The Ruined Cottage (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
None will dwell in that cottage; for, they sayOppression reft it from an honest man,And that a curse clings to ...
Christianity Poems (7139 Poems)
The Coming Of The King (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
As the sand of the desert is smitten By hoof-beats that strike out a light,A flash by which dumb things are ...
The Old Carrier (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
("Old Lucia", who for many years walked back and forth, every day and inall weathers, between Azzano and Menaggio, a ...
From Living Waters (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
COMMENCEMENT POEM, WRITTEN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, JUNE, 1876."INTO the balm of the clover,Into the dawn and the dew,Come, ...
One of the Bo’sun’s Yarns (John Masefield Poems)
Loafin' around in Sailor Town, a-bluin' o' my advance,I met a derelict donkyman who led me a merry dance,Till he ...
Albert Sidney Johnston (Kate Brownlee Sherwood Poems)
I hear again the tread of war go thundering through the land,And Puritan and Cavalier are clinching neck and hand,Round ...
The Dole Of Jarl Thorkell (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE land was pale with famineAnd racked with fever-pain;The frozen fiords were fishless,The earth withheld her grain.Men saw the boding ...
To The Rev. J. Gilpin, On His Improved Edition Of The “Pilgrim’S Progress” (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
When, Reverend Sir, your good design, To clothe our Pilgrim gravely fine, And give him gentler mien and gait, First reached my ear, ...
The Rivals (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
'TWAS three an' thirty year ago,I When I was ruther young, you know,I had my last an' only fightAbout a ...
The Captains (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Captains sailed from all the World-from all the world and Spain;And each one for his country's ease, her glory ...
The Song of a Prison (Henry Lawson Poems)
Now this is the song of a prison-a song of a gaol or jug-A ballad of quod or of chokey, ...
The Pastor’s Complaint (Rees Prichard Poems)
What sorrows in my soul, O God! arise,The vast perverseness of mankind to see?Shou'd any strive to lead them to ...
The Diary of Ana (Ana Poems)
'Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
Black Bonnets (Henry Lawson Poems)
A day of seeming innocence,A glorious sun and sky,And, just above my picket fence,Black Bonnet passing by.In knitted gloves and ...
To a Mountain (Henry Kendall Poems)
To thee, O father of the stately peaks,Above me in the loftier light — to thee,Imperial brother of those awful ...
Concerning Perseverance In A State Of Grace (Rees Prichard Poems)
No one e'er his Maker's matchless might withstood,He's ever stedfast, and supremely good,He will fulfil, whate'er he did propose,And none, ...
Youth And Age (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
"I will gain a fortune," the young man cried;"For Gold by the world is deified;Hence, whether the means be foul ...
Lynching (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Have you ever heard of lynching in the great United States?'Tis an awful, awful story that the Negro man relates,How ...
By The Grave Of Henry Timrod (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN last we parted--thy frail hand in mine--Above us smiled September's passionless sky,And touched by fragrant airs, the hillside pineThrilled ...
King Raedwald (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
Will you hear now the speech of King Raedwald,—heathen Raedwald, the simple yet wise?He, the ruler of North-folk and South-folk, a ...
The Heart Of God (Lucy Larcom Poems)
O LIFE, that breathest in all sweet thingsThat bud and bloom upon the earth,That fillest the sky with songs and ...
Scum O’ The Earth (Robert Haven Schauffler Poems)
IAt the gate of the West I stand,On the isle where the nations throng.We call them "scum o' the earth";Stay, ...
Fourth Sunday After Easter (John Keble Poems)
My Saviour, can it ever beThat I should gain by losing Thee?The watchful mother tarries nigh,Though sleep have closed her ...
Baby Bell (Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poems)
IHave you not heard the poets tellHow came the dainty Baby BellInto this world of ours?The gates of heaven were ...
The Sabbath. (A Ballad For The Labourer) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Six days in the week do I toil for my bread, And surely should feel like a slave,Except for a Providence ...
The First Walpurgis-Ni (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
A DRUID. SWEET smiles the May! The forest gayFrom frost and ice is freed; No snow is found, Glad songs resoundAcross the verdant mead. Upon ...
How Gods Iustice And Mercy Ioyne Both Together In Mankinds Restoration. (Henry Arthington Poems)
Almighty God, beholding Man,Depryued of his blessednesse,)To looke with visage pale and wan,(By reason of his wretchednesse.)And knowing him in ...
Third Sunday After Epiphany (John Keble Poems)
I marked a rainbow in the north, What time the wild autumnal sun From his dark veil at noon looked forth, As glorying ...
Verses – III (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
ANTARCTIC isle! thy mountains riseAll dimly o'er the western main;But gladly I regale my eyesWith the bless'd sight of land ...
Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity (John Keble Poems)
Stately thy walls, and holy are the prayers Which day and night before thine altars rise:Not statelier, towering o'er her marble ...