Genius And Friends (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
When the star of good fortune is rising, And seems to the zenith to soar,How tenderly friends will be prizing The beauties ...
Adversity Poems (88 Poems)
The Robin Redbreast (Mathilde Blind Poems)
The year's grown songless! No glad pipings thrill The hedge-row elms, whose wind-worn branches shower Their leaves on the sere grass, where ...
To An Early Primrose (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Mild offspring of a dark and sullen sire!Whose modest form, so delicately fine,Was nursed in whirling stormsAnd cradled in the ...
Adversity salutary (John Bowring Poems)
Both joy and sorrow come from Thee,Who in our life's variety Dost good with seeming evil blend:Thou wakest peace from suffering,And ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 11 (Mary Stuart Poems)
My heart, my blood, my soul and my great care,Alas you promised we should have the pleasureOf whiling away the ...
Sonnett – I (James Russell Lowell Poems)
TO A.C.L.Through suffering and sorrow thou hast passedTo show us what a woman true may be:They have not taken sympathy ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 6 (Mary Stuart Poems)
I call you my sole sustenance of lifeOnly because I seek to make it true;Thus I dare force myself in ...
The Abencerrage : Canto II. (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Fair land! of chivalry the old domain,Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!Though not for thee with classic shores ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Twenty-Third. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Meanwhile, within the heart of the dead sun, After that glory angelic had passed out, Long time reigned silence, night ...
La Priere de Nostre Dame (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
A.Almighty and all-merciable Queen,To whom all this world fleeth for succour,To have release of sin, of sorrow, of teen!Glorious Virgin! ...
The Ring Of Polycrates – A Ballad (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Upon his battlements he stood,And downward gazed in joyous mood, On Samos' Isle, that owned his sway,"All this is ...
Douglas (Fenton Johnson Poems)
He came when tyranny was ripe, a torchThat lit the darkened avenue of hope,He came from cabin, ragged, poor, and ...
The Body of Divinity Versifyed (Cotton Mather Poems)
A God there is, a God of boundless Might,In Wisdom, Justice, Goodness, Infinite.God is but One and yet in Persons ...
Song – Autumn Gale! Sweet Autumn Gale! To The Tune Of One Of Purcell’s Airs (Anonymous British Poems)
Autumn gale! sweet autumn gale!Sing with me a sober wail;Summer loves the melting song;Lightsome airs to spring belong;Old December shouts ...
My Grand Climacteric (Francis Noel Clarke Mundy Poems)
As one, who journeys over unknown lands,Ere yet the sun withdraws his western ray,Stops on some mountain's brow, whose site ...
The Barren Rock (Caroline Fry Poems)
A LONELY Rock On the sea-shore stood,Its head to heaven, Its base in the flood,The dews of morning ...
The Flattery Of Winter (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
THE storms seem fled, the Sun's warm beamDarts chearful o'er the sparkling stream,And melts in tears the gelid snow,Stern Winter ...
Ode To Hope (Ann Steele Poems)
Friend of the fainting mind, whose kindly ray,Soft rising o'er affliction's dreary shade,Foretells the sweet approach of day,And cheers the ...
Prosperity And Adversity (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
PROSPERITY, with glitt'ring charms,Invites her vot'ries to her arms,In Pleasure's silken robes array'd;Of Folly's cup she bids them drink,Oft lures ...
Who’s Afraid (Ella Fraser Weller Poems)
Run, little man, or old Jack Frost Will catch you ere you know it, I am sure you are ...
The Broken Brigade (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
We who are gone from the lands that are dear to us, We who were merry in days that ...
People Like Him (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
People liked him, not becauseHe was rich or known to fame;He had never won applauseAs a star in any game.His ...
‘Ned’ (C J Dennis Poems)
When Ned was a neophyte nobody heeded him. No man could prophesy, none could foretellHow, when the day came that ...
An Ode On Adversity (Emma Lyon Poems)
ADVERSITY ! whose gloomy face Still haunts my wearied eye,What bosom can thy sorrows chase, By thee once ...
A Hunting Song (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Here's a health to every sportsman, be he stableman or lord,If his heart be true, I care not what his ...
Love’s Plea. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
I love thee, my darling, both now and forever, My heart feels the thralldom of love's mystic spell,'Tis fettered with ...
Shall Love, As The Bridal Wreath, Whither And Die? (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Shall love as the bridal wreath, wither and die? Or remain ever constant and sure,As the years of the future ...
Of Money (Barnabe Googe Poems)
Give money me, take friendship whoso list,For friends are gone, come once adversity,When money yet remaineth safe in chest,That quickly ...
Laughter and Tears IX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
As the Sun withdrew his rays from the garden, and the moon threw cushioned beams upon the flowers, I sat ...
Stepping Stones – 2 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Maybe patience perseverance in adversity staying on the path stepping stones laid to make the way easier over the space ...