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The dead babe (Eugene Field Poem)

Last night, as my dear babe lay dead, In agony I knelt and said: "0 God! what have I done, ...

An EPISTLE from Alexander to Hephaestion In His Sickness (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)

WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...

The Bonfire (Robert Frost Poem)

"OH, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire ...

The Black Cottage (Robert Frost Poem)

We chanced in passing by that afternoon To catch it in a sort of special picture Among tar-banded ancient cherry ...

Lodged (Robert Frost Poem)

The rain to the wind said, 'You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers ...

For Once, Then, Something (Robert Frost Poem)

Others taught me with having knelt at well-curbs Always wrong to the light, so never seeing Deeper down in the ...

Little Aggie (Marriott Edgar Poem)

When Joe Dove took his elephants out on the road He made each one hold fast with his trunk To ...

The Problem (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)

I like a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic ...

A Ballad of Hell (John Davidson Poem)

'A letter from my love to-day! Oh, unexpected, dear appeal!' She struck a happy tear away, And broke the crimson ...

A Legend of Service (Henry Van Dyke Poem)

It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...

The Gentian weaves her fringes (Emily Dickinson Poem)

The Gentian weaves her fringes -- The Maple's loom is red -- My departing blossoms Obviate parade. A brief, but ...

The Old Arm-chair (Eliza Cook Poem)

I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ? ...

Adelgitha (Thomas Campbell Poem)

The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded, And sad pale Adelgitha came, When forth a valiant champion bounded, And slew the slanderer ...

Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)

PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...

Christabel (Samuel Coleridge Poem)

PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...

Remembrances (John Clare Poem)

Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh ...

Dora (Thomas Edward Brown Poem)

SHE knelt upon her brother's grave, My little girl of six years old-- He used to be so good and ...

Hymn To Death (William Cullen Bryant Poem)

Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...

A Forest Hymn (William Cullen Bryant Poem)

The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...

Mary and Gabriel (Rupert Brooke Poem)

Young Mary, loitering once her garden way, Felt a warm splendour grow in the April day, As wine that blushes ...

A Memory (Rupert Brooke Poem)

(From a sonnet-sequence) Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept Softly along the dim way to your room, And ...

Menelaus and Helen (Rupert Brooke Poem)

I Hot through Troy's ruin Menelaus broke To Priam's palace, sword in hand, to sate On that adulterous whore a ...

The Great Lover (Rupert Brooke Poem)

I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, ...

The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)

"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...

Bride of Abydos, The (Lord Byron Poem)

"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...

The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)