The Lovers. A Poem (John Logan Poems)
The lovers, in the following poem, were descended of houses that had been long at variance. The Lady is first ...
Dogs Poems (1420 Poems)
To My Old Schoolmaster (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
AN EPISTLE NOT AFTER THE MANNER OF HORACEOld friend, kind friend! lightly downDrop time's snow-flakes on thy crown!Never be thy ...
King Volmer and Elsie (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
After the Danish of Christian WinterWhere, over heathen doom-rings and gray stones of the Horg,In its little Christian city stands ...
My Retreat (Jose Rizal Poems)
Beside a spacious beach of fine and delicate sandand at the foot of a mountain greener than a leaf,I planted ...
The Shepherd’s Calendar – September (John Clare Poems)
Harvest awakes the morning stillAnd toils rude groups the valleys fillDeserted is each cottage hearthTo all life save the crickets ...
Marsupial Bill: Part Second. (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
1FAST flew the hours. We may not tellOf William's weary quest,How round the outskirts of the townHe roamed like one ...
The Return From The Quest (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Argument:Hark! hark!The dogs do bark;Beggars are coming to town.Some in rags,And some in tags,And some in velvet gown.The summer brooded ...
Returning of Issue (Henry Reed Poems)
Tomorrow will be your last day here. Someone is speaking:A familiar voice, speaking again at all of us.And beyond the ...
The Last Fight (Lewis Frank Tooker Poems)
THAT night I think that no one slept; No bells were struck, no whistle blew,And when the watch was changed I ...
Jackaw of Rheims, The (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;Many a monk, and many a friar,Many a ...
Anhelli – Chapter 7 (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)
And the Shaman said : "Lo, now we shall show no more miracles,nor the power of God that is in ...
The Eel Pie (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find,It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind:Brown bread as well as white must be for ...
Sonnets of the Empire (Archibald Thomas Strong Poems)
Gloriana's EnglandFORTH sped thy gallant sailors, blithe and free,Fearing nor foeman's hate, nor iron clime,Nor Lima's flame, nor Plata's fever-slime,So ...
Rover (Henry Kendall Poems)
NO classic warrior tempts my pen To fill with verse these pages-No lordly-hearted man of men My Muse's thought engages.Let others choose ...
Almon Keefer (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Ah, Almon Keefer! what a boy you were,With your back-tilted hat and careless hair,And open, honest, fresh, fair face and ...
Christmas Day In the Workhouse (George Robert Sims Poems)
It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,And the cold bare walls are brightWith garlands of green and holly,And the place ...
The Vagabonds (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
WE are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger 's my dog.-Come here, you scamp!Jump for the gentlemen,-mind your eye! Over the table,-look ...
The Shepherds Calendar – February – A Thaw (John Clare Poems)
The snow is gone from cottage topsThe thatch moss glows in brighter greenAnd eves in quick succession dropsWhere grinning ides ...
For A Child (Harriet Monroe Poems)
E. H. M.Nov. 17th, 1890-Feb. 13th, 1904Still he lies,Pale, wan, and strangely wise.Under the white coverletHe lies here sleeping yet,Though ...
Another, On The Same Occasion (Rees Prichard Poems)
Thou ruler of heaven, of earth, and the main,Of wind, and of weather, of tempests, and rain,O, list to the ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 03 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XXXIThe villain flies, he, full of rage and ire,Pursues, she stood and wondered on them both,But yet to follow them ...
Lily’s Menagerie (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THERE'S no menagerie, I vow,Excels my Lily's at this minute;She keeps the strangest creatures in it,And catches them, she knows ...
Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 04 (Sa di Poems)
A band of Arab brigands having taken up their position on the top ofa mountain and closed the passage of ...
The Hanging Of Black Kudjo (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WELL, Maussa! if you wants to heer, I'll tell you 'bout um 'true.Doh de berry taut ob dat bad time ...
Ogyges (Henry Kendall Poems)
Stand out, swift-footed leaders of the horns,And draw strong breath, and fill the hollowy cliffWith shocks of clamour, - let ...
La Bouquetiere (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
Buy my roses, citizens,-- Here are roses golden white,Like the stars that lovers watch On a purple summer night.Here are roses ruddy ...
“Tradin’ Joe” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I'm one o' these cur'ous kind o' chapsYou think you know when you don't, perhaps!I hain't no fool--ner I don't ...
A Dream Of Bric-A-Brac (John Hay Poems)
I dreamed I was in fair Niphon.Amid tea-fields I journeyed on,Reclined in my jinrikishaw;Across the rolling plains I sawThe lordly ...
Garine (Mugurditch Chrimian Hairig Poems)
THE dismal news ran through the land of Moush:"Here comes the Khan Long Timour, fierce and fell,The despot grim who ...
Motherhood, 1951 (Ai Ogawa Poems)
Dear Saint Patrick, this is Peggy,Or maybe it's Pegeen to you,Well, I'm really Stella Mae.Peggy's my nickname,But anyway, will you ...