The Priests Of Ireland (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
YOU have waited, Priests of Ireland, until the hour was late:You have stood with folded arms until 'twas asked-Why do ...
Poems about sorrow-laden (12 Poems)
Roly Poly (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ROLY POLY'S just awakened,Wakened in his cosy bed,All his dainty ringlets tumbledO'er his shoulders, and his head:Roly Poly's cheeks are ...
Acqua Fredda (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
By Acqua Fredda's cloister-wallI pause to feel the mountain breeze,And watch the shadows eastward fallFrom immemorial cypress trees.Like arms outstretched ...
Oh, Patient Eyes! (Hermann Hagedorn Poems)
Oh, patient eyes! oh, bleeding, mangled heart! Oh, hero, whose wide soul, defying chains, Swept at each army's head, Swept to the charge ...
Gone! Gone! Ayea, Thou Art Gone! (Patience Worth Poems)
Gone! Gone! Ayea, thou art gone!Gone, and earth doth stand it stark.Gone! Gone! The even's breathDoth breathe it unto meIn ...
Sleep (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man,Silent distiller of the balm of rest,How wonderful thy power, when naught else can,To ...
The Kalevala – Rune III (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
WAINAMOINEN AND YOUKAHAINEN.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,Passed his years in full contentment,On the meadows of Wainola,On the plains of Kalevala,Singing ever wondrous ...
The Kalevala – Rune XLII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
CAPTURE OF THE SAMPO.Wainamoinen, old and truthful,With the blacksmith, Ilmarinen,With the reckless son of Lempo,Handsome hero, Kaukomieli,On the sea's smooth ...
First Love (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
Ah, well can I the day recall, when first The conflict fierce of love I felt, and said: If _this_ ...
The Annunciation (Digby Mackworth Dolben Poems)
On the silent ages breaking Comes the sweet Annunciation:The eternal Ave waking, Changes Eva's condemnation.How at Nazareth the Archangel Hailed ...
The Iron Gate (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
WHERE is this patriarch you are kindly greeting? Not unfamiliar to my ear his name, Nor yet unknown to many ...
The Forsaken Merman (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great ...