Time (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Genius of musings, who, the midnight hourWasting in woods or haunted forests wild,Dost watch Orion in his arctic tower,Thy dark ...
Birthdays Poems (170 Poems)
Hymn To Life (James Schuyler Poems)
The wind rests its cheek upon the ground and feels the cool dampAnd lifts its head with twigs and small ...
The Child Jesus (James Collinson Poems)
A Record typical of the five Sorrowful Mysteries. I. The Agony in the Garden. Joseph, a carpenter of Nazareth, And his wife Mary ...
Mother’s Birthday Review (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
Brother Bill.To have a good birthday for a grown-up person is very difficult indeed;We don't give it up, for Mother ...
Wilfred Owen – 114 years and beyond (Old Poetry Poems)
18th March celebrates the birth of a fine poet and soldier Wilfred OwenMarch 18th celebrates the birthday of a man. ...
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, ...
An Only Child’s Tea-Party (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
When I go to tea with the little Smiths, there are eight of them there, but there's only one of ...
My Birthday (John Henry Newman Poems)
Let the sun summon all his beams to hold Bright pageant in his court, the cloud-paved skyEarth trim her fields and ...
Idyll (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
A village Chorus is supposed to be assembled, and about tocommence its festive procession.[Written for the birthday of the Duchess ...
Verses Sent To A Lady On Her Birthday (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
The joyous day illumes the sky That bids each care and sorrow fly To shades of endless night: E'en frozen age, thawed in ...
Two Poems To Harriet Beecher Stowe (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
ON HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, JUNE 14, 1882I. AT THE SUMMITSISTER, we bid you welcome,--we who standOn the high table-land;We who ...
Christmas Hymn For Lambeth (John Collings Squire Poems)
HARK! the Lambeth Guardians sing:Glory to the new-born King;Glory to the gun and swordThat will teach the German hordeIn a ...
A Story Of The “Barefoot Boy” (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
WRITTEN FOR J. G. WHITTIER'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY."I was once a barefoot boy."- J. G. WHITTIER.ON Haverhill's pleasant hills there played,Some ...
A Relative and an Absolute (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
It has been cool so far for December, but of course the colddoesn't last long down here. The Bible is ...
An Invitation into the country [in imitation of Horace] (Jane Turell Poems)
FROM the soft shades, and from the balmy sweetsOf Medford's flowery vales, and green retreats,Your absent Delia to her father ...
At A Meeting Of Friends (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AUGUST 29, 1859I REMEMBER--why, yes! God bless me! and was it so long ago?I fear I'm growing forgetful, as old ...
Happy Birthday Mr W B Yeats (Old Poetry Poems)
William Butler Yeats - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!141 years ago on 13th June 1865 William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland. ...
Our Oldest Friend (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I GIVE you the health of the oldest friendThat, short of eternity, earth can lend,--A friend so faithful and tried ...
Writ On The Eve Of My 32nd Birthday (Gregory Corso Poems)
a slow thoughtful spontaneous poemI am 32 years oldand finally I look my age, if not more.Is it a good ...
Where’s My Billy Goat Gone To? (Henry Clay Work Poems)
'Twas a birthday gift Miss Posie had When she was nine, and twenty:Not of gold — Oh, no! — nor gem, ...
For The Burns Centennial Celebration (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
JANUARY 25, 1859His birthday.--Nay, we need not speakThe name each heart is beating,--Each glistening eye and flushing cheekIn light and ...
A Year In Heaven (Lucy Larcom Poems)
ONE year among the angels, beloved, thou hast been;One year has heaven's white portal shut back the sound of sin:And ...
Bi-Centennia (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
From the door of the homestead the mother looks forth, With a glance half of hope, half of fear,For the clock ...
Robert (Robbie) Burns [1759-1796] (Old Poetry Poems)
A life that spanned less than 40 years but this man has left an indelible mark on the world of ...
The Mystic’s Christmas (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"All hail!" the bells of Christmas rang,"All hail!" the monks at Christmas sang,The merry monks who kept with cheerThe gladdest ...
His Birthday (Lucy Larcom Poems)
IT is His birthday - His, the Holy Child!And innocent childhood blossoms now anew,Under the dropping of celestial dewInto its ...
Boomerang (John Perreault Poems)
Why is everything I do in my life like a boomerang?I throw the paper airplane out the windowand the wind ...
Christmas (Julia A Moore Poems)
Hail the coming holiday, With a hearty joyous feast,And drive away sorrow, friends, For a day or two at least;Lay all business ...
A Letter To One Far Away (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Dear Wanderer-The sky is gray,With flecks of blueThe clouds rush over.A bird is singingFar away,And butterfliesTaste of the clover.Under the ...
The Poet And The Children (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
LONGFELLOW.WITH a glory of winter sunshineOver his locks of gray,In the old historic mansionHe sat on his last birthday;With his ...