The Death Of President Lincoln (Joseph Furphy Poems)
(A Romance.)December 11th, 1867.The fleecy clouds had passed awayBefore the bright approach of day,And now the morning's radiance shinesUpon an ...
Success Poems (5537 Poems)
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. (Jonathan Swift Poems)
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drewFrom Nature, I believe 'em true:They argue no corrupted mindIn him; the fault is in mankind.This ...
Vision Of Columbus – Book 7 (Joel Barlow Poems)
Hail sacred Peace, who claim'st thy bright abode,Mid circling saints that grace the throne of God.Before his arm, around the ...
Advice To Ev’ry Master Of A Family, To Govern His House In A Religious Manner (Rees Prichard Poems)
If truly pious thou wou'dst fain appear,And strictly Christian, whilst thou livest here,To a small church convert thy own abode,And ...
Fingal – Book IV (James Macpherson Poems)
ARGUMENT.The action of the poem being suspended by night, Ossian takes the opportunity to relate his own actions at the ...
A Dialogue At Fiesole (Alfred Austin Poems)
HE.Halt here awhile. That mossy-cushioned seatIs for your queenliness a natural throne;As I am fitly couched on this low sward,Here ...
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 1: Second Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
TANSILLO.Now begins the enthusiast to display the affections and uncover thewounds which are for a sign in his body, and ...
Concerning Prayer, And Its Proper Requisites (Rees Prichard Poems)
PUT off thy shoes, ere thou thy God dost greet,Thy ass, before thou sacrificest, bind —Wash, ere the altar thou ...
Hyperion. Book II (John Keats Poems)
Just at the self-same beat of Time's wide wingsHyperion slid into the rustled air,And Saturn gain'd with Thea that sad ...
St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers,How many round attribute all their cares!In these howe'er I never can believe,And ...
Eve Speaks (Louis Untermeyer Poems)
I Pause, God, and ponder, ere Thou judgest me. Though it be doomsday, and the trampling winds Rush blindly through the stark and ...
The Bas Bleu: Or, Conversation. Addressed To Mrs. Vesey (Hannah More Poems)
VESEY, of Verse the judge and friend,Awhile my idle strain attend:Not with the days of early Greece,I mean to ope ...
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 2: Fifth Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
_Interlocutors_:LAODOMIA. GIULIA.LAO. Some other time, oh my sister, thou wilt hear what happened tothose nine blind men, who were at ...
Prometheus (James Russell Lowell Poems)
One after one the stars have risen and set,Sparkling upon the hoarfrost on my chain:The Bear, that prowled all night ...
The Conflict For Civil Rights (Henry McNeal Turner Poems)
I.A Golden House on golden columns raised,In redly tinted skies bespangled blazed;With opening doors diffused a gladsome light,And glorious gleams ...
Eleonora : A Panegyrical (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Dedicated to the Memory of the Late Countess of Abingdon.As when some great and gracious monarch dies,Soft whispers first and ...
The Dawn Of Freedom (James Madison Bell Poems)
When summer's hot and sultry raysAre burdening our summer days,And men and beast are sore oppress'd,And vainly sigh and pant ...
Experience (Jane Taylor Poems)
--A COSTLY good ; that none e'er bought or soldFor gem, or pearl, or miser's store, twice told :Save certain ...
The Believer’s Soliloquy; Especially in Times of Desertion, Temptation, Affliction (Ralph Erskine Poems)
Sect. I.The deserted Believer longing for perfect freedom from sin.Ah mournful case! what can affordContentment, when an absent LordWill now ...
British Georgics. June (James Grahame Poems)
Beneath the fervour of the noon-tide beamAll Nature's works in placid stillness pause,--Save man, and his joint labourer the horse,The ...
Advice To Serve God (Rees Prichard Poems)
ALL, who wou'd ease and happiness obtain,And wish in health and wealth and peace to live,Must, whilst they in this ...
Biography (John Masefield Poems)
When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts, And long before this ...
The Moated Manse (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. And now once more we stood within the walls Of her old manor near the riverside; Dead leaves lay rotting in its ...
An Ode – Humbly Inscribed To The Queen, On the Glorious Success of Her Majesty’s Arms (Matthew Prior Poems)
When great Augustus govern'd ancient Rome,And sent his conquering bands to foreign wars,Abroad when dreaded, and beloved at home,He saw ...
A Story Of Doom: Book II. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Now ere the sunrise, while the morning starHung yet behind the pine bough, woke and prayedThe world's great shipwright, and ...
Kilmeny (James Hogg Poems)
Bonnie Kilmeny gaed up the glen; But it wasna to meet Duneira's men, Nor the rosy monk of the isle ...
Coplas De Manrique (From The Spanish) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
O let the soul her slumbers break,Let thought be quickened, and awake;Awake to seeHow soon this life is past and ...
Hyperion. Book I (John Keats Poems)
Deep in the shady sadness of a valeFar sunken from the healthy breath of morn,Far from the fiery noon, and ...
Britannia Rediviva: A Poem on the Birth of the Prince (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Our vows are heard betimes, and heaven takes careTo grant, before we can conclude the prayer;Preventing angels met it half ...
The Bay-Fight (Henry Howard Brownell Poems)
Three days through sapphire seas we sailed, The steady Trade blew strong and free,The Northern Light his banners paled,The Ocean Stream ...