Midnight Musings (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
The gloomy night has cast a shroud Upon the dwelling-place of men;Hushed are the voices of the crowd, And silence reigns o'er ...
Poems about erwhelms (20 Poems)
The Visible Creation (James Montgomery Poems)
The God of nature and of graceIn all His works appears;His goodness through the earth we trace,His grandeur in the ...
October 21, 1809. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
"There is a destiny in this strange world,"Which oft decrees an undeserved doom."Let schoolmen tell us why."HOME.ERE now I've wish'd ...
In The Shadow Of The Beeches (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
In the shadow of the beeches,Where the fragile wildflowers bloom;Where the pensive silence pleachesGreen a roof of cool perfume,Have you ...
Lxix. waiting for death. (Michelangelo Buonarroti Poems)
Di morte certo. My death must come; but when, I do not know: Life's short, and little life remains for me: Fain would ...
Tears (Osbert Sitwell Poems)
Silence o'erwhelms the melody of Night,Then slowly drips on to the woods that sighFor their past vivid vernal ecstasy.The branches ...
The Cnydian Oracle (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"What though the Isthmus lacks an ocean-gate,Delve not the soil! If Jove had willed it so,His watchful power had opened ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Eigth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
''Not with you to take counsel, Powers of heaven,-- For still that title ours,--in so great haste Hither have I ...
Paraphrases From David’s Psalms (Emma Lyon Poems)
Paraphrased From David's Psalms. Psalm XIX.THE arched heavens ere since the birth of timeInstruct the earth, in characters sublime, ...
The Borough. Letter X: Clubs And Social Meetings (George Crabbe Poems)
YOU say you envy in your calm retreatOur social Meetings;--'tis with joy we meet.In these our parties you are pleased ...
Alonzo And Cora – Part I (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
A TALE, FROM MARMONTEL'S INCAS OF PERUWHEN o'er the western world IBERIA'S bandsWith blood and rapine stain'd their guilty hands;When ...
On The Return Of Peace And Plenty (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
LO! what descending cherub, robed in light,With dazzling beams o'erwhelms the sight?Is it a Genius of th' etherial spheres?Or Angel ...
To The Shade Of Mary Robinson (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
"HOW sadly, sweet seraph, I mourn that I never, I ne'er was so happy thee living to know! How sadly ...
Ode To Fancy (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
O thou keen Pow'r, whose radiant eyeCan thousand shadowy forms descry,That cheat corporeal sight;Thou who canst soar above yon spheres,Past ...
On The Death Of Mrs. Bosanquet (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
FATE'S messenger the cup of joy o'erwhelms,Where beam'd benevolence and social love;Recalls a native of superior realms,Lent as a short-lived ...
The Sorrow Of Sorrows (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
WOMAN, those hands are bare that were love's throne, On alien props thy helpless arms are spread; Thy hope is ...
The Seasons: Winter (James Thomson Poems)
See! Winter comes, to rule the varied Year, Sullen, and sad; with all his rising Train, Vapours, and Clouds, and ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3 (Alexander Pope Poems)
Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flow'rs, Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs, There stands a ...
To My Little Niece Sally Livingston (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
To my little niece Sally Livingston, on the death of a little serenading wren she admired. Hasty pilgrim stop thy ...