Skaal (Henry Lawson Poems)
While they struggle on exhausted, While they plough through bog and flood,While they drag their sick and wounded Where the tracks are ...
Defeats Poems (398 Poems)
To John Gorham Palfrey (James Russell Lowell Poems)
There are who triumph in a losing cause,Who can put on defeat, as 'twere a wreathUnwithering in the adverse popular ...
My Room In Boyhood’s Days (Jared Barhite Poems)
After forty years. Sacred these walls wherein I find Myself inclosed once more; Here in youth's pride my ardent mind On nightly tasks would ...
Lines On General Robert Edward Lee (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Si veris magna paraturFama bonis, et se successu nuda remotoInspicitur virtus, quicquid laudamus in ulloMajorum, ortuna fuit.- LucanWhilst martial echoes ...
Address To Garibaldi In His Retirement At Caprera, 1868 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Lone dweller of the stony isle!Dost thou at fortune's caprice smile,Soars thy great mind above thy state,Serene amid the shocks ...
In Waltham Abbey (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Here is the temple he builded, he, Harold, the bravest of Saxons.Somewhere near it he lies, where once rose the ...
The Man In Gray (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
_Written for the Reunion of the Confederate Veterans at Louisville, Ky., May and June, 1900._ I. Again, in dreams, the veteran hears The bugle ...
Jack Frenchman’s Lamentation (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Ye Commons and Peers, Pray lend me your ears,I'll sing you a song, (if I can,) How Lewis le Grand Was put to ...
Summons (Louis Untermeyer Poems)
THE eager night and the impetuous winds,The hints and whispers of a thousand lures,And all the swift persuasion of the ...
Marston Moor (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
The armies met on Marston Moor,'Midst lightning's flash and thunder's roar;As murky clouds sweep o'er the sky,God's cannonade with man's ...
Sonnets of Twilight and Youth (John William Streets Poems)
I: VISIONCharmed with the ceaseless music of the brook-Babbling with hope and with Youth's deathless song;Full with the joys of ...
Father Of Universal Man (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Father of Universal Man, Where'er in this wide world he roam,Not known to thee by kith or clan, Nor height, nor breadth ...
The Dying Veteran (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
All-day-long the crash of cannon Shook the battle-covered plain;All-day-long the frenzied foemen Dashed against our lines in vain;All the field was piled ...
One Who Loved Nature (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IHe was not learned in any art;But Nature led him by the hand;And spoke her language to his heartSo he ...
“Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Behold! we have gathered together our battleships near and afar; Their decks they are cleared for action, their guns they are ...
Eloped (Khristo Botev Poems)
In the glade a pipe is played,By the forest green and still,Where Stoyana, fair, sweet maid,Runs for water to the ...
The Army Of Reform (Grace Greenwood Poems)
YES, ye are few, - and they were few,Who daring storm and sea,Once raised upon old Plymouth rock"The anthem of ...
The Prospector (Pat O Cotter Poems)
Where the ragged, snow-capped saw tooth Cuts the azure of the skyAnd watches o'er the lonely land As ages wander by;Where the ...
In Memory of General Grant (Henry Abbey Poems)
WHITE wings of commerce sailing far, Hot steam that drives the weltering wheel,Tamed lightning speeding on the wire, Iron postman on the ...
Duty Done (Jared Barhite Poems)
A duty done is victory won, E'en though in the doing, Efforts may fail to bring avail In lines we are pursuing. Nothing is ...
The Old Flag (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Have ye heard of Fort Donelson's desperate fight,Where the giant Northwest bared his arm for the right,Where thousands so bravely ...
For The Meeting Of The National Sanitary Association (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
1860WHAT makes the Healing Art divine?The bitter drug we buy and sell,The brands that scorch, the blades that shine,The scars ...
Last Words Of Major Wheat (Hermine Poems)
"Bury me on the field, boys," and away to the glorious fight,You will come again this way, boys, in your ...
Success (Jared Barhite Poems)
Success knows no diminution, For failure hovers so near, That with trace of slight dilution, Success must cease to appear. We look in vain ...
Morning Song (Nerses the Gracious Poems)
O Day-spring, Sun of righteousness, shine forth with light for me! Treasure of mercy, let my soul thy hidden riches ...
The Night (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Through that pure virgin shrine,That sacred veil drawn o'er Thy glorious noon,That men might look and live, as glowworms shine,And ...
Glory (Robert Pinsky Poems)
Pindar, poet of the victories, fitted namesAnd legends into verses for the chorus to sing:Names recalled now only in the ...
Blank Lines to Kitty (James Hurdis Poems)
Elegant Fairy, whose engaging waysHave rais'd thee to a throne in my esteemHigh above all thy sex!-Unrivall'd maid,Who, ever to ...
Immortality (Patience Worth Poems)
Upon yesterday's lotus the dew pearledAnd vanished with the sun.On a certain morning e'er the winter ceased,Lo, did the songsters ...
The Last Charge At Appomattox (Henry Jerome Stockard Poems)
Scarred on a hundred fields before,Naked and starved and travel-sore, Each man a tiger hunted,They stood at bay as brave as ...