Solitude Poems (866 Poems)
Solitude (John Anster Poems)
Oh, what a lovely silent spot!‘Mid such a scene the eremite would hopeTo build his lowly cot,Just where with easy slopeThe wooded mountain bends,Where the clear rill descendsNow hid the jutting rocks beneath,Now faintly sparkling on the eye,Itself conceal’d, its … Continue reading
The Hermitage (John Wilson Poems)
Stranger! this lonely glen in ancient timesWas named the glen of blood; nor Christian feetBy night or day, from these o’erarching cliffsThat haply now have to thy joyful shoutsReturned a mellow music, ever broughtOne trembling sound to break the depth … Continue reading
A Lament (Philip Bourke Marston Poems)
My friend has left me, he has gone away;Before his time-so long before-he went.Bright was the dawn of his unended day;But love might not, yea, nothing might preventThe hand of death from striking. Oh fair Art!First mistress of his intellect … Continue reading
Eight Echoes From The Poems Of August Angellier (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
ITHE IVORY CRADLEThe cradle I have made for theeIs carved of orient ivory,And curtained round with wavy silkMore white than hawthorn-bloom or milk.A twig of box, a lilac spray,Will drive the goblin-horde away;And charm thy childlike heart to keepHer happy … Continue reading
Paraphrases From Scriptures. (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared thelight and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; thou hast made summer andwinter. PSALM lxxiv. 16, 17. My God! all nature owns thy … Continue reading
The Lovers’ Last Meeting (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
IT was a calm, still, Sabbath eve–no breezeWent o’er the sleeping flowers, no murmured sound,From Nature’s harp of many voices, roseUpon the deep and strange serenityOf the lone death of day. The Lovers metIn the sweet silence of that holy … Continue reading
On Connecticut River (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
From that lone lake the sweetest of the chainThat links the mountain to the mighty main,Fresh from the rock and swelling by the tree,Rushing to meet and dare and breast the sea -Fair, noble, glorious river! in thy waveThe sunniest … Continue reading
Friar Philip’s Geese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR,The honour’s great conferred, I’m well aware;Yet, why suppose the sex my pages shun?Enough, if they condemn where follies run;Laugh in their sleeve at tricks they disapprove,And, false or true, a muscle … Continue reading
Persuasion (John Drinkwater Poems)
I At any moment love unheraldedComes, and is king. Then as, with a fallOf frost, the buds upon the hawthorn spreadAre withered in untimely burial,So love, occasion gone, his crown puts by,And as a beggar walks unfriended ways,With but remembered … Continue reading
To Ladies Of A Certain Age (John Trumbull Poems)
Ye ancient Maids, who ne’er must proveThe early joys of youth and love,Whose names grim Fate (to whom ’twas given,When marriages were made in heaven)Survey’d with unrelenting scowl,And struck them from the muster-roll;Or set you by, in dismal sort,For wintry … Continue reading