Love’s Likeness (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
A rose hedged with a briar.Drummond.Alas! what else is love but sorrow.Byron.THERE is softness in the dew;And in starlight trembling ...
Happiness Poems (5743 Poems)
The Sun-Dial (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
'Tis an old dial, dark with many a stain; In summer crowned with drifting orchard bloom,Tricked in the autumn with the ...
Inauguration Of Ashton-Under-Lyne Infirmary (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Fair town of toil, whose enterprise and powerExpand and strengthen every day and hour,To thy brave sons all honour and ...
To Dr. Sherlock, On His Practical Discourse Concerning Death (Matthew Prior Poems)
Forgive the muse who, in unhallow'd strains,The saint one moment from his God detains;For sure whate'er you do, where'er you ...
The Land Of The Living (Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig Poems)
I know of a landWhere hair does not grey, and where time's rule is banned,Where sun does not burn, and ...
On The Death Of J—-. H—-. Esq. (Janet Little Poems)
JUNE, 1790.ERE Phoebus' beams exhal'd the pearly dew,While hoary moisture all the fields o'erspread,Where ozier cypress, and the drooping yew,Had ...
The Sky, Or A Description Of A Fine Evening: August 17. 1808. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
WITH rapture and delight I oft admireJehovah's works that come within my view,Himself exceeding admiration's ken,Or ought that I could ...
A Fable (Jane Taylor Poems)
ONE day a sage knocked at a chemist's door,Bringing a curious compound to explore.--'Behold ! said he, as from his ...
The Lone One At The Old Trysting-Place (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
IT is the twilight hour, and o'er the earthThe softening spells of evening shadows steal.All here is stillness now, and ...
The Wounded Daisy (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
At twilight in beautiful summers,When all the dew is shed,And all the singers and hummersAre safe at home in bed,In ...
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 ...
The Isle of Sleep (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
In those dark mornings, deep in June, When brooding birds stir in the nest,And heavy dews slip down the leaves, And drop ...
Idyll (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
A village Chorus is supposed to be assembled, and about tocommence its festive procession.[Written for the birthday of the Duchess ...
A Town (Jane Taylor Poems)
A BUSY town mid Britain's isle, Behold in fancy's eye ;With tower, and spire, and civic pile, Beneath a summer sky :And ...
To ————— (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
I DO not love thee, yet why does thy calmSweet smile forever haunt my dreams, and whyDo thy dark eyes ...
The Lake Of The Van (2) (Hakob Melik-Hakobian Poems)
DEEP silence everywhere-a hush profound!One might imagine nature to be dead.Sitting here mournfully, a pilgrim lone,O brilliant moon, I see ...
Songs with Preludes: Dominion (Jean Ingelow Poems)
When found the rose delight in her fair hue?Color is nothing to this world; ’tis IThat see it. Farther, I have ...
Allegro Maestoso (William Ernest Henley Poems)
Spring winds that blowAs over leagues of myrtle-blooms and may;Bevies of spring clouds trooping slow,Like matrons heavy bosomed and aglowWith ...
Wollongong (Henry Kendall Poems)
Let me talk of years evanished, let me harp upon the timeWhen we trod these sands together, in our boyhood's ...
Injustice of the Courts (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Whites alone upon the jury in a number of the states,Thus they crush a helpless Negro with their prejudicial hates;Legal ...
The Maid Of The Mill’s Treachery (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
WHENCE comes our friend so hastily,When scarce the Eastern sky is grey?Hath he just ceased, though cold it be,In yonder ...
The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IWhere's your kingdom, little king? Where the land you call your own, Where your palace and your throne?Fluttering lightly on the wing Through ...
Eve (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
FOR the first time, a lovely sceneEarth saw, and smiled,--A gentle form with pallid mienBending o'er a newborn child:The pang, ...
Carmina Festiva (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
THE LITTLE-NECK CLAMA modern verse-sequence, showing how a native American subject, strictly realistic, may be treated in various manners adapted ...
The Wanderer’s Storm-Song (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
He whom thou ne'er leavest, Genius,Feels no dread within his heartAt the tempest or the rain.He whom thou ne'er leavest, ...
The Huskers (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
IT was late in mild October, and the long autumnal rainHad left the summer harvest-fields all green with grass again;The ...
Missin Yor Way (John Hartley Poems)
It wor dark an mi way wor across a wild mooar, An noa signs could aw find ov a track,'Twor a ...
Said The Skylark (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
"O soft, small cloud, the dim, sweet dawn adorning,Swan-like a-sailing on its tender grey; Why dost thou, dost thou float, So high, ...
Ode Written in Spring (John Logan Poems)
No longer hoary winter reigns,No longer binds the streams in chains,Or heaps with snow the meads;Array'd with robe of rainbow-dye,At ...
The Poet Orders His Sepulchre (John Jay Chapman Poems)
(After Ronsard)YE caverns, and ye rillsThat from the beetling hillsDown every rocky wallGlide, gleam, and fall;Ye woods and streams around,Where ...