“Friday Afternoon” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
To William Morris PiersonOf the wealth of facts and fancies That our memories may recall,The old school-day romances Are the dearest, after ...
Poems about academic (21 Poems)
Ode To Glasgow College (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Written on Board the Medway, in the South Sea.THOUGH distant in the Southern Sea,My fancy oft reverts to thee,Thou venerable ...
Old Cambridge (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AND can it be you've found a placeWithin this consecrated space,That makes so fine a show,For one of Rip Van ...
Lectures To Women On Physical Science (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
I.PLACE. — A small alcove with dark curtains.The class consists of one member.SUBJECT. — Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer. The lamp-light falls on ...
Ode XII: On Recovering From A Fit Of Sickness, In the Country (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Thy verdant scenes, O Goulder's hill,Once more i seek, a languid guest:With throbbing temples and with burden'd breastOnce more i ...
Elegy — Written in Spring (Michael Bruce Poems)
'Tis past: the iron North has spent his rage;Stern Winter now resigns the length'ning day;The stormy howlings of the winds ...
Lines On The Death Of William Sotheby, Esq (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LEARNING and fancy were combinedTo stimulate his manly mind;Open, generous and acute,Steady of purpose, in pursuitArdent and hopeful; all the ...
School Rhymes (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
O academic muse that hast for longCharmed all the world with thy disciples' song,As myrtle bushes must give place to ...
To My Lyre (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Thou simple Lyre! thy music wildHas served to charm the weary hour,And many a lonely night has 'guiled,When even pain ...
Daybreak (Gwen Harwood Poems)
The snails brush silver. Critic crowpoints his unpleasant beak, and lances.Resumes his treetop, darts belowhis acid-bright, corrosive glances.In the hushed ...
On The Pleasures Of College Life (George Moses Horton Poems)
With tears I leave these academic bowers, And cease to cull the scientific flowers; With tears I hail the fair ...
Dominus Vineae; Spiritus Agricola (Anna Hempstead Branch Poems)
Once more among our archangelic hillsThe streets of this old, grave, and gracious townThrob with renewing vigor as when SpringRushes ...
Clio Fatidica (E W Bowling Poems)
Tell me, Muse, what colour floateth round the River's ancient head: Is it white and black, or white ...
The Invitation (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
HEALTH to my friend, and long unbroken years,By storms unruffled and unstain'd by tears:Wing'd by new joys may each white ...
The Nevers of Poetry (Charles Harpur Poems)
Never say aught in verse, or grave or gay,That you in prose would hesitate to say.Never in rhyme pretend to ...
Stoves and sunshine (Eugene Field Poems)
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea—The land of stoves and sunshine is good enough ...
Affliction (George Herbert Poem)
When thou didst entice to thee my heart, I thought the service brave: So many joys I writ down for ...
the rest home (Rg Gregory Poem)
professor piebald (the oldest man in the home) was meek at the same time ribald he clothed his matter (so ...
Stoves and sunshine (Eugene Field Poem)
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea-- The land of stoves and sunshine is good ...
On A Portrait Of Wordsworth (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
WORDSWORTH upon Helvellyn ! Let the cloud Ebb audibly along the mountain-wind, Then break against the rock, and show behind ...
The Princess (part 2) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
At break of day the College Portress came: She brought us Academic silks, in hue The lilac, with a silken ...