The Fen-Fire (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The misty rain makes dim my face, The night's black cloak is o'er me; I tread the dripping cypress-place, A flickering light before ...
Daughters Poems (1453 Poems)
March 1848 (Peter John Allan Poems)
Old creeping Time, your rusty scythe let fall, Perhaps you then may go a little faster;Now, like a mourner at a ...
Song (James Bayard Taylor Poems)
DAUGHTER of Egypt, veil thine eyes! I cannot bear their fire;Nor will I touch with sacrifice Those altars of desire.For they are ...
For Instance (John Anthony Ciardi Poems)
A boy came up the street and there was a girl."Hello," they said in passing, then didn't pass.They began to ...
Song: VII (Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck Poems)
Orlamonde had seven daughters: When the fairy diedThe seven maids, the seven daughters, Sought to win outside.Then they lit their seven lamps; Through ...
Growth (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
O'ER field and plain, in childhood's artless days,Thou sprang'st with me, on many a spring-morn fair."For such a daughter, with ...
Tomorrow (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HOW heavy falls the foot of time!How slow the ling'ring quarters chime,Thro' anxious hours of long delay!In vain we watch ...
The Water And The Wine (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Child of God, His son or daughter! Heed this word, obeying Him;"Fill the waterpots with water,-- And they fill'd them to the ...
Sonnet: To An Old Venetian Wine-Glass (Lloyd Mifflin Poems)
DAUGHTER of Venice, fairer than the moon!From thy dark casement leaning, half divine,And to the lutes of love that low ...
After Many Days (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I'VE always been a faithful manAn' tried to live for duty,But the stringent mode of lifeHas somewhat lost its beauty.The ...
Liberty (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I am Liberty--God's daughter! My symbols--a law and a torch; Not a sword to threaten slaughter, Nor a flame to dazzle or scorch; But ...
Epitaph: Being Part Of An Inscription For A Monument (James Beattie Poems)
Farewell, my best-beloved; whose heavenly mindGenius with virtue, strength with softness join'd;Devotion, undebased by pride or art,With meek simplicity, and ...
The Golden Calf (John Hay Poems)
Double flutes and horns resoundAs they dance the idol round;Jacob's daughters, madly reeling, Whirl about the golden calf. Hear them laugh!Kettledrums and ...
Mariana In The North (Victoria Sackville-West Poems)
All her youth is gone, her beautiful youth outworn,Daughter of tarn and tor, the moors that were once her homeNo ...
Heredity (John Liddell Kelly Poems)
More than a fleshly immortalityIs mine. Though I myself return againTo dust, my qualities of heart and brain,Of soul and ...
Tepidarium (Jose Maria de Heredia y Giraud Poems)
O'er their soft limbs has myrrh its fragrance shed;And bathed in warmth beneath December's skiesThey dream, while the bronze lamp ...
Fragments – Lines 0183 – 0192 (Theognis Poems)
Among rams and asses and horses, Kyrnos, we look for thoseOf noble breeding, and a man wants them to mateFrom ...
For My Daughter (Weldon Kees Poems)
Looking into my daughter's eyes I readBeneath the innocence of morning fleshConcealed, hintings of death she does not heed.Coldest of ...
To A Butterfly (Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda Poems)
Daughter to the wind, snow-white butterfly,Inebriate with perfume and sunlight,Wandering from garden to amaranth,And from iris to fiery rose alighting.Blessed ...
Inevitable Change (John Freeman Poems)
Young as the Spring seemed life when sheCame from her silent East to me;Unquiet as Autumn was my breastWhen she ...
if posterity should ask of me (Gilbert Frankau Poems)
Lord, if I had half your brains, I'd write a book:None of your sentimental platitudes,But something real, vital: that should ...
If a Daughter You Have (Richard Brinsley Sheridan Poems)
If a daughter you have, she's the plague of your life,No peace shall you know, tho' you've buried your wife,At ...
Drinking Song (John Pierpont Poems)
Drink, friends, drink deep—the moon is high;Drink, and forget your care—The sultry summer suns are nigh—Drink, and your strength repair;The ...
To A Lady Who Had Lost A Relative (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
No more to grace the happy hearth,To grace the cheerful board, no moreTo light with smiles the misty pathThat leads ...
Note From Echo (AM Juster Poems)
Narcissus, I no longer haunt the canyonsand the crypts. I thrive and multiply;uncounted daughters are my new companions.We are the ...
Sonnet XVII. Happy Is England (John Keats Poems)
Happy is England! I could be contentTo see no other verdure than its own;To feel no other breezes than are ...
Sonnet To My Father (Maria Logan Poems)
AH ! who can paint the joys and fears, When, distant in a foreign land,A Daughter reads with flowing tears A letter ...
The Truce of God (Katharine Tynan Poems)
After SuvlaNow to the stricken doe And the wounded hindThere comes the Mercy of God That is cool and kind.To the hapless ...
A Song (Lord Alfred Douglas Poems)
Steal from the meadows, rob the tall green hills,Ravish my orchard's blossoms, let me bindA crown of orchard flowers and ...
Unsatisfied (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
"ONLY a housemaid!" She looked from the kitchen,--Neat was the kitchen and tidy was she;There at her window a sempstress ...