The Poet’s Forge (Helen Hunt Jackson Poems)
He lies on his back, the idling smith, A lazy, dreaming fellow is he;The sky is blue, or the sky is ...
Books Poems (3395 Poems)
To Louisa C-, For Her Album (John Kenyon Poems)
Life is an Album; and my free Imagination loves to look And read, with happy augury, Thy life's as yet scarce opened book. And ...
An Elegy on Parting (James Thomson Poems)
It was a sad, ay 'twas a sad farewell,I still afresh the pangs of parting feel;Against my breast my heart ...
The Great Tribunal (John Newton Poems)
John in vision saw the dayWhen the Judge will hasten down;Heav'n and earth shall flee awayFrom the terror of his ...
The Reward (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Who, looking backward from his manhood's prime,Sees not the spectre of his misspent time?And, through the shadeOf funeral cypress planted ...
Mischief (Jane Taylor Poems)
Let those who're fond of idle tricks,Of throwing stones, and hurling bricks, And all that sort of fun,Now hear a tale ...
A Boy (Jared Barhite Poems)
A boy is a wonderfully curious thing, Of all creation he deems himself King, Yet give him for pastime a top and ...
On Growing Old (John Masefield Poems)
Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying;My dog and I are old, too old for roving.Man, whose young ...
The Holidays (Jane Taylor Poems)
"Ah! don't you remember, 'tis almost December, And soon will the holidays come;Oh, 'twill be so funny, I've plenty of money, I'll ...
Prefatory Sonnets (Henry Kendall Poems)
I.I purposed once to take my pen and write,Not songs, like some, tormented and awry *With passion, but a cunning ...
Lines Suggested By Ode XXIX. Book I. Of Horace (John Kenyon Poems)
To ANTONIO PANIZZI, ESQ. AS THE WORTHY OCCASION, AND TO THE REV. CHRISTOPHER ERLE, AS THE PROMPT THROWER-OUT OF THE ...
Two Sonnets On Fame (John Keats Poems)
I.Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coyTo those who woo her with too slavish knees,But makes surrender to ...
Out Of the Ranks (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
From the bitter fight I have made my wayTo the peaceful crest of a lonely hill,But the noise and heat ...
Remembrance of Christmas Past (Judith Viorst Poems)
They let the children out of school too early.I left the Christmas shopping till too late.Each day we had a ...
LXXVIII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
The vicious are vicious, while yet in the womb of their mothers;And vile and vicious are they, when their mothers ...
Faith And Fact (Gerald Massey Poems)
THERE is no gleam of glory gone, For those who read in Nature's Book; No lack of triumph in their lookWho stand ...
The Visit (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
endless corridorsthe convent's interior gardenworn stairsdoors, white wardsnumbing coldfetters the feet, the handspersistently hiddeneyes full of fearwith my last ounce ...
The New Zealot To The Sun (Herman Melville Poems)
Persian, you riseAflame from climes of sacrifice Where adulators sue,And prostrate man, with brow abased,Adheres to rites whose tenor traced All worship ...
Preludes (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThere is no rhyme that is half so sweetAs the song of the wind in the rippling wheat;There is no ...
Home (Marietta Holley Poems)
A spirit is out to-night! His steeds are the winds; oh, list,How he madly sweeps o'er the clouds, And scatters the driving ...
His Praise Of The Little Hill And The Plains Of Mayo (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
After the Christmas, with the help of Christ, I will never stop ifI am alive; I will go to the ...
The Old Flame (Robert Lowell Poems)
My old flame, my wife!Remember our lists of birds?One morning last summer, I droveby our house in Maine. It was ...
Dear Reader (William Taylor Collins Poems)
Baudelaire considers you his brother,and Fielding calls out to you every few paragraphsas if to make sure you have not ...
XLVII. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Separation turneth sweet existence bitter unto man-It layeth the very vitals upon fierce, devouring flames!Whatever strength and energy the heart ...
In November (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Under my trees of green and goldI stroll in the soft, autumnal days,With never a hint of winter's cold,Though the ...
To Mary (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
The sky low down in distant West, is tinged with golden hue,While all the glorious vault above is one bright ...
Verses – Spoken to Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles-Harley, Countess of Oxford (Matthew Prior Poems)
Madam, Since Anna visited the muse's seat,(Around her tomb let weeping angels wait)Hail, thou, the brightest of thy sex, and ...
Ang tunay na lalaki (The Real Man) Stalks in the Streets of New York (Nick Carbo Poems)
Looking to harvest what makes him happy.The AA meetings have thrownhim into iconoclastic jousts with Titansand Gorgons with glowing snake ...
Gooid Bye, Old Lad (John Hartley Poems)
Ge me thi hand, mi trusty friend, Mi own is all aw ha to gie thi;Let friendship simmer on to th' ...
A Memory (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Strange that across the vast of varied years, Fraught with life's wonted alloy--mingled joy and pain--Sun-kissed with smiles or gloomed with ...