The Poor Girl’s Meditation (Padraic Colum Poems)
I AM sitting hereSince the moon rose in the night,Kindling a fire,And striving to keep it alight;The folk of the ...
Daughters Poems (1453 Poems)
Song: “The flowers of the Spring that enamel the vale” (Henry James Pye Poems)
The flowers of the Spring that enamel the vale, Give their dyes to the meadows, their sweets to the gale, From the ...
Book Of Suleika – The Sublime Type (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE sun, whom Grecians Helms call,His heavenly path with pride doth tread,And, to subdue the world's wide all,Looks round, beneath ...
Song To Erin (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Oh! Erin my country, my ancestor's home!Impelled by my wants, I, from thee, had to roam;And now my heart yearneth, ...
Cheer Up! (For Music) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Never go gloomily, man with a mind! Hope is a better companion than fear;Providence, ever benignant and kind, Gives with a smile ...
The Children (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE children! ah, the children!Your innocent, joyous ones;Your daughters, with souls of sunshine;Your buoyant and laughing sons.Look long in their ...
To Fredrika Bremer (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Seeress of the misty Norland,Daughter of the Vikings bold,Welcome to the sunny Vineland,Which thy fathers sought of old!Soft as flow ...
Choosing A Name (Mary Anne Lamb Poems)
I have got a new-born sister:I was nigh the first that kissed her.When the nursing-woman brought herTo papa, his infant ...
Song: XI (Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck Poems)
Mother, mother, do you not hear?Mother, they come; there is news to tell!- Give me your hands, my daughter dear:'Tis ...
Kalmuck Bride (Padraic Colum Poems)
I HAVE saddled your white steed, and I have burnished them-Your belt with crystal clasps, your lance, your scimitar,Your carbine ...
The First Love Dream (Henry Clay Work Poems)
Last night, mother, he told me so,As we walked by the pebbly stream;And I wake so happy—so wild with joy,It ...
Mrs. Elizabeth Harris, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, Sunday evening, September 9th, 1860, aged 80.Oh sorrowing Daughter, left alone In home's deserted sphere,Where every object group'd ...
Our Lady (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poems)
MOTHER of God! no lady thou: Common woman of common earthOur Lady ladies call thee now, But Christ was never of gentle ...
The Mother (Nettie Palmer Poems)
IN the sorrow and the terror of the nations, In a world shaken through by lamentations, Shall I dare know ...
The Doubt of Future Foes (Queen Elizabeth I Poems)
The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy,And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy;For ...
Youth and Time (George Sterling Poems)
Once as a boy I dreamedWhere wider waters gleamed Of ships belowThe slowly gathering western stars,The last of sunset in their ...
Psalm CXXXVII. (Henry Alford Poems)
By Babylon streams we sat us down and wept, When we remembered Zion mournfully; As for our harps, we hanged them up Upon ...
Apples And Water (Robert Graves Poems)
Dust in a cloud, blinding weather, Drums that rattle and roar!A mother and daughter stood together Beside their cottage door."Mother, the heavens ...
The Father’s Reformation (John Pierpont Poems)
Father spare that cup,Thy daughter's feelings spareIt stirs thy passions up,And fills me with despair.Husband! spare that glass,It breaks my ...
On The Death Of A Child. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Go, angel, cherub, go,Back to thy native skies;Nor tarry longer here below,Amid earth's vanities;Hear'st not that voice, "Come, daughter, come?"It ...
Verses. Designed for an Inscription at the Entrance of a Grove (Maria Logan Poems)
SONS of Discord! come not near, Peace and gentle Love are here; Each unhallow'd passion hence! Here Pleasure dwells with Innocence. Beauteous pair! may ...
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! ...
Annie Seymour Robinson, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Daughter of LUCIUS F. ROBINSON and Mrs. ELIZA S. ROBINSON, died atHartford, Wednesday, April 10th, 1861, aged 6 years and ...
Lesbia’s Daughter (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
LESBIA'S daughter, I shall tell no lie,Here's no fit amber for such a dainty fly.Let them embalm your beauty whoso ...
Cafes In Damascus (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
LANGUIDLY the night-wind blowethFrom the gardens round,Where the clear Barrada flowethWith a lulling sound.Not the lute-note's sweet shiverCan such music ...
Everymaid (John Oxenham Poems)
King's Daughter!Wouldst thou be all fair,Without--within--Peerless and beautiful,A very Queen?Know then:--Not as men build unto the Silent One,--With clang and ...
Acrostic : Georgiana Augusta Keats (John Keats Poems)
Give me your patience, sister, while I frameExact in capitals your golden name;Or sue the fair Apollo and he willRouse ...
Eye By Eye (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
now broad stitches, now fine ones -eye by eye, I'll be leaning over linenall winter longembroidering this table clothbut during ...
Men Marry What They Need (John Anthony Ciardi Poems)
Men marry what they need. I marry you,morning by morning, day by day, night by night,and every marriage makes this ...
Harriet Allen Ely, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Providence, Rhode Island, April 27th, 1862, aged 7 years and 2months.Seven blest years our darling daughter, We have held ...