September The 22nd. 1807. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
ONE melancholy week hath past in pain,This day still more with apprehensive dread,Oh does my father live, or is he ...
Advices Poems (659 Poems)
To Mrs. Hannah More (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
FAIR Star of Genius, which with tow'ring blaze,Ascends from earth, and soars above our praise!Immortal talent and amazing fire!What laws ...
Play The Game (Jessie Pope Poems)
Twenty-Two stalwarts in stripes and shortsKicking a ball along,Set in a square of leather-lunged sportsTwenty-two thousand strong,Some of them shabby, ...
O God, Who didst Thy will unfold (Josiah Conder Poems)
O God, Who didst Thy will unfoldIn wondrous modes to saints of old,By dream, by oracle, or seer,Wilt Thou not ...
To my Sister Anne King, who chid me in verse for being angry (Henry King Poems)
Dear Nan, I would not have thy counsel lost,Though I last night had twice so much been crost;Well is a ...
A Recipe (William Schwenck Gilbert Poems)
Take a pair of sparkling eyes,Hidden, ever and anon,In a merciful eclipse -Do not heed their mild surprise -Having passed ...
Psalm I. (John Milton Poems)
Bless'd is the man who hath not walk'd astrayIn counsel of the wicked, and ith'wayOf sinners hath not stood, and ...
Roosevelt (Raymond Garfield Dandridge Poems)
"Put out the light!"He had no need of man-made glowWith celestial Dawn in sight:Unflinchingly, we saw him goOnward, to mount ...
Aboard At A Ship’s Helm (Walt Whitman Poems)
ABOARD, at a ship's helm,A young steersman, steering with care.A bell through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing,An ocean-bell--O a ...
Mother Wept (Joseph Skipsey Poems)
Mother wept, and father sigh'd; With delight a-glow Cried the lad, "To-morrow," cried, "To the pit I go." Up and ...
The Target (Ivor Gurney Poems)
I shot him, and it had to beOne of us "Twas him or me.'Couln't be helped' and none can blameMe, ...
Sonnet On An Old Book With Uncut Leaves (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Emblem of blasted hope and lost desire, No finger ever traced thy yellow page Save Time's. Thou hast not wrought to noble ...
Sonnet LXXXII. “The heart of man is everywhere the same” (Henry Alford Poems)
The heart of man is everywhere the same: In distant Savoy roamed we long ago With one to guide us o'er the ...
The Truth (John Bowring Poems)
The age for damning, dogmatizing creeds, Thanks to the power of Truth, has passed away,For man hath nobler thoughts and higher ...
Sonnet X. To The Lady Margaret Ley (John Milton Poems)
Daughter to that good Earl, once PresidentOf Englands Counsel, and her Treasury,Who liv'd in both, unstain'd with gold or fee,And ...
My Dependence (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
I like to be dependent, and so for everwith warmth and care of my mothermy father , to love, kiss ...
A Blackbird Singing (Ronald Stuart Thomas Poems)
It seems wrong that out of this bird,Black, bold, a suggestion of darkPlaces about it, there yet should comeSuch rich ...
Dedication of First Edition: To Dr. Lant Carpenter (John Bowring Poems)
Within my infant breast paternal careThe living seed of young devotion planted,And watched and watered it—and prayed and panted,That it ...
The Word (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Voice of the Holy Spirit, making knownMan to himself, a witness swift and sure,Warning, approving, true and wise and pure,Counsel ...
Fragments – Lines 0429 – 0438 (Theognis Poems)
To beget and rear a man is easier than to put good senseInside him. No one yet has ever contrived ...
“An American girl of twenty” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
An American girl of twentyShould reach Egypt,Forgetting the advice from the Titanic,Asleep on the bottom, gloomier than the crypt.In America ...
On Circuit (Horace Smith Poems)
Two neighbours, fighting for a yard of land;Two witnesses, who _lie_ on either hand;Two lawyers, issuing many writs and pleas;Two ...
Props (John Oxenham Poems)
Earthly props are useless, On Thy grace I fall;Earthly strength is weakness, Father, on Thee I call,-- For comfort, strength, and guidance, O, give ...
Good Advice (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
The Keyhole quarrelled with the KeyBecause he said agape was sheTo whispering suggestion;Then, each appealing to the Door,He counselled them ...
Good Advice (Piet Hein Poems)
Shun adviceat any price -that's what I callgood advice. (Piet Hein)
Israel In Egypt. Book Eigth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
''Not with you to take counsel, Powers of heaven,-- For still that title ours,--in so great haste Hither have I ...
The Princess (part 4) (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
"'There sinks the nebulous star we call the Sun,If that hypothesis of theirs be sound'Said Ida; 'let us down and ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Fifteenth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Joy was in Israel; for all hoped that, now, A three days' journey in the wilderness Verily should they go, ...
The Wynnes Of Wynhavod. Act III (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
Scene I.A Garden on the banks of the Thames, at Fulham, behind the Wynnes' lodgings. Time, evening. Moon and starlight. ...
Tale XIX (George Crabbe Poems)
THE CONVERT.Some to our Hero have a hero's nameDenied, because no father's he could claim;Nor could his mother with precision ...