A Fire Side Vocal Concert (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
THE low'ring, leaden-colour'd evening cloud,The chilling frost, the billows breaking loud,The wish excite, contented to retire,"To pause from toil, and ...
Love Poems (19820 Poems)
The Faithful Few: An Ode (William Hamilton Poems)
While Pow'r triumphant bears unrival'd Sway,Propt by the Aid of all-prevailing Gold;While bold Corruption blasts the Face of Day,And Men, ...
The Press (John MacCreery Poems)
ARGUMENT.ADDRESS to the Shade of Guttemberg--State of man before the Invention of Letters--Efforts of Ambition to perpetuate his fame--Birth of ...
The River Scamander (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale;Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail;Men, gods, and all, his ...
A Day In The Castle Of Envy (Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Poems)
The castle walls are full of eyes,And not a mouse may creep unseen.All the window slits are spies;And the towers ...
Macaulay’s New Zealander. (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
IT little profits that, an idle man,On this worn arch, in sight of wasted halls,I mope, a solitary pelican,And glower ...
The Three Queens (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
IN the far time of Earth's sweet maiden beauty,When Morning hung with rapture on her breast;When every sentient life paid ...
The Writer’s Dream (Henry Lawson Poems)
A writer wrote of the hearts of men, and he followed their tracks afar;For his was a spirit that forced ...
Britian’s Cause (Philip James Bailey Poems)
The eternal all--sire from his throne, our isleRegarding; these Imperial shores, the whileEarth's orb rolls round, shewn, eminent in his ...
The Mother’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
How sweet the sacred legend--if unblamedIn my slight verse such holy things are named--Of Mary's secret hours of hidden joy,Silent, ...
For The Marriage of Faustus and Helen (Harold Hart Crane Poems)
"And so we may arrive by Talmud skillAnd profane Greek to raise the building upOf Helen's house against the Ismaelite,King ...
Vpon The Sufferings Of Our Sauiour Iesus, Two Questions Discussed. (Henry Arthington Poems)
The former, Sith we all confesse,Our selues still sinners for to be,And that (as Scripture doth expresse)We ought to die ...
To A Friend (Joseph Rodman Drake Poems)
YES, faint was my applause and cold my praise,Though soul was glowing in each polished line;But nobler subjects claim the ...
From the “Commemoration Ode” (Harriet Monroe Poems)
WASHINGTONWHEN dreaming kings, at odds with swift paced time, Would strike that banner down,A nobler knight than ever writ or rhyme With ...
Peruvian Tales: Alzira, Tale I (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
Description of Peru, and of its Productions—Virtues of the People;and of their Monarch, ATALIBA —His love for ALZIRA —Their Nup-tials ...
The Abbot Of Muchelnaye. Canto The Second. (Henry Alford Poems)
It is the solemn midnight; and the moon Hard by the zenith holds her solemn state, And yon flushed star will westward ...
Winter Thoughts (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Stern Winter! stormy, sullen, cold, and dun,Thou joyless outcast from the genial sun,Thou gloomiest offspring of the rolling year,With front ...
Beechenbrook – VIII (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
"My Douglass! my darling!--there once was a time, When we to each other confessed the sublime And perfect sufficiency love could bestow, On ...
Hermotimus (William Edmondstoune Aytoun Poems)
I.'Wilt not lay thee down in quiet slumber?Weary dost thou seem, and ill at rest;Sleep will bring thee dreams in ...
The Tournament (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
The churches twelve of WallingfordA stately sight they were,When gleaming shields were hangingFrom every column fair;For a mile around the ...
The Coming Of The Ship Chapter I (Khalil Gibran Poems)
Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn onto his own day, had waited twelve years in the ...
The Character Of A Good Parson. Imitated From Chaucer, And Enlarged (John Henry Dryden Poems)
A parish-priest was of the pilgrim-train;An awful, reverend, and religious man.His eyes diffused a venerable grace,And charity itself was in ...
Australia To England (John Farrell Poems)
What of the years of Englishmen? What have they brought of growth and graceSince mud-built London by its fen Became the Briton's ...
On The Wreck Of The Halsewell (Henry James Pye Poems)
A FRAGMENT. Now the loud winds with angry pinions sweep The laboring bosom of the stormy deep, The face of day o'erspread by ...
Advice To A Woman, Not To Grieve Too Much For The Death Of Her Child (Rees Prichard Poems)
O! Martha, Martha, cease thy plaintive moan —Take comfort — check thy over frequent sighsFor thy dear babe — whom ...
A poem, Sacred to the Glorious memory of King George (Richard Savage Poems)
Let gaudy Mirth, to the blithe Carrol-song,In loose light-measur'd Numbers dance along;Thou, Muse no flow'ry Fancies here display,Nor warble with ...
The Johnstown Disaster, 1889 (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Look down, ye Alleghenies, into the Conemaugh vale,And see the rising waters, and hear the bitter wail;The swollen streams now ...
Chicomico – Part IV (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
THE lake is calm, the sun is low,The whippoorwill is chaunting slow,And scarce a leaf through the forest is seenTo ...
Beechenbrook – IV (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
"I am weary and worn,--I am hungry and chill, And cuttingly strikes the keen blast o'er the hill; All day I have ...
Paradiso: Canto I (Dante Alighieri Poems)
The glory of Him who moveth everythingDoth penetrate the universe, and shineIn one part more and in another less.Within that ...