Address For The Opening Of The Fifth Avenue Theatre (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3, 1873HANG out our banners on the stately towerIt dawns at last--the long-expected hour!The steep is climbed, ...
Poems about tinselled (18 Poems)
Night In State Street (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Art thou he?-The seer and sage, the hero and lover-yea,The man of men, then away from the haughtydayCome with me!Ho-ho! ...
The Old Player (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THE curtain rose; in thunders long and loudThe galleries rung; the veteran actor bowed.In flaming line the telltales of the ...
The Fable Of The Sphynx (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Oh! the image and the fable of the Sphynx! What lessons do they teach, What sermons do they preachOf the riddle and ...
Untitled 8 (Owen Suffolk Poems)
Thou sinless and sweet one - thy voice is a strainWhich yields solace to sadness, and balm to my pain,From ...
At a Pantomime. By a Bilious One (William Schwenck Gilbert Poems)
An Actor sits in doubtful gloom,His stock-in-trade unfurled,In a damp funereal dressing-roomIn the Theatre Royal, World.He comes to town at ...
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 ...
To Santa Claus (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Most tangible of all the gods that be,O Santa Claus-- our own since Infancy!As first we scampered to thee-- now, ...
Fatherland (Sir Henry Parkes Poems)
THE BRAVE old land of deed and song,Of gentle hearts and spirits strong,Of queenly maids and heroes grand,Of equal laws,-our ...
Youth in Arms (Harold Monro Poems)
HAPPY boy, happy boy,David the immortal-willed,Youth a thousand thousand timesSlain, but not once killed,Swaggering again today In the old contemptuous ...
Christmas Landscape (Laurie Lee Poems)
Tonight the wind gnawsWith teeth of glass,The jackdaw shiversIn caged branches of iron,The stars have talons.There is hunger in the ...
To The Author Of The “Victorian Poets.” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SO keen, so clear thy genius, that no mistOf subtlest praise can baffle or delayThe lance-like, swift illuminating ray,Wherewith, O ...
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, ...
The Dunciad: Book I. (Alexander Pope Poems)
The Mighty Mother, and her son who brings The Smithfield muses to the ear of kings, I sing. Say you, ...
A Drug In The Market (Garnet Walch Poems)
I stood in the street in the noontide, precisely at midday time,For the loud-mouthed bells of the G.P.O. had that ...
Asleep (Albert Laighton Poems)
Half veiled by the delaying twilight, lies Each happy child. On eyes divinely blue Slumber has fallen gently as the ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
The Christmas Tree (Robert William Service Poems)
In the dark and damp of the alley cold, Lay the Christmas tree that hadn't been sold; By a shopman ...