Don Diego Of The South (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(REFECTORY, MISSION SAN GABRIEL, 1869)Good!--said the Padre,--believe me still,"Don Giovanni," or what you will,The type's eternal! We knew him hereAs ...
Daughters Poems (1453 Poems)
Entering A Life (Ernesto Trejo Poems)
Once I was in love & I think I loved that girlmuch more than she loved me. Would I heal?Would ...
The Vision Of Cassandra (Aeschylus Poems)
CASSANDRA Phoebus Apollo! CHORUS Hark! The lips at last unlocking. ...
The First Ode Of The First Book Of Horace Imitated. And Addressed To John Miller Esq. Of Batheaston (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Miller, whom fair Ierne bore To grace Britannia's happier shore, Whose Genius guides, whose counsel guards The labours of Bathonian ...
Cinderella (Anne Sexton Poems)
You always read about it:the plumber with the twelve childrenwho wins the Irish Sweepstakes.From toilets to riches.That story.Or the nursemaid,some ...
The Kalevala – Proem (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
MASTERED by desire impulsive,By a mighty inward urging,I am ready now for singing,Ready to begin the chantingOf our nation's ancient ...
Ave (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Mother of the Fair Delight,Thou handmaid perfect in God's sight,Now sitting fourth beside the Three,Thyself a woman-Trinity,-Being a daughter born ...
Aunt Patty’s Thanksgiving (Emma Alice Browne Poems)
Now Cleo, fly round! Father's going to townWith a load o' red russets, to meet Captain Brown;The mortgage is due, ...
Greeting Poem (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
There was a sound in the wind to-day,Like a joyous cymbal ringing!And the leaves of the trees talked with the ...
Fra Pedro (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Golden lights and lengthening shadows,Flings the splendid sun declining,O'er the monastery gardenRich in flower, fruit and foliage.Through the avenue of ...
The Force Of Beauty (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
Fair Celia! when I prais'd your Charms,Your lovely Face and circling Arms;Your sparkling Eyes so full of Fire,That kindle at ...
Appletrees (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
ISweet appletree, your branches delight me, Luxuriantly budding my pride and joy! I will put before the lord of Macreu, ...
Lars (Celia Laighton Thaxter Poems)
Tell us a story of these Isles, they said, The daughters of the West, whose eyes had seenFor the ...
Jael (Cale Young Rice Poems)
Jehovah! Jehovah! art Thou not stronger than gods of the heathen? I slew him, that Sisera, prince of the ...
The Shipwreck, (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
OR MELANCHOLY FATE OF CAPT. PIERCE AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS. ETERNAL Power! who rul'st with sovereign willWho bid'st the tempest ...
A Contemplatio (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Indulg'd by ev'ry active thought When upwards they wou'd flyNor can Ambition be a fault If plac'd above ...
Heliodorus In The Temple (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
A sound of woe in Salem! — mournful criesRose from her dwellings — youthful cheeks were pale,Tears flowing fast from ...
Auri Sacra Fames (George Essex Evans Poems)
Now that the gods are dead-where shall we find us a god?Myths of the Greek Olympus have sunk in the ...
Ode To Joy (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning,Daughter of Elysium,Fire drunken we are ent'ringHeavenly, thy holy home!Thy enchantments bind together,What did custom stern ...
How Katie Saved The Train (Emma Alice Browne Poems)
The floods were out. Far as the boundOf sight was one stupendous roundOf flat and sluggish crawling water!As, from a ...
A Prayer For Artemis (Aeschylus Poems)
STROPHE IV Though Zeus plan all things right, Yet is his heart's desire full hard to trace; ...
Live (Anne Sexton Poems)
Live or die, but don't poison everything… Well, death's been here for a long time — it has a hell ...
In The White Giant’s Thigh (Dylan Thomas Poems)
Through throats where many rivers meet, the curlews cry,Under the conceiving moon, on the high chalk hill,And there this night ...
The Ballad Of A Barber (Aubrey Vincent Beardsley Poems)
Here is the tale of Carrousel, The barber of Meridian Street.He cut, and coiffed, and shaved so ...
At Harper’s Ferry Just Before the Attack (Edward W Williams Poems)
The hour, the spot, are here at last Their purpose, cause and hope we know,Our duty is to hold on ...
Epistle To Dr. Enfield (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
ON HIS REVISITING WARRINGTON IN 1789Friend of those years which from Youth's sparkling fountWith silent lapse down Time's swift gulf ...
The Origin Of Song Writing (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
WHEN Cupid, wanton boy, was young,His wings unfledg'd, and rude his tongue,He loiter'd in Arcadian bowers,And hid his bow in ...
The Eygptian Princess (Edwin Arnold Poems)
There was fear and desolation over swarthy Egypt's land,From the holy city of the sun to hot Syen?'s sand;The sistrum ...
Young Bicham (Andrew Lang Poems)
In London city was Bicham born,He longd strange countries for to see,But he was taen by a savage Moor,Who handld ...
The Loving Ballad Of Lord Bateman (Andrew Lang Poems)
Lord Bateman was a noble lord,A noble lord of high degree;He shipped himself all aboard of a ship,Some foreign country ...