Esse Quam Videri (John Hay Poems)
The knightly legend of thy shield betraysThe moral of thy life; a forecast wise, And that large honor that deceit defies,Inspired ...
Poems about scutcheon (22 Poems)
Hippodromani (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Part IVisions in the SmokeRest, and be thankful! On the verge Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,But whose granite ...
Ernest: The Rule Of Right – Book IV (Capel Lofft Poems)
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
The Lay Of The Bell (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
. Fast, in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mould of baked clay. Up, comrades, up, and aid the ...
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 ...
The Roll Of The Kettledrum; Or, The Lay Of The Last Charger (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler ...
The Feud: A Border Ballad (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
PLATE IRixa super meroThey sat by their wine in the tavern that night,But not in good fellowship true:The Rhenish was ...
The Lay Of The Lady Lorraine (Carolyn Wells Poems)
The Lady Lorraine was sweet and fair; The Lady Lorraine was young; She had wonderful eyes and glorious hair, And ...
The Story Of Clarice II (Constance Naden Poems)
CLARICE awoke next morning with the sense That something she had found, and something lost; A little pain she felt, ...
The Factory Town (Ernest Jones Poems)
The night had sunk along the city, It was a bleak and cheerless hour;The wild-winds sung their solemn ditty ...
The Lady Of La Garaye – Conclusion (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
PEACE to their ashes! Far away they lie, Among their poor, beneath the equal sky. Among their poor, who blessed ...
Resurrexit (June, 1900) (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The old flag's flying from the rampart, The old flag's blown upon the breeze,And the old shame's blotted from ...
Omdurman (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
September 9, 1898Glory for these glad tidings, far and near, That come to-day across the plunging main;Shattered the Dervish ...
Honour The Brave! (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
England! Not vainly yetThine eyes with sorrow wet For solace crave:Still in hearts true as gold,And, like their fathers, ...
Esse Quam Videri (Charles Mackay Poems)
The knightly legend on thy shield betrays The moral of thy life; a forecast wise, ...
Acrostic on New South Wales the Fairies’ Scheme. (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
Now will we to these sunny lands inviteEach Master Spirit with us to unite,Weaving a spell of wonder and delight;Sobriety ...
The Eve Of St. Agnes (John Keats Poem)
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
The butterfly obtains (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The butterfly obtains But little sympathy Though favorably mentioned In Entomology -- Because he travels freely And wears a proper ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
Ravenna (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
The Lay Of The Bell (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Fast, in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mould of baked clay. Up, comrades, up, and aid the birth The ...
Clorinda And Damon (Andrew Marvell Poems)
C. Damon come drive thy flocks this way. D. No : 'tis too late they went astray. C. I have ...