Hakon’s Lay (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Then Thorstein looked at Hakon, where he sate,Mute as a cloud amid the stormy hall,And said: "O Skald, sing now ...
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At the Fords Of Jordan (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
A little way farther to guide thee I goWhere the footing is firm and the waters are low;Then we part, ...
Furfurcar (Roaring Cliff) (Mihran Damadian Poems)
REFUGE of Dalvorig's valiant men,Of strife and dangerous days!Lo, all Armenia towards theeTo-day in hope doth gaze.Thou black and naked ...
Old Dave To Th’ New Parson (John Hartley Poems)
"Soa, yo're th' new parson, are yo? Well, awm fain to see yo've come;Yo'll feel a trifle strange at furst, But mak ...
A Sailor’s Yarn (James Jeffrey Roche Poems)
This is the tale that was told to me,By a battered and shattered son of the sea-To me and my ...
Marthy Virginia’s Hand (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
"There, on the left!" said the colonel: the battlehad shuddered and faded away,Wraith of a fiery enchantment that left onlyashes ...
Used Up (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Where shall be found the niche unfill'd,—A spot unclaim'd, a field untill'd?Who may secure a vacant spaceFairly to run and ...
Lucina: An Elegy (Janet Little Poems)
DIREFUL indeed are thy effects, O love!When Reason's voice deserts thy frantic shrine;Platonic lessons no asylum prove;His dictates must obsequious ...
The Friend’s Shadow (Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov Poems)
Sunt aliquid manes; letum non omnia finit;Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos. PROPERTIUS._ __To Albion's misty isle across the waves I sped ...
The Little Irish Mother (John O Brien Poems)
Have you seen the tidy cottage in the straggling, dusty street,Where the roses swing their censers by the door?Have you ...
The Fairest Land (Marietta Holley Poems)
'Twas a bleak dull moor that stretched beforeThe low stone porch of the cottage door,And standing there was youth and ...
The Nightingale of Avarayr (Leo Alishan Poems)
Whence dost thou come, O moon, so calmly and softly,Spreading o'er mountain, valley, and plain thy light,And over me the ...
Lines, Spoken In The Theatre, Oxford, On Lord Grenville’s Installation As Chancellor (Reginald Heber Poems)
Ye viewless guardians of these sacred shades,Dear dreams of early song, Aonian maids!--And you, illustrious dead! whose spirits speakIn each ...
Andrew Jackson (Julia A Moore Poems)
On the life of Andrew Jackson, Now dear people I will write,And in sketches, I will tell you His career with great ...
The Golden Wedding Of Longwood (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
With fifty years between you and your well-kept wedding vow,The Golden Age, old friends of mine, is not a fable ...
A cry from an indian wife (Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Poems)
My forest brave, my Red-skin love, farewell;We may not meet to-morrow; who can tellWhat mighty ills befall our little band,Or ...
On The Death Of Pushkin (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
He fell, a slave of tinsel-honour,A sacrifice to slander's lust;The haughty Poet's head, the noblest,Bowed on his wounded breast in ...
The Helmsman (Henry Kendall Poems)
LIKE one who meets a staggering blow, The stout old ship doth reel,And waters vast go seething past-But will it last, ...
Loyalty to the Flag (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
In the love of home and country and the flag of Uncle Sam,Can the loyalty be doubted of a dusky ...
The Iron Crown (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
On the classic shore of Como,'Neath a headland steep and bold,Which, though leaden at the dawning,In the sunset turns to ...
Song of the Shingle-Spli (Henry Kendall Poems)
IN dark wild woods, where the lone owl broods And the dingoes nightly yell- Where the curlew's cry goes floating ...
Invocation To The spirit Of Poesy (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Queen of all harmonious things,Dancing words, and speaking strings.Cowley.SPIRIT, or Power, or Spell, or whatsoe'erOf name beseems thee best, Ethereal ...
Francis Parkman (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893HE rests from toil; the portals of the tombClose on the last of those ...
Wild Flowers (Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath Poems)
Alone I strode where the broad Rhine flowed, The hedge with roses was covered, And wondrous rare through all the air The scent ...
To- In Absence (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WHEN first we met, beloved, rememberest thouHow all my nature was athirst and faint?My soul's high powers lay wasting still ...
The Men Who Sleep With Danger (Henry Lawson Poems)
The men who camp with DangerAre mostly quiet men:And one may use a rifle,And one may use a pen,And one ...
Valour Shields The Brave (Hector MacNeill Poems)
I.J. Hark! -- hark! the sound of battle! Warning thrice, the cannon's rattle! Fast o'er plain and mountain brattle Scotia's thousands brave!A. Never! -- ...
Knitting (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
My muse is in the sulks to-day,I've tried in vain to findA subject fit for rhyme and song,Just suited to ...
The Crusader (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
He is come from the land of the sword and shrine,From the sainted battles of Palestine;The snow plumes wave o'er ...
Jack Frenchman’s Lamentation (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Ye Commons and Peers, Pray lend me your ears,I'll sing you a song, (if I can,) How Lewis le Grand Was put to ...