Jim the Splitter (Henry Kendall Poems)
The bard who is singing of Wollombi JimIs hardly just now in the requisite trim To sit on his Pegasus fairly;Besides, ...
Body Poems (2410 Poems)
To Stella Visiting Me in My Sickness (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Pallas, observing Stella's witWas more than for her sex was fit,And that her beauty, soon or late,Might breed confusion in ...
De La Charite Pour Les Pauvres Prisonniers, Dieppe (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YES , 'tis a year since last that plaintive cry,"Pity the prisoners," touch'd my wand'ring ear:And now again their hat ...
At Thurgarton Church (George Barker Poems)
To the memory of my fatherAt Thurgarton Church the sunburns the winter clouds overthe gaunt Danish stoneand thatched reeds that ...
Advice To A Young Man, Before He Goes A Courting (Rees Prichard Poems)
WHEN first thou go'st to court a maid,If thou'dst succeed, implore God's aid,And take his Spirit for thy guide,Or thou'lt ...
Lamentations of Jeremiah IV: The Punishment of Zion Accomplished (Jeremiah Bible Poems)
1 How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed!The stones of the sanctuary are poured out ...
An Elegy address’d to His Excellency Governour BELCHER: On the Death of his Brother-in-Law (Mather Byles Poems)
Pensive, o'ercome, the Muse hung down her Head,And heard the fatal News,—"The Friend is dead.Dumb, fixt in Sorrow, she forgot ...
The Exequy (Henry King Poems)
Accept, thou shrine of my dead saint,Instead of dirges, this complaint;And for sweet flow'rs to crown thy hearse,From thy griev'd ...
When Sheridan Hurled The Discus (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
"Pinch me; ay, punch me, for fear I m not sitting here reading the paper.Sure as the sun in the ...
The Celebration Of The Lizard (James Douglas Morrison Poems)
Lions in the street & roamingDogs in heat, rabid, foamingA beast caged in the heart of a cityThe body of ...
To The Countess Of Bedford II (John Donne Poems)
TO have written then, when you writ, seem'd to meWorst of spiritual vices, simony ;And not to have written then ...
A Lay of The Loch An’ The Muirlan’ (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"The Short And Simple Annals of The Poor"A lanely loch, a muirlan' broon, A warl' o' whins an' heather,Whaur aft, whan ...
The Eutawville Lynching (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
(July, 1904)In the State of "Old Palmetto," from the town of Eutawville,Comes a voice of pain and anguish that refuses ...
Sappho (James Wright Poems)
The twilight falls; I soften the dusting feathers,And clean again.The house has lain and moldered for three days.The windows smeared ...
Falling Asleep Over The Aeneid (Robert Lowell Poems)
An old man in Concord forgets to go to morning service. He falls asleep, while reading Vergil, and dreams that ...
De Rerum Virtute (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
I.Here is the skull of a man: a man's thoughts and emotionsHave moved under the thin bone vault like cloudsUnder ...
Letters To The Roman Friend (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
From Martial Now is windy and the waves are cresting overFall is soon to come to change the place entirely.Change of ...
Philemon (Matilda Betham Poems)
YE blooming youth, possest of every grace,Which can delight the eye, or please the ear,Who boast a polish'd mind and ...
Stella’s Birthday, March 13, 1727 (Jonathan Swift Poems)
This day, whate'er the Fates decree, Shall still be kept with joy by me: This day then let us not be told, That ...
A Painful history (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Three youths in the heyday of life's hopeful spring, On a bright April morn gaily hied,With three little skiffs, each one ...
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 ...
The Double-Heade (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Far away in the twilight timeOf every people, in every clime,Dragons and griffins and monsters dire,Born of water, and air, ...
Anhelli – Chapter 4 (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)
And the Shaman passed with Anhelli over the desert ways of Siberia,where stood prisons.And they beheld the countenances of some ...
The Difference (Jared Barhite Poems)
I have scanned the roll of teachers, Have noted the Aarons and Hurs Who have stayed education's Moses, And removed the cumbrous bars That ...
The Song Of The Bereaved (Nora Pembroke Poems)
With garments for sorrow torn, With eyelids heavy and red,A woman sat by a new-made grave, Bewailing her slaughtered dead--Weep! weep! weep! Tears ...
To The Heavenly Power (John Freeman Poems)
When this burning fleshBurns down in Time's slow fire to a glowing ash;When these lips have utteredThe last word, and ...
Judgment Day (John Freeman Poems)
When through our bodies our two spirits burnEscaping, and no more our true eyes turnOutwards, and no more hands to ...
A Short Worke That Beareth The Name Of George Ripley (George Ripley Poems)
Take Heavy, Soft, Cold, and Drye;Clense him, and to Calx grind him subtily:Dissolve him in Water of the Wood;If thou ...
Comrades An Episode (Robert Nichols Poems)
Before, before he was awareThe 'Verey' light had risen. on the airin hung glistering..And he could not stay his handFrom ...
The Shadow And The Light (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The fourteen centuries fall awayBetween us and the Afric saint,And at his side we urge, to-day,The immemorial quest and old ...