The Peace Convention At Brussels (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
STILL in thy streets, O Paris! doth the stainOf blood defy the cleansing autumn rain;Still breaks the smoke Messina's ruins ...
Birth Poems (2336 Poems)
Three Dead Friends (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Always suddenly they are gone-- The friends we trusted and held secure-- Suddenly we are gazing on, Not a _smiling_ face, but the ...
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 Crisis (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
ACROSS the Stony Mountains, o'er the desert's drouth and sand,The circles of our empire touch the western ocean's strand;From slumberous ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fulfilment (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
We cried, " How long ! " We sighed, " Not yet; "And still with faces dawnward set" Prepare the ...
Poetic Lines, Addressed To A Friend (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
YOU request me, my friend, on true courage to write;Yet do you reflect, that whilst I indite,Or attempt to explain ...
On Reading Mrs. Hannah More’s Essay On St. Paul (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
OH ! I thou! whose Genius as thy Virtue shines,Around whose brows the wreath of Fame entwines;Benign Preceptress of thy ...
Hymn to Life: Hurdcott Camp (John William Streets Poems)
I hear thy voice in the lonely pinesWhen the winds arise in their unknown lair;In the rush of waves in ...
Ode to Peace (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
I. She comes, benign enchantress, heav'n born PEACE! With mercy beaming in her radiant eye; She bids the horrid din of battle cease, And ...
The Spring In Ireland: 1916 (James Stephens Poems)
IDo not forget my charge I beg of you ;That of what flow'rs you find of fairest hueAnd sweetest odor ...
Erin, Mavourneen (Nora Pembroke Poems)
A Prize Poem.I know Canada is fair to see, and pleasant; it is wellOn the banks of its broad river ...
Homesick In Heaven (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THE DIVINE VOICEGo seek thine earth-born sisters,--thus the VoiceThat all obey,--the sad and silent three;These only, while the hosts of ...
A Story Of The Sea (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Were you ever told the legend oldOf the birth of storms at sea?You should hear the tale in a Channel ...
Brunton Stephens (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Dedicated by special permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.We cried, "How long!" We sighed, "Not yet;"And still with ...
Whittier’s Birthday (John Russell Hayes Poems)
Dear Friend, we come to yield anew The reverence we owe thy name, And celebrate with fresh acclaimOur Quaker Poet, strong and ...
Pigeon Toes (Henry Lawson Poems)
A dusty clearing in the scrubs Of barren, western lands-Where, out of sight, or sign of hope The wretched school-house stands;A roof ...
Visit Of The Wrens (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
FLYING from out the gusty west,To seek the place where last year's nest,Ragged, and torn by many a routOf winter ...
Sensation (Bodh) (Jibanananda Das Poems)
Into the half light and shadow I go. Within my headNot a dream, but some sensation is at work.Not a ...
Lines Written at a Little Well by the Roadside, Langdale (John Wilson Poems)
Thou lonely spring of waters undefiled!Silently slumbering in thy mossy cell,Yea, moveless as the hillock's verdant sideFrom which thou hadst ...
On Reading Mr. Clarkson’s History Of The Abolition Of The Slave Trade (John Wilson Poems)
'MID the august and never-dying lightOf constellated spirits, who have gain'dA throne in heaven, by power of heavenly acts,And leave ...
War (Philip James Bailey Poems)
So heathen against heathen, tribe 'gainst tribe,Streamed onward in embattled waves of war;Not that so vast, to immemorial ageSacred, of ...
The Vision. Canto Third. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
Favour'd of heav'n, awhile my speech attend:On brighter visions now unclose thine eyes,Again shall Europe's realms before thee rise.Of this ...
The Street-Children’s Dance (Mathilde Blind Poems)
NOW the earth in fields and hillsStirs with pulses of the Spring,Next-embowering hedges ringWith interminable trills;Sunlight runs a race with ...
War (Janetta Philipps Poems)
When fell Oppression o'er the earthHer iron sceptre waved with fearful sway,To thee, dread power of War, the fiend gave ...
The Problem (Henry Timrod Poems)
Not to win thy favor, maiden, not to steal away thy heart,Have I ever sought thy presence, ever stooped to ...
The Captains (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Captains sailed from all the World-from all the world and Spain;And each one for his country's ease, her glory ...
Elegy On Sophia Graham (Matilda Betham Poems)
WHO DIED JAN. 21, 1800. Sweet is the voice of Friendship to the ear, Sweet is Affection's mildly-beaming eye, Sweet the applause which ...
The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems)
Wild air, world-mothering air,Nestling me everywhere,That each eyelash or hairGirdles; goes home betwixtThe fleeciest, frailest-flixedSnowflake; that 's fairly mixedWith, riddles, ...