O Let Me Dream The Dreams Of Long Ago (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Call me not back, O cold and crafty world:I scorn your thankless thanks and hollow praise.Wiser than seer or scientist--contentTo ...
Nature Poems (9896 Poems)
The Maids Of Attitash (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
In sky and wave the white clouds swam,And the blue hills of NottinghamThrough gaps of leafy greenAcross the lake were ...
The Earl’s Minstrel (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
I had a passion when I was a child For a most pleasant idleness. In June, When the thick masses of the ...
A Poetical Version Of A Letter From Facob Behmen (John Byrom Poems)
'TIS Man's own Nature, which in its own Life, Or Centre, stands in Enmity and Strife, And anxious, selfish, doing what it ...
Birdies. For A Little Five Year Old (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
A tender birdie mother sat In her soft nest one day,Teaching her little fledglings, three, To gambol, sing, and play.Dear little brood, ...
The Goodnesse Of God Towards All Mankind, Manifold Wayes. (Henry Arthington Poems)
The First Point.In Creating all thinges for our vse, and vs for his glory.O Glorious God, how much is Man,For ...
A Dedication (Robert Burns Poems)
Expect na, sir, in this narration,A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication,To roose you up, an' ca' you guid,An' sprung o' great an' ...
The Owl And The Sparrow (John Trumbull Poems)
In elder days, in Saturn's prime,Ere baldness seized the head of Time,While truant Jove, in infant pride,Play'd barefoot on Olympus' ...
In Memoriam: Alice Fane Gunn Stenhouse (Henry Kendall Poems)
The grand, authentic songs that rollAcross grey widths of wild-faced sea,The lordly anthems of the Pole,Are loud upon the lea.Yea, ...
To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison (Thomas Tickell Poems)
If, dumb too long, the drooping Muse hath stay'd,And left her debt to Addison unpaid;Blame not her silence, Warwick, but ...
An Eclogue (Thomas Parnell Poems)
Now early shepheards ore ye meadow pass,And print long foot-steps in the glittering grass;The Cows unfeeding near the cottage stand,By ...
Daniel Wheeler (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
O Dearly loved!And worthy of our love! No moreThy aged form shall rise beforeThe bushed and waiting worshiper,In meek obedience ...
How McDougal Topped The Score (Thomas E Spencer Poems)
A peaceful spot is Piper's Flat. The folk that live around -They keep themselves by keeping sheep and turning up ...
Advice Concerning Eating And Drinking (Rees Prichard Poems)
SEE, that thou sittest not to eat,Before thou first hast bless'd thy meat!Nor rise from thence, 'till thou hast givenDue ...
A Dream Of Other Days (John Russell Hayes Poems)
I fell asleep upon a summer's dayAs on a shady woodland bank I lay,And as I slept there came to ...
Epilogue To Schiller’s “Song Of The Bell” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
And so it proved! The nation felt, ere long, That peaceful signal, and, with blessings fraught, A new-born joy appeared; in gladsome ...
The Shepherd’s Calendar – October (John Clare Poems)
Nature now spreads around in dreary hueA pall to cover all that summer knewYet in the poets solitary waySome pleasing ...
The Child And The Dew-Drops (in memory of a lost son). (John Critchley Prince Poems)
"O dearest mother! tell me, pray, Why are the dew-drops gone so soon?Could they not stay till close of day,To sparkle ...
Oreithyia (Maurice Hewlett Poems)
Oreithyia, by the North Wind carried To stormy Thrace from Athens where you tarried Down by Ilissus all a blowy day Among the ...
Zen Poet Taigu Ryoken (Old Poetry Poems)
This is an introduction to the Japanese Zen poet Taigu Ryoken known for his beautiful almost seer-like poetry. He revelled ...
My Choice (Jared Barhite Poems)
I would rather dwell a hermit In some silent peaceful wood, Where no voice of human being Ever breaks the solitude; Where babbling brook, ...
D (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Man was made of social earth,Child and brother from his birth;Tethered by a liquid cordOf blood through veins of kindred ...
The Shepherd’s Week : Wednesday; or, The Dumps (John Gay Poems)
Sparabella.The wailings of a maiden I recite,A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight.Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat,Nor the ...
A Sweet Little Dear (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
I always was a remarkable child; so old for my age, and such a sensitive nature!-Mamma often says so.And I'm ...
The Black Rock (John Gould Fletcher Poems)
To Thomas HardyIOff the long headland, threshed about by round-backed breakers,There is a black rock, standing high at the full ...
The Mice. A Tale – To Mr. Adrian Drift (Matthew Prior Poems)
Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion,And, what is more, good education,Frolic and gay, in infant yearsEqually shared their parents' ...
Elegy I (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenlypressed me against ...
A Cottage In A Chine (Jean Ingelow Poems)
We reached the place by night, And heard the waves breaking:They came to meet us with candles alight To show the path ...
A Country Pathway (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I come upon it suddenly, alone-- A little pathway winding in the weedsThat fringe the roadside; and with dreams my own, I ...
Epilogue to Schiller’s Song of the Bell (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
To this city joy reveal it! Peace as its first signal peal it! (Song of the Bell—concluding lines.)AND so it proved! The ...