Failure (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
There are some souls Whose lot it is to set their hearts on goals That adverse Fate controls. While others win With little labor ...
Disappointment Poems (98 Poems)
Study Nature (Gertrude Stein Poems)
I do. Victim. Sales Met Wipe Her Less. Was a disappointment We say it. Study nature. Or Who Towering. Mispronounced Spelling. She Was Astonishing To No One For Fun Study from nature. I Am Pleased Thoroughly I Am Thoroughly Pleased. By. It. It is very likely. They said so. Oh. I want. To do. What Is Later To Be Refined. By Turning. Of turning around. I will wait. ...
To Revenita (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
When to the font, this morn, my lips I pressed, A fairy's gift my fingers trembled o'er;A sweeter prayer ne'er smile ...
The Inauguration Of The Commonwealth And Afterwards (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
Thine ocean laughed for joy, and all thy shoresResounded gleefully ; the towering cliffsAnd deep-set, tree-filled vales had voice and ...
For The Same Book ( To Louisa C-, For Her Album) (John Kenyon Poems)
With all its best of sense and wit Each Album's earlier leaves are writ; No page-but Love and Friendship on it Shower dainty ...
The Creatures In The Lord’s Hands (John Newton Poems)
The water stood like walls of brass,To let the sons of Israel pass;And from the rock in rivers burstAt Moses' ...
Behold, I Would Speak Not In Command (Patience Worth Poems)
Behold, I would speak not in command,For unto youth, command is like a lash,And youth may not run beneath a ...
A Regret (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
Close on my heart was resting A sunny golden head,As the dim gray of the twilight Crept round with noiseless tread."Tell me ...
The Orphan’s Good-Bye (Nora Pembroke Poems)
When my heart was sad and lonely, And had closed its inmost cellOver the impulsive feelings That rule my nation's hearts too ...
Sympathy (Mrs. Walter Spencer Poems)
AH ! I said to my heart, "Go to sleep,"While in Lethe I bathed every wound,Then set Reason her vigils ...
The Lodestone (John Newton Poems)
As needles point towards the pole,When touched by the magnetic stone;So faith in Jesus, gives the soulA tendency before unknown.'Till ...
Sonnet To Disappointment (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
PALE disappointment! at thy freezing nameChill fears in every shiv'ring vein I prove;My sinking pulse almost forgets to move, And life ...
Disappointment (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
COLD Disappointment! by kind Heaven design'd,To mend the heart, by softening the mind;With brow severe to temper Fancy's fire,And, by ...
Sonnet LVIII. Descent Of The Same. (Henry Alford Poems)
Glory on glory greets our wondering sight As we wind down these slopes; mountain and plain Robed in rich sunshine, and the ...
Sonnet IV (John Bowring Poems)
From time to time there is a warning voiceWhich, in the various shapes of grief and painAnd disappointment, gives us ...
On Returning From Uninteresting Society, (Mrs. Walter Spencer Poems)
WHEN THE HEART IS OPPRESSED WITH SECRET SORROW.ALAS ! then, is this wounded mindBecome unfeeling and unkind?Can sorrow, disappointment, grief,Find ...
Their Story Runneth Thus (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Two little children played among the flowers,Their mothers were of kin, tho' far apart;The children's ages were the very sameE'en ...
Fragments From “The Brigand.” A Poem. Canto III (Albert Pike Poems)
The twenty-fifth had come; Peru awoke;One cry for freedom from her green hills broke,From her wide plains and valleys; and ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXVI (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
ORIGIN OF THE SERPENT.Ahti, living on the island,Near the Kauko-point and harbor,Plowed his fields for rye and barley,Furrowed his extensive ...
Tale XV (George Crabbe Poems)
ADVICE; OR THE 'SQUIRE AND THE PRIEST.A wealthy Lord of far-extended landHad all that pleased him placed at his command;Widow'd ...
A Manchester Poem (George MacDonald Poems)
'Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad.The cloud has fallen, and filled with fold on foldThe chimneyed city; and ...
Xantippe(A Fragment) (Amy Levy Poems)
What, have I waked again? I never thoughtTo see the rosy dawn, or ev'n this grey, Dull, solemn stillness, ere ...
Elephant (D H Lawrence Poems)
YOU go down shade to the river, where naked men sit on flat brown rocks, to watch the ferry, in ...
Hagar In The Wilderness (Edwin Arnold Poems)
A weary waste of blank and barren land,A lonely, lonely sea of shifting sand,A golden furnace gleaming overhead,Scorching the blue ...
To The Planet Jupiter (Albert Pike Poems)
Thou art a radiant and imperial star,Planet! whose silver crest beams bright, afarUpon the edge of yonder eastern hill,That, nightlike, ...
The Basset-Table (Alexander Pope Poems)
Cardelia. Smilinda. Cardelia. The Basset-Table spread, the Tallier come;Why stays Smilinda in the Dressing-Room?Rise, pensive Nymph, the Tallier waits for ...
Written On Hearing it Said, We Ought Not to Pray for Our Saviour’s Second Coming Upon Earth (Caroline Fry Poems)
And is it so? Look at creation round!See you how fair, how beautiful it is,How form'd to bless, how exquisite ...
The Deserted Mansion (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
AT first, the favour'd parents of mankindDelighted rov'd thro' EDEN'S fragrant bow'rs;Where spring and autumn, in sweet union join'd,Form'd all ...
The Stewed Samaritan (George Ade Poems)
Within a house of public entertainment There sat an ebon slave close at the foot Of a heavy chair topping ...
A Poet to… (Charles Harpur Poems)
Long ere I knew thee-years of loveless days, A shape would gather from my dreams, and pourThe soul-sweet influence ...