Jack Roy (Herman Melville Poems)
Kept up by relays of generations youngNever dies at halyards the blithe chorus sung;While in sands, sounds, and seas where ...
Poems about levity (21 Poems)
A Mother Gazes Upon Her Daughter (Henry Timrod Poems)
Is she not lovely! Oh! when, long ago,My own dead mother gazed upon my face,As I stood blushing near in bridal ...
Why Negroes Don’t Unite (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Why of all the many races in the country where we live,Do we find so little union as the Negro ...
Arraignment Of The Men (Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Poems)
Males perverse, schooled to condemnWomen by your witless laws,Though forsooth you are prime causeOf that which you blame in them:If ...
The New Year’s Gift To Phyllis (Matthew Prior Poems)
The circling months begin this dayTo run their yearly ring,And long-breathed time, which ne'er will stay,Refits his wings and shoots ...
A Fine Penalty (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
He offered but a poor defence,That advocate of mine;And yet, despite the evidence,The penalty was fine.The greater mystery it isThe ...
Louisa: A Poetical Novel. First Epsitle. (Anna Seward Poems)
LOUISATOEMMA,HER FRIEND IN THE EAST-INDIES.THEE EMMA , four slow-circling years have seenPress, with thy pensive foot, Savannas green;Seen thee, with ...
Tale XVI (George Crabbe Poems)
THE CONFIDANT.Anna was young and lovely--in her eyeThe glance of beauty, in her cheek the dye:Her shape was slender, and ...
Metabole. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
The Trial Of Sarah—, Alias Slim Sal, For Privately Stealing (Edward Moore Poems)
The pris'ner was at large indicted, For that by thirst of gain excited, One day in July last, ...
Cadet Grey – Canto I (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
IAct first, scene first. A study. Of a kind Half cell, half salon, opulent yet grave;Rare books, low-shelved, yet far ...
Love Versus Learning (Constance Naden Poems)
ALAS, for the blight of my fancies! Alas, for the fall of my pride! I planned, in my girlish romances, ...
The Beau, in Answer to the Belle (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
Artist! since it is confest,That of Painters you're the best;Prithee as thou dost excel,Draw the Beau as well as Belle;Draw ...
Sonnet CXLVII: “I but half uttered what I purported, dear” (George Henry Boker Poems)
I but half uttered what I purposed, dear: I should have said that if divided grief Give to thy heart ...
The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
THE MAID OF THE MILL’S REPENTANCE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
YOUTH. AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee! Or else I needs must, in ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
The Trust (Robert William Service Poems)
Because I've eighty years and odd, And darkling is my day, I now prepare to meet my God, And for ...
Veteran Sirens (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
The ghost of Ninon would be sorry now To laugh at them, were she to see them here, So brave ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1 (Alexander Pope Poems)
Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. (Martial, Epigrams 12.84) What dire offence from am'rous causes ...