Self-control Poems (38 Poems)
Under The Old Elm (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Poem Read At Cambridge On The Hundredth Anniversary Of Washington’s Taking Command Of The American ArmyI Words pass as wind, but where great deeds were doneA power abides transfused from sire to son:The boy feels deeper meanings thrill his ear,That … Continue reading
Rachel (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
‘Twas sunset in Jerusalem; the lightStill lingered on the city’s walls, and crownedMount Olivet with splendor, while below,Among the trees of dark GethsemaneAnd on the Kedron gloomy shadows lay,As if but waiting for the death of dayTo rise and mantle … Continue reading
Oenone (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
There lies a vale in Ida, lovelierThan all the valleys of Ionian hills.The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen,Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine,And loiters, slowly drawn. On either handThe lawns and meadow-ledges midway downHang rich … Continue reading
Oswald, The Minnesinger (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
A Legend of Schloss Forst, near Meran PROLOGUE Oswald von Wolkenstein, the Last of the Minnesingers, loved a beautifulwoman, named Sabina, who proved faithless to him, thereby causing thepoet great mental suffering. He avenged his wrongs by writing poems onher … Continue reading
Spirit Of The Everlasting Boy (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
ODE FOR THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLJune 11, 1910 IThe British bard who looked on Eton’s walls,Endeared by distance in the pearly grayAnd soft aerial blue that ever fallsOn English landscape with the dying day,Beheld in thought his boyhood … Continue reading
Love’s Likeness (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
A rose hedged with a briar.Drummond. Alas! what else is love but sorrow.Byron. THERE is softness in the dew;And in starlight trembling throughFleecy cloud, or gentle mist,That the air may scarcely wist;There is beauty in the playOf the moon on … Continue reading
Seventh Sunday After Trinity (John Keble Poems)
Go not away, thou weary soul: Heaven has in store a precious doleHere on Bethsaida’s cold and darksome height, Where over rocks and sands arise Proud Sirion in the northern skies,And Tabor’s lonely peak, ‘twixt thee and noonday light. And far below, Gennesaret’s … Continue reading
America The Beautiful (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom … Continue reading
A Character (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
So noble that he cannot seeHe stands in aught above the rest,But does his greatness easily,And mounts his scaffold with a jest;Not vaunting any daily death,Because he scorns the thing that dies,And not in love with any breathThat might proclaim … Continue reading
Solitude (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Had I but lived when music-loving PanStill played his flute amid the whispering reeds,When through Arcadian groves the dryads ran,And–symbolizing well man’s earlier creeds–A host of sculptured forms, divinely fair,Portrayed the gods, and led men’s thoughts to prayer, I would … Continue reading