More Bread And Cheese (Nathaniel Bloomfield Poems)
1 My Brothers of this world, of ev'ry Nation, Some maxims of prudence the Muse would inspire. Now restlessness reigns throughout every station; The ...
Courage Poems (3157 Poems)
Coercion: A Poem For Then And Now (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
Who talks of coercion? who dares to deny A resolute people the right to be free?Let him blot out forever one ...
Eighteen Sixty-Two (Marietta Holley Poems)
I.There's a tear in your eye, little Sybil, Gathering large and slow;Oh, Sybil, sweet little Sybil, What are you thinking of now?Push ...
Abba Thule’s Lament For His Son Prince Le Boo (William Lisle Bowles Poems)
I climb the highest cliff; I hear the soundOf dashing waves; I gaze intent around;I mark the gray cope, and ...
Brothers (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
See! There he stands; not brave, but with an airOf sullen stupor. Mark him well! Is heNot more like brute ...
The Lady And The Rooks (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Trust the grand and gentle trees,Never will their welcome fade;All that lives may lie at easeIn the haven of their ...
Some Mother’s Boy (Mary Alice Walton Poems)
The battle-cry is sounding loud, a bugle calls to arm,The hills and dales are clouded o'er, troops gather in alarm;With ...
Gloria The True (Marietta Holley Poems)
Gayly a knight set forth against the foe,For a fair face had shone on him in dreams;A voice had stirred ...
Joe Johnston (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
Once more to the breach for the land of the West!And a leader we give of our bravest and best, Of ...
Two Poems To Harriet Beecher Stowe (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
ON HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, JUNE 14, 1882I. AT THE SUMMITSISTER, we bid you welcome,--we who standOn the high table-land;We who ...
The Branded Hand (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WELCOME home again, brave seaman! with thy thoughtful brow and gray,And the old heroic spirit of our earlier, better day;With ...
Song For Th’ Hard Times, (1879.) (John Hartley Poems)
Nah chaps, pray dooant think it's a sarmon awm praichin, If aw tell yo some nooations at's entered mi pate;For ther's ...
Colonial Nomenclature. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
'Twas said of Greece two thousand years ago,That every stone i' the land had got a name.Of New South Wales ...
Riding Round the Lines (Henry Lawson Poems)
Dust and smoke against the sunrise out where grim disaster lurksAnd a broken sky-line looming like unfinished railway works,And a ...
Fifty Years (1863-1913) (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
O brothers mine, to-day we standWhere half a century sweeps our ken,Since God, through Lincoln's ready hand,Struck off our bonds ...
The Swamp Fox (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
WE follow where the Swamp Fox guides,His friends and merry men are we;And when the troop of Tarleton rides,We burrow ...
Fragment VI (James Macpherson Poems)
Son of the noble Fingal, Oscian,Prince of men! what tears run downthe cheeks of age? what shades thymighty soul?Memory, son ...
The Thief And Cordelier. A Ballad (Matthew Prior Poems)
To the tune of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury.Who has e'er been at Paris must needs know the ...
Last Words (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
"DEAR Charlie," breathed a soldier, "O comrade true and tried,Who in the heat of battle Pressed closely to my side;I feel that ...
Kincora (James Clarence Mangan Poems)
AH, where, Kincora! is Brian the Great? And where is the beauty that once was thine? Oh, where are the princes and ...
On The Centenary Of The Presidency College (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
A hundred years! The very phraseUnsepultures the million'd dead;Three generations in that space,Ghosts of the past, have breathed and fled.Time ...
The Vision (Katharine Tynan Poems)
An average man was Private Flynn, Good stuff for soldiering, no doubt;Troublesome when the drink was in, A quiet lad when it ...
Elegy II (Henry James Pye Poems)
Now the brown woods their leafy load resign And rage the tempests with resistless force? Mantled with snow the silver mountains shine, And ...
To The Commodore Of The Russian Squadron (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Bound For Kamtschatka, Now Lying In The Harbour Of PortJackson.HAIL! Chieftain, from the distant landsThat own the Czar's imperial reign;With ...
Science (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Science! thou mirror of celestial type Wherein e'en mortals may discerning see,If they with steady perseverance seek, The will and purpose of ...
Yorktown (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
YORKTOWN.FROM Yorktown's ruins, ranked and still,Two lines stretch far o'er vale and hill:Who curbs his steed at head of one?Hark! ...
The Story Of Lovers Leap (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
[At Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, one of the famous resorts of the South, may be seen the historic ...
From the Gulf (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
Store cattle from Nelanjie! The mob goes feeding past,With half-a-mile of sandhill 'twixt the leaders and the last;The nags that ...
How the Melbourne Cup was Won (Henry Kendall Poems)
In the beams of a beautiful day, Made soft by a breeze from the sea,The horses were started away, The fleet-footed thirty ...
For My People (Margaret Walker Poems)
For my people everywhere singing their slave songsrepeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their bluesand jubilees, praying their prayers ...