Hymn To Life (James Schuyler Poems)
The wind rests its cheek upon the ground and feels the cool dampAnd lifts its head with twigs and small ...
Quotations Poems (202 Poems)
Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto I. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Matthew met Richard, when or whereFrom story is not mighty clear:Of many knotty points they spoke,And pro and con by ...
The Progress Of A Divine: Satire (Richard Savage Poems)
All priests are not the same, be understood!Priests are, like other folks, some bad, some good.What's vice or virtue, sure ...
The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale,In which (though true, decorum must prevail),The subject from a picture shall arise,That by ...
The Monks Of Catalonia (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail,The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale,Where oft the holy fathers pow'rs displayed,And ...
The Quaker Alumni (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
From the well-springs of Hudson, the sea-cliffs of Maine,Grave men, sober matrons, you gather again;And, with hearts warmer grown as ...
Hudibras, Part I (excerpts) (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth,The manner how he sallied forth;His arms and equipage are shown;His ...
Wilfred Owen – 114 years and beyond (Old Poetry Poems)
18th March celebrates the birth of a fine poet and soldier Wilfred OwenMarch 18th celebrates the birthday of a man. ...
Paulo Purganti And His Wife: An Honest, But A Simple Pair (Matthew Prior Poems)
Beyond the fix'd and settl'd RulesOf Vice and Virtue in the Schools,Beyond the Letter of the Law,Which keeps our Men ...
My Dream. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
I had a dream this morning off Madeira,About my poem and its publication.Methought it was still-born, and I could hear ...
The Metaphysical Sectarian (Samuel Butler Poems)
HE was in Logick a great Critick,Profoundly skill'd in Analytick.He could distinguish, and divideA Hair 'twixt South and South-West side:On ...
Fit The Second – The Bellman’s Speech (Lewis Carroll Poems)
The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies—Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!Such solemnity, too! One could ...
Inevitable (Louis McKee Poems)
Somewhere in Forster—was it Aspects of the Novel?—there's something to the effect of,How can I tell what I think till ...
Fortune (Pierre Jean de Beranger Poems)
Rap! rap!--Is that my lass-- Rap! rap!--is rapping there? It is Fortune. Let her pass! I'll not open the door to her. Rap! rap!-- All ...
Judge Field A Poet, And “Botany Bay Flowers.” (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
'Tis strange to live a year or two in SydneyAnd get acquaint with all its Nonpareils;To dine with people of ...
My Familiar (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
Again I hear that creaking step!--He's rapping at the door!--Too well I know the boding soundThat ushers in a bore.I ...
Lines Suggested By Ode XXIX. Book I. Of Horace (John Kenyon Poems)
To ANTONIO PANIZZI, ESQ. AS THE WORTHY OCCASION, AND TO THE REV. CHRISTOPHER ERLE, AS THE PROMPT THROWER-OUT OF THE ...
To A Friend, On His Wedding-Day (Joanna Baillie Poems)
"GIVE me, to bless domestic life,With social ease, secure from strife,(Cries every fellow of a college)A wife, not overstock'd with ...
Mirrors (Jared Barhite Poems)
Some persons in mind are but mirrors Reflecting what others have thought, That make no original errors, They are only able to quote. You ...
Sonnet III (Giovanni Battista Casti Poems)
Hence, dreams or fables, hence! Others beforeHave sung, while poesy their bosoms warmed,How Jove, in bull and golden shower transformed,Agenor ...
Sid Hamet’s Rod (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Poor Hall, renown'd for comely hair,Whose hands, perhaps, were not so fair,Yet had a Jezebel as near;Hall, of small scripture ...
The Apology (Charles Churchill Poems)
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
Hippodromani (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Part IVisions in the SmokeRest, and be thankful! On the verge Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,But whose granite ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto I (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits, Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter ...
Magdalena (Frances Fuller Victor Poems)
You say there's a Being all-loving, Whose nature is justice and pity; Could you say where you ...
A Riddle: A Tale (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
In Days of yore the Story goes,A subterranean Castle rose;Which rear'd its Head a wond'rous Height,The Work of some ingenious ...
The Race (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
On the hill they are crowding together, In the stand they are crushing for room, Like midge-flies they swarm on ...
Her Last Letter: Being a Reply to ‘His Answer’ (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
June 4th! Do you know what that date means? June 4th! By this air and these pines!Well,--only you know how ...
The Moors (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
COME out, said Leonard, bursting through my door, His black curls tangled like a fretting sea,-- "Come out, nor waste ...
Pan In Wall Street (Edmund Clarence Stedman Poems)
JUST where the Treasury's marble front Looks over Wall Street's mingled nations; Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont ...