A Broadway Idyl (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
For hours I stood upon The Bridge,1Which looms like a volcanic ridge,Above a scathing fire below.A flaming crater of burning ...
Criticism Poems (108 Poems)
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 1: First Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
TANSILLO, CICADA.TANS. The enthusiasms most suitable to be first brought forward andconsidered are those that I now place before you ...
The Golden Legend: VI. The School Of Salerno (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
A traveling Scholastic affixing his Theses to the gateof the College._Scholastic._ There, that is my gauntlet, my banner, my shield,Hung ...
The Deluge (Henry Hart Milman Poems)
The following extract from the Mahabharata was published by Bopp, with a German translation, (the promised Latin version has not yet reached ...
The Authors: A Satire (Richard Savage Poems)
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
Vignette – XVIII (Matilda Betham Poems)
_Written jointly with a particular Friend, after a conversationsimilar to the subject, with the Damon of the Story_. --------Believing love was ...
Epistle To The Rev. J— B—, Whilst Journeying For The Recovery Of His Health (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
When warm'd with zeal, my rustic Muse Feels fluttering fain to tell her news, And paint her simple, lowly views With all her ...
The Poet (Mark Akenside Poems)
-A RhapsodyOf all the various lots around the ball,Which fate to man distributes, absolute;Avert, ye gods! that of the Muse's ...
St Patricks Day (John O Brien Poems)
'Tis the greatest splash of sunshine right through all my retrospection On the days when fairies brought me golden dreams without ...
Meo Patacca – Canto I (Giuseppe Berneri Poems)
Please don't feel annoyedIn being told about the great valourOf the most clever among the Roman Braves,Whose name is mentioned ...
The Kelpie: A Scottish Legend (J S Poems)
"Kelpie's a river demon or a god,"Thus say the lexicons; I'll not belie 'em,For though I mind not in the ...
Death & Fame (Allen Ginsberg Poems)
When I dieI don't care what happens to my bodythrow ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East Riverbury an ...
A Portrait (Richard Brinsley Sheridan Poems)
Tell me, ye prim adepts in Scandal's school,Who rail by precept, and detract by rule,Lives there no character, so tried, ...
My Dream. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
I had a dream this morning off Madeira,About my poem and its publication.Methought it was still-born, and I could hear ...
How McDougal Topped The Score (Thomas E Spencer Poems)
A peaceful spot is Piper's Flat. The folk that live around -They keep themselves by keeping sheep and turning up ...
Epilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken For ‘She Stoops To Conquer’ (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
'Enter' MRS. BULKLEY,'who curtsies very low as beginning to speak.Then enter' MISS CATLEY,'who stands full before her, and curtsies to ...
To A Lady Who Commanded Me To Send Her An Account In Verse (Mary Barber Poems)
How I succeed, you kindly ask;Yet set me on a grievous Task,When you oblige me to rehearse,The Censures past upon ...
Bacchanalia or The New Age (Matthew Arnold Poems)
IThe evening comes, the fields are still.The tinkle of the thirsty rill,Unheard all day, ascends again;Deserted is the half-mown plain,Silent ...
Poetic Lines, Addressed To A Friend (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
YOU request me, my friend, on true courage to write;Yet do you reflect, that whilst I indite,Or attempt to explain ...
Al Fresco (James Russell Lowell Poems)
The dandelions and buttercupsGild all the lawn; the drowsy beeStumbles among the clover-tops,And summer sweetens all but me:Away, unfruitful lore ...
An Epistle To Lady Bowyer (Mary Jones Poems)
How much of paper's spoil d what floods of ink!And yet how few how very few can think!The knack of ...
Address For The Benefit Of Henry Placide. (George Pope Morris Poems)
The music's done. Be quiet, Mr. Durie!Your bell and whistle put me in a fury!Don't ring up yet, sir--I've a word ...
Numa Pompilius (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
O well is thee! King Numa,Within thy secret cave,Where thy bones are ever moistenedBy sad Egeria's wave;None now have power ...
Lines on A Fly-Leaf (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I need not ask thee, for my sake,To read a book which well may makeIts way by native force of ...
Criticus (James Avis Bartley Poems)
The Southern Muse--so long with drooping wing,--The Southern Muse, alas! too sad to sing--Her fair head drooped and dim her ...
Address For The Benefit Of James Sheridan Knowles. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Nay, Mr. Simpson!--'Tis not kind--polite--To shut me out, sir?--I'm in such a fright!--I can not speak the lines, I'm sure!--Oh, ...
To John Milton (John Clare Poems)
_"From his honoured friend, William Davenant"_Poet of mighty power, I fainWould court the muse that honoured thee,And, like Elisha's spirit, ...
The Author’s Early Life (Julia A Moore Poems)
I will write a sketch of my early life, It will be of childhood day,And all who chance to read it, No ...
Given To A Lady Who Asked Me To Write A Poem (Janet Little Poems)
IN royal Anna's golden days,Hard was the task to gain the bays:Hard was it then the hill to climb;Some broke ...
To My Friends and Critics (Julia A Moore Poems)
Come all you friends and critics, And listen to my song,A word I will say to you, It will not take me ...