Lacrymae Paterae (Henry Alford Poems)
I. This tranquil Sabbath morn hath hushed the earth Into unwonted calm. The clear pale hills Lie beneath level lines of sunny clouds, Walling ...
Poems about recital (16 Poems)
A Letter To Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, Occasioned By The Victory At Blenheim (Matthew Prior Poems)
Since hired for life, thy servile Muse must singSuccessive conquests and a glorious King;Must of a man immortal vainly boast,And ...
Beechenbrook – IX (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
When fierce and fast-thronging calamities rush Resistless as destiny o'er us, and crush The life from the quivering heart till we feel Like ...
The Female Convict’s Death. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
I CHANCED to stray along the barren hillsThat stretch from Botany Bay to Sydney CoveOne cloudy morn. Full many a ...
Vignette – XXI (Matilda Betham Poems)
LINES._Written for a Young Gentleman to speak at the Audit at St. Saviour'sSchool, Southwark, after the Battle of Trafalgar_. --------While others, ...
Poland (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"O Heaven, he cried, my bleeding country save;Is there no hand on high to shield the brave?"——CampbellSpeak not thus in ...
Mood Indigo (Jan Struther Poems)
TWIST the milled knob, fingers. Send needle-antennaFrom Hilversum to Rome, Rome to Vienna,Groping for music. Any kind will do:The Moonlight ...
In The Land Of Dreams (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
A Bridle-path in the tangled mallee, With blossoms unnamed and unknown bespread,-And two who ride through its leafy alley,- But never the ...
To Lady Clan, (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
WHO INSISTED ON THE AUTHOR'S WRITING A POEM, ONMEETING BY APPOINTMENT WITH HER AND THREEOTHER LADIES AT AN INN ON ...
The Mourner For The Barmecides (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Fall'n was the House of Giafar; and its name,The high romantic name of Barmecide,A sound forbidden on its own bright ...
Aneurin’s Harp (George Meredith Poems)
IPrince of Bards was old Aneurin;He the grand Gododin sang;All his numbers threw such fire in,Struck his harp so wild ...
La Derniere Robe De Soi (Edith Nesbit Poems)
OH, silken gown, all pink and pretty,Bought, quite a bargain, in the City,Your ill-trained soul full false has played me--No ...
Ars Poetica (Antanas Venclova Poems)
A la Paul VerlaineCome, let's restore form to our verses!Of senseless lines we've had enough,Of lines disorderly and rough!Law-bound the ...
The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals (Norman Dubie Poems)
You were never told, Mother, how old Illyawas drunk That last holiday, for five days and nights He stumbled through ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
Lines in Praise of the Lyric Club Banquet (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Which was Held in the Queens Hotel, Perth, on the Evening of 5th September 1894 'Twas in the year of ...