A Grave In Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond (J.R.T.) (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
I read the marble-lettered name, And half in bitterness I said,"As Dante from Ravenna came, Our poet came from exile-dead."And yet, had ...
Birds Poems (5078 Poems)
To a Captive Owl (Henry Timrod Poems)
I should be dumb before thee, feathered sage!And gaze upon thy phiz with solemn awe,But for a most audacious wish ...
Western Australia (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
O Beauteous Southland! Land of yellow airThat hangeth o've thee slumbering, and doth holdThe moveless foliage of thy valleys fair,And ...
To The Memory Of Mary Young (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
GOD has his plans, and what if weWith our sight be too blind to seeTheir full fruition; cannot he,Who made ...
The Peacock. (Mary Barber Poems)
Once Juno's Bird (as Authors say)Was seiz'd on by some Birds of Prey:They pluck'd his Feathers, one by one,Till all ...
The Nun And The Harp (Harriet Prescott Spofford Poems)
What memory fired her pallid face, What passion stirred her blood,What tide of sorrow and desire Poured its forgotten floodUpon a heart ...
Wambala of the Streams. (R S Ward Poems)
From the coasts of Waliwafta,Where the golden sunset gleams,All my days I've spent to seek thee,O Wambala of the Streams.Vain ...
The Sea (Barry Cornwall Poems)
THE SEA! the sea! the open sea!The blue, the fresh, the ever free!Without a mark, without a bound,It runneth the ...
Alcestis (John Charles McNeill Poems)
Not long the living weep above their dead,And you will grieve, Admetus, but not long.The winter's silence in these desolate ...
Lilies (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
A child is lying fast asleepDown where the lilies grow,And the lilies nod and peep,Quite pleased to have him so.And ...
Morning (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
How pleasant is the morning!How innocent and bright!How pretty and surprisingTo see the sun uprising,A ball of golden light!While sleepy ...
This Is My Father’s World (Maltbie Davenport Babcock Poems)
This is my Father's world, and to my listening earsAll nature sings, and round me rings the music of the ...
Two Songs (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
A BEE that was searching for sweets one dayThrough the gate of a rose garden happened to stray.In the heart ...
The Kite (John Freeman Poems)
It was a dayAll blue and lifting white,When I went into the fields with FrankTo fly his kite. The fields were ...
Arise, O Gardener (Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor Poems)
Arise, O Gardener! And usher in the glory of a new spring.Create conditions for 'bulbuls' (a type of bird) toHover ...
From ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ A Song (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
Let school-masters puzzle their brain,With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,Gives 'genus' a better discerning.Let them brag ...
The V. N. And C. I. (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
Near the City of Petersburg,As seen by the passers-by,In the neighborhood of Ettricks,Stands the V. N. and C. I.A building ...
My Wish (Nettie Squire Sutton Poems)
If by this little book of mine,Some heart may find repose,Or sunshine come from rifted cloudsOn paths where briers grow,I ...
Rules And Lessons (Henry Vaughan Poems)
When first thine eyes unveil, give thy soul leaveTo do the like: our bodies but forerunThe spirit's duty. True hearts spread ...
The Pleiades At Midnight (Johannes Carsten Hauch Poems)
We are the nightly weaverswho gather the invisible threadsfrom the Milky Way's outmost ringwhere the end of the loom stands.Hovering ...
Over And Over Tune (Ioanna Carlsen Poems)
You could grow into it,that sense of living like a dog,loyal to being on your own in the fur of ...
My Lady Of Castle Grand (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Gray is the palace where she dwells, Grimly the poplars stand There by the window where she sits, My Lady of Castle Grand. There ...
There’s Nought I See, To Fear Now (Hector MacNeill Poems)
Our good king sits in Windsor tower,The sun-beams glint sae cheerfu'!A birdie sang in yonder bower,And O! but it sang ...
The Rising Of The Storm (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
THE lake's dark breastIs all unrest,It heaves with a sob and a sigh.Like a tremulous bird,From its slumber stirred,The moon ...
Sonnets CII., CIII. Nottingham Mechanic’s Exhibition, 1840 (Henry Alford Poems)
Bright glowed the canvas, or with chastened light Of the wan moon was tinted; features mild With hopes angelic,--glorious visions wild, Fixed by ...
Fate (Helge Rode Poems)
I was riding one day, 'twas a bright sunny day,not a cloud to be seen in the sky,When a small ...
Cardinal Ideograms (May Swenson Poems)
A mouth. Can blow or breathe, be a funnel, or Hello. A grass blade or a cut. A question seated. And a proud bird's neck. Shallow mitten ...
A Song Of Keats (Roderic Quinn Poems)
'TIS a tarnished book and old,Edges frayed and covers green!But, between the covers, gold -Gold and jewels in between.And this ...
Reed Call For April (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. When April comes, and pelts with buds And apple-blooms each orchard space, And takes the dog-wood-whitened woods With rain and sunshine of her ...
Robin’s Secret (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
'T IS the blithest, bonniest weather for a bird to flirt a feather, For a bird to trill and warble, all ...