New Year’s Address-January 1, 1866 (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Good morning--good morning--a happy new year!We greet you, kind friends of the old _Pioneer_;Hope your coffee is good and your ...
Defeats Poems (398 Poems)
The Devil Of Pope-Fig Island (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
BY master Francis clearly 'tis expressed:The folks of Papimania are blessed;True sleep for them alone it seems was madeWith US ...
The Ghost Of Fadon (Joanna Baillie Poems)
ON Gask's deserted ancient hallWas twilight closing fast,And, in its dismal shadows, allSeem'd lofty, void, and vast.All sounds of life, ...
Beechenbrook – VII (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
'Tis Autumn,--and Nature the forest has hung With arras more gorgeous than ever was flung From Gobelin looms,--all so varied, so rare, As ...
A Nation’s Test (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I.A NATION'S greatness lies in men, not acres;One master-mind is worth a million hands.No royal robes have marked the planet-shakers,But ...
Loch Buy (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
PART I.Dark, with shrouds of mist surrounded. Rise the mountains from the shore,Where the galleys of the Islesmen Stand updrawn, their voyage ...
Evening in Stepney — For M (Lilian Bowes Lyon Poems)
1The greenness after sterile stone,Not one stone left upon another;The augury unforeseen of a listening April.Behind the boarded window,Socket of ...
The Dead To The Living (Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath Poems)
The bullet in the marble breast, the gash upon the brow, You raised us on the bloody planks with wild and ...
The Armada Gun (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
An ancient cannon, finely cast. Of bronze, all smooth and green with age, A by-gone actor on the stage,Yet fit to take, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lines Written in August (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
The day of tumult, strife, defeat, was o'er;Worn out with toil, and noise, and scorn, and spleen,I slumbered, and in ...
At Fredericksburg-Dec. 13, 1862 (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
GOD send us peace, and keep red strife away;But should it come, God send us men and steel!The land is ...
The Cottager (John Clare Poems)
True as the church clock hand the hour pursuesHe plods about his toils and reads the news,And at the blacksmith's ...
The Ogre (Jared Barhite Poems)
There's an ogre abroad, boys, There's an ogre abroad, A three-handed monster That makes his abode In hamlet and city, In country and town, And revels ...
Lincoln (John Gould Fletcher Poems)
ILike a gaunt, scraggly pine Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills; And patiently, through dull years of bitter ...
Verse (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
1FriendsThe old word is dead.The old books are dead.Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.Dead is the mind ...
The Statesman’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHO of all statesmen is his country's pride,Her councils' prompter and her leaders' guide?He speaks; the nation holds its breath ...
Presented To The King, At His Arrival In Holland, After The Discovery Of The Conspiracy. 1696 (Matthew Prior Poems)
Ye careful Angels, whom eternal FateOrdains, on Earth and human Acts to wait;Who turn with secret Pow'r this restless Ball,And ...
Judgment Day (John Freeman Poems)
When through our bodies our two spirits burnEscaping, and no more our true eyes turnOutwards, and no more hands to ...
The Mermaid (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The moon in the East is glowing; I sit by the moaning sea; The mists down the sea are blowing, Down the sea ...
Lincoln (Henrietta Cordelia Ray Poems)
To-day, O martyred chief, beneath the sunWe would unveil thy form; to thee who wonTh' applause of nations for thy ...
Bethlehem (Michael Fairless Poems)
The AngelsSoft and slow, soft and slow,With angels' wings of fire and snow,To rock Him gently to and fro.Fire to ...
The Stars In Their Courses (John Freeman Poems)
And now, while the dark vast earth shakes and rocksIn this wild dream-like snare of mortal shocks,How look (I muse) ...
Grizzel Hume (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
When midnight flung o'er earth and seaHer solemn veil of gloom,All fearless and alone was she,The Lady Grizzel Hume,-Lighted beneath ...
The Bronze David Of Donatello (Randall Jarrell Poems)
A sword in his right hand, a stone in his left hand,He is naked. Shod and naked. Hatted and naked.The ...
Littleholme (Gordon Bottomley Poems)
(To J.S. and A.W.S.)In entering the town, where the bright riverShrinks in its white stone bed, old thoughts returnOf how ...
The Dark Angel (Lionel Pigot Johnson Poems)
DARK Angel, with thine aching lust To rid the world of penitence: Malicious Angel, who still dost My soul such subtile violence! Because of ...
Riding Round the Lines (Henry Lawson Poems)
Dust and smoke against the sunrise out where grim disaster lurksAnd a broken sky-line looming like unfinished railway works,And a ...
The Padlock (Voltaire Poems)
I triumphed, love's victorious powerPrevailed, and near approached the hourWhich should have crowned our mutual flame,Just then your tyrant husband ...