Cousin Rufus’ Story (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
My little story, Cousin Rufus said,Is not so much a story as a fact.It is about a certain willful boy--An ...
Poems about home-coming (15 Poems)
Empty Houses (Mary Colborne-Veel Poems)
ITHERE'S not a person in the street, This merry-making summer day! The houses stand in dull array; No profit on ...
To James Russell Lowell (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
What rarer, finer bliss than his who feels,While happy friends and neighbors press his hands,The warmth of handclasps given in ...
Bon Voyage (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Ship, blest to bear such freight across the blue,May stormless stars control thy horoscope;In keel and hull, in every spar ...
Deer (John Drinkwater Poems)
Shy in their herding dwell the fallow deer.They are spirits of wild sense. Nobody nearComes upon their pastures. There a ...
“I dreamt last night of happy home-comings” (Lesbia Harford Poems)
I dreamt last night of happy home-comings.Friends I had loved and had believed were deadCame happily to visit me and ...
The Anarchist. (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
THE dawn hangs heavy on the distant hill,The darkness shudders slowly into light;And from the weary bosom of the nightThe ...
The Silver Stripes (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
When we've honored the heroes returning from France,When we've mourned for the heroes who fell,When we've done all we can ...
Intangible Tigers (C J Dennis Poems)
There's a moral in this: tho' I own that the preaching Of moral and maxim in season and outGrows stale; ...
The Admiral’s Return (Charles Hamilton Musgrove Poems)
(Written on the occasion of the bringing of the body of Admiral JohnPaul Jones to the United States for reburial.) ...
In An Album (Arthur Sherburne Hardy Poems)
Like the south-flying swallow the summer has flown, Like a fast-falling star, from unknown to unknown Life flashes and falters ...
O Dull Cold Northern Sky (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
O DULL cold northern sky, O brawling sabbath bells, O feebly twittering Autumn bird that tells The year is like ...
A Summer Night (George William Russell Poems)
HER mist of primroses within her breast Twilight hath folded up, and o'er the west, Seeking remoter valleys long hath ...
The Wilderness (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Come away! come away! there's a frost along the marshes, And a frozen wind that skims the shoal where it ...
The Chinese Nightingale (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A Song in Chinese Tapestries "How, how," he said. "Friend Chang," I said, "San Francisco sleeps as the dead- Ended ...