Retrospect; (Charles Tompson Poems)
Or,A Review of my Scholastic Days"O, Festus Dies Hominis!"-O, the Joyful Day of Man!Why, (when the hours of school-day bliss ...
Poems about idlers (21 Poems)
Tale X (George Crabbe Poems)
THE LOVER'S JOURNEY.It is the Soul that sees: the outward eyesPresent the object, but the Mind descries;And thence delight, disgust, ...
Vesalius In Zante (Edith Wharton Poems)
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.I loved light ever, light in eye and brain-No tapers mirrored in ...
When California Was A Foreign Land (Albert Pike Poems)
READ BEFORE THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF MEXICAN WAR VETERANS, JANUARY 16, 1874. "WHEN CALIFORNIA WAS A FOREIGN LAND!" How many ...
To G. C. Smith (Charlotte Eliza Dixon Poems)
GO on, thou great Apostle of the Waters,Fill up the measure of thy useful days;Stem the rough billows that oppose ...
The Hosts (Alan Seeger Poems)
Purged, with the life they left, of allThat makes life paltry and mean and small,In their new dedication chargedWith something ...
Cui Bono (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Oh! wind that whistles o'er thorns and thistles, Of this fruitful earth like a goblin elf;Why should he labour to ...
The Ruined Home (Annie Adams Fields Poems)
AT nightfall, coming from the wood, I crossed the hilltop's gloomy brow,Where one unsheltered farmhouse stood, Neglected, dark, ...
Butte (Aaron Southwick Poems)
How oft my mind reverts to thee, Thou city of the tunneled hills;Thy lofty towers I still can ...
Ego (Abner Cosens Poems)
The ego of the human race, The sordid love of self, We see it in life's hurried ...
Don’t Drink (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Don't drink, boys, don't!There is nothing of happiness, pleasure, or cheer,In brandy, in whiskey, in rum, ale, or beer.If they ...
The Song Of The Builder (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I sink my piers to the solid rock, And I send my steel to the sky,And I pile up the ...
I’d Rather Be A Failure (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I'd rather be a failure than the man who's never tried;I'd rather seek the mountain-top than always stand aside.Oh, let ...
To Faustine (Arthur Colton Poems)
"SOMETHING, it may be, you and I In some deserted yard will lie Where Memory fades away; Caring no more ...
The Fool Errant (Amy Lowell Poem)
The Fool Errant sat by the highway of life And his gaze wandered up and his gaze wandered down, A ...
The Fight at Eureka Stockade (Henry Lawson Poem)
"Was I at Eureka?" His figure was drawn to a youthful height, And a flood of proud recollections made the ...
Flag of the Southern Cross (Henry Lawson Poem)
Sons of Australia, be loyal and true to her - Fling out the flag of the Southern Cross! Sing a ...
Faces In The Street (Henry Lawson Poem)
They lie, the men who tell us for reasons of their own That want is here a stranger, and that ...
The Schooner ‘Flight’ (Derek Walcott Poems)
1 Adios, Carenage In idle August, while the sea soft, and leaves of brown islands stick to the rim of ...
Song of the Exposition. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
The Hosts (Alan Seeger Poems)
Purged, with the life they left, of all That makes life paltry and mean and small, In their new dedication ...