The Burning of Chicago (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
Out of the west a voice—a shudder of horror and pity; Quivers along the pulses of all the winds that blow;—Woe ...
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Written A Few Days After The Insurrection In Barbados (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.WIDE o'er th' Atlantic wave the veil of night,Had spread its ample shade on Ocean's breast;The tropic moon, with full-orb'd ...
Psalm CXXXIX. L. M. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Song of Praise in Celebration of the Omniscience andOmnipresence, the Almighty Power and the Infinite Wisdom OfGod.LORD, thou hast searched ...
Fragment Of An Indian Poem. (George Pope Morris Poems)
They come!--Be firm--in silence rally!The long-knives our retreat have found!Hark!--their tramp is in the valley,And they hem the forest round!The ...
Elegy On The Death Of Henry Lord Hastings (John Denham Poems)
Reader, preserve thy peace: those busy eyesWill weep at their own sad discoveries,When every line they add improves thy loss,Till, ...
How Little Red Riding Hood Came To Be Eaten (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Most worthy of praiseWere the virtuous waysOf Little Red Riding Hood's Ma,And no one was everMore cautious and cleverThan Little ...
Erin’s Address To The Hon. Thomas D’Arcy McGee (Nora Pembroke Poems)
O thou son of the dark locks and eloquent tongue,With the brain of a statesman sagacious, and strong,And the heart ...
Moonlight (John Jay Chapman Poems)
ITHE evening air exhales a spicy scent,The robin warbles, and the thrush replies;And on the terrace a tall regimentOf lillies ...
Along The Ohio (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Athwart a sky of brass rich ribs of gold; A bullion bulk the wide Ohio lies; Beneath the sunset, billowing manifold, The purple ...
Winter: Friday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
True! Spring renews the faded year;And renovated fruits and flowersIn re-awaken'd charms appear:—They deck the plain—they crown the bowers—Their blush ...
Herr Jesu, Licht der Heiden (Johann Franck Poems)
Herr Jesu, Licht der Heiden,Der Frommen Schatz und Lieb',Wir kommen jetzt mit FreudenDurch deines Geistes TriebIn diesen deinen TempelUnd suchen ...
To John Gorham Palfrey (James Russell Lowell Poems)
There are who triumph in a losing cause,Who can put on defeat, as 'twere a wreathUnwithering in the adverse popular ...
Farley Heath (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Many a day have I wiled away Upon hopeful Farley Heath,In its antique soil digging for spoil Of possible treasure beneath;For celts, ...
Song of Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Mine are the night and morning,The pits of air, the gulf of space,The sportive sun, the gibbous moon,The innumerable days.I ...
The Taxidermist (Hattie Howard Poems)
From other men he stands apart, Wrapped in sublimity of thought Where futile fancies enter not; With starlike purpose pressing on Where Agassiz and ...
The Oceanides III (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
THE BURDEN OF THE SEA.Isaiah, XXIII.THE sea hath spoken! Hear, O Earth! Where everlasting hills arise;And all the host of heaven, stand ...
Acle At The Grave Of Nero (George W Sands Poems)
It is a circumstance connected with the history of Nero, thatevery spring and summer, for many years after his death, ...
The Traveller And The Farm-Maiden (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
HE.CANST thou give, oh fair and matchless maiden,'Neath the shadow of the lindens yonder,—Where I'd fain one moment cease to ...
The Little Grand Duchess (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHAT a pure and chastened splendor,What a grace of joyance tender,Like to starlight or to moonlight,Melting into fairy Junelight,Sleeps my ...
Yasin Khan (Laurence Hope Poems)
Ay, thou has found thy kingdom, Yasin Khan, Thy fathers' pomp and power are thine, at last.No more the rugged roads ...
His Indian Love to Diogo Alvarez (Louisa Stuart Costello Poems)
ON HIS DEPARTURE FROM BAHIAWhen thou stoodst amidst thy countrymen Our captive and our foe,What voice of pity was it then That ...
A Student’s Evening Hymn (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
I.Now no more the slanting raysWith the mountain summits dally,Now no more in crimson blazeEvening's fleecy cloudless rally,Soon shall Night ...
Autumn: Wednesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The evening star is aloft in heaven, Palely it shines alone;And nought is awake in the eye of even, But the never-sleeping ...
A Walk at Sunset (William Cullen Bryant Poems)
When insect wings are glistening in the beamOf the low sun, and mountain-tops are bright,Oh, let me, by the crystal ...
Kaiser Dead (Matthew Arnold Poems)
What, Kaiser dead? The heavy newsPost-haste to Cobham calls the Muse,From where in Farringford she brewsThe ode sublime,Or with Pen-bryn's bold bard pursuesA ...
Let Us Die Armenians (Khoren Nar Bey de Lusignan Poems)
BROTHERS, we have no hope from foreigners ;Gaze not around for aid! Though with good-willThe foreigner receive you as a ...
St. Bartholomew (John Keble Poems)
Hold up thy mirror to the sun, And thou shalt need an eagle's gaze,So perfectly the polished stone Gives back the glory ...
Red Ridinghood (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
MOST worthy of praise were the virtuous waysOf Little Red Riding Hood's ma,And no one was ever more cautious and ...
The Nightingale In The Study (James Russell Lowell Poems)
'Come forth!' my catbird calls to me, 'And hear me sing a cavatinaThat, in this old familiar tree, Shall hang a garden ...
Hymn On The Seasons (Joanna Baillie Poems)
NOW , when the kindling Spring breathes life and joyThrough earth and air, perfuming field and bow'r;While rings from every ...