Immortality Poems (1478 Poems)
Bianca’s Dream – A Venetian Story (Thomas Hood Poems)
BIANCA!-fair Bianca!-who could dwellWith safety on her dark and hazel gaze,Nor find there lurk’d in it a witching spell,Fatal to balmy nights and blessed days?The peaceful breath that made the bosom swell,She turn’d to gas, and set it in a … Continue reading
Jubilate Agno: Fragment A (Christopher Smart Poems)
Rejoice in God, O ye Tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and the Lamb. Nations, and languages, and every Creature, in which is the breath of Life. Let man and beast appear before him, and magnify his name together. … Continue reading
The Last Scion Of The House Of Clare (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
_Year 13–._ Barbican, bartizan, battlement, With the Abergavenny mountains blent, Look, from the Raglan tower of Gwent, My lord Hugh Clifford’s ancient home Shows, clear morns of the Spring or Summer, Thrust out like thin flakes o’ a silver foam From a climbing cloud, for the … Continue reading
The (John Masefield Poems)
All day they loitered by the resting ships,Telling their beauties over, taking stock;At night the verdict left my messmate’s lips,“The Wanderer is the finest ship in dock.” I had not seen her, but a friend, since drowned,Drew her, with painted … Continue reading
An Epistle From A Student At Oxford To The Chevalier (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
While You, dread Sir, whom partial Heav’n denies,The fruitful Vineyard and Cis–Alpine Skies,O’er frozen Heights and chilling Desarts stray,Far from your Native Soil, and promis’d Sway;Where to the View eternal Snows appear,Nor genial Spring relieves the starving Year:Your Isis Sons, … 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
A Preparation For The Holy Communion (Rees Prichard Poems)
Let ev’ry Christian, who wou’d chuse to knowHow he shou’d to God’s blessed table go,These precepts learn, and in his mem’ry bear,Ere rashly he presumes to venture there. Ere to the altar you abruptly go,Consider well, what you’re about to … Continue reading
The Fan : A Poem. Book I. (John Gay Poems)
I sing that graceful toy, whose waving play,With gentle gales relieves the sultry day.Not the wide fan by Persian dames display’d,Which o’er their beauty casts a grateful shade;Nor that long known in China’s artful land,Which, while it cools the face, … Continue reading
The Song Of Hiawatha IV: Hiawatha And Mudjekeewis (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Out of childhood into manhoodNow had grown my Hiawatha,Skilled in all the craft of hunters,Learned in all the lore of old men,In all youthful sports and pastimes,In all manly arts and labors. Swift of foot was Hiawatha;He could shoot an arrow … Continue reading
Immortal Eve – IV (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1Her eyes were not of amethyst,Her teeth were not of pearl.Human all over, laughing, crying,Shrewd, simple, just a girl! Cheerful at the board’s head she sat,Meek in the firelight dreamed.The shining angel she suppressed,And only woman seemed. She took me … Continue reading