Ode To Eloquence (Henry Carey Poems)
Heard ye those loud-contending waves, That shook Cecropia's pillar'd state?Saw ye the mighty, from their graves, Look up, and tremble at her ...
Charity Poems (3782 Poems)
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 ...
Heather Bells (John Hartley Poems)
Ye little flowrets, wild an free, Yo're welcome, aye as onny!Ther's but few seets 'at meet mi ee 'At ivver seem as ...
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 ...
Three Graves (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
HOW did he live, this dead man here,With the temple above his grave?He lived as a great one, from cradle ...
The Singer Of The Sea (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
IN MEMORY OF CELIA THAXTER.There is shadow on the sea!And a murmur, and a moan,In its muffled monotone,Like a solemn ...
Judge Not Too Hastily (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Oh! judge not too hastily man and his mind, Nor deem ye can read him at once and for aye,There is ...
Sunday After Ascension (John Keble Poems)
The Earth that in her genial breastMakes for the down a kindly nest,Where wafted by the warm south-west It floats at ...
Hon. Thomas S. Williams, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Late Chief Justice of Connecticut, died at Hartford, on Sunday morning,December 15th, 1861, aged 84. 'Tis not for pen and ink,Or ...
Phases of Girlhood (Janet Hamilton Poems)
With fondest love and sweetest pleasureGaze I on my infant treasure—My sweetest rose, my purest pearl,Heaven's latest gift, my baby-girl.Opening ...
Sustain (Alison Luterman Poems)
1.My love plays piano and his foot hovers above the pedal.Sustain, they call it when the note floatslike a basketball ...
Freedom (In Alcaics.) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Bulwark of England, God-given Liberty!Name much malign'd, yet noble and glorious, How rarely the masses who claim thee Judge as they ought ...
Verses Sent To Mrs. Baillie On Her Birthday, 1813 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
A JUDGEMENT clear, a pensive mindWith feelings tender and refined;A generous heart in kindness glowing,An open hand on all bestowing;A ...
Cantiga de Santa Maria No. 194 (Alfonso X El Sabio Poems)
Just as the name of the Virgin is beautiful to the virtuous,so against evil doers it is mighty and fearful.Concerning ...
The Nightingale of Avarayr (Leo Alishan Poems)
Whence dost thou come, O moon, so calmly and softly,Spreading o'er mountain, valley, and plain thy light,And over me the ...
Summer: Tuesday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
How wisely is the stream of life controll'dIn its mild course—exhausted, and renew'd;When toiling day its hurried tide has roll'd,Comes ...
A cry from an indian wife (Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Poems)
My forest brave, my Red-skin love, farewell;We may not meet to-morrow; who can tellWhat mighty ills befall our little band,Or ...
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 Southern Scourge (Julia A Moore Poems)
The yellow fever was raging, Down in the sunny south;And in many of the cities, There was a death at every house.This ...
St. Nicholas (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
In the far-off Polar seas,Far beyond the Hebrides,Where the icebergs, towering high,Seem to pierce the wintry sky,And the fur-clad EsquimauxGlides ...
Dedication Day (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
What means this vast assemblage here,Of people great ...
Invocation To The spirit Of Poesy (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Queen of all harmonious things,Dancing words, and speaking strings.Cowley.SPIRIT, or Power, or Spell, or whatsoe'erOf name beseems thee best, Ethereal ...
Trinitas (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
At morn I prayed, "I fain would seeHow Three are One, and One is Three;Read the dark riddle unto me."I ...
Barnsley Colliery Explosion (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Far, far below, oh, far below,Where sulphurous lightnings flash and glow,Where blasting, bellowing thunders roarWith rending crash—dark Stygian shore;Black gulf ...
Harvest Time (John Jay Chapman Poems)
BEHOLD, the harvest is at hand;And thick on the encircling hillsThe sheaves like an encampment stand,Making a martial fairy-landThat half ...
A Pastoral Between Thirsis And Corydon, Upon The Death Of Damon, By Whom Is Meant Mr. W. Riddell (James Thomson Poems)
Thir.Say, tell me true, what is the doleful causeThat Corydon is not the man he was?Your cheerful presence used to ...
Our Home-Our Country (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
FOR THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THESETTLEMENT OF CAMBRIDGE, MASS., DECEMBER 28, 1880YOUR home was mine,--kind Nature's gift;My love no years ...
A Florilegium (Alfred Austin Poems)
IAll the seasons of the year,I have flowers for you, dear.When the ploughland's flecked with snow,And the blue-eyed scyllas blow,Gazing, ...
Lyric Address To Dr. Jenner (Nathaniel Bloomfield Poems)
1 Rejoice, rejoice, Humanity! The fell, destructive, sore Disease, The pest of ages, now can be, Repell'd with safety and with ease. 2 He well deserves ...
The Unknown God (Henry Lawson Poems)
The President to Kingdoms, As in the Days of Old;The King to the Republic, As it had been foretold.They could not read ...