad of Agincourt (Michael Drayton Poems)
Fair stood the wind for FranceWhen we our sails advance,Nor now to prove our chanceLonger will tarry;But putting to the ...
PARADOX. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man (Henry King Poems)
Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?He may as useful, and more constant prove.Experience shews you that maturer ...
Thoughts Suggested By A College Examination (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
High in the midst, surrounded by his peers,MAGNUS his ample front sublime up rears:Placed on his chair of state, he ...
Fit The Fourth – The Hunting (Lewis Carroll Poems)
The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow."If only you'd spoken before!It's excessively awkward to mention it now,With the Snark, ...
Drink (Lennox Amott Poems)
I.An English village, a summer scene,A homely cottage, a garden green,An opening vista, a cloudless sky,A bee that hums as ...
The Irish Stew. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
I SING of good eating! There lately befelA notable feast at a Sydney Hotel!There was plenty for me, and plenty ...
Sailing Ships (Victoria Sackville-West Poems)
Lying on Downs above the wrinkling bayI with the kestrels shared the cleanly day,The candid day; wind-shaven, brindled turf;Tall cliffs; ...
British Association, Notes Of The President’s Address (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
In the very beginnings of science, the parsons, who managed things then,Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in ...
A Health To The Queen (Sydney Thompson Dobell Poems)
While the thistle bearsSpears,And the shamrock is green,And the English roseBlows,A health to the Queen!A health to the Queen, a ...