Mac Duff’s Cross (Joanna Baillie Poems)
MAC DUFF'S CROSS,A DRAMA.PRELUDE.NAY , smile not, lady, when I speak of witchcraft,And say that still there lurks amongst our ...
Poems about wreaked (21 Poems)
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 03 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XXXIThe villain flies, he, full of rage and ire,Pursues, she stood and wondered on them both,But yet to follow them ...
Beechenbrook – X (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
"Break, my heart, and ease this pain-- Cease to throb, thou tortured brain; Let me die,--since he is slain, --Slain in battle! Blessed brow, ...
The British Military Cemetery at Sebastopol (Konstantin Simonov Poems)
No holly bush is here; no ancient yew tree;Strange stones embedded in the salt marsh stand,And rusted by the sun, ...
X. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Through sorrow at the poor-spiritedness of the Afghans,I have abandoned greatness, and taken meanness in hand.Had this much even been ...
The Cameo Bracelet (James Ryder Randall Poems)
Eva sits on the ottoman there,Sits by a Psyche carved in stone,With just such a face, and just such an ...
The Brook (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
BUT yesterday this brook was bright,And tranquil as the clear moonlight,That wooes the palms on Orient shores,But now, it hoarse, ...
The Cyclone (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
So lone I stood, the very trees seemed drawn In conference with themselves.--Intense--intense Seemed everything;--the summer splendor on The sight,--magnificence! A babe's life might ...
The Ultimate Trust (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THOUGH in the wine-press of thy wrath divine,My crushed hopes droop, like crude and worthless must,That love and mercy, Father! ...
John Brown (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Writ in between the lines of his life-deed We trace the sacred service of a heart Answering the Divine command, in every ...
Small Griefs And Great (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HOW oft by trivial griefs our spirits tossedDrift vague and restless round this changeful world!Yet when great sorrows on our ...
Sonnet XVI “If I Have Graced No Single Song of Mine” (Henry Timrod Poems)
If I have graced no single song of mineWith thy sweet name, they all are full of thee;Thou art my ...
Fragments From “The Brigand.” A Poem. Canto III (Albert Pike Poems)
The twenty-fifth had come; Peru awoke;One cry for freedom from her green hills broke,From her wide plains and valleys; and ...
The Dance To Death. Act III (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT III. A cell in the Wartburg Monastery. Enter PRIOR PEPPERCORN with the casket.PRIOR.So! Glittering shell where doubtless shines concealedAn ...
In Iowa, Where the Plan for an Attack on Harper’s Ferry Was Explained and Adopted (Edward W Williams Poems)
Dear friends, let me to you relate A plan that I begot of yore,A plan to conquer, extirpate Slaveholding now ...
The Shepheardes Calender: December (Edmund Spenser Poems)
December: ?gloga Duodecima.He gentle shepheard satte beside a springe, All in the shadowe of a bushy brere, That Colin hight, ...
The Mandan Priest (Edward William Thompson Poems)
THEY call me now the Indian Priest,Their fathers' fathers did not so,The very Mandan name hath ceasedFrom speech since fifty ...
England Before The Storm (George Meredith Poems)
IThe day that is the night of days,With cannon-fire for sun ablazeWe spy from any billow's lift;And England still this ...
San Sebastian (Thomas Hardy Poem)
And your sunny years with a gracious wife Have brought you a daughter dear. "I watched her to-day; a more ...
Possums came at night (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
You could see the signs which said that possums came at night and fed upon this tree, they left their ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...