Aechdeacon Barbour (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shedA dubious light on every upturned head;On locks like those of Absalom the ...
Poems about unthrift (21 Poems)
The Letter of Cupid (Thomas Hoccleve Poems)
Cupido, unto whos commandementThe gentil kinrede of goddes on hyAnd peple infernal been obedient,And the mortel folk seruen bisyly,Of goddesse ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. II. (Love – Lover) (Henry Baker Poems)
Love.See Lover. Venus.Great Love! thy Empire o'er the World extends!To thy soft Charms the whole Creation bends!On Hills, in Streams, ...
Columbus (James Russell Lowell Poems)
The cordage creaks and rattles in the wind,With whims of sudden hush; the reeling seaNow thumps like solid rock beneath ...
The Maid’s Alarm (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Argument:Little Miss MuffetSat on a tuffet,Eating of curds and whey.There came a black spider,Which sat down beside her,And frightened Miss ...
Lucy Hooper (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead,That all of thee we loved and cherishedHas with thy summer roses perished;And left, ...
Regeneration (Henry Vaughan Poems)
A ward, and still in bonds, one dayI stole abroad;It was high spring, and all the wayPrimrosed and hung with ...
To His Forsaken Mistress (Sir Robert Aytoun Poems)
I DO confess thou'rt smooth and fair,And I might have gone near to love thee,Had I not found the slightest ...
An August Noon (James Herbert Morse Poems)
High summer Noon! Yon crow of all his kindStands indefatigably impudent--A vigilant scout upon a battlementOf his vast fortress. Underneath ...
The Church-Porch. Perirrhanterium (George Herbert Poems)
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto III. (Coventry Patmore Poems)
PreludesI The Lover He meets, by heavenly chance express, ...
King Edward IV. And The Tanner of Tamworth (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
In summer time, when leaves grow greene,And blossoms bedecke the tree,King Edward wolde a hunting ryde,Some pastime for to see.With ...
The Domicile Erected By John (E L Blanchard Poems)
" Behold the mansion swift upreared for Jack: See the malt stored in many an ample sack. Mark how the ...
The Rider (Dame Mary Gilmore DBE Poems)
I draw a-near you in your sleeping city,Who, in mine ancient freedom,Knew neither loss nor scant;Who hunted even as he ...
A Christmas Song (Alaric Alexander Watts Poems)
The present moment's all our own, The next, who ever saw! ~ Mickle. Come, fill me up a brimming cup, ...
Evolution (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
HUNGER that strivest in the restless arms Of the sea-flower, that drivest rooted things To break their moorings, that unfoldest ...
Elegy IX: The Autumnal (John Donne Poem)
No spring nor summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnall face. Young beauties force our ...
Regeneration (Henry Vaughan Poems)
1. Award, and still in bonds, one day I stole abroad, It was high-spring, and all the way Primros'd, and ...
Sonnet IX (William Shakespeare Poems)
Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye That thou consumest thyself in single life? Ah! if thou issueless ...
Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye (William Shakespeare Poems)
Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye, That thou consum'st thy self in single life? Ah, if thou ...
Corn (Sidney Lanier Poems)
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...