On Happiness (Janet Little Poems)
O HAPPINESS! where art thou to be found?What bow'r is blest with thy perpetual gleam?From court, from cot, ev'n while ...
Poems about salutary (21 Poems)
To Hope (Janet Little Poems)
I.HAIL meek-ey'd maid! of matchless worth!Our best companion here on earth;To thee sole pow'r is giv'n,T' illume our dark and ...
To Sickness (Maria Logan Poems)
WHAT tho' my cheeks thy pallid liv'ry wear. And each enfeebled nerve thy pow'r obeys!Tho' hourly doom'd thy chilling grasp to ...
The Dead Christ (Julia Ward Howe Poems)
Take the dead Christ to my chamber,The Christ I brought from Rome;Over all the tossing ocean,He has reached his western ...
Elegy Occasioned By The Death Of Mr. Gill (Henry Kirke White Poems)
He sunk, the impetuous river roll'd along,The sullen wave betray'd his dying breath;And rising sad the rustling sedge among,The gale ...
The Morning Walk – a fragment (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
I walk'd in the morn, when the beautiful showerHad left its tears on many a flower,When many a pearly diademWas ...
Eclypse (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Fear not: the planet that bedimsThe moon's distorted face,Itself through cloudless ether swimsThe Sea of Space;And earthward many a distant ...
Fragments from ‘Genius Lost’ (Charles Harpur Poems)
Prelude I SEE the boy-bard neath life's morning skies, While hope's bright cohorts guess ...
The Dance To Death. Act II (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT II.--At Eisenach.SCENE I. A Room in the LANDGRAVE'S Palace. FREDERICK THE GRAVE and HENRY SCHNETZEN.LANDGRAVE.Who tells thee of my ...
Palinodia (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI. I was mistaken, my dear Gino. Long And greatly have I erred. I fancied life ...
Her Portrait (Francis Thompson Poems)
Oh, but the heavenly grammar did I holdOf that high speech which angels' tongues turn gold!So should her deathless beauty ...
Ode To Melancholy (Ann Steele Poems)
Daughter of grave reflection, gentle power,Whose dictates oft improve the lonely hour,Kind melancholy come!I seek thy friendly aid;Beneath thy hallow'd ...
To Miss R.: On Her Attendance On Her Mother At Buxton (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
When blooming beauty in the noon of power,While offered joys demand each sprightly hour,With all that pomp of charms and ...
To —— (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
My Reason for being one Week absent from her. You ask me why my throbbing breast Heaves with a ...
Dedication (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
You whom I could not saveListen to me.Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another.I ...
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
The Persian Version (Robert Graves Poem)
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. As for the Greek theatrical tradition Which represents ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
Song of the Exposition. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
Dedication (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
You whom I could not save Listen to me. Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed ...
A Florida Sunday. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, ...