Book I – Part 04 – Nothing Exists Per Se Except Atoms And The Void (Lucretius Poems)
But, now again to weave the tale begun,All nature, then, as self-sustained, consistsOf twain of things: of bodies and of ...
Actions Poems (823 Poems)
Abraham Lincoln (Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Poems)
Child of the boundless prairie, son of the virgin soil, Heir to the bearing of burdens, brother to them that toil; God ...
The Future (Jared Barhite Poems)
I know not what the future May have in store for me, I only know that God is God And He may trusted ...
Thoughts Suggested By A College Examination (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
High in the midst, surrounded by his peers,MAGNUS his ample front sublime up rears:Placed on his chair of state, he ...
Ben Allah Achmet, or, the Fatal Tum (William Schwenck Gilbert Poems)
I once did know a Turkish manWhom I upon a two-pair-back met,His name it was EFFENDI KHANBACKSHEESH PASHA BEN ALLAH ...
Knowledge (Philip James Bailey Poems)
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD is the wisdom of man- This is the end of Being, wisdom; this Of wisdom, action; and of ...
To Harriet — It Is Not Blasphemy To Hope That Heaven (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
It is not blasphemy to hope that HeavenMore perfectly will give those nameless joysWhich throb within the pulses of the ...
The Thief And Cordelier. A Ballad (Matthew Prior Poems)
To the tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.Who has e'er been at Paris must needs know the ...
Science (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Science! thou mirror of celestial type Wherein e'en mortals may discerning see,If they with steady perseverance seek, The will and purpose of ...
To The Flattered (John Andrewes Poems)
Fond Man, that suck'st the pleasing poyson in(which from the Syrens vnsuspected tongueIs kindly offer'd to thine eare) whereinare all ...
The Coronation Of King Edward And Queen Alexandra (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
WITHIN the ancient Abbey now are gatheredFrom all the world the high estates of menTo see the Coronation of the ...
To Mrs. Siddons (Joanna Baillie Poems)
GIFTED of Heaven! who hast, in days gone by,Moved every heart, delighted every eye,While age and youth, of high and ...
The Salt of the Earth (Hattie Howard Poems)
The salt of the earth--what a meaningful phrase From the lips of the Saviour, and one that conveys A sense of the ...
Judge Not Too Hastily (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Oh! judge not too hastily man and his mind, Nor deem ye can read him at once and for aye,There is ...
Loyalty to the Flag (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
In the love of home and country and the flag of Uncle Sam,Can the loyalty be doubted of a dusky ...
De Sauty (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AN ELECTRO-CHEMICAL ECLOGUEThe first messages received through the submarine cablewere sent by an electrical expert, a mysterious personagewho signed himself ...
Home. (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Let us honour the gods of the household alway, Love ever the hearth and its graces,The spot where serenely and cheerfully ...
Summer: Tuesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
To Thee, my God! to Thee I bringThe evening's grateful offering;From Thee, the source of joy above,Flow everlasting streams of ...
The Realm Of Rest (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
In the realm that Nature boundethAre there balmy shores of peace,Where no passion-torrent soundeth,And no storm-wind seeks release?Rest they 'mid ...
Love and War (Ovid Poems)
Lovers all are soldiers, and Cupid has his campaigns:I tell you, Atticus, lovers all are soldiers.Youth is fit for war, ...
To my Friend Mr. Motteux, on His Tragedy Called Beauty in Distress, Published in 1698 (John Henry Dryden Poems)
'Tis hard, my friend, to write in such an age,As damns not only poets, but the stage.That sacred art, by ...
The Burial Of Latane (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
The combat ranged not long, but our's the day; And through the hosts that compassed us aroundOur little band rode proudly ...
Rise, Britannia! (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Rise! ye gallant youth of Britain, Gather to your country's call,On your hearts her name is written, Rise to help her, one ...
“Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Behold! we have gathered together our battleships near and afar; Their decks they are cleared for action, their guns they are ...
Fragments (Jared Barhite Poems)
This world was made of fragments Each separate from the other, Yet in such close relation As to indicate a brother. Each atom of ...
Star-Gazing (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
LET be what is: why should we strive and wrestleWith awkward skill against a subtle doubt?Or pin a mystery 'neath ...
Retrospect (Nora Pembroke Poems)
I sit by the fire in the gloaming, In the depths of my easy chair,And I ponder, as old men ponder, Over ...
Will (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
YOUR face, my boy, when six months old,We propped you laughing in a chair,And the sun-artist caught the goldWhich rippled ...
On The Death Of Canon Kingsley (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
MORTALS there are who seem, all over, flame,Vitalized radiance, keen, intense, and high,Whose souls, like planets in it dominant sky,Burn ...
Mr. William Crowe’s Address To Her Majesty, Turned Into Metre (Jonathan Swift Poems)
From a town that consists of a church and a steeple,With three or four houses, and as many people,There went ...