The Simple Line (Laura Riding Jackson Poems)
The secrets of the mind convene splendidly,Though the mind is meek.To be aware inwardlyof brain and beautyIs dark too recognizable.Thought ...
Curiosity Poems (1947 Poems)
A Ballad of the Scottsysshe Kyne (John Skelton Poems)
Kynge Jamy, Jomy your joye is all go.Ye summoned our kynge. Why dyde ye so?To you no thyng it dyde ...
Letter, The (Charlotte Bront Poems)
What is she writing? Watch her now,How fast her fingers move !How eagerly her youthful browIs bent in thought above ...
Johnson’ s Wonder (Henry Lawson Poems)
I'D been right round by overlands to see the world and life,And on the boat at Plymouth I met Johnson ...
The Traveller And The Farm-Maiden (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
HE.CANST thou give, oh fair and matchless maiden,'Neath the shadow of the lindens yonder,—Where I'd fain one moment cease to ...
The Dead Ship Of Harpswell (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
What flecks the outer gray beyondThe sundown's golden trail?The white flash of a sea-bird's wing,Or gleam of slanting sail?Let young ...
To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkelt, (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
As when the sun above a dusky wold,Springs into sight and turns the gloom to gold,Lights with his magic beams ...
On The Step (Margaret Louisa Woods Poems)
The little old ladyWas walking along the street.She carried her head high though of small stature,And although he ermine mantle ...
The Hunting Of The Dragon (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
When we went hunting the Dragon In the days when we were young, We tossed the bright world over our shoulder As bugle ...
A Picture (John Henry Newman Poems)
"The maiden is not dead, but sleepeth."She is not gone;-still in our sight That dearest maid shall live,In form as true, ...
A Summer Pastoral (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
It's hot to-day. The bees is buzzin' Kinder don't-keer-like aroun' An' fur off the warm air dances O'er the parchin' roofs in town. In ...
Lilith (Henry Kendall Poems)
Strange is the song, and the soul that is singing Falters because of the vision it sees;Voice that is not of ...
Jurate And Kastytis (Maironis Poems)
The sun is sinking in the west,Turn back, Kastytis, in a hurry!Your dear old mother finds no rest,She will be ...
Freedom (In Alcaics.) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Bulwark of England, God-given Liberty!Name much malign'd, yet noble and glorious, How rarely the masses who claim thee Judge as they ought ...
To the Right Honourable The Countess Dowager Of Devonshire, On A Piece Of Wiessen’s (Matthew Prior Poems)
Wiessen and nature held a long contestIf she created or he painted best;With pleasing thought the wondrous combat grew,She still ...
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 ...
Recollections Of Fontainebleau (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Well I remember, many years ago,Deep in the forest shade of Fontainebleau,With six dear girls in lovely virgin prime,Partaking of ...
Hy-Brasil (Henry Kendall Poems)
"Daughter," said the ancient father, pausing by the evening sea,"Turn thy face towards the sunset — turn thy face and ...
A Christmas Hymn (Hannah More Poems)
O now wondrous is the storyOf our blest Redeemer's birth?See the mighty Lord of GloryLeaves his heaven to visit earth!Hear ...
The Lost Heart (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
One golden summer day, Along the forest-way,Young Colin passed with blithesome steps alert. His locks with careless grace Rimmed round his handsome faceAnd ...
By The Riverside (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
A GREAT green spread of meadow land, (Must rest his weight on an ample base), A secret water moving on, A clean blue ...
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 ...
A Love Secret (Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Poems)
Love has its secrets, joy has its revealings.How shall I speak of that which love has hid?If my beloved shall ...
Written At Sea (John Bowring Poems)
When the bark by a gentle breath is driven,And the bright sun dances in the heavenUp and down, as the ...
I Wonder Where My Papa Is? (Julia A Moore Poems)
I wonder where my papa is, Oh, where could he have gone,I wonder why he does not come And see his Lilly ...
A Morning Exercise (William Wordsworth Poems)
FANCY, who leads the pastimes of the glad,Full oft is pleased a wayward dart to throw;Sending sad shadows after things ...
Time As Light (Nichita Stanescu Poems)
1.Any object, when its internal benchmarks are destroyed, melts into light. Any object has light inherent in its structure. 2.The main function ...
Negro Heroines (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Down in history we find it and in grandest works of art,How the men on fields of battle play so ...
A Song For St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687 (John Dryden Poems)
Stanza 1From harmony, from Heav'nly harmonyThis universal frame began.When Nature underneath a heapOf jarring atoms lay,And could not heave her ...
To A Lady (John Abraham Heraud Poems)
Brilliant but burning not-such is thy wit; Or if it wound, it wounds like Love; and all Thy repartees are Cupid's shafts; ...