Two Brothers (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHO presses on my knee this kindly pat,And with a merry archness in my faceLooks up?--a youngling of my own ...
Charity Poems (3782 Poems)
Elegy II (Henry James Pye Poems)
Now the brown woods their leafy load resign And rage the tempests with resistless force? Mantled with snow the silver mountains shine, And ...
The Padlock (Voltaire Poems)
I triumphed, love's victorious powerPrevailed, and near approached the hourWhich should have crowned our mutual flame,Just then your tyrant husband ...
Love And Fancy (George W Sands Poems)
"Whenever, amid bow'rs of myrtle,Love, summer-tressed and vernal-eyed,At morn or eve is seen to wander,A dark-haired girl is at his ...
Address To The Flag (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Float in the winds of heaven, O tattered Flag!Emblem of hope to all the misruled world:Thy ...
The Old Burying-Ground (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Our vales are sweet with fern and rose,Our hills are maple-crowned;But not from them our fathers choseThe village burying-ground.The dreariest ...
Dedication. To my Mother (Margaret Holford Poems)
My Mother, thou hast not forgot the hour,Tho' Time since then is far upon his way,When youth and beauty crown'd ...
To Russia (Ivan Nikitin Poems)
'Neath a giant tentOf the heavens blue,Stretch the verdant Steppes;Range beyond the view.On the distant rimLift the outlines proud,Of their ...
To The Reverend Mr. Mabell, Of Cambridge (Mary Barber Poems)
Tho' great Longinus claims thy aiding Hand,And hopes, thro' thee, t'instruct a barb'rous Land,Where vile Conceits the Pow'r of Wit ...
Certain Books Of Virgil’s AEneis: Book II (Henry Howard Poems)
BOOK IIThey whisted all, with fixed face attent,When Prince AEneas from the royal seatThus gan to speak: O Queen, it ...
Spring: Saturday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Hours, days, weeks,—so our life-time flows—Gently, as melt the vernal snowsBeneath the sun; they pass away,Like dew-drops in the eye ...
A Memorial (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Oh, thicker, deeper, darker growing,The solemn vista to the tombMust know henceforth another shadow,And give another cypress room.In love surpassing ...
Thanksgiving (Hattie Howard Poems)
Nature, erewhile so marvelously lovely, is bereft Of her supernal charm; And with the few dead garlands of departed splendor left, Like crape ...
A Niello (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IIt is not early spring and yetOf bloodroot blooms along the stream,And blotted banks of violet,My heart will dream.Is it ...
Mrs. Harvey Seymour, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, Sunday, May 5th, 1861.She found a painless avenue to makeThe great transition from a world of careTo ...
Shakespeare (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
TERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONAPRIL 23, 1864"Who claims our Shakespeare from that realm unknown,Beyond the storm-vexed islands of the deep,Where Genoa's roving mariner ...
L’Ancien Regime (James B.V. Thomson Poems)
Who has a thing to bringFor a gift to our lord the king,Our king all kings above?A young girl brought ...
The Fire-side (Nathaniel Cotton Poems)
Dear Chloe, while the busy crowd,The vain, the wealthy, and the proud,In folly's maze advance;Tho' singularity and prideBe call'd our ...
The Relic (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
TOKEN Of friendship true and tried,From one whose fiery heart of youthWith mine has beaten, side by side,For Liberty and ...
Twelfth Sunday After Trinity (John Keble Poems)
The Son of God in doing good Was fain to look to Heaven and sigh:And shall the heirs of sinful blood Seek ...
Saint Brandan (Matthew Arnold Poems)
Saint Brandan sails the northern main;The brotherhood of saints are glad.He greets them once, he sails again;So late!-such storms!-The Saint ...
Winter: Sunday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
God of the morning! Thou, the sabbath's God!Round whose bright footsteps thousand planets roll:A million beings at Thy mighty nodAre ...
The Misanthrope’s Reverie (Joseph Warren Watson Poems)
What's man but a heathenish bandit?Earth's charity proves but a lie -Tis given with looks that remand it;Philanthropy's all in ...
A Christmas Carol (Alfred Austin Poems)
Hark! In the air, around, above,The Angelic Music soars and swells,And, in the Garden that I love,I hear the sound ...
The Psalm Of Adonis – from Fifteenth Idyll (Theocritus Poems)
O Queen that loves Golgi, and Idalium,And the steep of Eryx,O Aphrodite, that playes with gold,Lo, from the stream eternal ...
The Kinship Of The Celt (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
It's the flag of France! the flag of France, I see!Life to it! Health to it! fold on fold,With the ...
Charity : A Paraphrase On 1 Cor. Chap. 13 (Matthew Prior Poems)
Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue,Than ever Man pronounc'd, or Angel sung:Had I all Knowledge, Human and Divine,That Thought ...
To Avis Keene (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
ON RECEIVING A BASKET OF SEA-MOSSES.Thanks for thy giftOf ocean flowers,Born where the golden driftOf the slant sunshine fallsDown the ...
Lines On The Death Of William Sotheby, Esq (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LEARNING and fancy were combinedTo stimulate his manly mind;Open, generous and acute,Steady of purpose, in pursuitArdent and hopeful; all the ...
Macarius The Monk (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
IN the old days, while yet the Church was young,And men believed that praise of God was sungIn curbing self ...