Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
Poems about excelsior (14 Poems)
Quatrains (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
S. H.With beams December planets dartHis cold eye truth and conduct scanned,July was in his sunny heart,October in his liberal ...
Pauline – Part I – Introduction (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Fair morning sat upon the mountain-top,Night skulking crept into the mountain-chasm.The silent ships slept in the silent bay;One broad blue ...
The Charity Ball (Hattie Howard Poems)
There was many a token of festal display, And reveling crowds who were never so gay, And, as it were AEolus charming ...
Aspire (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Higher, higher, ever higher,--Let thy watchword be "Aspire!" Noble Christian youth;Whatsoe'er be God's behest,Try to do that duty best In strength of ...
Mrs. Merdle Discourseth Again On Dinner (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
But you are not eating, and I fear that the fish, Or else 't is the gravy's not done to your ...
Garibaldi In His Conquering Career In Italy (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Oh for a blast of the loudest E'er blown from the trumpet of fame!Oh for a song of the proudest E'er sung ...
American Poets: Longfellow (James McIntyre Poems)
Like fruit that's large and ripe and mellow, Sweet and luscious is Longfellow, Melodious songs he oft did pour, And high was his ...
The End Of The Whole Matter (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
A tall brave man of gray three score,The sable columns rode before,The knightliest of the knightly throng,The bravest of the ...
The Huntsman (Billy Bennett Poems)
Give me the life of a huntsman,It wants a lot of beating...I know, I've served my apprenticeshipWith that famous hunter, ...
An Imitation (Anne C Lynch Poems)
As once I dreamed, methought I strayedWithin a snow-clad mountain's shade;From whose far height the silence boreOne charm?d word, "Excelsior!"And, ...
Excelsior (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ...
Tema con Variazioni (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Why is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to that process of Dilution which has proved so advantageous ...
A Child’s Christmas In Wales (Dylan Thomas Poems)
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...