Oreithyia (Maurice Hewlett Poems)
Oreithyia, by the North Wind carried To stormy Thrace from Athens where you tarried Down by Ilissus all a blowy day Among the ...
Poems about asphodels (21 Poems)
Baby Bell (Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poems)
IHave you not heard the poets tellHow came the dainty Baby BellInto this world of ours?The gates of heaven were ...
My Annual (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
How long will this harp which you once loved to hearCheat your lips of a smile or your eyes of ...
Sunset On The Bearcamp (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A gold fringe on the purpling hemOf hills the river runs,As down its long, green valley fallsThe last of summer's ...
The Golden Journey (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
All day he drowses by the sailWith dreams of her, and all night longThe broken waters are at songOf how ...
Moonlight in the Pines (George Sterling Poems)
Full-starred, seraphic Night arose,Lifting the Pleiades' dim lyreAbove that solitude where glowsRose-red Aldebaran's fire. Mute, ere the darkness could forgetThe crystal ...
The Valley Of Anostan (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AN Orient legend, which hath all the lightAnd fragrance of the asphodels of heaven,Smiles on us from old (Paul Hamilton ...
The Two Angels (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
God called the nearest angels who dwell with Him above: The tenderest one was Pity, the dearest one was Love. "Arise," He ...
In A Spring Garden (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN Heaven was stormy, Earth was cold,And sunlight shunned the wold and wave,--Thought burrowed in the churchyard mould,And fed on ...
To Fairy (Henry Timrod Poems)
Do you recall — I know you do —A little gift once made to you —A simple basket filled with ...
Meganom (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
1Still far the asphodels,grey-transparent Spring.Meanwhile, the sand rustles,the wave foams.But here, like Persephone,my soul joins the gentle circle,and in the ...
Judith (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
O her eyes are amber-fine-- Dark and deep as wells of wine, While her smile is like the noon Splendor of a day ...
Unattained (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
In winter time one steadfast hope I had:When rains should cease to fall,And earth resummoned allHer blossom-quests, I should again ...
Homer (Henry Jerome Stockard Poems)
That conjuring name doth change the centuries,And the enchanted pagan world restore!Old Triton and the Nereids sport beforePoseidon's chariot storming ...
Under The Olives (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
SEATED in a Moorish garden On the Sahel of Algiers, Wandering breezes brought the burden Of its history in past ...
John Keats (Alexander Anderson Poems)
He is made one with Nature; there is heardHis voice in all her music.—ShelleyThere be more things within that far-off ...
Lincoln (George Henry Boker Poems)
Crown we our heroes with a holier wreathThan man e'er wore upon this side of death;Mix with their laurels deathless ...
Yesternight (Alice Cary Poems)
Yesternight -- how long it seems! --Met I in the land of dreams,One that loved me long ago --Better it ...
The Shadow (Amy Lowell Poem)
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
Two Gardens in Linndale (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Two brothers, Oakes and Oliver, Two gentle men as ever were, Would roam no longer, but abide In Linndale, where ...
Our Guardian Angels and Their Children (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Where a river roars in rapids And doves in maples fret, Where peace has decked the pastures Our guardian angels ...