Mary Queen Of Scots, An Historical Poem (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
DEPARTED shade of MARY, much reproach'd,How oft I've view'd thy sufferings severe,With faults contrasted: in my mind revolv'd,And them arranged ...
Attitude Poems (103 Poems)
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 ...
Lines On The Death Of The Princess Charlotte (John Anster Poems)
Weep!--for the wrath of God is over us!Weep!--for his arm is lifted to destroy!Famine hath thinned the land! in Autumn's ...
Oh! Mr. Malthus! (Stephen Leacock Poems)
'Mother, Mother, here comes Malthus,Mother, hold me tight!Look! It's Mr. Malthus, Mother!Hide me out of sight.'This was the cry of ...
The Complaint And The Advice Of Dives, To His Five Brethren (Part 1) (Rees Prichard Poems)
The plaint and the advice of Dives hear,From hell's hot furnace, and outrageous flame,To his five brethren, and his kinsfolk ...
Remarks Of Increase D. O’phace, Esquire (James Russell Lowell Poems)
At An Extrumpery Caucus In State Street, Reported By Mr. H. BiglowNo? Hez he? He haint, though? Wut? Voted agin ...
Immortal Eve – III (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1Peace, clamorous trumpets! Silence, drums!Be breathless all and hush!Let die applause. My lady comes,My lady of the blush.She's bashfuller than ...
A Pair (Jane Taylor Poems)
THERE was a youth--but woe is me :I quite forgot his name, and he,Without some label round his neck,Is like ...
Dressing Gown Farewell (Piotr Andreevich Viazemsky Poems)
Forgive me, dressing gown! My friend in idle bliss,Comrade of leisure, a witness to my secret thoughts!With you I knew ...
Das Krist Kindel (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I had fed the fire and stirred it, till the sparkles in delightSnapped their saucy little fingers at the chill ...
The Squire’s Pew (Jane Taylor Poems)
A SLANTING ray of evening light Shoots through the yellow pane ;It makes the faded crimson bright, And gilds the fringe again ...
Ode On A Grecian Urn (John Keats Poems)
1.Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more ...
Printer’s Error (P G Wodehouse Poems)
As o'er my latest book I pored,Enjoying it immensely,I suddenly exclaimed 'Good Lord!'And gripped the volume tensely.'Golly!' I cried. I ...
Specimen Of An Induction To A Poem (John Keats Poems)
Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry;For large white plumes are dancing in mine eye.Not like the formal crest ...
On Poetic Composition (John Roderigo Dos Passos Poems)
There was a king in China.He sat in a garden under a moon of goldwhile a black slave scratched his ...
On The Step (Margaret Louisa Woods Poems)
The little old ladyWas walking along the street.She carried her head high though of small stature,And although he ermine mantle ...
The Owl-Critic (James Thomas Fields Poems)
"Who stuffed that white owl?" No one spoke in the shop,The barber was busy, and he couldn't stop;The customers, waiting ...
My Bride That Is To Be (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
O soul of mine, look out and see My bride, my bride that is to be! Reach out with mad, impatient hands,And ...
To A Bereaved Friend (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THY Mary hath gone from thee; - thou hast foldedFor the last time her dear form to thy breast,And on ...
King Herod’s Oath (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Once on a charger there was laid,And brought before a royal maid,As price of attitude and grace,A guiltless head, a ...
The Shadow Of A Life (Lennox Amott Poems)
There's a face that beclouds like a shadow my pathway at morn and eve,There's a form that glides before me ...
Thanatos (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Oh! who would cherish life,And cling unto this heavy clog of clay,Love this rude world of strife,Where glooms and tempests ...
Sleep (Laurence Hope Poems)
There is something so beseeching in the attitude of sleep, A pathetic resignation, most appealing to the heart. .There must surely ...
Bewildering Emotions (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
The merriment that followed was subdued--As though the story-teller's attitudeWere dual, in a sense, appealing quiteAs much to sorrow as ...
Reuben Roy (Harold Crawford Stearns Poems)
Little fellow, brown with wind-I saw him in the streetPeering at numbers on the posts,But most discreet:For when a woman ...
The Murder Of William Remington (Howard Nemerov Poems)
It is true, that even in the best-run stateSuch things will happen; it is true,What's done is done. The law, ...
Picture of a Nativity (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
Sea-preserved, heaped with sea-spoils,Ribs, keels, coral sores,Detached faces, ephemeral oils,Discharged on the world's outer shores,A dumb child-kingArrives at his right ...
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 ...
The Stones of Gosh (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, here is a tale of the Glugs of Gosh, In the end of the year umteen;Of the Glugs of ...
The Spagnoletto. Act V (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT V.SCENE I. A Room in DON TOMMASO'S House. ANNICCA discovered, attired in mourning. Enter DON TOMMASO.DON TOMMASO.If he still ...