Sadness Poems (11033 Poems)
The Poe-et’s Nightmare (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
A FA Fable Luxus tumultus semper causa est. Lucullus Languish, student of the skies,And connoisseur of rarebits and mince pies,A bard by choice, a grocer’s clerk by trade,(Grown pessimist through honours long delay’d)A secret yearning bore, that he might shineIn … Continue reading
The Mask Of Anarchy (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
WRITTEN ON THE OCCASION OF THE MASSACRE AT MANCHESTER I.As I lay asleep in ItalyThere came a voice from over the Sea,And with great power it forth led meTo walk in the visions of Poesy. II.I met Murder on the … Continue reading
Ocean: An Ode. Concluding with A wish.* (Edward Young Poems)
I.Sweet rural scene!Of flocks and green!At careless ease my limbs are spread;All nature stillBut yonder rill;And listening pines not o’er my head:IIIn prospect wide,The boundless tide!Waves cease to foam, and winds to roar;Without a breeze,The curling seasDance on, in measure, … Continue reading
The Song Of Hiawatha XII: The Son Of The Evening Star (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Can it be the sun descendingO’er the level plain of water?Or the Red Swan floating, flying,Wounded by the magic arrow,Staining all the waves with crimson,With the crimson of its life-blood,Filling all the air with splendor,With the splendor of its plumage? Yes; … Continue reading
Afternoon At A Parsonage (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(THE PARSON’S BROTHER, SISTER, AND TWO CHILDREN) Preface.What wonder man should fail to stay A nursling wafted from above,The growth celestial come astray, That tender growth whose name is Love! It is as if high winds in heaven Had shaken the celestial trees,And … Continue reading
Queen Mab: Part V. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
‘Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates the world; even as the leaves Which the keen frost-wind of the waning year Has scattered on the forest-soil and heaped For many … Continue reading
Poems – Written On The Deaths Of Three Lovely Children (Jean Ingelow Poems)
HENRY, AGED EIGHT YEARS. Yellow leaves, how fast they flutter—woodland hollows thickly strewing, Where the wan October sunbeams scantly in the mid-day win,While the dim gray clouds are drifting, and in saddened hues imbuing All without and all within! All within! but … Continue reading
Reminiscence (Padraic Colum Poems)
IThe Swallows sangALIEN to us areYour fields, and your cotes, and your glebes;Secret our nests areAlthough they be built in your eaves;Un-eaten by us areThe grains that grow in your fields. The Weathercock on the barn answeredNot alien to ye … Continue reading
Selina (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
NOT far from Tyvy’s banks and bayAn humble dwelling rose;Around its walls the woodbine twin’d,Encircled with the rose.The purple violet at their feet,Perfum’d the ambient air;And those who view’d the lovely cot,Thought it–a shield from care!But ah! how oft the … Continue reading
The Slave Trade, A Poem (Hannah More Poems)
If heaven has into being deign’d to callThy light, O Liberty! to shine on all;Bright intellectual Sun! why does thy rayTo earth distribute only partial day?Since no resisting cause from spirit flowsThy penetrating essence to opose;No obstacles by Nature’s hand … Continue reading