Jim the Splitter (Henry Kendall Poems)
The bard who is singing of Wollombi JimIs hardly just now in the requisite trim To sit on his Pegasus fairly;Besides, ...
Countries Poems (1930 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, ...
Fainting by the Way (Henry Kendall Poems)
Swarthy wastelands, wide and woodless, glittering miles and miles away,Where the south wind seldom wanders and the winters will not ...
Waiting (John Adams Bellows Poems)
And sharp as sword's clash came the one word, "Wait!"Wait? He had waited years. The soft-eyed spring,Crowned with sweet daisies ...
An Elegy address’d to His Excellency Governour BELCHER: On the Death of his Brother-in-Law (Mather Byles Poems)
Pensive, o'ercome, the Muse hung down her Head,And heard the fatal News,—"The Friend is dead.Dumb, fixt in Sorrow, she forgot ...
On The Bosom Of The Ocean (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
THE terrible wind, the dangerous storm, iswrestling with a ship on the ocean ; it is tryingto break her, but ...
The ‘Soldier Birds’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
I mind the river from Mount Frome To Ballanshantie's Bridge,The Mudgee Hills, and Buckaroo, Lowe's Peak, and Granite Ridge.The "tailers" in the ...
Mountains (Henry Kendall Poems)
Rifted mountains, clad with forests, girded round by gleaming pines,Where the morning, like an angel, robed in golden splendour shines;Shimmering ...
Ode to Peace (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
I. She comes, benign enchantress, heav'n born PEACE! With mercy beaming in her radiant eye; She bids the horrid din of battle cease, And ...
Abram Morrison (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
'Midst the men and things which willHaunt an old man's memory still,Drollest, quaintest of them all,With a boy's laugh I ...
An Explanation of America: A Love of Death (Robert Pinsky Poems)
Imagine a child from Virginia or New HampshireAlone on the prairie eighty years agoOr more, one afternoon-the shaggy peltOf grasses, ...
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 ...
Verse (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
1FriendsThe old word is dead.The old books are dead.Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.Dead is the mind ...
An Ode to Master Anthony Stafford to hasten Him into the Country (Thomas Randolph Poems)
COME, spur away, I have no patience for a longer stay, But must go down And leave the chargeable noise of this great ...
The Dean’s Reasons For Not Building At Drapier’s-Hill (Jonathan Swift Poems)
I will not build on yonder mount;And, should you call me to account,Consulting with myself, I findIt was no levity ...
The Song Of Hiawatha: Introduction And Vocabulary (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Should you ask me, whence these stories?Whence these legends and traditions,With the odors of the forestWith the dew and damp ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 01 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
THE ARGUMENT.God sends his angel to Tortosa down,Godfrey unites the Christian Peers and Knights;And all the Lords and Princes of ...
Invocation (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Goddess of Liberty! O thouWhose tearless eyes behold the chain,And look unmoved upon the slain,Eternal peace upon thy brow,-Before thy ...
The Spirits of Our Fathers (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE SPIRITS of our fathers rise not from every wave,They left the sea behind them long ago;It was many years ...
GOLIAH’S Defeat. In the Manner of Lucan. (Mather Byles Poems)
When the proud Philistines for War declar'd,And Israel's Sons for Battle had prepar'd,Before the Heathen Camp a Monster stalk'd,And awful ...
On The Loss Of Energy (And Other Things) (June Jordan Poems)
no more the chicken and the egg comeone of thembefore the otherbothbe fadin (steady)from the supersafeway/a&p/giantcircus uh-huh the pilgrim cornucopia it ain' a ...
Girls Spinning (Padraic Colum Poems)
FIRST GIRLMALLO lero iss im bo nero!Go where they're threshing and find me my lover,Mallo lero iss im bo bairn!SECOND ...
The Three Sons (John Moultrie Poems)
I have a son, a little son, a boy just five years old,With eyes of thoughtful earnestness, and mind of ...
Evening Hexameters (Henry Alford Poems)
Darkly the minster--towers, against the glow of the sunset,Rise from the purple band of mist that beleaguers the city:Golden the ...
Governor Joseph Trumbull, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, August 4th, 1861; and his wife, Mrs. ELIZA STORRSTRUMBULL, the night after his funeral.Death's shafts fly thick, ...
The Mill Stream (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
One of a hundred little rills-Born in the hills,Nourished with dews by the earth, and with tears by the sky,Sang-"Who ...
Currajong (John O Brien Poems)
Old Father Pat! They'll tell you still with mingled love and prideOf stirring deeds that live and thrill the quiet ...
Advice To A Raven In Russia (1812) (Joel Barlow Poems)
Black fool, why winter here? These frozen skies,Worn by your wings and deafen'd by your cries,Should warn you hence, where ...
Grandfather Squeers (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"My grandfather Squeers," said The Raggedy Man,As he solemnly lighted his pipe and began--"The most indestructible man, for his years,And ...
The Bucking-Tub (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF once in love, you'll soon invention findAnd not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind;The youngest 'prentice, when he ...