Contrasted Songs: Remonstrance (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Daughters of Eve! your mother did not well: She laid the apple in your father’s hand,And we have read, O wonder! ...
Curiosity Poems (1947 Poems)
Sing To Jehovah A New Song (John Quincy Adams Poems)
Sing to Jehovah a new song,For deeds of wonder he hath done;His arm in holiness is strong;His hand the victory ...
To Sophia (Miss Stacey) (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.Thou art fair, and few are fairerOf the Nymphs of earth or ocean;They are robes that fit the wearer--Those soft ...
Loot! (Jessie Pope Poems)
When Blucher helped us make an endOf Bonaparte, the common foe,He came to England as a friend,About a hundred years ...
To Mr. John Gunby, On his resplendent Glass Vase (James Luckcock Poems)
O! worthy of applause! by all admired,Because a novelty, the work of oneWhose skill adds lustre to his country's fame!Thy ...
The Island (Milton Acorn Poems)
Since I'm Island-born home's as preciseas if a mumbly old carpenter,shoulder-straps crossed wrong,laid it out, refiguredto the last three-eighths of ...
The Harp. Addressed To Clara (John Anster Poems)
Clara, hast thou not often seen, and smiled,A rosy child,Deeming that none were near,Touch, with a trembling hand,Some fine--toned instrument,Then ...
Nancy Hanks (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Prairie child,Brief as dew,What winds of wonderNourished you?Rolling plainsOf billowy green,Far horizons,Blue, serene;Lofty skiesThe slow clouds climb,Where burning starsBeat out ...
On The Promenade (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O joyous idler in the sun,In pity slacken here thy pace!A lad, whose course is nearly run,Is watching thee with ...
Homer’s Hymn To Minerva (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I sing the glorious Power with azure eyes,Athenian Pallas! tameless, chaste, and wise,Tritogenia, town-preserving Maid,Revered and mighty; from his awful ...
To Poetry (Edward Hirsch Poems)
Don't desert mejust because I stayed up last nightwatching The Lost Weekend.I know I've spent too much timepraising your naked ...
To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed (Henry King Poems)
Lady your art or wit could nere deviseTo shame me more then in this nights surprise.Why I am quite unready, ...
Red Riding-Hood (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Sweet little myth of the nursery story-- Earliest love of mine infantile breast,Be something tangible, bloom in thy glory Into existence, as ...
Illusion and Reality (Kabir Poems)
Jo Dise So To Hai Nahin,Hai So Kaha Na JayeeBin Dekhe Parteet Na Aave,Kahe Na Koyee PatiyanaSamajh Hoye To Rabeen ...
Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems)
Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum; verumtamen justa loquar ad te: quare via impiorum prosperatur?Thou art indeed just, ...
Our Cow (Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis Poems)
Down by the slipralls stands our cowChewing, chewing, chewing,She does not care what folks out thereIn the great, big world ...
After Summer (Philip Bourke Marston Poems)
We'll not weep for summer over,--No, not we:Strew above his head the clover,--Let him be!Other eyes may weep his dying,Shed ...
Morning Glories (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
Distant as a dream's flight,Lay an eerie plain,Where the weary moonlightSwooned into a moan;Wailing after dead seedCame the ghost of ...
The Roll Of Honour (Margaret Peterson Poems)
Your faces haunt me from the printed pages,The roll call of our valiant English dead;What woman's hands, I wonder, clung ...
The Mother Gives Up Her Daughter (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Though I must yield her up to you, her lover, I have had sweetness more than you can know,The little great-eyed ...
Aurora Borealis (Herman Melville Poems)
_Commemorative of the Dissolution of armies at the Peace_May, 1865What power disbands the Northern Lights After their steely play?The lonely watcher ...
The Happy Traveller (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
WHO is the monarch of the Road? I, the happy rover!Lord of the way which lies before Up to the hill and ...
An Expostulation (C. S. Lewis Poems)
Against too many writers of science fictionWhy did you lure us on like this,Light-year on light-year, through the abyss,Building (as ...
How The Author Sometimes Dines (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
And now by your leave I will try to expound it, In truth as it is and the way that I ...
Waking (John Le Gay Brereton Poems)
ABOVE us hangs the jewelled night; And how her restful cool caresses Make us forget the weary sight Of summer's ...
Femina Contra Mundum (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
The sun was black with judgment, and the moonBlood: but betweenI saw a man stand, saying: 'To me at leastThe ...
Moonlit Apples (John Drinkwater Poems)
At the top of the house the apples are laid in rows,And the skylight lets the moonlight in, and thoseApples ...
Spring, Thou Art But His Smile (Patience Worth Poems)
Spring, thou art but His smileOf happiness in me, and sullen daysOf weariness shall fall when Spring is bornIn winds ...
Akash Bhara Surya Tara Biswabhara Pran (Translation) (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
And in Wonder and Amazement I SingThe sky is full of the sun and the starsThe universe is full of ...
The Field Of Wonder (Hilda Conkling Poems)
What could be more wonderfulThan the place where I walk sometimes?Swaying like trees in rain . . .Swaying like trees ...