Verses: In Humble Imitation of Burns (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
WHAT will this warld come to belyve!The rhyming trade does briskly thriveIt wad appear;They're ane tane't now, ye sanna guess,In ...
Cry Poems (6608 Poems)
Prothalamion (Horace Smith Poems)
Nothing so true as what you once let fall,--"To growl at something is the lot of all;Contentment is a gem ...
The Storm; Or, Virtue Protected By Omnipotence. (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
THE night was dark, the hollow windsRush'd through the falling leaves;For autumn shed her yellow hue,And ting'd the verdant trees.Long ...
The Voice in the Wild Oak (Henry Kendall Poems)
Twelve years ago, when I could face High heaven's dome with different eyes-In days full-flowered with hours of grace, And nights not ...
Fit The First: The Landing (Lewis Carroll Poems)
The Landing"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,As he landed his crew with care;Supporting each man on the ...
“The fading gleam of parting day” (Henry James Pye Poems)
I.1. The fading gleam of parting day Forsakes the western sky, Now shines Diana's chaster ray With virgin majesty; Her face with milder glory bright Pales ...
The Lute Player of Casa Blanca (Laurence Hope Poems)
No others sing as you have sung Oh, Well Beloved of me!So glad you are, so lithe and young, As joyous as ...
A Comfortable Conference Between A Pious Sick Man And His Soul, Against The Fear Of Death (Rees Prichard Poems)
My coward soul, why dost thou dreadTo thy Redeemer Christ to go,Who his heart's blood so freely shed,To save thee ...
Intaglio – Frank Denz (Henry Kendall Poems)
In the roar of the storm, in the wild bitter voice of the tempest-whipped sea,The cry of my darling, my ...
A Painful history (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Three youths in the heyday of life's hopeful spring, On a bright April morn gaily hied,With three little skiffs, each one ...
To Brother Jonathan (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Ho! Brother, I'm a Britisher, A chip of heart of oak,That wouldn't warp or swerve or stir From what I thought or ...
Fit The Second – The Bellman’s Speech (Lewis Carroll Poems)
The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies—Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!Such solemnity, too! One could ...
The Double-Heade (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Far away in the twilight timeOf every people, in every clime,Dragons and griffins and monsters dire,Born of water, and air, ...
Kyng Coten (Laurence Minot Poems)
A 'DARK' CONCEIT.O muse! that did me somedeal favour erst, Whereas I piped my silly oaten reede, And songs in homely guise ...
The Escape Of The Empress Matilda (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Through changeful clouds of nightThe winter moon was gliding,Like a bird with wings of lightOn the buoyant breezes riding;Fair was ...
The Slave Ships (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"ALL ready?" cried the captain;"Ay, ay!" the seamen said;"Heave up the worthless lubbers, -The dying and the dead."Up from the ...
How Much Fortunatus Could Do With A Cap (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Fortunatus, a fisherman Dane, Set out on a sudden for Spain, Because, runs the story, He'd met with a hoary Mysterious sorcerer chap, Who, trouble ...
The Two Rabbins (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE Rabbi Nathan two-score years and tenWalked blameless through the evil world, and then,Just as the almond blossomed in his ...
The Smiling Listener (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
PRECISELY. I see it. You all want to sayThat a tear is too sad and a laugh is too gay;You ...
The Titmouse (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
You shall not be overboldWhen you deal with arctic cold,As late I found my lukewarm bloodChilled wading in the snow-choked ...
The Fisher’s Wife (Marietta Holley Poems)
A long, low waste of yellow sandLay shining northward far as eye could reach,Southward a rocky bluff rose highBroken in ...
The Plate Of Gold (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poems)
One day there fell in great Benares' temple-courtA wondrous plate of gold, whereon these words were writ;"To him who loveth ...
Pleurs (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
'T was eve; and Mount Conto Reflected in night The sunbeams that fled With the monarch of light; As great souls and noble Reflect evermore The ...
The Robber Polydore (Joanna Baillie Poems)
O! HOLY Mary, hear the blast!The elms 'twill overthrow,Where, hung in chains, a murderer's bonesAre tossing to and fro.The robber ...
The Old Grenadier’s Story (George Walter Thornbury Poems)
Told on a Bench outside the Invalides 'T WAS the day beside the Pyramids, It seems but an hour ago, That ...
The Fishermen Of Wexford (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
THERE is an old tradition sacred held in Wexford town,That says: "Upon St. Martin's Eve no net shall be let ...
The Black Snakes (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth ...
To The Heavenly Power (John Freeman Poems)
When this burning fleshBurns down in Time's slow fire to a glowing ash;When these lips have utteredThe last word, and ...
Pytheas (Henry Kendall Poems)
Gaul whose keel in far, dim ages ploughed wan widths of polar sea-Gray old sailor of Massilia, who hath woven ...
Half a Man (Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis Poems)
'I wash me 'ands uv 'im,' I tells 'em straight.'You women can do wot yeh dash well like.I leave this ...