Suggested by Matthew Arnold’s Stanzas (James B.V. Thomson Poems)
That one long dirge-moan sad and deep,Low, muffled by the solemn stressOf such emotion as doth steepThe soul in brooding ...
Poems about templed (21 Poems)
Basil Moss (Henry Kendall Poems)
SING, mountain-wind, thy strong, superior song-Thy haughty alpine anthem, over tractsWhose passes and whose swift, rock-straitened streamsCatch mighty life and ...
On The Jellico Spur Of The Cumberlands (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
TO J. FOX, JR. You remember how the mist, When we climbed to Devil's Den, Pearly in the mountain glen, And above us, amethyst, Throbbed ...
Battle Days (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
IVeteran memories rally to musterHere at the call of the old battle days:Cavalry clatter and cannon's hoarse bluster:All the wild ...
Matter For Gratitude (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people's thanksThat Thine avenging sword has spared our ranks-That Thou hast parted from ...
Eyes (John Abraham Heraud Poems)
I. When I look into thy eyes, Bright as are Italian skies, Skies that clouds may never dull, Large, and blue, and beautiful- What, though ...
Youth (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IMorn's mystic rose is reddening on the hills,Dawn's irised nautilus makes glad the sea;There is a lyre of flame that ...
Etheline (Henry Kendall Poems)
The heart that once was rich with light,And happy in your grace,Now lieth cold beneath the scornThat gathers on your ...
To One Afar (Grace Greenwood Poems)
O'STRONG and pure of soul! - O earnest-hearted!Like stranger-pilgrims at some way-side shrineHave we two met, and mingled faith, and ...
To A New-Born Baby Girl (Grace Hazard Conkling Poems)
And did thy sapphire shallop slipIts moorings suddenly, to dipAdown the clear, ethereal seaFrom star to star, all silently?What tenderness ...
Twilight and I Went Hand in Hand (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
Twilight and I went hand in hand, As lovers walk in shining Mays, O'er musky, memory-haunted ways,Across a lonely harvest-land,Where west winds ...
The City Of Darkness (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Wide-walled it stands in heathen landsBeside a mystic sea,With streets strange-trod of many a god,And templed blasphemy.Far in the night, ...
My Country ‘Tis Of Thee (John Pierpont Poems)
My country! 'tis of thee,Sweet land of liberty—Of thee I sing,Land where my fathers died;Land of the pilgrim's pride;From every ...
I Give Thee Back My Heart (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
I give thee back thy fickle heart, Thy faithless vows I've spurned,I bury deep the blighted hopes That in my bosom burned.Yet ...
Loma Alta (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Scarred with the jagged wounds from ruthless hands,Despoiled, dishonored of my fair array, -The gold and emerald vesture of the ...
The Bush (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
Nirvana Days (Cale Young Rice Poems)
I If I were in Japan today, In little Japan today, I'd watch the sampan-rowers ride On Yokohama ...
In Hoc Signo Vinces! (Emma Alice Browne Poems)
Beneath the solemn stars that lightThe dread infinitudes of night,Mid wintry solitudes that lieWhere lonely Hecla's toweling pyreReddens an awful ...
Portrait (Eliza Acton Poems)
The second, with a brow serenely calm,And eye of inspiration, is the child,The favour'd child of Song, and o'er his ...
VI: Wherever Genius Whispers (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Wherever genius whispers, "Here shall be An immortality for men and time To worship," there the ages grow sublimeAnd break ...
Mould and Vase [GREEK POTTERY OF AREZZO.] (Edith Wharton Poems)
HERE in the jealous hollow of the mould,Faint, light-eluding, as templed in the breastOf some rose-vaulted lotus, see the bestThe ...