The Prodigy. (Mary Barber Poems)
Tho' Rhyme serves the Thoughts of great Poets to fetter,It sets off the Sense of small Poets the better.When I've ...
Conscience Poems (448 Poems)
To a Lady Before Marriage (Thomas Tickell Poems)
Oh! form'd by Nature, and refin'd by Art,With charms to win, and sense to fix the heart!By thousands sought, Clotilda, ...
1620-1920 (Le Baron Russell Briggs Poems)
BEFORE him rolls the dark, relentless ocean;Behind him stretch the cold and barren sands;Wrapt in the mantle of his deep ...
Old Ham Fresh Drest (Michael Massey Robinson Poems)
OLD HAM FRESH DREST , &c. BOOTED and spurr'd,our gallant wightReturning late one winter's nightFrom toil, hard ware and duty,Took ...
The Pious Editor’s Creed (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I du believe in Freedom's cause, Ez fur away ez Payris is;I love to see her stick her claws In them infarnal ...
Summer By The Lakeside: Lake Winnipesaukee (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I. NOON.White clouds, whose shadows haunt the deep,Light mists, whose soft embraces keepThe sunshine on the hills asleep!O isles of ...
The Eutawville Lynching (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
(July, 1904)In the State of "Old Palmetto," from the town of Eutawville,Comes a voice of pain and anguish that refuses ...
Concerning Purgatory (Rees Prichard Poems)
There's nought in nature that can purge a soul,But the Lamb's blood, which for our sins was slain;It cleanses ev'ry ...
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 ...
Charles The Fifth’s Clocks (John Quincy Adams Poems)
With Charles the Fifth art thou acquainted, reader?Of Ferdinand and Isabel the grandson,In ages past of Europe's realms file leader,Among ...
Plain Folk (John Buchan Poems)
Since flaming angels drove our sireFrom Eden's green to walk the mire,We are the folk who tilled the plotAnd ground ...
The Stars In Their Courses (John Freeman Poems)
And now, while the dark vast earth shakes and rocksIn this wild dream-like snare of mortal shocks,How look (I muse) ...
A Dreame (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
In pleasaunt moneth of gladsome May I walkt abroad to viewThe fieldes, which nature had bedeckt With flowers of sundry hew.The sight ...
The Candidate’s Creed (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I du believe in Freedom's cause,Ez fur away ez Paris is;I love to see her stick her clawsIn them infarnal ...
Five Letters To My Mother (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
Good morning sweetheart.Good morning my Saint of a sweetheart.It has been two year mothersince the boy has sailedon his mythical ...
Looking Downwards (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
O the sacred generations That have lived, and failed, and died!And for our sakesoursthe freed ones, Found their liberties denied!Oh, the helpless ...
The Vision (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
(Written in her fifteenth year.)'T was evening - all was calm and silent, saveThe low hoarse dashing of the distant ...
A Fable (Jane Taylor Poems)
ONE day a sage knocked at a chemist's door,Bringing a curious compound to explore.--'Behold ! said he, as from his ...
Injustice of the Courts (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Whites alone upon the jury in a number of the states,Thus they crush a helpless Negro with their prejudicial hates;Legal ...
The Condemned (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AS in those lands of mighty mountain heights,The streams, by sudden tempests overcharged,Sweep down the slopes, hearing swift ruin with ...
Epilogue For Mr. Lee Lewes (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
HOLD! Prompter, hold! a word before your nonsense;I'd speak a word or two, to ease my conscience.My pride forbids it ever should ...
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 ...
An Alarm to the Meal-mongers and Corn-sellers in Scotland (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
Ye mealy mouth'd mobbers, attend to my song,Whose plunder brings plenty of blessings along.No gospel or law starv'd people regard,For ...
The Nomades (James Russell Lowell Poems)
What Nature makes in any moodTo me is warranted for good,Though long before I learned to seeShe did not set ...
The Foredawn Hour (John Payne Poems)
IBETWEEN the night-end and the break of dayAn hour there is that from the thither shoreOf the dark river its ...
Hunger And Cold (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Sisters two, all praise to you,With your faces pinched and blue;To the poor man you've been true From of old:You can ...
Lydd (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
For the Reunion of the Bates Family at Quincy, August 3, 1916FAR away on the sunny levelsWhere Kent lies drowsing ...
Sixth Sunday After Trinity (John Keble Poems)
When bitter thoughts, of conscience born, With sinners wake at morn, When from our restless couch we start, With fevered lips and withered ...
Winter: Monday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The night has thrown its shadows o'er the land,And rest re-visits nature.—Evening's train,With day's extinguish'd torches in their hand,Have pass'd ...
An Old Sweetheart Of Mine (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone,And muses on the faces of the friends that he ...