“This is thy brother, this poor silver fish,” (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
This is thy brother, this poor silver fish,Close to the surface, dying in his dish;Thy flesh, thy beating heart, thy ...
Birth Poems (2336 Poems)
Ellen (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Ellen, my heart is not yet thine, And still I can but sigh,Whene'er I view thy semblance shine In Memory's mirror nigh.Thy ...
Once On A Time (Margaret Benson Poems)
Once on a time I used to dreamStrange spirits moved about my way,And I might catch a vagrant gleam,A glint ...
Thank God For Pleasant Weather. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Thank God for pleasant weather! Chant it, merry rills!And clap your hands together, Ye exulting hills!Thank Him, teeming valley! Thank Him, fruitful plain!For ...
The Child (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
I MAY not lift him in my arms. His face I may not see--Are angel hands more tender than a ...
The Mystic (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
"And so," I said, much after having striven,"We mount close upward to the bar of heaven;But all our strength is ...
Love’s Altar (John William Inchbold Poems)
I saw the stars look down upon the earth, The cold moon blended with the trembling sea, I watch'd the sun from ...
Sin (John William Inchbold Poems)
O joyous morning of the primal world! O tenderness of hue on sky and earth, The utterness of peace!-O sea impearled With first ...
Love’s Winter (John William Inchbold Poems)
O come, white snow, and hide the Summer dead! Let not a flower of all I loved be seen! O blinding sky ...
The German-Ameri (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
HONOR to him whose very blood remembersThe old, enchanted dream-song of the Rhine,Although his house of life. is fair with ...
Miss Laura Kingsbury, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, July, 1861.Faithful and true in duty's sacred sphere, How like the summer-lightning hath she fled!One moment bending o'er ...
Sonnet XXII. The Dying Bed (Henry Alford Poems)
Blest be the taper which hath power to shed Light on the features of that angel--face; Blest be the sadness of this ...
[Everything is full of you] (Miguel Hernandez Poems)
Everything is full of youand I am full of everything:the cities are full,and the cemeteries are full,you, with all the ...
To An Unhanged Judas (Raymond Garfield Dandridge Poems)
Cannibalistic vulture,Grown fat upon your brother's blood,The Tide you do not seek to stemEngulfs you in its flood.The cords you ...
Mystery Of Mysteries (Mathilde Blind Poems)
BEFORE the abyss of the unanswering grave Each mortal stands at last aloof, alone, With his beloved one turned as deaf as ...
Praise For The Incarnation (John Newton Poems)
Sweeter sounds than music knowsCharm me in Immanuel's name;All her hopes my spirit owesTo his birth, and cross, and shame.When ...
The Age Of Gold (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The clouds that tower in storm, that beatArterial thunder in their veins;The wildflowers lifting, shyly sweet,Their perfect faces from the ...
The Gifts of God (Jones Very Poems)
THE LIGHT that fills thy house at morn,Thou canst not for thyself retain;But all who with thee here are born,It ...
The Sphinx (Mathilde Blind Poems)
Wanderer, behold Life's riddle writ in stone, Fronting Eternity with lidless eyes; Of all that is beneath the changing skies,Immutably abiding and ...
Earth Odours–Afte (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
Life-yielding fragrance of our Mother Earth!Benignant breath exhaled from summer showers!—All Nature dimples into smiles of flowers,From unclosed woodland to ...
Grace After Meat (Rees Prichard Poems)
Thou, that feedest ev'ry creature,Whether tame, or wild by nature,Receive our prayers, who humbly ownThe plenteous goodness thou hast shown!'Twas ...
As A Flower (Lucy Larcom Poems)
OPEN your heart as a flower to the light!Darkness is passing; the Sun is in sight;Morning with splendor is piercing ...
Song of the Triumphant Christian (John Bowring Poems)
My task of duty's done, The glorious fight is won,My course is finished—and I look on high: And now, Almighty Lord! I wait ...
Christmas: 1915 (Percy MacKaye Poems)
Now is the midnight of the nations: dark Even as death, beside her blood-dark seas, Earth, like a mother in birth agonies,Screams ...
Sonnet XXXV. “‘Twere better far from noon to eventide” (Henry Alford Poems)
'Twere better far from noon to eventide To sit and feel sad care, and fence the while The patient spirit for unwonted ...
Night (John Addington Symonds Poems)
Mysterious night! Spread wide thy silvery plume!Soft as swan's down, brood o'er the sapphirineBreadth of still shadowy waters dark as ...
Krishna Complains About His Older Brother (Sant Surdas Poems)
O mother mine, Dau (Balram)forever teases me.you never gave birth to me,and I was bought in the market.this is what ...
The Snowdrop (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
How comest thou, O flower so fair,To bud and bloom while wintry airStill hovers o'er the land?How comest from the ...
May (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
LIGHT and silv'ry cloudlets hoverIn the air, as yet scarce warm;Mild, with glimmer soft tinged over,Peeps the sun through fragrant ...
The Australian Muse (Leon Gellert Poems)
Uplift thy lyre, and touch the tender strings;But leave unsung the epics of thy landTil thou and time have made ...