The Dancing Bear (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Far over Elf-land poets stretch their sway,And win their dearest crowns beyond the goalOf their own conscious purpose; they controlWith ...
Actions Poems (823 Poems)
Old Age. (Sonnet IV.) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
The course of my long life hath reached at last,In fragile bark o'er a tempestuous sea,The common harbor, where must ...
Reticence (Jewell Miller Poems)
When all the sun-kissed ways are darkAnd silence reigns where laughter ruled,Walk in the silent ways apart ...And by much ...
“In long, slow silences of soul” (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
In long, slow silences of soulBeneath the sunset on the seaI think I hear the numbers rollThat tell my conquest ...
Purity (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Life of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure, knowingthat thy living touch is upon all ...
Poem For My Twentieth Birthday (Kenneth Koch Poems)
Passing the American graveyard, for my birthdaythe crosses stuttering, white on tropical green,the years' quick focus of faces I do ...
Look To This Day (Kalidasa Poems)
Look to this day:For it is life, the very life of life.In its brief courseLie all the verities and realities ...
“Sometimes I think the happiest of love’s moments” (Lesbia Harford Poems)
Sometimes I think the happiest of love's momentsIs the blest moment of release from loving.The world once more is all ...
Honourable Employment (John Webster Poems)
O my lord, lie not idle:The chiefest action for a man of great spiritIs never to be out of action. ...
“Dead people marching” (Gunnar Bjorling-other Poems)
Dead people marching the stars sing, air is still. Foolish are tears and hopes everything flows out of action's namelessness joy rises out of ...
Minstrel’s Book – Talismans (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
GOD is of the east possess'd,God is ruler of the west;North and south alike, each landRests within His gentle hand.——-HE, ...
Amanda’s Character (Henry Baker Poems)
Without Affectation, gay, youthful and pretty;Without Pride, or Meanness, familiar and witty;Without Forms, obliging, good--natur'd, and free;Without Art, as lovely ...
The Brave (Nicholas Rowe Poems)
The brave do never shun the light;Just are their thoughts, and open are their tempers;Freely without disguise they love or ...
Acceptance (Langston Hughes Poems)
God in His infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-So when my actions are stupidThey hardly take God by surprise(Langston ...
The Conference (Charles Churchill Poems)
Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree,When they are told that grace was said by me;The servants gone to ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twelfth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Accurs?d to the Medes, as to himself, That fatal hour when,--mad with fiercest hate,-- His private wrong on one man ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto II (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
The Day Of The Daughter Of Hades (George Meredith Poems)
IHe who has looked upon EarthDeeper than flower and fruit,Losing some hue of his mirth,As the tree striking rock at ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twenty-Fourth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Meantime, Arbaces with his captains sat, Anxiously waiting. Wherefore came not back Their heralds, was the wonder: but the truth ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto II (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Is it illusion? or does there a spirit from perfecter ages, Here, even yet, amid loss, change, and corruption abide? ...
Custer: Book Second (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
Rape Of Florida: Canto I: Invocation (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
The poet hath a realm within, and throne,And in his own soul singeth his lament.A comer often in the world ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Twelfth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
While thus the gentle Aziel, at the sight Of holiness, to thoughts of Heaven recalled, Stood contrite, watchful,--by far different ...
The Light of Asia: Book the Fourth (Edwin Arnold Poems)
But when the days were numbered, then befellThe parting of our Lord — which was to be —Whereby came wailing ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXVI (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
ORIGIN OF THE SERPENT.Ahti, living on the island,Near the Kauko-point and harbor,Plowed his fields for rye and barley,Furrowed his extensive ...
The Farewell (Charles Churchill Poems)
_P_. Farewell to Europe, and at once farewellTo all the follies which in Europe dwell;To Eastern India now, a richer ...
The Lost Child. Canto I. (George Jehoshaphat Mountain Poems)
I. OF all that men with zeal and ardour chace, Pour'd here and there on life's promiscuous ground,Some points are ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Second (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
''Powers, erst of heaven; and, haply, yet again, As, with the years, we wiser, mightier grow, Thither, triumphant, destined to ...
The Minstrel (Arthur Henry Adams Poems)
An Incident in One Act.PERSONS. THE KING, THE QUEEN, EARL ATHULF, THE MINSTREL.Heralds, Pages, Men-at-Arms, Sentries. TIME: THE PAST.SCENE:Night in ...
Hippodromani (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Part IVisions in the SmokeRest, and be thankful! On the verge Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,But whose granite ...