The Schoolhouse On The Plain (Joseph Furphy Poems)
(From "An Idyll of the Wimmera.")On the geodetic line, where the parish boundaries joinAt a level and interminable laneYou can ...
Dignity Poems (199 Poems)
To Mrs. Ward. By The Same. (Mary Barber Poems)
O thou, my beauteous, ever tender Friend,Thou, on whom all my worldly Joys depend,Accept these Numbers; and with Pleasure hearUnstudy'd ...
The Six Burghers Of Calais (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
The burghers six of Calais,True were they and brave;To save their fellow-townsmenTheir lives they freely gave.Will ye hear their story?Come ...
A Portrait (Richard Brinsley Sheridan Poems)
Tell me, ye prim adepts in Scandal's school,Who rail by precept, and detract by rule,Lives there no character, so tried, ...
A Man Young And Old (William Butler Yeats Poems)
IFirst LoveTHOUGH nurtured like the sailing moonIn beauty's murderous brood,She walked awhile and blushed awhileAnd on my pathway stoodUntil I ...
To The Countess Of Bedford II (John Donne Poems)
TO have written then, when you writ, seem'd to meWorst of spiritual vices, simony ;And not to have written then ...
The Voice in the Wild Oak (Henry Kendall Poems)
Twelve years ago, when I could face High heaven's dome with different eyes-In days full-flowered with hours of grace, And nights not ...
An Outdoor Reception (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
On these green banks, where falls too soonThe shade of Autumn's afternoon,The south wind blowing soft and sweet,The water gliding ...
Governor Joseph Trumbull, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, August 4th, 1861; and his wife, Mrs. ELIZA STORRSTRUMBULL, the night after his funeral.Death's shafts fly thick, ...
By the Cliffs of the Sea (Henry Kendall Poems)
In a far-away glen of the hills, Where the bird of the night is at rest,Shut in from the thunder that ...
Lines on A Fly-Leaf (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I need not ask thee, for my sake,To read a book which well may makeIts way by native force of ...
We Are Accused Of Terrorism (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
We are accused of terrorismIf we dare to write about the remains of a homelandThat is scattered in pieces and ...
Twilight Hour (Jared Barhite Poems)
I love to spend the twilight hour When stars their radiance o'er me cast, With that benign mysterious power Which calls up mem'ries ...
Lines Addressed To Earl Moira (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
IN these degenerate times the Muses blendFor thee a wreath, their guardian and their friend;Thee, lib'ral MOIRA , in whose ...
Mrs. Emily Ellsworth, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Wife of Govenor ELLSWORTH, and daughter of Noah Webster, LL.D., diedat Hartford, August 23d, 1861.Not with the common forms of ...
The Future Of Hands (Larry Levis Poems)
All winterThe trees held up their silent hivesAs if they mattered.But on one main street of bars and lights,I watched ...
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 ...
Stanzas #2 (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
On the lake of young life is a fairy boat,Like the sweet new moon in a summer sky;Through a calm ...
Of The Love Of Christ (John Bunyan Poems)
The love of Christ, poor I! may touch upon;But 'tis unsearchable. O! there is noneIts large dimensions can comprehendShould they ...
The Tree Of State (Jared Barhite Poems)
Tree of our state and emblem of neatness, Beauty and grace abide in thy form; Not in thy blood alone courses a ...
Lines To D. G. T., Of Sherwood (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
Blessings on thee, noble boy! With thy sunny eyes of blue, Speaking in their cloudless depths Of a spirit pure and true. In thy ...
A Gallery To The Temple. Intemperance (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Let them, who doe attempt both day and night, To sacke the fort of reason, Perverting Natures lawes, and order quite, Misuseing Time, ...
The Gentleman (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Not alone by generous birth (Greatly though it fashions men),Not by all the wealth of earth, Not by all the talents ten,Not ...
Livingstone The Builder (John Oxenham Poems)
_With a will! With a will! With a will and surely! Without fail, Drive each nail, Build we so, securely_!The Pioneer,--the Undaunted One,Worn with long ...
Madam Whiting, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Widow of the late SPENCER WHITING, Esq., died at Hartford, April,1859, aged 88.Life's work well done, how beautiful to rest.Aye, ...
Market Day (Mary Webb Poems)
Who'll walk the fields with us to town,In an old coat and a faded gown?We take our roots and country ...
Sleep (Laurence Hope Poems)
There is something so beseeching in the attitude of sleep, A pathetic resignation, most appealing to the heart. .There must surely ...
1 Peter I. 16. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
It is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy.Holy thoughts! the spirit guard,With a faithful watch and ward;Float for ...
On The Dedication Of Dorothy Hall (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
TUSKEGEE, ALA., APRIL 22, 1901. Not to the midnight of the gloomy past, Do we revert to-day; we look upon The golden present ...
Lord Lundy, Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Lord Lundy from his earliest yearsWas far too freely moved to Tears.For instance if his Mother said,"Lundy! It's time to ...