What The Voice Said (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
MADDENED by Earth's wrong and evil,"Lord!" I cried in sudden ire,"From Thy right hand, clothed with thunder,Shake the bolted fire!"Love ...
Education Poems (4258 Poems)
The Old Man Of The Sea (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
A NIGHTMARE DREAM BY DAYLIGHTDo you know the Old Man of the Sea, of the Sea?Have you met with that ...
The Peonage System (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
The religious wars of Europe have been numbered with the past,But a worse thing, bright America with clouds has overcast,'Tis ...
In Memoriam: Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse (Henry Kendall Poems)
SHALL he, on whom the fair lord, Delphicus, Turned gracious eyes and countenance of shine,Be left to lie without a wreath ...
A Mathematical Problem (Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poems)
This is now--this was erst,Proposition the first--and Problem the first.I.On a given finite LineWhich must no way incline;To describe an ...
A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day (John Donne Poems)
'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks; The sun is spent, and now ...
Boy-Dreams (Mabel Forrest Poems)
I was a Pirate once,A blustering fellow with scarlet sash,A ready cutlass and language rash;From a ship with a rum-filled ...
Sudden Death (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Where are ye, spirits of the dead?That erst with us held converse kind?Bright o'er our hearts your sunlight shedAnd with ...
Fact Versus Form (Jared Barhite Poems)
As shadows are to material forms, As mists to the copious shower As dead calms are to tornado storms That in tropical region ...
A Poet in the Kitchen (George Bradley Poems)
West Fifty-third was still Hell's Kitchenthe summer I first came to town,Eleventh Avenue was boarded up,the West Side Drive was ...
Important Queries (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Why this hurrying to and fro, Why all this strange commotion?The good ship Briton rolls and sways Upon a stormy ocean.Oh! where ...
The Signs (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
Dedicated to the Zodiac ClubWho knows how many thousand years agoThe twelvefold Zodiac was made to showThe course of stars ...
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 ...
When The Old Man Smokes (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
In the forenoon's restful quiet, When the boys are off at school, When the window lights are shaded And the chimney-corner cool, Then the ...
Programme (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
READER--gentle--if so beSuch still live, and live for me,Will it please you to be toldWhat my tenscore pages hold?Here are ...
De People’s Literary (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
Well, well, you's cum at las'-Cum in and hab dis seat;Walkin's sich a tiresom' tas'I'll fix a bite to eat.It's ...
Spring Lilies (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
'Neath their green and cool cathedrals, In the garden lilies bloom, Casting to the fresh Spring Zephyrs Peal on peal of sweet perfume. Often ...
School Rhymes (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
O academic muse that hast for longCharmed all the world with thy disciples' song,As myrtle bushes must give place to ...
To My Dearest Father On His Fortieth Birthday (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.MY dearest Father! words can feebly paint,What my heart feels on this most happy day,Beneath the task poetic numbers faint,And ...
Merchandise (J Milton Hayes Poems)
MERCHANDISE! Merchandise! Tortoiseshell, spices,Carpets and Indigo sent o'er the highseas;Mothero'Pearl from the Solomon IslesBrought by a brigantine ten thousand miles.Rubber ...
Trinity Sunday (John Keble Poems)
Creator, Saviour, strengthening Guide,Now on Thy mercy's ocean wideFar out of sight we seem to glide.Help us, each hour, with ...
To my Friend Mr. Motteux, on His Tragedy Called Beauty in Distress, Published in 1698 (John Henry Dryden Poems)
'Tis hard, my friend, to write in such an age,As damns not only poets, but the stage.That sacred art, by ...
The Ship That Never Returned (Henry Clay Work Poems)
. On a summer's day while the waves were rippling, with a quiet and a gentle breeze; A ship set sail with ...
`Sez You’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
When the heavy sand is yielding backward from your blistered feet,And across the distant timber you can SEE the flowing ...
The Talented Man (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
Dear Alice! you'll laugh when you know it, --Last week, at the Duchess's ball,I danced with the clever new poet, ...
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 ...
The Gumsucker’s Dirge (Joseph Furphy Poems)
Sing the evil days we see, and the worse that are to be,In such doggerel as dejection will allow,We are ...
Tread Softly (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
In the courts of truth tread softly, Though your tread be firm and bold;Your steps may awaken echoes, Resounding through years untold.The ...
Sunset (Jared Barhite Poems)
Softly the tints of expiring day Tinge th' vaults of Hesperian heaven, Leaving a trace of the sun's mellow ray To escort the ...
“Town, a town …” (George Oppen Poems)
Town, a town,But locationOver which the sun as it comes to it;Which cools, houses and lamp-posts, during the night, with the ...