The Wheel Revolves (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
You were a girl of satin and gauzeNow you are my mountain and waterfall companion.Long ago I read those lines ...
Change Poems (2459 Poems)
From Snipe, A Favourite Dog, To His Master (Janet Little Poems)
O BEST of good masters, your mild dispositionPerhaps may induce you to read my petition:Believe me in earnest, though acting ...
Hymn #4 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
ALMIGHTY God, from whom our being came,To whom it tends, blest be thy holy name!Blest when through pillared aisles we ...
It Cannot Be (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
It cannot beRose, violet, lily,Their crushed life should retain,Flowers that recall thy sweetness be ensouled,And thou distil to nothing, thou ...
That Great Waiting Silence (Henry Lawson Poems)
WHERE shall we go for prophecy? Where shall we go for proof?The holiday street is crowded, pavement, window and roof;Band ...
Livingstone The Builder (John Oxenham Poems)
_With a will! With a will! With a will and surely! Without fail, Drive each nail, Build we so, securely_!The Pioneer,--the Undaunted One,Worn with long ...
The Riddle Head (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
World of sorrow, care, and change, Even to myself I seem,As adown thy vale I range, Wandering in a dream:All things are ...
To The Aspin Tree (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
WHY tremble so, broad Aspin Tree ?Why shake thy leaves, ne'er ceasing ?--At rest thou never seem'st to be !For, ...
Without A Minister (Hattie Howard Poems)
The congregation was devout, The minister inspired, Their attitude to those without By every one admired, And all things so harmonious seemed, Of no calamity ...
The Crucifixion (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Sunlight upon Judha's hills!And on the waves of Galilee;On Jordan's stream, and on the rillsThat feed the dead and sleeping ...
Anniversaries (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O places, and faces, and things that are past,O changes on changes that followed so fast,O life, full of care, ...
The Syren World (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
The curtain's drawn look there and you shall spyThe faded god of your idolatry.Davenant.WORLD thou art old and grey!World thou ...
The Mingled Cup (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Happier under other skies, --So dreams man--Happier, link'd with other ties,Better, worthier, and more wise Were Life's plan:Anyhow but as things are, --So ...
“Caeli Enarrant” (George Sterling Poems)
Oh I marvellous the skies Ere sunset close Its rich, enormous rose, Or dawn, too late, Seem a supernal gateThat opens into midmost Paradise ...
Of the instability of Fortune (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
Who wisely waies false fortunes fickle change,Which in short space turnes loue to mortal hate,Shall find smal cause to deem ...
The Clock That Gains (Juan Francisco Manzano Poems)
THE Clock's too fast they say; But what matter, how it gains! Time will not pass away Any faster for its pains. The tiny ...
Comfortable Light (John Freeman Poems)
Most comfortable Light,Light of the small lamp burning up the night,With dawn enleagued against the beaten dark;Pure golden perfect spark;Or ...
With Death’s Prophetic Ear (John Sandes Poems)
Lay my rifle here beside me, set my Bible on my breast,For a moment let the warning bugles cease;As the ...
Earth And Heaven (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
A light, a darkness, mingling, each with each,Rogers.SUN, ever guidingWhat never knows rest,Vast giant stridingFrom east unto west;Eye piercing and ...
Autumn (Samuel Johnson Poems)
Alas! with swift and silent pace,Impatient time rolls on the year;The Seasons change, and Nature's faceNow sweetly smiles, now frowns ...
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See (Oscar Wilde Poems)
We are resolved into the supreme air,We are made one with what we touch and see,With our heart's blood each ...
The Oceanides VII (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
THE SPIRIT OF THE CAPE.CHANGE the vision. Now no more Gorgeous smile both sea and sky;Sunset mimics now no shore Where bright ...
The Convict And The Pauper (A Ballad For Home Governors). (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O give no more to flagrant Wrong The chances you refuse to Right,Nor let a boon to Vice belong Wherein the virtuous ...
Three Studies From A Portrait (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
1OLD TALESHER voice within the darkened room Tells on- old jests and tragediesAnd little follies of her kin And futile old nobilities:". ...
Hymn #5 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
MY soul! and dost thou faintly shrink,Thus trembling on an awful brink?Or rough or smooth, but one step more,And thy ...
Fill The Goblet Again: A Song (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Fill the goblet again! for I never beforeFelt the glow which now gladdens my heart to its core;Let us drink!--who ...
Love’s Caprices (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
COME, sweetheart, hear me! I have loved thee well,God knoweth. Through all these years my holiest thoughts,Like those pure doves ...
To The Sighing Strephon (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Your pardon, my friend, if my rhymes did offend; Your pardon, a thousand times o'er:From friendship I strove your pangs to ...
Matter and Mind (John Bowring Poems)
If in the vast material world No atom ever perished—thoughIn multitudinous changes hurl'd Upwards and downwards, to and fro,And all that in ...
In Cypres Springes, Wheras Dame Venus Dwelt (Henry Howard Poems)
In Cypres springes, wheras dame Venus dwelt, A well so hote that who so tastes the same, Were he of stone, as ...