Epilogue To The Second Edition (Christopher Anstey Poems)
There are who complain that my verse is severe, And what is much worse--that my Book is too dear: The ...
Poems about bespeak (21 Poems)
Midnight Thoughts (Caroline Fry Poems)
Why is my soul with weariness oppress'd,Whence is this load so heavy on my breast?Why is the tear so often ...
A Song for the Night (Daniel Henry Deniehy Poems)
O the Night, the Night, the solemn Night, When Earth is bound with her silent zone, And the spangled ...
To My Younger Brother, On His Return From Spain, After The Fatal Retreat Under Sir John Moore, And T (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
"THO' dark are the prospects and heavy the hours, Tho' life is a desert, and cheerless the way; Yet still ...
Smoking Spiritualized (Anonymous British Poems)
PART I.This Indian weed, now withered quite,Though green at noon, cut down at night,Shows thy decay;All flesh is hay:Thus think, ...
Peace and Shepherd (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
Low in a deep sequestered vale,Whence Alpine heights ascend,A beauteous nymph, in pilgrim garb,Is seen her steps to bend.Her olive ...
To Charity (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
PARENT of good, thou essence from on high,Pure emanation from the Deity,Not to the favour'd sons of wealth confin'd,Thou humble ...
In France I Saw A Hill (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
In France I saw a hill—a gentle slopeRising above old tombs to greet the gleamFrom soft spring skies. Beyond these ...
Be My Sweetheart (Eugene Field Poems)
Sweetheart, be my sweetheart When birds are on the wing,When bee and bud and babbling flood Bespeak the birth of ...
Revenge (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
If I had hatred in my heart toward my fellow man, If I were pressed to do him ill, to ...
An Australian Girl (Ethel Castilla Poems)
She's pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on. Sir ...
By my sweetheart (Eugene Field Poem)
Sweetheart, be my sweetheart When birds are on the wing, When bee and bud and babbling flood Bespeak the birth ...
The Indian Burying Ground (Philip Freneau Poem)
In spite of all the learn'd have said; I still my old opinion keep, The posture, that we give the ...
Wishes To His (Supposed) Mistress (Richard Crashaw Poem)
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
The Task: Book VI, The Winter Walk at Noon (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
An Autograph (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I write my name as one, On sands by waves o'errun Or winter's frosted pane, Traces a record vain. Oblivion's ...
Melancholy — To Laura (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Laura! a sunrise seems to break Where'er thy happy looks may glow. Joy sheds its roses o'er thy cheek, Thy ...
Leffingwell (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I-THE LURE No, no,-forget your Cricket and your Ant, For I shall never set my name to theirs That now ...
The Nymph Complaining For The Death Of Her Faun (Andrew Marvell Poems)
The wanton Troopers riding by Have shot my Faun and it will dye. Ungentle men! They cannot thrive To kill ...