A Prize Poem (Henry Timrod Poems)
A fairy ringDrawn in the crimson of a battle-plain —From whose weird circle every loathsome thing And sight and sound of ...
Poems about chastely (21 Poems)
Disappointment (Ovid Poems)
But oh, I suppose she was ugly; she wasn't elegant;I hadn't yearned for her often in my prayers.Yet holding her ...
Everyday Characters IV – My Partner (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
'There is, perhaps, no subject of more universal interest in the whole range of natural knowledge, than that of the ...
Washington! (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
Feb. 22, 1732BRIGHT natal morn! what face appearsBeyond the rolling mist of years?A face whose loftiest traits, combineAll virtues of ...
At The Sight Of A Beautiful But Frail One (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
Ah ! lost one ! hide that tempting smile, And turn away that thrilling eye ;They only languish, to beguile, They only ...
Oak, Pine And Silver Birch (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
IOak, whose mossed antiquity stands leafily ashiver,Oldest oracles, each dawn, in earth's ear to deliver,Prom your whispering world of leaves, ...
Earlier Poems : Woods In Winter (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
When winter winds are piercing chill, And through the hawthorn blows the gale,With solemn feet I tread the hill, That overbrows the ...
On Receiving A Copy Of Mr. Austin’s ‘Old World Idylls’ (James Russell Lowell Poems)
IAt length arrived, your book I takeTo read in for the author's sake;Too gray for new sensations grown,Can charm to ...
An Ode To The King, At His Returning From Scotland To The Queen, After His Coronation There (Sir Henry Wotton Poems)
Rouse up thy self, my gentle Muse,Though now our green conceits be gray,And yet once more do not refuseTo take ...
The Seasons (Josiah Conder Poems)
Spring, summer, autumn! priestesses that holdAlternate watch at nature's altar! DeepAnd full of mystery the course ye keepIn hidden sympathy. ...
A Vow-Day Flower (Michael Earls Poems)
(POVERTY, CHASTITY, OBEDIENCE)Three little leaves like shamrock,And the trefoil's love-lit eyes,Whether it takes the sunshineOr the shadows from the skies.And ...
A Devout Lover (Thomas Randolph Poems)
I have a mistress, for perfections rareIn every eye, but in my thoughts most fair.Like tapers on the altar shine ...
The Pansy (Margaret Deland Poems)
O dainty Pansy! hooded all in blue,With chastely folding cloak of green,A maid whom Eros never knew,Nor Love has Seen!I ...
The Restoration Of The Works Of Art In Italy (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
LAND of departed fame! whose classic plains Have proudly echo'd to immortal strains; Whose hallow'd soil hath given the great ...
Love Sonnets (Charles Harpur Poems)
How beautiful doth the morning rise O'er the hills, as from her bower a bride ...
Epode (Ben Jonson Poems)
Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue and not fate:Next to that virtue, is to ...
Silent Love (Andrew Park Poems)
Opening Passage No man e'er loved like me ! When but a boy Love was my solace and my only ...
A Warning: to Aurelius (Gaius Valerius Catullus Poems)
I commend myself and my love to you,Aurelius. I ask for modest indulgence,so, if you've ever had a desire in ...
Blue Funk (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Nameless terror dogged his heel,Little fears loomed large and black,Till his head began to reelAnd his manhood crack.There was no ...
Woods in Winter (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
When winter winds are piercing chill, And through the hawthorn blows the gale, With solemn feet I tread the hill, ...
To the Muse of Poetry (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
EXULT MY MUSE! exult to see Each envious, waspish, jealous thing, Around its harmless venom fling, And dart its powerless ...