At A Dinner To General Grant (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
JULY 31, 1865WHEN treason first began the strifeThat crimsoned sea and shore,The Nation poured her hoarded lifeOn Freedom's threshing-floor;From field ...
Poems about threshing-floor (21 Poems)
One Among The Million (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.One among the million, fainting on the way,Stricken by the heat and the burden of the day,Looked to me for ...
Love Chapter II (Khalil Gibran Poems)
Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love."And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell ...
“The Rock” In El Ghor (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Dead Petra in her hill-tomb sleeps,Her stones of emptiness remain;Around her sculptured mystery sweepsThe lonely waste of Edom's plain.From the ...
Earlier Poems : Autumn (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
With what a glory comes and goes the year!The buds of spring, those beautiful harbingersOf sunny skies and cloudless times, ...
Tuscany (Victoria Sackville-West Poems)
Cisterns and stones; the fig-tree in the wallCasts down her shadow, ashen as her boughs,Across the road, across the thick ...
David’s Pride And Penitence. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
THE minstrel-king of Judah satAll in his banquet-hall,Richly arrayed in Eastern state,On a high festival.A Syrian slave stood by his ...
Two Sonnets: Harvard (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
At the meeting of the New York Harvard Club,February 21, 1878."CHRISTO ET ECCLESLE." 1700To GOD'S ANOINTED AND HIS CHOSEN FLOCKSo ...
What Of The Day (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A SOUND of tumult troubles all the air,Like the low thunders of a sultry skyFar-rolling ere the downright lightnings glare;The ...
Gift Silver Poem (Odysseas Elytis Poems)
I know that all this is worthless and that the languageI speak doesn't have an alphabetSince the sun and the ...
Autumn (John Russell Hayes Poems)
'Tis golden Autumn, and a mellow haze Envelops all the dreamy countryside; Soon o'er the world will sweep a crimson tideOf fairy ...
First Elegy (Ndre Mjeda Poems)
When I am exhaustedBy the tribulations of age, steep like a cliff,Feel no pain for me, Taze,Stretched out on the ...
The Child Of The Islands – Spring (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
I.WHAT shalt THOU know of Spring? A verdant crown Of young boughs waving o'er thy blooming head: White tufted Guelder-roses, ...
Pomegranate Seed (Edith Wharton Poems)
DEMETER PERSEPHONE HECATE HERMES In the vale of Elusis DEMETERHail, goddess, from the midmost caverned vale Of Samothracia, where with ...
Demeter and Persephone (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
Faint as a climate-changing bird that fliesAll night across the darkness, and at dawnFalls on the threshold of her native ...
The Fitzroy Blacksmith (with Apologies to Longfellow) (A B Banjo Paterson Poems)
Under the spreading deficit,The Fitzroy Smithy stands;The smith, a spendthrift man is he,With too much on his hands;But the muscles ...
Sonnet XLI : Through Death to Love (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Like labour-laden moonclouds faint to fleeFrom winds that sweep the winter-bitten wold,-Like multiform circumfluence manifoldOf night's flood-tide,-like terrors that agreeOf ...
The Village Blacksmith (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; ...
Barnfloor and Winepress (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or ...
Demeter And Persephone (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Faint as a climate-changing bird that flies All night across the darkness, and at dawn Falls on the threshold of ...
The Fitzroy Blacksmith (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Under the spreading deficit, The Fitzroy Smithy stands; The smith, a spendthrift man is he, With too much on his ...