Shakuntala Act IV (Kalidasa Poems)
ACT IVSCENE -A LAWN before the Cottage.The two damsels are discovered gathering flowers.Anusuya: O MY Priyamvada, though our sweet friend ...
Capital Poems (129 Poems)
Hermann And Dorothea – VI. Klio (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE AGE.WHEN the pastor ask'd the foreign magistrate questions,What the people had suffer'd, how long from their homes they had ...
Stanzas In Memory Of The Author Of ‘Obermann’ (Matthew Arnold Poems)
In front the awful Alpine track Crawls up its rocky stair; The autumn storm-winds drive the rack, Close o'er it, in the air. Behind ...
Hermann And Dorothea – II. Terpsichore (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
HERMANN.THEN when into the room the well-built son made his entry,Straightway with piercing glances the minister eyed him intently,And with ...
Health (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Of all the blessings which kind heaven bestows,From infancy to life's most lengthened close,The one, far greater than all earthly ...
The Tales Of The Blest–A Vision (Peter John Allan Poems)
I STOOD upon a mountain, lip to lipWith rosy morning, and her breathing cameRefreshingly upon my fever'd brow;I felt my ...
Emancipation (James Madison Bell Poems)
Harp of my soul, though thou hast hung Suspended from the willow boughTill much distorted, warped and sprung, And discord reigns within ...
Svanhvit’s Colloquy (Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom Poems)
SVANHVIT (alone in her chamber) No Asdolf yet,--in vain and everywhere Hath he been sought for, since his foaming steed, At morn, with ...
Old Donald (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Up in the Highlands of ScotlandThe fairies are very rude;I do not know if all are so-Some of them may ...
The Dog Guard: An Australian Story (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
There are lonesome places upon the earthThat have never re-echoed a sound of mirth,Where the spirits abide that feast and ...
The Ninth Olympic Ode Of Pindar (Henry James Pye Poems)
To Epharmostus of Opus, on his Olympic and Pythian Victories. ARGUMENT. Pindar begins the Ode with mentioning the Hymn composed ...
Oswald, The Minnesinger (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
A Legend of Schloss Forst, near MeranPROLOGUEOswald von Wolkenstein, the Last of the Minnesingers, loved a beautifulwoman, named Sabina, who ...
Hermann And Dorothea – III. Thalia (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE BURGHERS.THUS did the prudent son escape from the hot conversation,But the father continued precisely as he had begun itWhat ...
Evening in Stepney — For M (Lilian Bowes Lyon Poems)
1The greenness after sterile stone,Not one stone left upon another;The augury unforeseen of a listening April.Behind the boarded window,Socket of ...
Quatrains (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
S. H.With beams December planets dartHis cold eye truth and conduct scanned,July was in his sunny heart,October in his liberal ...
The Cottager (John Clare Poems)
True as the church clock hand the hour pursuesHe plods about his toils and reads the news,And at the blacksmith's ...
A Fool (Francis William Lauderdale Adams Poems)
HE asked me of my friend - 'a clever man;Such various talent, business, journalism;A pen that might some day have ...
From The Pentlands Looking North And South (John Buchan Poems)
Around my feet the clouds are drawnIn the cold mystery of the dawn;No breezes cheer, no guests intrudeMy mossy, mist-clad ...
Letters To The Roman Friend (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
From Martial Now is windy and the waves are cresting overFall is soon to come to change the place entirely.Change of ...
The Description Of Tyburn (John Taylor Poems)
I Have heard sundry men oft times disputeOf trees, that in one year will twice bear fruit.But if a man ...
War (Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen Poems)
The thunder has its lull from riot,The morning storm its evening quiet;The raving and rebellious oceanIts crystal calm, its rest ...
Masha (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
When I lived, many years ago, in Petersburg, every time I chanced to hire asledge, I used to get into ...
Ruin (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
It stands like Night,The sepulchre of a departed light,Whose glory gone,Each hoary vestige chroniclesOf crumbling stone.The portal now,A broken arch ...
Bonaparte (Sir Walter Scott Poems)
From a rude isle, his ruder lineage came.The spark, that, from a suburb hovel's hearthAscending, wraps some capital in flame,Hath ...
Beyond (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
Cloudy argosies are drifting down into the purple dark,And the long low amber reaches, lying on the horizon's mark,Shape themselves ...
Death Of Samson (Nathan Covington Brooks Poems)
Within Philistia's princely hallIs held a glorious festival,And on the fluctuant ether floatsThe music of the timbrel's notes,While living waves ...
Viroconium (Mary Webb Poems)
Virocon-Virocon-Still the ancient name rings onAnd brings, in the untrampled wheat,The tumult of a thousand feet.Where trumpets rang and men ...
Morning (Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov Poems)
You're unhappy, sick at heart:Oh, I know it-here such sickness isn't rare.Nature can but mirrorThe surrounding poverty.All is ever drear ...
The V-A-S-E (James Jeffrey Roche Poems)
From the madding crowd they stand apart,The maidens four and the Work of Art;And none might tell from sight aloneIn ...
The Next War (Osbert Sitwell Poems)
The long war had ended.Its miseries had grown faded.Deaf men became difficult to talk to,Heroes became bores.Those alchemistsWho had converted ...