My Own Place (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Whoever I am, wherever my lot, Whatever I happen to be,Contentment and Duty shall hallow the spot That Providence orders for me;No ...
Chance Poems (1443 Poems)
Ode XV: To The Evening-Star (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.To-night retir'd the queen of heavenWith young Endymion stays:And now to Hesper is it givenAwhile to rule the vacant sky,Till ...
Seventeen (Robert Nichols Poems)
All the loud winds were in the garden wood,All shadows joyfuller than lissom houndsDoubled in chasing, all exultant cloudsThat ever ...
Hop, Skip And Jump: A Queer Trio Personified. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
O! HOP is a sailor used up in the war,With a single good leg to stand on;And a face as ...
The Spider And The Fly (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
The sun shines bright, the morning's fair, The gossamers float on the air, The dew-gems twinkle in the glare, The spider's loom Is closely ...
Used Up (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Where shall be found the niche unfill'd,—A spot unclaim'd, a field untill'd?Who may secure a vacant spaceFairly to run and ...
A Neglected “Woman’s Right” (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
I have listened to this cry of "Woman's Rights," this clamoringfor the ballot, for redress for woman's wrongs, and I ...
The Adventures Of An Elf (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
A PICTURE POEM FOR THE LITTLE ONES.I.Dear children, listen whilst I tellWhat to a certain Elf befell,Who left his house ...
The Hero (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Mother, let us imagine we are travelling, and passing through astrange and dangerous country. You are riding in a palanquin and ...
On Receiving An Eagle’s Quill From Lake Superior (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
All day the darkness and the coldUpon my heart have lain,Like shadows on the winter sky,Like frost upon the pane;But ...
Extract From – Infidelity Its Own Punishment And Fidelity Its Own Happiness (Joseph Hodgson Poems)
The Atheist sure a fool must be To risk a future prizeBecause a soul he cannot see With his material eyes.He cannot ...
The First Canzone Of The Convito (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE.I.Ye who intelligent the Third Heaven move,Hear the discourse which is within my heart,Which cannot be ...
To Pius IX (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE cannon's brazen lips are cold;No red shell blazes down the air;And street and tower, and temple old,Are silent as ...
Never Had A Chance (Hattie Howard Poems)
Fresh from piano, school, and books, A happy girl with rosy looks Young Plowman wooed and won; despite Her pretty, pouting prejudice, Her deep ...
A Tale. June 1793 (William Cowper Poems)
In Scotland's realm, where trees are fewNor even shrubs abound;But where, however bleak the viewSome better things are found;For husband ...
The Aspen Leaf (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
I would some instruction draw,And raise pleasure to the height,Through the meanest object's sight.By the murmur of a spring,Or the ...
An Incident Of The Fire At Hamburg (James Russell Lowell Poems)
The tower of old Saint Nicholas soared upward to the skies,Like some huge piece of Nature's make, the growth of ...
My Thanks, (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
ACCOMPANYING MANUSCRIPTS PRESENTED TO A FRIEND.'T is said that in the Holy LandThe angels of the place have blessedThe pilgrim's ...
Occasion’d By Reading The Memoirs Of Anne Of Austria (Mary Barber Poems)
Ye heedless Fair, who pass the live--long Day,In Dress and Scandal, Gallantry and Play;Who thro' new Scenes of Pleasure hourly ...
Iris, Her Book (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I PRAY thee by the soul of her that bore thee,By thine own sister's spirit I implore thee,Deal gently with ...
The Repulse to Alcander (Sarah Fyge Poems)
What is't you mean, that I am thus approach'd,Dare you to hope, that I may be debauch'd?For your seducing Words ...
The Diplomatic Platypus (Patrick Barrington Poems)
I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity,With whom I soon discovered a remarkable affinity.He used to ...
Lines On The Death Of Bismarck (John Jay Chapman Poems)
(Reprinted from "The Political Nursery," midsummer number, 1898)AT midnight Death dismissed the chancellor,But left the soul of Bismarck on his ...
Elegy XVII: On His Mistress (John Donne Poems)
By our first strange and fatal interview,By all desires which thereof did ensue,By our long starving hopes, by that remorseWhich ...
The Beggar Family (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
Within the court, before the judge,There stand six wretched creatures,They're lame and weary, one and all,With pinched and pallid features.The ...
Autumn: Friday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
This is the day when prejudice and guiltThe blood of innocence and virtue spilt!'Twas in those orient Syrian lands afar,O'er ...
A Poet in the Kitchen (George Bradley Poems)
West Fifty-third was still Hell's Kitchenthe summer I first came to town,Eleventh Avenue was boarded up,the West Side Drive was ...
Programme (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
READER--gentle--if so beSuch still live, and live for me,Will it please you to be toldWhat my tenscore pages hold?Here are ...
The Stranded Ship: (The “Vincennes”) (Henry Lawson Poems)
'TWAS the glowing log of a picnic fire where a red light should not be,Or the curtained glow of a ...
Sic Vita (Henry David Thoreau Poems)
I am a parcel of vain strivings tied By a chance bond together, Dangling this way and that, their links Were made so ...