A. B. A. (Louisa May Alcott Poems)
Like Bunyan's pilgrim with his pack, Forth went the dreaming youth To seek, to find, and make his own Wisdom, virtue, and truth. Life ...
Books Poems (3395 Poems)
First Verses (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
TRANSLATION FROM THE ENEID, BOOK I.THE god looked out upon the troubled deepWaked into tumult from its placid sleep;The flame ...
Epistle. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
FRIENDS of St. Andrew and the Thistle,Accept, I pray, this short epistle,In answer to your invitationTo the Grand Ball and ...
Litany (Dana Gioia Poems)
This is a litany of lost things,a canon of possessions dispossessed,a photograph, an old address, a key.It is a list ...
The White Dress (Marya Zaturenska Poems)
Imperceptively the world became haunted by her white dress.Walking in forest or garden, he would start to see,Her flying form; ...
Seclusion (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Shut out the World, shut in the Home!The sea is deeper than its foam;Retain the gem, reject the paste;Withdraw from ...
A Portrait – I (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
She was not very beautiful, if it be beauty's test To match a classic model when perfectly at rest; And she did ...
On The Quay (John Joy Bell Poems)
I've never traveled for more'n a day,I never was one to roam,But I likes to sit on the busy quay,Watchin' ...
A Lesson In Drawing (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
My son places his paint box in front of meand asks me to draw a bird for him.Into the color ...
Retirement (Henry Timrod Poems)
My gentle friend! I hold no creed so falseAs that which dares to teach that we are bornFor battle only, ...
Ode To The Book (Pablo Neruda Poems)
When I close a bookI open life.I hearfaltering criesamong harbours.Copper ignotsslide down sand-pitsto Tocopilla.Night time.Among the islandsour oceanthrobs with fish,touches ...
The Witch (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
HER hair was gold and warm it lay Upon the pallor of her brow;Her eyes were deep, aye, deep and gray-- And ...
Abode Of The Beloved (Kabir Poems)
Sakhiya Wah Ghar Sabse Nyara,Jaha Puran Purush HumaraJaha Nahi Sukh DukhSanch Jhuth NahiPap Na Pun PasaraNahin Din Reyn Chand Nahi ...
Bedouin Song (James Bayard Taylor Poems)
FROM the Desert I come to thee On a stallion shod with fire;And the winds are left behind In the speed of ...
A Valentine (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
At last, dear love, the day is gone, The doors are barred—the lamps are lit,The couch beside the fire is drawn, The ...
Herbert Foss, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Only son of SAMUEL S. FOSS, Esq., died May 23d, 1859, aged threeyears and three months."Read more, Papa," the loving ...
From the Forests (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where in a green, moist, myrtle dellThe torrent voice rings strongAnd clear, above a star-bright well,I write this woodland song.The ...
O Cup Bearer (Shams al-Din Hafiz Poems)
OH Cup-bearer, set my glass afireWith the light of wine! oh minstrel, sing:The world fulfilleth my heart's desire!Reflected within the ...
Greedy Richard (Jane Taylor Poems)
"I think I want some pies this morning,"Said Dick, stretching himself and yawning;So down he threw his slate and books,And ...
Sir John Suckling’s Campaigne (John Mennis Poems)
Sir John he got him an ambling nag,To Scotland for to ride-a,With a hundred horse more, all his own he ...
By The Seaside : Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death;Wild and gast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.His lordly ships ...
Two Seanichies (Michael Earls Poems)
(For Aedh)'Tis the queerest trade we have, the two of us that go about,I that do the talkin', and the ...
The Minstrel (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
"What hear I at the gateway ringing?What bard upon the ...
For He Was a Jolly Good Fellow (Henry Lawson Poems)
THEY CHEERED him from the wharf-it was a glorious day:His hand went to his scarf-his thoughts were far away.Oh, he ...
Children On The Shore (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
We are building little homes on the sands,We are making little rooms very gay,We are busy with our hearts and ...
After The Ball (Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon Poems)
Silence now reigns in the corridors wide,The stately rooms of that mansion of pride;The music is hushed, the revellers gone,The ...
Lassitude (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
I will throw by my book. The weariness Of too much study presses on my brain, And thought's close fetter binds upon ...
The Future of Mankind (John Bowring Poems)
To Sir John Bowring.What is the future of mankind, Its progress or its light to me,In the deep craving of my ...
On A Train (Michael Earls Poems)
(For Christine and Tom)Oases are charming 'mid the Afric sands,Beautiful is summer after rain;But the sweetest blossoms may be eyes ...
Joined the Blues (John Jerome Rooney Poems)
Says Stonewall Jackson to "Little Phil": "Phil, have you heard the news?Why, our 'Joe' Wheeler — 'Fighting Joe' — has ...