Denial (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WE look with scorn on Peter's thrice-told lie;Boldly we say, "Good brother! you nor I,So near the sacred Lord, the ...
Brothers Poems (2648 Poems)
The Sense Of Right (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Calm in well-deserving, Happy at the heart, Duty does his partSteadfast and unswerving.How should it affect him If some mocking-birds Clamour at his words,Or ...
X (Jean Valentine Poems)
I have decorated this banner to honor my brother.Our parents did not want his name used publicly-- from an unnamed ...
Dream Song 107: Three ‘coons come at his garbage. He be cross (John Berryman Poems)
Three 'coons come at his garbage. He be cross,I figuring porcupine & took Sir pokerunbarring Mr door,& then screen door. ...
Sedan (Henry Kendall Poems)
Another battle! and the sounds have rolled By many a gloomy gorge and wasted plainO'er huddled hills and mountains manifold, Like winds ...
Good Night to the Season (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
Good-night to the Season!-the ragesLed off by the chiefs of the throng,The Lady Matilda's new pages,The Lady Eliza's new song;Miss ...
“This is thy brother, this poor silver fish,” (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
This is thy brother, this poor silver fish,Close to the surface, dying in his dish;Thy flesh, thy beating heart, thy ...
The Song Of The Children (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
The World is ours till sunset, Holly and fire and snow;And the name of our dead brother Who loved us long ago.The ...
The New-Year Babe (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Two together, Babe and Year,At the midnight chime,Through the darkness drifted hereTo the coast of Time.Two together, Babe and Year,Over ...
Maybe I Am Mistaken (Liudas Gira Poems)
Maybe in this I am mistaken?It's true I'm young, perhaps naive,With people's ways not well acquainted...But I sincerely do believeThat ...
Cast away care (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Cast away care; he that loves sorrowLengthens not a day, nor can buy to-morrow ;Money is trash, and he that ...
Children (Innokentii Fedorovich Annensky Poems)
Has time come? I'm fully ready.If we've sinned - there's no a chance.We - to prisons, they - to gladness.Give ...
At Sea (James Jeffrey Roche Poems)
Shall we, the storm-tossed sailors, weepFor those who may not sail again;Or wisely envy them, and keepOur pity for the ...
David And Jonathan (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
(Written in her fifteenth year.)On the brow of Gilboa is war's bloody stain,The pride and the beauty of Israel is ...
To Seem the Stranger Lies My Lot (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems)
To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life Among strangers. Father and mother dear, Brothers and sisters are in ...
How Shall I Die? (Patience Worth Poems)
How shall I die?Shall I lay me down upon a rosed couch-Sipping cool waters, and languorously die?Shall I do some ...
Old And New (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not.Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own.Thou ...
To his Friend Master R. L., In Praise of Music and Poetry (Richard Barnfield Poems)
If music and sweet poetry agree,As they must needs (the sister and the brother),Then must the love be great 'twixt ...
Now Mine Eyes Seeth Thee (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Job xiii. 5.WHOM see I? Not the God I sought,With vague imaginings of mind;A Deity of formless thought,A God no ...
Epitaph On The Late Joseph Palmer, Esq. (Margaret Holford Poems)
NO solitary mourner offers hereOf private grief th' unmingled, partial tear,Here mourns mankind! Here human nature weeps!For here, man's kindest ...
At the Lily’s Heart (George Sterling Poems)
Within me (roguish brother!) lives a faun Demure as any whom Arcadian bees Made drowsy with their murmur, or the sea'sFar thunder ...
Praise For The Incarnation (John Newton Poems)
Sweeter sounds than music knowsCharm me in Immanuel's name;All her hopes my spirit owesTo his birth, and cross, and shame.When ...
Australia 1894 (William Gay Poems)
SHE sits a queen whom none shall dare despoil,Her crown the sun, her guard the vigilant sea,And round her throne ...
Horace, Seventh Epode (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
Whither, whither, reckless Romans,Are you rushing, sword in hand?Has not yet the blood of brothers,Fully stained the sea and land?Not ...
Introspectio (John Bowring Poems)
How much the uncharitable leaven Is mingled with our daily fare!How little do we think of heaven When earth absorbs us everywhere!We ...
To The Minstrel (Jurgis Baltrusaitis Poems)
Not for a flash of flame - your zither, brother!Its charm is charged to praise the macrocosmWhere ages gather, in ...
Washingtonia (John Pierpont Poems)
Of all the causes East or WestI love the Temperance Cause the best—I love its cheerful greetings:No joys on earth ...
My Tongue (Patience Worth Poems)
Mine is a cunning implement!There is nothing which mayDeny me wielding it,Yet I have an o'ercoming awe at the thought,That ...
London, after Midnight (Henry Ellison Poems)
Silence broods o'er the mighty Babylon;And Darkness, his twin brother, with him keepsHis solemn watch; the wearied city sleeps,And Solitude, ...
Epitaph. Sacred To The Memory Of James Graham, Esq. (Hector MacNeill Poems)
Accept, lov'd shade! of him whose breathless clayNo sigh returns to aught that grief can say;Accept, lov'd shade! this monument ...