A Dispute With Death (Guido Cavalcanti Poems)
0 SLUGGISH, hard, ingrate, what doest thou?Poor sinner, folded round with heavy sin,Whose life to find out joy alone is ...
Beauty Poems (5948 Poems)
The Pastoral Letter (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
So, this is all, - the utmost reachOf priestly power the mind to fetter!When laymen think, when women preach,A war ...
Disappointment (Ovid Poems)
But oh, I suppose she was ugly; she wasn't elegant;I hadn't yearned for her often in my prayers.Yet holding her ...
Everyday Characters V – Portrait Of A Lady (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
IN THE EXHIBITION OP THE ROYALACADEMYWhat are you, Lady ? - nought is hereTo tell us of your name or ...
The Heavenly Jerusalem (Giles Fletcher Jr Poems)
Here may the band, that now in triumph shines,And that (before they were invested thus)In earthly bodies carried heavenly minds,Pitched ...
To Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
MY cousin, I have never seen thee--yetFrom childhood's early years my dearest thoughtsHave been so full of thee, I almost ...
Ayin Nedivah (‘Generous Eye’): Qasida for Solomon Ibn Ghiyyat (Yehudah HaLevi Poems)
I can't stop crying.My eyes are like peddler women.What they buy is: you are gone.What they sell is: tears,And business ...
Lamentations of Jeremiah I: Sorrows of Captive Zion (Prophet Jeremiah Poems)
1 How doth the city sit solitary,that was full of people!How is she become as a widow!She that was great ...
Burlesque Verses for Music : The Crow, a Mock Cantata (Joshua Weston Poems)
Recitative.Mourn, mourn, ye muses in the doleful'st strains,And with your tears spoil all the roads - and soak the neighb'ring ...
The Lumbermen (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WILDLY round our woodland quartersSad-voiced Autumn grieves;Thickly down these swelling watersFloat his fallen leaves.Through the tall and naked timber,Column-like and ...
The Swimmers (George Sterling Poems)
We were eight fishers of the western sea,Who sailed our craft beside a barren land,Where harsh with pines the herdless ...
To Stella Visiting Me in My Sickness (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Pallas, observing Stella's witWas more than for her sex was fit,And that her beauty, soon or late,Might breed confusion in ...
Honey Harvest (Martin Armstrong Poems)
Late in March, when the days are growing longer And sight of early green Tells of the coming spring and suns grow ...
The Negro Has A Chance (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
As my mind in fancy wanders,While we figure on Life's stage,While in queries deep we ponder,O'er the past years ripe ...
1620-1920 (Le Baron Russell Briggs Poems)
BEFORE him rolls the dark, relentless ocean;Behind him stretch the cold and barren sands;Wrapt in the mantle of his deep ...
Old Ham Fresh Drest (Michael Massey Robinson Poems)
OLD HAM FRESH DREST , &c. BOOTED and spurr'd,our gallant wightReturning late one winter's nightFrom toil, hard ware and duty,Took ...
Our White Dove (Gerald Massey Poems)
A WHITE Dove out of glory flew, White as the whitest shape of Grace That nestles in the soft embraceOf heaven when ...
The Assembly (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
THE theme my verse unfolds, ye Bridgetown Fair,Is one which late has claimed your constant care,Tis one so dear to ...
Epicedia (Henry Alford Poems)
I.Ye must not die--your cheek is red,Ye have not lost your bloom;We shall be loth when ye are deadTo lay ...
The Brothers (Marietta Holley Poems)
High on a rocky cliff did once a gray old castle stand,From whence rough-bearded chieftains led their vassals--ruled the land.For centuries ...
The Butterfly And The Fairies (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
A butterfly was grieved one dayBecause he could do nought but play;He envied bees and birds and ants,And senseless stones ...
To The Future (James Russell Lowell Poems)
O Land of Promise! from what Pisgah's height Can I behold thy stretch of peaceful bowers,Thy golden harvests flowing out of ...
Green Symphony (John Gould Fletcher Poems)
IThe glittering leaves of the rhododendronsBalance and vibrate in the cool air;While in the sky above themWhite clouds chase each ...
Song of the Parao (Camping-ground) (Laurence Hope Poems)
Heart, my heart, thou hast found thy home! From gloom and sorrow thou hast come forth,Thou who wast foolish, and sought ...
Alice And The White Knight (Lewis Carroll Poems)
Alice was walking beside the White Knight in Looking Glass Land."You are sad." the Knight said in an anxious tone: ...
Song Of The Spirits Of Spring (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Wafted o'er purple seas, From gold Hesperides, Mixed with the southern breeze, Hail to us spirits! Dripping with fragrant rains, Fire of our ardent veins, Life ...
Blannerhassett’s Island (James Avis Bartley Poems)
On beautiful Ohio when you sail,And view its banks, forever green and fair,And feel the falling sunlight, and the galeThat ...
Bob (Henry Kendall Poems)
SINGER of songs of the hills- Dreamer, by waters unstirred,Back in a valley of rills, Home of the leaf and the bird!-Read ...
On Parting (Khristo Botev Poems)
1868Don't cry, mother, don't grievethat I grew up as an outlaw,an outlaw, mother, a rebel,and abandoned you to your sorrow,mourning ...
Summer By The Lakeside: Lake Winnipesaukee (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I. NOON.White clouds, whose shadows haunt the deep,Light mists, whose soft embraces keepThe sunshine on the hills asleep!O isles of ...