Hezekiah’s Art (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
My son Hezekiah's a painter; yes, that's the purfession he's at;An artist, I mean,--course he ain't a whitewasher or nothin' ...
Drawing & Painting Poems (641 Poems)
Ambrose (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Never, surely, was holier manThan Ambrose, since the world began;With diet spare and raiment thinHe shielded himself from the father ...
To Avis Keene (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
ON RECEIVING A BASKET OF SEA-MOSSES.Thanks for thy giftOf ocean flowers,Born where the golden driftOf the slant sunshine fallsDown the ...
On Seeing A Beautiful Boy At Play (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
Down the green slope he bounded. Raven curls From his white shoulders by the winds were swept, And the clear color of ...
An Alarm to the Meal-mongers and Corn-sellers in Scotland (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
Ye mealy mouth'd mobbers, attend to my song,Whose plunder brings plenty of blessings along.No gospel or law starv'd people regard,For ...
The Lover And The Painter (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
O painter bold and true, lord of every flying hue,Whose immortal hand all lovely things implore,Now to thy glory set, ...
Furfurcar (Roaring Cliff) (Mihran Damadian Poems)
REFUGE of Dalvorig's valiant men,Of strife and dangerous days!Lo, all Armenia towards theeTo-day in hope doth gaze.Thou black and naked ...
Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook (Henry Kendall Poems)
The First Attempt to Reach the ShoreWhere is the painter who shall paint for you,My Austral brothers, with a pencil ...
Used Up (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Where shall be found the niche unfill'd,—A spot unclaim'd, a field untill'd?Who may secure a vacant spaceFairly to run and ...
To the Right Honourable The Countess Dowager Of Devonshire, On A Piece Of Wiessen’s (Matthew Prior Poems)
Wiessen and nature held a long contestIf she created or he painted best;With pleasing thought the wondrous combat grew,She still ...
Lines Written In The Highlands After A Visit To Burns’s Country (John Keats Poems)
There is a charm in footing slow across a silent plain,Where patriot battle has been fought, where glory had the ...
The Lost Heart (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
One golden summer day, Along the forest-way,Young Colin passed with blithesome steps alert. His locks with careless grace Rimmed round his handsome faceAnd ...
Raphael (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I shall not soon forget that sightThe glow of Autumn's westering day,A hazy warmth, a dreamy light,On Raphael's picture lay.It ...
The Oceanides X (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
SUNSET AND NIGHT. BEAUTIFUL! O beautiful!When his blaze of glory done,In the Tropics sinks the Sun!Not, as at his noon, untendedBy ...
For Four Guilds: IV. The Bell-Ringers (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
The angels are singing like birds in a tree In the organ of good St. Cecily: And the parson reads with his ...
Lake George, N. Y. (Jared Barhite Poems)
Beautiful, beautiful Horicon! Over thy waters so blue, Sunshine and shadow in silence flit on, Painting fresh scenes on the ecstatic view. Blue are ...
My Own Character (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Dear Fanny, I mean, now I'm laid on the shelf,To give you a sketch—ay, a sketch of myself.'Tis a pitiful ...
My S.S. Class (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
I now will endeavor, while fresh in my mind,My Sabbath School Class to portray;The theme's furnished for me, I've only ...
Anacreontic (Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft Poems)
Three long years have o'erwhelmed me in sadness,Since the sun veiled his vision of gladness:Sorrow be banished,- for sorrow is ...
The Fool (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
There lived a fool.For a long time he lived in peace and contentment; but by degrees rumoursbegan to reach him ...
Fancy and the Poet (Susanna Strickland Moodie Poems)
Poet --Enchanting spirit! -- at thy votive shrineI lowly bend a simple wreath to twine;O Come from the ideal world ...
The Ropewalk. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
In that building, long and low,With its windows all a-row, Like the port-holes of a hulk,Human spiders spin and spin,Backward down ...
Autumn: Tuesday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
The stars have sunk in yon concave blue,And the sun is peeping thro' the dew;Thy Spirit, Lord! doth nature fill—Before ...
The Going Out Of The Tide (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
The eastern heaven was all faint amethyst,Whereon the moon hung dreaming in the mist;To north yet drifted one long delicate ...
Battle of Red Cliff (Su Tung-po Poems)
The Yangtze flows eastWashing awayA thousand ages of great menWest of the ramparts --People say --Are the fabled Red Cliffs ...
Sir Thomas Lawrence (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
DIVINEST art, the stars aboveWere fated on thy birth to shine;Oh, born of beauty and of love,What early poetry was ...
Late March (Edward Hirsch Poems)
Saturday morning in late March.I was alone and took a long walk,though I also carried a bookof the Alone, which ...
Stella’s Birth-Day.1719-20 (Jonathan Swift Poems)
All travellers at first inclineWhere'er they see the fairest signAnd if they find the chambers neat,And like the liquor and ...
England’s Brave Sons (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
The yeoman lays aside his soil-stained smock, And from his herd selects a trusty steed, And sallies forth to help in hour ...
The Sailor’s Song, Returning (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
The sea goes up; the sky comes down.Oh, can you spy the ancient town,-The granite hills so green and gray,That ...