The Sceptic (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
SWEET were the faiths our wishes bred; cruel is faithless fate;All things show good or evil as we love them ...
Courage Poems (3157 Poems)
Letter In Prose And Verse To Mrs. Bunbury (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
MADAM,I read your letter with all that allowance which critical candour couldrequire, but after all find so much to object ...
Winona – The Wakan-Wacepee, Or Sacred Dance (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Lo the lights in the _"Teepee-Wakan!"_ 'tis the night of the _Wakan Wacepee_.Round and round walks the chief of the clan, as ...
The Window-Panes At Brandon (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
As within the old mansion the holiday throng Reassembles in beauty and grace, And some eye looking out of the window by ...
Almeda And Flavia (Janet Little Poems)
FLAVIA.WHILE dusky shades eclipse the solar ray,And fanning zephyrs 'mong the branches play,Where varied beauties deck the verdant groves,Let us ...
The Legend Of The Falls (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
On the Spirit-Island sitting under midnight's misty moon,Lo I see the spirits flitting o'er the waters one by one!Slumber wraps the ...
A Nation’s Test (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I.A NATION'S greatness lies in men, not acres;One master-mind is worth a million hands.No royal robes have marked the planet-shakers,But ...
The Last Of The Narwhale (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
THE STORY OF AN ARCTIC NIP.AY, ay, I'll tell you, shipmates,If you care to hear the tale,How myself and the ...
Hirlas Owain, Or, The Drinking-Horn Of Owen (Owain Cyfeiliog Poems)
Uprose the ruddy dawn of day;The armies met in dread arrayOn Maelor Drefred's field :Loud the British clarions sound,The Saxons, ...
Wesselenyi (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
A HUNGARIAN TALEWhen madly raged religious war O'er all the Magyar landAnd royal archer and hussar Met foemen hand to hand,A princess ...
Daniel (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Down into the darkness at last, Daniel,--down into the darkness at last;Laid in ...
Loch Buy (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
PART I.Dark, with shrouds of mist surrounded. Rise the mountains from the shore,Where the galleys of the Islesmen Stand updrawn, their voyage ...
Conor And Mona (Michael Scanlan Poems)
A legend of Ancient Eire a song of Conor and Mona,Who lived near the Halls of Fiarna, and loved in ...
Ode To Napoleon Buonaparte (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
'Expends Annibalem:--quot libras in duce summoInvenies?~JUVENAL., Sat. X.I.Tis done--but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive--And now thou art ...
Merlin: A Poem (Jane Brereton Poems)
1Illustrious Queen! The loyal Zeal excuse,The fond Ambition, of a British Muse,Who wou'd, in Merlin's Praise, attempt to soar;And in ...
Trilogy Of Passion 02 Elegy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow.WHAT hope of once ...
The Song Of Hiawatha VI: Hiawatha’s Friends (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Two good friends had Hiawatha,Singled out from all the others,Bound to him in closest union,And to whom he gave the ...
The Arch Apostate (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
"Since he miscalled the morning star,Nor man, nor fiend hath fallen so far."— ByronWhen gathered in the courts above, Before Jehovah's ...
Mary Garvin (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
FROM the heart of Waumbek Methna, from thelake that never fails,Falls the Saco in the green lap of Conway'sintervales;There, in ...
The Sufferings of Faro Parts I, II (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
The following lines were suggested by the circumstance of a boat, from the Faro Islands, stopping at Lerwick, on her ...
The Blackfeet (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
I.Where the snow-world of the mountains Fronts the sea-like world of sward,And encamped along the prairies Tower the white peaks heavenward;Where they ...
Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoratio (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Weak-Winged is Song,Nor aims at that clear-ethered heightWhither the brave deed climbs for lightWe seem to do them wrong,Bringing our ...
The Mother’s Lesson (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
All night she wept the hours away,With burning cheek and throbbing head,Crying, "Alas!" and "Well-a-day!""Woe is me, for my sons ...
Tibbulus: Elegy the First (James Grainger Poems)
The glitt'ring Ore let others vainly heap, O'er fertile Vales extend th'inclosing Mound;With dread of neighb'ring Foes forsake their Sleep, And start ...
The Wreck Of Rivermouth (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Rivermouth Rocks are fair to see,By dawn or sunset shone across,When the ebb of the sea has left them free,To ...
The Torrent (Mathilde Blind Poems)
OH torrent, roaring in thy giant fall, And thund'ring grandly o'er th' opposing blocks,Thy voice, far louder than the lion's call, Through ...
A Fairy Tale In The Ancient English Style (Thomas Parnell Poems)
In Britain's Isle and Arthur's days,When Midnight Faeries daunc'd the Maze,Liv'd Edwin of the Green;Edwin, I wis, a gentle Youth,Endow'd ...
The Dwarves (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Loke sat and thought, till his dark eyes gleamWith joy at the deed he'd done;When Sif looked into the crystal ...
Thoughts On Jesus Christ’s Decent Into Hell (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
WHAT wondrous noise is heard around!Through heaven exulting voices sound,A mighty army marches onBy thousand millions follow'd, lo,To yon dark ...
Sir Raymond of the Castle (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
[The following little Poems are written after the Model of the Old English Ballads, and are inscribed to those who ...