Genius (Mark Twain Poems)
Genius, like gold and precious stones,is chiefly prized because of its rarity.Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild,incomprehensible poems ...
Brain Poems (1987 Poems)
I’m On My Way To Canada (James Robert Watkins Poems)
I'm on my way to Canada,That cold and dreary land;The dire effects of slavery I can no longer stand.My heart ...
In The Gray Of The Evening. Autumn. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN o'er yon forest solitudesThe sky of autumn evening broods--A heaven whose warp, but palely bright,Shot through with woofs of ...
From Dawn To Dawn (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
I bend o'er the wheel at my sewing;I'm spent; and I'm hungry for rest;No curse on the master bestowing,--No hell-fires ...
The Slave Dealer (Thomas Pringle Poems)
From ocean's wave a Wanderer came,With visage tanned and dun:His Mother, when he told his name,Scarce knew her long-lost son;So ...
The Mother (Matilda Betham Poems)
"And beats my heart again with joy! And dances now my spirit light! The skiff that holds my darling boy This moment burst ...
Whitsunday (John Keble Poems)
When God of old came down from Heaven, In power and wrath He came;Before His feet the clouds were riven, Half darkness ...
Translation Of A Romaic Love Song (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Ah! Love was never yet withoutThe pang, the agony, the doubt,Which rends my heart with ceaseless sigh,While day and night ...
Melody To A Scene Of Former Times (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Art thou indeed forever gone,Forever, ever, lost to me?Must this poor bosom beat alone,Or beat at all, if not for ...
The Other House (John Freeman Poems)
That other house, in the same crowded street,One red-tiled floor had, answering to my feet,And a bewildering garden all of ...
Rocket Show (James K Baxter Poems)
As warm north rain breaks over suburb houses,Streaming on window glass, its drifting hazesCovering harbour ranges with a dense hood:I ...
Mount Of Olives (I) (Henry Vaughan Poems)
1.SWEET, sacred hill ! on whose fair browMy Saviour sate, shall I allow Language to love,And idolize some shade, or grove,Neglecting ...
The Weavers (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
after school a hard handgathered us to the sewing shopa flock of young girlswith children's facesbindweed at our waistsall winter ...
On The Fate Of Newspapers. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
WHAT changes time's swift motion brings!What sad reverse of human things!What once was valu'd, highly priz'd,Is in a few short ...
Caged (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
YOU think he sings a gladsome song!Ah, well, he sings! but only seeHow oft on glossy neck and breastHis bright ...
Melancholia (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
SILENTLY without my window,Tapping gently at the pane,Falls the rain.Through the trees sighs the breezeLike a soul in pain.Here alone ...
Address And Welcome To J. B. Gough (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Welcome! Oh, welcome! in thy course of fame—Through rolling clouds of smoke and lurid flame,Belched from a hundred murky piles—at ...
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 ...
To A friend (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
OH thou hast called me thy own sister dear,And my wild heart, o'erfilled with burning love,Hath sprung, as springs the ...
The Conscript (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
I am a peaceful working man,I am not wise or strong,But I can follow Nature's plan,In labour, rest, and song.One ...
Pebbles (Herman Melville Poems)
IThough the Clerk of the Weather insist, And lay down the weather-law,Pintado and gannet they wistThat the winds blow whither they ...
Spectral (John Drinkwater Poems)
What will the years tell?Hush! If it would but speak--That shadow athwart the stream,In the gloom of a dream;Could my ...
Yes! Strike Again That Sounding String (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
Yes! strike again that sounding string, And let the wildest numbers roll;Thy song of fiercest passion sing — It breathes responsive to ...
A Leap For Life (George Pope Morris Poems)
OLD Ironsides at anchor lay, In the harbor of Mahon;A dead calm rested on the bay — The waves to sleep had ...
A Ballad of John Silver (John Masefield Poems)
We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull,And we flew the pretty colours of the cross-bones and ...
To The Additional Examiner For 1875 (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
Queen Cram went strayingWhere Tait was swaying,In just hands weighing,With care immense,Dry proofs made pleasantBy Routh or BesantFor one who ...
I Smoke My Pipe (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I can't extend to every friend In need a helping hand--No matter though I wish it so, 'Tis not as Fortune planned;But ...
The Wayfarer (Padraic Colum Poems)
I. THE TREESTHERE is no glory of the sunset here!Heavy the clouds upon the darkening road,And heavy, too, the wind ...
Address To The Hon. Malcolm Cameron (Nora Pembroke Poems)
By many a bard the Cameron clan is sung, Their march, their charge, their war cry, their array;Their laurels that from ...
The Hail Of The Friendly Sons (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
Shall we who meet and part to-nightRemember not our sires?Shall we forget their age-long fight,Their quenchless battle-fires?They handed us the ...