Sonnet XVII. (John Moultrie Poems)
There are, whose pearl of price is richly setIn mountings choice of intellectual gold,And polish'd high by graces manifold;Some such ...
Poems about infirmity (21 Poems)
Verses On Renunciation (Bhartrihari Poems)
I have travelled in many countries, hard to travel in,And got no result;Giving up pride of birth and position,I have ...
The Cloud’s Swan-Song (Francis Thompson Poems)
There is a parable in the pathless cloud,There's prophecy in heaven,--they did not lie,The Chaldee shepherds; seal-ed from the proud,To ...
Hoyle Lake (Anna Seward Poems)
APOEM,WRITTEN ON THAT COAST, AND ADDRESSED TO ITS PROPRIETOR,SIR JOHN STANLEY. THEE, STANLEY , thee, our gladden'd spirit hails,Since Life's ...
The Drunkard (Charles Harpur Poems)
Disease was lurking in the cup!Disastrous folly mantling there!For promised joys he quaffed it up-And his were ruin and despair!Yes-so ...
To Mrs. Dulaney (Frances Anne Kemble Poems)
What was thine errand here? Thy beauty was more exquisite than aught That from this marr?d earth ...
To the True Romance (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and kind, ...
Mad Judy (Thomas Hardy Poem)
When the hamlet hailed a birth Judy used to cry: When she heard our christening mirth She would kneel and ...
He Died (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
From the water he was saved From the pharaoh they were delivered in the wilderness fed To the mountain he ...
The Improvisatore (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
Spirit (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
Be still, thou unregenerate part, Disturb no more my settled heart, For I have vow'd (and so will do) Thee ...
The Flesh and the Spirit (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
In secret place where once I stood Close by the Banks of Lacrim flood, I heard two sisters reason on ...
The Lovers of the Poor (Gwendolyn Brooks Poems)
arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment League Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting In diluted gold bars ...
Hymn 15 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Our own weakness, and Christ our strength. 2 Cor. 12:7,9,10. Let me but hear my Savior say, "Strength shall be ...
MORNINGS LIKE THIS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Mornings like this I awaken and wonder How I have moved so far, how I have moved so little And ...
The Phoenix and the Turtle (William Shakespeare Poems)
Let the bird of loudest lay, On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste ...
Old King Cole (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
In Tilbury Town did Old King Cole A wise old age anticipate, Desiring, with his pipe and bowl, No Khan's ...
Tasker Norcross (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
From ‘Arcades’ (John Milton Poems)
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
Lycidas (John Milton Poems)
In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, ...
Prayer (by: An Unknown Confederate Soldier)
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve, I was made weak, that I might humbly obey. I asked ...