August (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Oh, such a funny August house-- It really was like a zoo, For animals roamed in all the rooms (Even a kangaroo); Such sociable, ...
Courtesy Poems (284 Poems)
Flora’s Party (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
LADY Flora gave cards for a party at tea,To flowers, buds, and blossoms of every degree;So from town and from ...
The Countess (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
TO E. W.I KNOW not, Time and Space so intervene,Whether, still waiting with a trust serene,Thou bearest up thy fourscore ...
Hermann And Dorothea – VIII. Melpomene (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
HERMANN AND DOROTHEA.So tow'rd the sun, now fast sinking to rest, the two walk'd together,Whilst he veil'd himself deep in ...
The City Streets (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
A CITY of Palaces! Yes, that's true: a city of palaces built for trade;Look down this street-what a splendid view ...
The Muleteer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind;The present tale Boccace relates you'll find;Agiluf was the noble monarch's name;Teudelingua he married, ...
The Faithful Few: An Ode (William Hamilton Poems)
While Pow'r triumphant bears unrival'd Sway,Propt by the Aid of all-prevailing Gold;While bold Corruption blasts the Face of Day,And Men, ...
Blackmouth, Of Colorado (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
"Who is Blackmouth?" Well, that's hard to say.Mebbe he might ha' told you, 't other day,If you'd been here. Now,-he's ...
The Progress Of Wit (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play,Which oft resumes its fascinating sway;Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or sour;By night ...
Ego (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF A FRIEND.On page of thine I cannot traceThe cold and heartless commonplace,A statue's fixed and ...
The Lambs on the Boulder (James Wright Poems)
I hear that the Commune di Padova has an exhibition of master- pieces from Giotto to Mantegna. Giotto is the ...
Lines To Agnes Baillie On Her Birthday (Joanna Baillie Poems)
DEAR Agnes, gleamed with joy and dashed with tears,O'er us have glided almost sixty yearsSince we on Bothwell's bonny braes ...
Coeur De Lion And His Horse (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
"Ah, Fanuel, my noble horse, and art thou, art thou slain?Wilt thou never bear me to the chase or the ...
Thelema and Macareus (Voltaire Poems)
Thelema's lively, all admireHer charms, but she's too full of fire;Impatience ever racks her breast,Her heart a stranger is to ...
To Foxes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Two children are lost in a wood,What can they do? what can they do?They have not a morsel of food,And ...
The Wooing Of Sir Keith (Howard Pyle Poems)
King Arthur sat in his royal hall, And about on either handWas many a noble lordling tall, The greatest in the land.Sat ...
An Election Ballad (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
As I sate down to breakfast in state,At my living of Tithing-cum-Boring,With Betty beside me to wait,Came a rap that ...
The Country Clergyman’s Trip To Cambridge — An Election Ballad (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
As I sate down to breakfast in state,At my living of Tithing-cum-Boring,With Betty beside me to wait,Came a rap that ...
The Last Ride Together (after Browning) (James Kenneth Stephen Poems)
(From Her Point of View)When I had firmly answered 'No',And he allowed that that was so,I really thought I should ...
Verses on the Jubilee Night at Lerwick (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
WHEN public occasions of general joy Give patriots a jovial night;When loyalty reigns, and "Illumine's" the word, And Lerwick, all sparkling, shines ...
Leave in 1917 (Lilian M Anderson Poems)
Moonlight and death were on the Narrow Seasmoonlight and death and sleep were on the land:blindfold the lamps of home, ...
Lady Hamilton (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
Round Sizergh's antique, massy walls,Full frequent swept the whistling blast;It sigh'd along the spacious halls,And through the tap'stried chambers past.The ...
Unknown Country (Harold Monro Poems)
Here, in this other world, they come and go With easy dream-like movements to and fro. They stare through lovely eyes, yet ...
The Padlock (Voltaire Poems)
I triumphed, love's victorious powerPrevailed, and near approached the hourWhich should have crowned our mutual flame,Just then your tyrant husband ...
A Character (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A.HE is a man whose complex characterFew can decipher rightly; but for meI have found the key at last!B.What make ...
The Misanthrope’s Reverie (Joseph Warren Watson Poems)
What's man but a heathenish bandit?Earth's charity proves but a lie -Tis given with looks that remand it;Philanthropy's all in ...
The Friend’s Burial (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
My thoughts are all in yonder town,Where, wept by many tears,To-day my mother's friend lays downThe burden of her years.True ...
A Mariner (John Joy Bell Poems)
A rare good life I've surely had In fifty year at sea;A finer life, I tell ye, lad, I don't believe could ...
The Travelled Oyster (John Kenyon Poems)
An oyster, upon oozy bed, Like his forefathers, born and bred, It chanced, was wafted far and wide By force of wind and ...
Virtue and Happiness in the Country (Michael Bruce Poems)
How blest the man who, in these peaceful plains,Ploughs his paternal field; far from the noise,The care, and bustle of ...