Dornock’s Distress. A Tragical Dialogue (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
SCENE I. EcclefechinDornockSolus.O heavens support my every sense!A large estate! yet barr'd from pence!Trust deeds and curs'd adjudications,Bonds, inhibitions, damn'd ...
Birth Poems (2336 Poems)
Sonnets – Ad Innuptam (Patrick Moloney Poems)
II MAKE not my division of the hours By dials, clocks, or waking birds' acclaim, Nor measure seasons by the reigning flowers, The ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Agriculture – Alps) (Henry Baker Poems)
Agriculture.--The Sire of Gods himselfWill'd not that Tillage should be free from Toil.He first sollicited the restive MoldBy Art: and ...
A Rehearsal Of Christ’s Love Towards The World (Rees Prichard Poems)
COME, hear me relate our Redeemer's vast love,When to purchase our souls he first came from above;That love bear in ...
Life (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE ministering spirits from aboveDescend with energy creative fraught,They breathe on nature with the breath of love,And lo! she wakens ...
School (Percy MacKaye Poems)
IOld Hezekiah leaned hard on his hoeAnd squinted long at Eben, his lank son.The silence shrilled with crickets. Day was ...
For A Child (Harriet Monroe Poems)
E. H. M.Nov. 17th, 1890-Feb. 13th, 1904Still he lies,Pale, wan, and strangely wise.Under the white coverletHe lies here sleeping yet,Though ...
Ode (Michael Massey Robinson Poems)
FOR THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY, 1816.When Spain's proud Genius saw Columbus braveThe Western Course of the Atlantic Wave;Saw his aspiring Mind, ...
New Year Ode, 1863 (George Washington Cruikshank Poems)
Let the bier move onward.—Let no tear be shed.The midnight watch is ended: The grim old year is dead.His life ...
The Pariah (James Edwin Campbell Poems)
Owned her father all the fact'ries Which their black'ning smoke sent up,Miles and miles all 'round the country, From the town by ...
An Invitation (James Russell Lowell Poems)
TO J F HNine years have slipt like hour-glass sandFrom life's still-emptying globe away,Since last, dear friend, I clasped your ...
Poetic Lines, Addressed To Four Children (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
FOUR beggars at once! each imploring a poet,If the muses inspire, on their persons to show it;But the Helicon's distant--and ...
My Name Was Martha (Martha Moulsworth Poems)
A Renaissance Woman'sAutobiographical PoemNouember the 10th 1632The Memorandum of Martha MoulsworthWiddoweThe tenth day of the winter month NouemberA day which ...
A Bachelor-Bookworm’s Complaint Of The Late Presidential Election (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A MAN of peace, I never dared to marry,Lover of tranquil hours, I dwelt apart;Outside the realm where noisy schemes ...
The First Hymn Of Callimachus. To Jupiter (Matthew Prior Poems)
While we to Jove select the holy victimWhom apter shall we sing than Jove himself,The god for ever great, for ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 03 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XXXIThe villain flies, he, full of rage and ire,Pursues, she stood and wondered on them both,But yet to follow them ...
Poetical Portraits (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
I.A dancing shape, an image gay,To haunt, to startle, and waylay.And yet a Woman, still and bright,With something of an ...
The New Year (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE wave is breaking on the shore,The echo fading from the chime;Again the shadow moveth o'erThe dial-plate of time!O seer-seen ...
Psalm CIV. Paraphrased (James Thomson Poems)
To praise thy Author, Soul, do not forget;Canst thou, in gratitude, deny the debt?Lord, thou art great, how great we ...
On To Richmond (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
After Southey's "March to Moscow"Major General ScottAn order had gotTo push on the column to Richmond;For loudly went forth,From all ...
The Bard (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
Where dwells the spirit of the Bard--what skyPersuades his daring wing,--Folded in soft carnation, or in snowStill sleeping, far o'er ...
Disappointment, The (Aphra Behn Poems)
1.One Day the Amarous Lisander,By an impatient Passion sway'd,Surpris'd fair Cloris, that lov'd Maid,Who cou'd defend her self no longer ...
The Disappointment (Aphra Behn Poems)
1.One Day the Amarous Lisander,By an impatient Passion sway'd,Surpris'd fair Cloris, that lov'd Maid,Who cou'd defend her self no longer ...
Triumphs Of The Free (James Madison Bell Poems)
Hail, thou observed of many lands, Let all thy banners be unfurled,This brilliant act of thine commands The commendations of the world;And ...
Scenes Of Youth, Or The Days Of Other Years,- 1809.- In Two Parts. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
PART I.-Remembrance.THOSE days of youth I call to mind,Like dream by night away are fled,Or rose that's pluck'd, which soon ...
The Lincoln-Chil (James Oppenheim Poems)
Clearing in the forest,In the wild Kentucky forest,And the stars, wintry stars strewn above!O Night that is the starriestSince Earth ...
Satire I (John Donne Poems)
Away thou fondling motley humorist,Leave mee, and in this standing woodden chest,Consorted with these few bookes, let me lyeIn prison, ...
The Wretched Condition Of Man By Nature (Rees Prichard Poems)
RASH Adam to the field of old,Mankind for one dear apple sold;And none can from his fangs get free,'Till Jesus ...
The Metamorphosi (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold unionShown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd;any a name ...
Epilogue To Schiller’s “Song Of The Bell” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
And so it proved! The nation felt, ere long, That peaceful signal, and, with blessings fraught, A new-born joy appeared; in gladsome ...