Sons Poems (4823 Poems)
Tripoli (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Hear the singing on the boats,As they halt beside the pier!Ah, those fresh Italian throats, How they cheer!Yet the words they sing so loudBring depression to my heart,As I watch the youthful crowd Thus depart. ”We are going o’er the sea! Loyal sons … Continue reading
Ode To Peace (John Duncombe Poems)
O’er desolated fields, where moveTo War’s dread notes th’ embattled host,O Peace! display thy olive-wreath,And bid the gentle voice of Love(Soft as the Zephyr’s vernal breeze)From coast to coast,In Rancour’s hostile bosom breathe,That warring passions there may cease,And all the … Continue reading
Ballad Of The Banished And Returning Count (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
OH, enter old minstrel, thou time-honour’d one!We children are here in the hall all alone, The portals we straightway will bar.Our mother is praying, our father is gone To the forest, on wolves to make war.Oh sing us a ballad, … Continue reading
On the Banks of the Esk (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
WHILE Tweed’s fam’d stream in numbers rolls along,And Tay’s meanders sweetly glide in song;Thy windings Esk, in silence should not flow,If the coy Nine would numbers fit bestow;Fain would my humble muse thy beauties sing,Would sing thy banks, thy groves, … Continue reading
The Dead (John William Streets Poems)
Let music vast, triumphal, fill the world’s great nave,Voicing the peerless theme of noble youthWho rose to Life’s sublimest greatness at the graveAnd won from Death the diadem of Truth!No requiem solemn, funeral chant so drearOught mark their passing to … Continue reading
New Zealand (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
Beneath the Southern Seas, within the earthEmbowelled, the mighty earth-fires slumbered onUntil the waking time, and then, with strangeAppalling sounds, which startled earth itself,While oceans rushed away, this beauteous land,In fiery awfulness and pomp, uprose.From twice two hundred belching hills … Continue reading
Valedictory On Leaving San Francisco, California. (James Madison Bell Poems)
There is no cord, however strong, That time will not its fibers rend,Nor weary road, however long, But constant march will find its end. As with the cord, and with the road, E’en so with all our friendships here,Howe’er so worthily bestowed; Our loves … Continue reading
Book III – Part 05 – Cerberus And Furies, And That Lack Of Light (Lucretius Poems)
Tartarus, out-belching from his mouth the surgeOf horrible heat- the which are nowhere, norIndeed can be: but in this life is fearOf retributions just and expiationsFor evil acts: the dungeon and the leapFrom that dread rock of infamy, the stripes,The … Continue reading
Bill the Bullock-Driv (Henry Kendall Poems)
The Leaders of millions, the lords of the lands, Who sway the wide world with their willAnd shake the great globe with the strength of their hands, Flash past us-unnoticed by Bill.The elders of science who measure the spheres And weigh the vast … Continue reading
The Hours (John Peale Bishop Poems)
In the real dark night of the soul it is always threeo’clock in the morning. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD IALL day, knowing you dead,I have sat in this long-windowed room,Looking upon the sea and, dismayedBy mortal sadness, though without thought to … Continue reading