The Lincoln-Chil (James Oppenheim Poems)
Clearing in the forest,In the wild Kentucky forest,And the stars, wintry stars strewn above!O Night that is the starriestSince Earth ...
Death & Dying Poems (10696 Poems)
John Bede Polding (Henry Kendall Poems)
With reverent eyes and bowed, uncovered head, A son of sorrow kneels by fanes you knew;But cannot say the words that ...
Sonnet Cycle For Lady Magdalen (John Donne Poems)
Her of your name, whose fair inheritanceBethina was, and jointure Magdalo:An active faith so highly did advance,That she once knew, ...
The Maid Of Ocram, Or, Lord Gregory (John Clare Poems)
Gay was the Maid of OcramAs lady eer might beEre she did venture past a maidTo love Lord Gregory.Fair was ...
Lamentations (Jeremiah Bible Poems)
1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!How is she become as a widow!She that was great ...
Book III – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
O thou who first uplifted in such darkSo clear a torch aloft, who first shed lightUpon the profitable ends of ...
An Ode Upon a Question Moved, Whether Love Should Continue Forever (Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury Poems)
Having interred her infant-birth,The watery ground that late did mourn,Was strewed with flowers for the returnOf the wished bridegroom of ...
The Pigeons (John Freeman Poems)
The pigeons, following the faint warm light,Stayed at last on the roof till warmth was gone,Then in the mist that's ...
The Vanity Of Human Wishes (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
I walk'd and did a little Mole-hill viewFull peopled with a most industrious crewOf busie Ants, where each one labor's ...
The Maids Of Attitash (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
In sky and wave the white clouds swam,And the blue hills of NottinghamThrough gaps of leafy greenAcross the lake were ...
The Goodnesse Of God Towards All Mankind, Manifold Wayes. (Henry Arthington Poems)
The First Point.In Creating all thinges for our vse, and vs for his glory.O Glorious God, how much is Man,For ...
Years After the War In Australia (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Big rough boys from the runs out back were first where the balls flew free,And yelled in the slang ...
Satire I (John Donne Poems)
Away thou fondling motley humorist,Leave mee, and in this standing woodden chest,Consorted with these few bookes, let me lyeIn prison, ...
Hail Columbia (Joseph Hopkinson Poems)
HAIL COLUMBIA Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, Who fought and bled ...
A Poetical Version Of A Letter From Facob Behmen (John Byrom Poems)
'TIS Man's own Nature, which in its own Life, Or Centre, stands in Enmity and Strife, And anxious, selfish, doing what it ...
The Pariah – Legend (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
WATER-FETCHING goes the nobleBrahmin's wife, so pure and lovely;He is honour'd, void of blemish.And of justice rigid, stern.Daily from the ...
The Duty Of Children To Their Parents (Rees Prichard Poems)
ALL honour, reverence, and due regard,My son! unto thy parents ever give:'Tis God's command! — and thou, for thy reward,Shalt, ...
Advice To Those Who Are Desirous Of Obtaining God’s Favour, And Forgiveness Of Their Sins (Rees Prichard Poems)
Whoe'er would have the sins forgiven,Whereby he has offended heaven,He must with diligence pursueThose useful Precepts, that ensue.Thou, first of ...
Custer’s Last Charge (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
On through the mist of the morning,On through the midday glare;A hard, rough ride by the Rosebud's side,Cutting swaths through ...
The Hostess (Konstantin Simonov Poems)
Peace will be signed and we'll be at your doorAt twelve o'clock at night, with noise and mirth,Your humble servant, ...
The Ghost at the Second Bridge (Henry Lawson Poems)
You'd call the man a senseless fool,- A blockhead or an ass,Who'd dare to say he saw the ghost Of Mount Victoria ...
The Daughter (Matilda Betham Poems)
"Come, mournful lute! dear echo of my woe! No stranger's tread in this lone spot I fear, Sweeter thy notes in such ...
Eclogue V (Virgil Poems)
MENALCAS, MOPSUSMenalcas.Why, Mopsus, being both together met,You skilled to breathe upon the slender reeds,I to sing ditties, do we not ...
The Exile Of The Gael (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
IT is sweet to rejoice for a day,-For a day that is reached at last!It is well for wanderers in ...
An American Tale (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
"Ah! pity all the pangs I feel, If pity e'er ye knew;—An aged father's wounds to heal, Through scenes of death I ...
The Lady Cecile (Marietta Holley Poems)
Sitting alone in the windy tower, While the waves leap high, or are low at rest,What does she think of, hour ...
To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison (Thomas Tickell Poems)
If, dumb too long, the drooping Muse hath stay'd,And left her debt to Addison unpaid;Blame not her silence, Warwick, but ...
Aix In Provence (Robert Browning Poems)
Christ God who savest man, save mostOf men Count Gismond who saved me!Count Gauthier, when he chose his post,Chose time ...
Venetian Epigrams (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
URN and sarcophagus erst were with life adorn'd by the heathenFauns are dancing around, while with the Bacchanal troopChequerd circles ...
Two Songs By Sitara, Of Kashmir (Laurence Hope Poems)
Beloved! your hair was goldenAs tender tints of sunrise,As corn beside the River In softly varying hues.I loved you for your ...