Write Thou Upon Life’s Pages (Grenville Grey Poems)
Leave thou some light behind thee,Some mark upon thine age;Let not a false fate bind thee -Write thou upon life's ...
Brothers Poems (2648 Poems)
The Lesson (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
MY cot was down by a cypress grove,And I sat by my window the whole night long,And heard well up ...
The M’Camley Mixture (William Thomas Goodge Poems)
Jack M'Camley,Lank and long,Ox-persuader,Billabong.Bluff and heartySort o' party,Got the 'blanky' habit strong!Says the parson,Bright old bird,'Why'd you use thatHorrid word? ...
Western Refrain (George Pope Morris Poems)
Droop not, brothers! As we go, O'er the mountains,Under the boughs of mistletoe, Log huts we'll rear,While herds of deer and buffalo Furnish the ...
Brotherhood (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Is brotherhood to flesh confined? Is there no kinship of the soul?To have it thus, I am resigned, If 'tis my God-appointed ...
Sons of Liberty (John Pierpont Poems)
Sons of Liberty, arise!Who your country's glory prize,Spread your banner to the skies!Wake from apathy!Join the Washingtonian Band,Firmly to your ...
“Salut Aux Blessis” (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
A group of mounted officers Ride up and fall in line;Their gleaming swords hang at their sides, Chevrons their arms entwine;They bare ...
The Beggar (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I was walking along the street… I was stopped by a decrepit old beggar.Bloodshot, tearful eyes, blue lips, coarse rags, ...
As We Are Men And Irishmen (John Banim Poems)
As we are men and Irishmen,Scorn ...
Vagrants (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Long time ago, we two set out, My soul and I. I know not why, For all our way was dim with doubt. I ...
Mine is Gopal (Mirabai Poems)
Mine Is GopalMine is Gopal, the Mountain-Holder; there is no one else.On his head he wears the peacock-crown: He alone ...
A Rainy Day (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
It rains. What lady loves a rainy day?Not she who puts prunella on her foot,Zephyrs around her neck, and silken ...
Dwelling In Heaven (James Avis Bartley Poems)
They do not--nay, they cannot die; They go to dwell in Heaven;Where God a free and full supply Of purest joys hath ...
Hint To The Poets (John Kenyon Poems)
Brother Bard! if dream thou nourish, Thro' new fancy or new truth, 'Mid the sons of fame to flourish, Thou must lean on ...
Written for my Son … upon his Master’s First Bringing in a Rod (Mary Barber Poems)
OUR master, in a fatal hour, Brought in this Rod, to shew his pow'r. O dreadful birch ! O baleful tree ! Thou ...
Dead In Sight Of Fame (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
DIED--Early morning of September 5, 1876, andin the gleaming dawn of "name and fame,"Hamilton J. Dunbar.Dead! Dead! Dead! We thought him ours alone;And ...
The Greatest of all is Charity (John Bowring Poems)
When first the Almighty Father's thought Created man,—how wondrouslyHis virtue-giving spirit wrought The mystic cords of Charity.To live for others, and to ...
The Millennium (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The promis'd years, the better times, By God himself foretold,Have dawn'd, and banish'd hateful crimes, The latest age of gold.Not now a ...
Union. (George Pope Morris Poems)
This word beyond all others, Makes us love our country most,Makes us feel that we are brothers, And a heart-united host!--With hosanna ...
Twilight Of Freedom (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
1Let us glorify, brothers, the twilight of freedom --The great twilight year.A weighty forest of nets is loweredInto the bubbling ...
Hymn IX. Where high the heavenly temple stands (John Logan Poems)
Where high the heavenly temple stands,The house of God not made with hands,A great High Priest our nature wears,The Patron ...
Sadoean Ballad No. 3 (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
A troop of worthless vagabondsApproached a holy man,And speaking unbecoming words,To wound his heart began.The dervish sought the elder,And complaining, ...
Abraham Lincoln (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
Like some gigantic, lofty forest tree,Shorn of its leafy garment in the storm,With roots secure deep-fastened in the earth,Where naught ...
Charity (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Frail are the best of us, brothers-- God's charity cover us all--Yet we ask for perfection in others, And scoff when they ...
Myself (Harriet Monroe Poems)
What am I? I am Earth the mother,With all her nebulous memories;And the young Day, and Night her brother,And every ...
Outward (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
Wither away, O Sailor! say?Under the night, under the day,Yearning sail and flying sprayOut of the black into the blue,Where ...
Wisdom’s Rude Lover (Patience Worth Poems)
Gently, brother, gently. Have reverence!Remember, wisdom is an aged thing.Be not flippant; be not pertly jestful.Gently, brother, gently. Remember, the ...
A Gallery To The Temple. The Harpe (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Some may occasion snatch to carpe, Sayeing that I have sung to Nero's Harpe, And therefore am for Davids most unfitt, Which piety ...
Our Lucky Star (Paulius Sirvys Poems)
Under the starry autumn skiesI lie, my wounded breast afire.The vision of my love's eyesGrows fainter - and will soon ...
Selfishness (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
How little and how lightly We care for one another!How seldom and how slightly Consider each a brother!For all the world is ...