Poem For The Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Founding Of Harvard College (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
TWICE had the mellowing sun of autumn crownedThe hundredth circle of his yearly round,When, as we meet to-day, our fathers ...
Poems about surplice (19 Poems)
The Distracted Puritan (Richard Corbet Poems)
Am I mad, O noble Festus,When zeal and godly knowledgeHave put me in hopeTo deal with the PopeAs well as ...
Midwinter (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
The speckled sky is dim with snow,The light flakes falter and fall slow;Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale,Silently drops a ...
The Altar Boy (John O’Brien Poems)
Now McEvoy was altar-boyAs long as I remember;He was, bedad, a crabbed lad,And sixty come December.Faith, no one dared to ...
Zeppelins (Nancy Cunard Poems)
I saw the people climbing up the streetMaddened with war and strength and thoughts to kill;And after followed Death, who ...
Tale III (George Crabbe Poems)
THE GENTLEMAN FARMER.Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all,Who dwelt around, "the Gentleman" would call;Whether in pure humility or ...
Tale XV (George Crabbe Poems)
ADVICE; OR THE 'SQUIRE AND THE PRIEST.A wealthy Lord of far-extended landHad all that pleased him placed at his command;Widow'd ...
The Borough. Letter III: The Vicar–The Curate (George Crabbe Poems)
THE VICAR.WHERE ends our chancel in a vaulted space,Sleep the departed Vicars of the place;Of most, all mention, memory, thought ...
The Immaculate Conception (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Fell the snow on the festival's vigil And surpliced the city in white;I wonder who wove the pure flakelets? Ask ...
Theory And Practice (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
The man of God stands, on the Sabbath-day,Warning the sinners from the broad highwayThat leads to death. He rolls his ...
Life (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
A baby played with the surplice sleeve Of a gentle priest; while in accents low,The sponsors murmured the grand "I ...
The Quakeress Bride (Elizabeth Clementine Kinney Poems)
"NO, not in the halls of the noble and proud, Where Fashion assembles her glittering crowd, Where all is in ...
A Service of Song (Emily Dickinson Poems)
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —I keep it, staying at Home —With a Bobolink for a Chorister —And ...
Casualty (Seamus Heaney Poem)
I He would drink by himself And raise a weathered thumb Towards the high shelf, Calling another rum And blackcurrant, ...
Where I have lost, I softer tread (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Where I have lost, I softer tread -- I sow sweet flower from garden bed -- I pause above that ...
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church -- I keep it, staying at Home -- With a Bobolink for a ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
M’Fingal – Canto II (John Trumbull Poems)
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
The Phoenix and the Turtle (William Shakespeare Poems)
Let the bird of loudest lay, On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste ...