Coeur De Lion And His Horse (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
"Ah, Fanuel, my noble horse, and art thou, art thou slain?Wilt thou never bear me to the chase or the ...
Confidence Poems (227 Poems)
The Clyster (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try;To found our tales on what we can rely;Th' experiment repeatedly I've made,And ...
Golden Stars (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IIt was my lot of late to travel farThrough all America's domain,A willing, gray-haired servitorBearing the Fiery Cross of righteous ...
Half a Man (Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis Poems)
'I wash me 'ands uv 'im,' I tells 'em straight.'You women can do wot yeh dash well like.I leave this ...
God’s Answering Silence (Patience Worth Poems)
When I would seek my God and know Him;When I would feel my God and see Him; when IWould list ...
A Discontented Sugar Broker (William Schwenck Gilbert Poems)
A gentleman of City fameNow claims your kind attention;East India broking was his game,His name I shall not mention:No one ...
Monsieur D’Alveron. An Incident, Founded On Fact (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Poor Monsieur d'Alveron! I well rememberThe day I visited his ruinous cot,And heard the story of his fallen fortunes.It was ...
To The Five Members Of The Honourable House Of Commons ,The Humble Petition Of The Poets (John Denham Poems)
After so many concurring petitionsFrom all ages and sexes, and all conditions,We come in the rear to present our folliesTo ...
Farewell To Lord And Lady Dufferin (Nora Pembroke Poems)
In leaving us, whom thou hast governed well Holding the helm of state through all these yearsThe land at large unites ...
Second Sunday After Epiphany (John Keble Poems)
The heart of childhood is all mirth: We frolic to and froAs free and blithe, as if on earth Were no such ...
Negro Heroines (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Down in history we find it and in grandest works of art,How the men on fields of battle play so ...
My Dream (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
In my dream, methought I trod,Yesternight, a mountain road;Narrow as Al Sirat's span,High as eagle's flight, it ran.Overhead, a roof ...
The Diplomatic Platypus (Patrick Barrington Poems)
I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity,With whom I soon discovered a remarkable affinity.He used to ...
Vignette – XX (Matilda Betham Poems)
_On reading in Savary's Travels the death of Ali Bey, who, it isthere represented, in the midst of enlightened and ...
Clinging Back (Henry Lawson Poems)
When you see a man come walking down through George Street loose and free,Suit of saddle tweed and soft shirt, ...
The Approach (Robert Nichols Poems)
1.In the Grass: Halt by the WaysideIn my tired, helpless bodyI feel my sunk heart ache;But suddenly, loudlyThe far, the ...
The Cobbler (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
WE'RE told, that once a cobbler, BLASE by name;A wife had got, whose charms so high in fame;But as it ...
Lies (Jared Barhite Poems)
If aught on earth my soul can fire, 'Tis the deception of a liar Who with soft smoothness of the tongue, Has promises ...
Near Shore (Lucy Larcom Poems)
THE seas of thought are deep and wide;Let those who will, O friend of mine,Sail forth without a chart or ...
An Introduction To The Ensuing Discourse. (John Bunyan Poems)
These lines I at this time presentTo all that will them heed,Wherein I show to what intentGod saith, Convert with ...
By The Fireside : Sand Of The Desert In An Hour-Glass (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
A handful of red sand, from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought,Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister ...
“97”: The Fast Mail (John Charles McNeill Poems)
Where the rails converge to the station yardShe stands one moment, breathing hard,And then, with a snort and a clang ...
To Show What a Man Can Do (Henry Lawson Poems)
THERE has been many a grander deed since man had life to give, And thousands have gone to certain death, eyes ...
He Discourseth Of The Wherefore Of Bachelorism (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
"What else do we live for in this world beside?" Alas! 't is the question of ten times a day, That comes ...
Let Us Give Thanks (Hattie Howard Poems)
If we have lived another year And, counting friends by regiments Who share our love and confidence, Find no more broken ranks, For this ...
A Harp And A Necklace (Patience Worth Poems)
Lo, the valley!The harp, suspended betwixt the mountains,Murmuring the music of EarthTo the great breasts whereon the sky is pillowed.Lo, ...
The Inward Warfare (John Newton Poems)
Strange and mysterious is my life,What opposites I feel within!A stable peace, a constant strife,The rule of grace, the pow'r ...
Procemion (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
IN His blest name, who was His own creation,Who from all time makes making his vocation;The name of Him who ...
A Psalm Of Patience (Joseph Furphy Poems)
O kid! with face of healthy tan,With lunch-bag, books and slate;You needn't long to be a man,Self-confident and great;For ever ...
Adam (John Newton Poems)
On man, in his own image made,How much did GOD bestow?The whole creation homage paid,And owned him LORD, below!He dwelt ...