Vision Of Columbus – Book 8 (Joel Barlow Poems)
And now the Angel, from the trembling sight,Veil'd the wide world-when sudden shades of nightMove o'er the ethereal vault; the ...
Poems about suppliants (20 Poems)
Vision Of Columbus – Book 6 (Joel Barlow Poems)
Naval action of De Grasse and Graves. Capture of Cornwallis..Thus view'd the sage. When, lo, in eastern skies,From glooms unfolding, ...
Modern Moses (James Madison Bell Poems)
There is a tide in men's affairs,Leading to fame not wholly theirs —Leading to high positions, wonThrough noble deeds by ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. II. (Money – Mourning) (Henry Baker Poems)
Money. Riches. Wealth.Gold is the greatest God: tho' yet we seeNo Temples rais'd to Money's Majesty,No Altars fuming to her ...
A Word From A Petitioner (John Pierpont Poems)
What! our petitions spurned! The prayerOf thousands,—tens of thousands,—castUnheard, beneath your Speaker's chair!But ye will hear us, first or last.The ...
Fourth Sunday After Easter (John Keble Poems)
My Saviour, can it ever beThat I should gain by losing Thee?The watchful mother tarries nigh,Though sleep have closed her ...
Jerusalem (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
Four lamps were burning o'er two mighty graves -Godfrey's and Baldwin's - Salem's Christian kings;And holy light glanced from Helena's ...
Ode To Apollo (James Lister Cuthbertson Poems)
"Tandem venias precamur Nube candentes humeros amictus Augur Apollo." Lord of the golden lyre Fraught with the Dorian fire, Oh! fair-haired child of Leto, come ...
Gloria! (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, ye mighty walls and towering spires!Astride the cowled gabled ways;Thy emblazoned scripts depictingFanciful reaction of ancient times;Smoking altars upon ...
On The Difficulty Of Attaining Poetical Excellence (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
BUT few the Delian god inspiresWith genuine true poetic fires;But few who bear the poet's name,Shall share the lasting wreath ...
Twenty-Secon (John Keble Poems)
What liberty so glad and gay, As where the mountain boy,Reckless of regions far away, A prisoner lives in joy?The dreary sounds ...
Hymn For The Two Hundredth Anniversary Of King’s Chapel (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
SUNG BY THE CONGREGATION TO THE TUNE OFTALLIS'S EVENING HYMNO'ERSHADOWED by the walls that climb,Piled up in air by living ...
Deaf (Henry Cuyler Bunner Poems)
As to a bird's song she were listening,Her beautiful head is ever sidewise bent;Her questioning eyes lift up their depths ...
Under The Trees (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
("Exultabunt omnia ligna sylvarum.")As oft in wandering distress,Today in solemn thankfulness,Unto your God and mineI come with winnowings of prayer,O ...
The Shepheardes Calender: Februarie (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Februarie: ?gloga Secunda. CVDDIE & THENOT.CVDDIE.AH for pittie, wil ranke Winters rage, These bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage? The keene ...
The Faithfulness Of Buddha (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Thenceforth alone the long-armed monarch strode, Not looking back,--nay, not for Bhima's sake,--But walking with his face set ...
Harvest (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
LORD of the year! whose word commandsThe seasons o'er what favour'd landsTo shed profuse their stores;Or where to turn the ...
Sunday Morning On Lake Superior (Sonnet X.) (George Jehoshaphat Mountain Poems)
MEAGRE observance that we make, and lame, With tasks inverted, of Jehovah's day!We at whose hands our fellow-men should claim ...
The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
Two Husbands (Robert William Service Poems)
Unpenitent, I grieve to state, Two good men stood by heaven's gate, Saint Peter coming to await. The stopped the ...