The Profession. A Sketch (Alaric Alexander Watts Poems)
On Santa Croce's golden-pillared shrine, A thousand tapers pour their blended rays In one rich tide of radiance. Like a ...
Poems about gauds (21 Poems)
Rosara’s Chain. The Ivory Halls. (Alicia LeFanu Poems)
As down the circling wave they glide,Thus spoke at length the Elfin guide:"My friend, behold the favoured coast,"Where ...
A Few Remarks on Goats, Asses and the Dead Hand (C J Dennis Poems)
I don't mind kings and dukes and things; I don't mind wigs or maces;I don't mind crowns or robes or ...
The Night (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Watchman, what of the night? See you a streak of light? Whither, O Captain of the quest, ...
Costanza (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
She knelt in prayer. A stream of sunset fellThro' the stain'd window of her lonely cell,And with its rich, deep, ...
Robert Burns. (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
WRITTEN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH, JANUARY 25, 1859.A HUNDRED years ago, when George was King, The second monarch ...
Gordon (Ernest Myers Poems)
ION through the Libyan sand Rolls ever, mile on mile, League on long league, cleaving the rainless land, Fed ...
Description of a Tropical Island (Charles Harpur Poems)
Behold an Indian isle, reposedUpon the deep's enamoured breast,Even like a royal bride, be-rosedWith passion in her happy rest.Or, when ...
I’m Tired Of Life (Effie Afton Poems)
I'm tired, I'm tired of life, brother! Of all that meets my eye; And my weary spirit ...
I’m Tired Of Life (Frances Ellen Watkins Poems)
I'm tired, I'm tired of life, brother! Of all that meets my eye; And my weary spirit ...
Magdalen Walks (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Cloying her lips as the honeycomb, smooth are the words of her mouth,But her feet in the paths of the ...
To A Child (Anonymous British Poems)
Things of high import sound I in thine ears,Dear child, though now thou may'st not feel their power;But hoard them ...
It Is Not Beauty I Demand (George Darley Poems)
It is not Beauty I demand, A crystal brow, the moon's despair, Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand, Nor ...
The Beggar-Man (Charles Lamb Poems)
Abject, stooping, old, and wan,See yon wretched beggar-man;Once a father's hopeful heir,Once a mother's tender care.When too young to understandHe ...
Hercules (Constance Naden Poems)
THIS fruitage from the far Hesperides I bring to great Eurystheus, feared and hated, Whom I, his slave, nor hate ...
Sonnet CCLII: “I play the masquer to the world, I grant” (George Henry Boker Poems)
I play the masquer to the world, I grant, I flash the spangles of my art before Its staring eyes; ...
To Juan at the Winter Solstice (Robert Graves Poem)
There is one story and one story only That will prove worth your telling, Whether as learned bard or gifted ...
Sonnet XXII: With Fools and Children (Michael Drayton Poem)
To Folly With fools and children, good discretion bears; Then, honest people, bear with Love and me, Nor older yet, ...
To George Sand: A Recognition (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
TRUE genius, but true woman ! dost deny The woman's nature with a manly scorn And break away the gauds ...
To Elsie (William Carlos Williams Poems)
The pure products of America go crazy- mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its ...
The Children of Lir (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Out upon the sand-dunes thrive the coarse long grasses; Herons standing knee-deep in the brackish pool; Overhead the sunset fire ...