The Tent On The Beach (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I would not sin, in this half-playful strain,--Too light perhaps for serious years, though bornOf the enforced leisure of slow ...
Custom & Convention Poems (428 Poems)
Cathlin Of Clutha (James Macpherson Poems)
An address to Malvina, the daughter of Toscar. The poet relates the arrival of Cathlin in Selma, to solicit aid ...
Ginevra (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Wild, pale, and wonder-stricken, even as oneWho staggers forth into the air and sunFrom the dark chamber of a mortal ...
An Ode In Time of Inauguration (Franklin P. Adams Poems)
(March 4, 1913)Thine aid, O Muse, I consciously beseech;I crave thy succour, ask for thine assistanceThat men may cry: 'Some ...
Napoleon (James Avis Bartley Poems)
INTRODUCTION.If ye will walk amid the ancient wood,Ye will perceive the lordly oak o'erspreadThe slender shrubs, and shield them from ...
Tecumthe (Nora Pembroke Poems)
October's leaf was sere; The day was dark and drear.Wild war was loosed in rage o'er our quiet country then; When at ...
Elegy On Newstead Abbey (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
'It is the voice of years that are gone!they roll before me with all their deeds.'~OSSIANNewstead! fast-falling, once-resplendent dome! Religion's shrine! ...
The Shepherd’s Calendar – June (John Clare Poems)
Now summer is in flower and natures humIs never silent round her sultry bloomInsects as small as dust are never ...
Persuasion (John Drinkwater Poems)
I At any moment love unheraldedComes, and is king. Then as, with a fallOf frost, the buds upon the hawthorn ...
Menotomy Lake (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
THE INDIAN CAMP.OUT from the Northern forest, dim and vast;Out from the mysteryOf yet more shadowy times, a pathless past,Untracked ...
Conlath And Cuthona (James Macpherson Poems)
ARGUMENT.Conlath was the youngest of Morni's sons, and brother to the celebrated Gaul. He was in love with Cuthona, the ...
I Am With Terrorism (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
We are accused of terrorism:if we defended rose and womanand the mighty verse...and the blueness of sky...A dominion... nothing left ...
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 ...
The Jackaw of Rheims (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;Many a monk, and many a friar,Many a ...
The Ghost-Seer (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Ye who, passing graves by night,Glance not to the left or right,Lest a spirit should arise,Cold and white, to freeze ...
The Three Queens (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
IN the far time of Earth's sweet maiden beauty,When Morning hung with rapture on her breast;When every sentient life paid ...
Winona – Death Of Winona (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Down the broad _Ha-Ha Wak-pa_ the band took their way to the Games at _Keoza_While the swift-footed hunters by land ran the ...
To Mrs. Pleydell, With A Pot Of Honey, During The Ferment Occasioned By The Popish Bill Of Toleratio (Hector MacNeill Poems)
Remov'd thank God! from fierce contentions;Unknown to parties or Conventions;Alike averse to rage and folly,And foe to gloomy melancholy;Amid confusion, war, ...
That It Is In Vain To Pray For The Dead (Rees Prichard Poems)
My dear Relation, and the Friend I love,You've put to me a question I approve:I therefore think myself in duty ...
Jackaw of Rheims, The (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;Many a monk, and many a friar,Many a ...
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 ...
A Grammarian’s Funeral Shortly after the Revival of Learnin (Robert Browning Poems)
Let us begin and carry up this corpse,Singing together.Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpesEach in its tetherSleeping safe ...
The Pariah (James Edwin Campbell Poems)
Owned her father all the fact'ries Which their black'ning smoke sent up,Miles and miles all 'round the country, From the town by ...
Billy’s Alphabetical Animal Show (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A was an elegant Ape Who tied up his ears with red tape, And wore a long veil Half revealing his tail Which was ...
The Retrospect: CWM Elan, 1812 (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
A scene, which 'wildered fancy viewedIn the soul's coldest solitude,With that same scene when peaceful loveFlings rapture's colour o'er the ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 02 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XIThus when the Lord discovered had, and seenThe hidden secrets of each worthy's breast,Out of the hierarchies of angels sheenThe ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 06 – Origins And Savage Period Of Mankind (Lucretius Poems)
But mortal manWas then far hardier in the old champaign,As well he should be, since a hardier earthHad him begotten; ...
America Politica Historia, In Spontaneity (Gregory Corso Poems)
O this political air so heavy with the bellsand motors of a slow night, and no place to restbut rain ...
Nottingham Castle (Philip James Bailey Poems)
On the Opening of the Castle as a Permanent Art Museum.Throw back the gates of time!See, on this rock sublime,The ...
At The “Atlantic” Dinner (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
DECEMBER 15, 1874I SUPPOSE it's myself that you're making allusion toAnd bringing the sense of dismay and confusion to.Of course ...