Alleluia Height (Michael Earls Poems)
Obedience to the seasons' marshall-rod,That is a law of God,Here beauty passes with her gorgeous train,On paths that range from ...
Characters Poems (296 Poems)
Monday, Roxana, or the Drawing-Room (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
Roxana from the court retiring late, Sigh'd her soft sorrows at St. JAMES's gate: Such heavy thoughts lay brooding in her breast, Not ...
The Death of Stephen (Janet Hamilton Poems)
O power invincible of faith and love,Like angel rising to his home above,Thy heaven-lit features beam, calm, earnest grace,Firm truth, ...
The Squire’s Pew (Jane Taylor Poems)
A SLANTING ray of evening light Shoots through the yellow pane ;It makes the faded crimson bright, And gilds the fringe again ...
Stonewall Jackson (George Washington Cruikshank Poems)
An Impromptu On Hearing of His DeathBury the mighty dead—Long, long to live in story!Bury the mighty deadIn his own ...
How Rudeness And Kindness Were Justly Rewarded (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Once on a time, long years ago(Just when I quite forget),Two maidens lived beside the Po,One blonde and one brunette.The ...
The Death of Parson Caldwell’s Wife (Mercy Warren Poems)
THE outrage of innocence in instances too numerous to be recorded, of the wanton barbarity of the soldiers of the ...
Song of Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Mine are the night and morning,The pits of air, the gulf of space,The sportive sun, the gibbous moon,The innumerable days.I ...
A Carol [III] (Mildmay Fane Poems)
Awake dull soul, and from thy fold of clayReceive the blessed tidings of the day:Not of a fox's cub, whose ...
Cicely Fox Smith (Old Poetry Poems)
Cicely Fox Smith1st February 1882Happy 125th Birthdayhttp://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Miss_Cicely_Fox_SmithThis month sees the 125th anniversary of the birth of a remarkable lady who ...
Ere Sleep Comes Down To Soothe The Weary Eyes (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
ERE sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes,Which all the day with ceaseless care have soughtThe magic gold which ...
Dusk (Jose Asuncion Silva Poems)
The lamp that stands beside the cribIs not yet lighted to warm the gloomOf the blueish, opaque light fallingThrough the ...
Kepler’s Apostrophe (James Joseph Sylvester Poems)
Yes! on the annals of my race, In characters of flame, Which time shall dim not nor deface, I'll stamp, my deathless name. The ...
Wrote upon the Report of John Macdebit’s Death, Pastor of the Parish of Cummingston (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
Clap your Hands, ye People allIn Cummingston who dwell;Macdebit's dead, whose holy TricksWill sink his Soul to &wblank;:No more will ...
Abdul Abulbul Amir (William Percy French Poems)
The sons of the Prophet are brave men and boldAnd quite unaccustomed to fear,But the bravest by far in the ...
On Receiving A Curious Shell (John Keats Poems)
Hast thou from the caves of Golconda, a gem Pure as the ice-drop that froze on the mountain?Bright as the humming-bird's ...
Ode to Ethiopia (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
O Mother Race! to thee I bringThis pledge of faith unwavering, This tribute to thy glory.I know the pangs which thou ...
Sketch of Lord Byron’s Life (Julia A Moore Poems)
"Lord Byron" was an Englishman A poet I believe,His first works in old England Was poorly received.Perhaps it was "Lord Byron's" fault And ...
To A Faithful Dog – II (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Dear Vixey! quadruped of noble type,I fain would chant the praises of thy life,Though words of mine are powerless and ...
Delio Patri (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Once more Lake Como's storied isle Reveals the Roman past!Again a stone of classic style The spade hath upward cast;How can such ...
Amor Mundanus. (Henry Alford Poems)
Freed from the womb, and from the bounds With which the stepdame infancy Our days of pupilage surrounds, We spring up beautiful and ...
The Garden Shukkei-en (Carolyn Forch Poems)
By way of a vanished bridge we cross this riveras a cloud of lifted snow would ascend a mountain.She has ...
The Different Effects Of Anger On Different Minds (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
HOW general, Anger, is thy wild controul!How dost thou reign in every human soul!Yes, wayward nymph, at thy supreme command,Man ...
Apology For An Epilogue (Judith Sargent Murray Poems)
Spoken in the character of Steady.Written by Constantia, in 1790.Ladies, and gentlemen, a moment stay,And give good nature its accustom'd ...
The Hair (Jared Barhite Poems)
Since the days of primal story Of Eden's happy pair, A woman's greatest glory Is her glossy flowing hair; It is a safe criterion By ...
Woman’s Help (Hattie Howard Poems)
Sometimes I long to write an ode And magnify his name, The man of honor, on the road To opulence and fame, On whom ...
Life-Work (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
No man can die, till all his work is done: But who shall say, what work he had to do?—With some, ...
Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam (William Habington Poems)
WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere;So rich with jewels hung, that Night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear: My soul her wings ...
Epilogue To Tancred And Sigismunda (James Thomson Poems)
Cramm'd to the throat with wholesome moral stuff,Alas! poor audience! you have had enough.Was ever hapless heroine of a playIn ...
On The Death Of William Cartwright (Izaak Walton Poems)
I cannot keep my purpose, but must give Sorrow and Verse their way; nor will I grieve Longer in silence; no, that ...