The Portrait (John Pierpont Poems)
Why does the eye, with greater pleasure, restOn the proud oak, in vernal honors drest,When sultry gales, that to his ...
Poems about obelisk (21 Poems)
Festus – XXXII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
God only can heal the bruised spirit, and yieldPeace. By the overthrown altar of a fane,Foundation shattered, which from faith ...
Christmas (Henry Timrod Poems)
How grace this hallowed day?Shall happy bells, from yonder ancient spire,Send their glad greetings to each Christmas fire Round which the ...
Decline And Fall (John Frederick Nims Poems)
We had a city also. Hand in handWandered happy as travellers our own land.Murmured in turn the hearsay of each ...
Hymn To Horus (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Hail, God revived in glory! The night is over and done;Far mountains wrinkled and hoary,Fair cities great in story, Flash in the ...
Crows At Washington (John Hay Poems)
Slow flapping to the setting sunBy twos and threes, in wavering rows. As twilight shadows dimly close,The crows fly over Washington.Under ...
Vision (Harry Crosby Poems)
I exchange eyes with the Mad Queenthe mirror crashes against my faceand bursts into a thousand sunsall over the city ...
The Artists (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime,With unlocked senses, ...
Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever: Book X. – The Millennial Sabbath (Edward Henry Bickersteth Poems)
A Sabbath morn — softly the village bellsRing out their welcome to the sacred day.The weary swain has drunk of ...
The Flight Into Egypt (Francis Sylvester Mahony Poems)
There's a legend that's told of a gypsy who dwelt In the lands where the pyramids be; And ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Prelude (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
In Vision are the centuries rolled back; The dead Past lives again. I breathe the air Of the young world; ...
Khamsin (Clinton Scollard Poems)
Oh, the wind from the desert blew in! — KhamsinThe wind from the desert blew in! It blew from the ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Memorial Stones (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Inside this obelisk this homage, this singular space dedicated to the first in the heart of the city forgotten stones ...
An honest Tear (Emily Dickinson Poem)
An honest Tear Is durabler than Bronze -- This Cenotaph May each that dies -- Reared by itself -- No ...
The Pleasures of Melancholy (Thomas Warton Poems)
Mother of musings, Contemplation sage, Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock Of Teneriffe; 'mid the tempestuous night, On which, ...
The Artists (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough, Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime, With ...
Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
Gypsy (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I ASKED a gypsy pal To imitate an old image And speak old wisdom. She drew in her chin, Made ...
Beautiful Torquay (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
All ye lovers of the picturesque, away To beautiful Torquay and spend a holiday 'Tis health for invalids for to ...
Lambert Hutchins (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I have two monuments besides this granite obelisk: One, the house I built on the hill, With its spires, bay ...