They Are Coming (Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard Poems)
They are coming, coming slowly -They are coming, surely, surely -In each avenue you hear the steady tread.From the depths ...
Education Poems (4258 Poems)
Advice, Before Prayer (Rees Prichard Poems)
BEFORE thou dost attempt to pray,Of all thy vices past repent,And wash the hateful filth away,That God may to thy ...
The Bonifratrian Hospital (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
having chosen exile, madness, obliviontheir striped clothes fadedfaces palethey sleep so heavilythe hospital garden is still empty, wind sweepsthe dust, ...
On St. David’s Day (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
To Mrs. E.C. Morrieson'Twas not chance but deep design,Tho' of whom I can't divineMade the courtly Valentine(Corpulent saint and bishop)Such ...
At Lenno (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
By Lake Como's sylvan shore, Where the wavelets evermoreSeem to rhythmically murmur of the classic days of yore, Cease, O boatman, now ...
James Lionel Michael (Henry Kendall Poems)
BE HIS rest the rest he sought: Calm and deep.Let no wayward word or thought Vex his sleep.Peace-the peace that no man ...
In Memorium: Adam Lindsay Gordon (Henry Kendall Poems)
AT rest! Hard by the margin of that seaWhose sounds are mingled with his noble verse,Now lies the shell that ...
All For The Cause (William Morris Poems)
Hear a word, a word in season,for the day is drawing nigh,When the Cause shall call upon us,some to live, ...
To A Bereaved Friend (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THY Mary hath gone from thee; - thou hast foldedFor the last time her dear form to thy breast,And on ...
Prejudice (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
How strangely blind is prejudice, the Negro's greatest foe!It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can ...
Indulgence (Jared Barhite Poems)
An alarm is sounding through the land That tells of a stronger foe Than that which marched on Lexington, To strike a fatal ...
Artie’s “Amen” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THEY were Methodists twain, of the ancient school,Who always followed the wholesome ruleThat whenever the preacher in meeting saidAught that ...
At School-Close (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
BOWDOIN STREET, BOSTON, 1877.The end has come, as come it mustTo all things; in these sweet June daysThe teacher and ...
A New Suit (Hattie Howard Poems)
The artist and the loom unseen, In textures soft as _crepe de chine_ Spring weaves her royal robe of green, With grasses fringed ...
The Brush Sparrow (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Ere wild haws, looming in the glooms, Build bolted drifts of breezy blooms; And in the whistling hollow there The red-bud bends as ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. XI. Better Barracoons: Or, Profitable Charity (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Men of money, shrewd and skill'd In putting capital to nurse,Ready to pull down streets, or build, If either helps to fill ...
Reply, To Sundry Who Object To “Arm.” (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
What! will they tell us that timely precaution Causes the peril it strives to avoid?Or that true safety is found in ...
Rhymes For The Times: I (Janet Hamilton Poems)
I've juist been thinkin', neebour Johnie,Gif that the warl had mendit ony—Since, for the wurkin' man's disasters,We've got sae mony ...
Hic Vir, Hic Est (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
Often, when o'er tree and turret,Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I lingerKnown familiarly as 'King's.'And the ghosts ...
XXIII. The Truth (Giovanni Pascoli Poems)
And there was a flowering garden in the sea,in a sea glossy as the sky; and a songof two Sirens ...
To Thyrza (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Without a stone to mark the spot, And say, what Truth might well have said,By all, save one, perchance forgot, Ah! wherefore ...
The Christian Tourists (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
No aimless wanderers, by the fiend UnrestGoaded from shore to shore;No schoolmen, turning, in their classic quest,The leaves of empire ...
He’S AboutT 22, I’m 63 (Helene M Johnson Poems)
He's about 22. I'm 63A pity! He's so pretty!He runs up the stairs.I climb step by step.We've never really met, ...
To Damascus (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where the sinister sun of the Syrians beatOn the brittle, bright stubble,And the camels fell back from the swords of ...
Pictures of Memory (Janet Hamilton Poems)
IA small thatched cottage, moss grown old, A low-browed, weather-beaten door,Two windows small, that dimly light The dusky walls and earthen floor.From ...
His Star In The West (Lucy Larcom Poems)
OUR way stir is onward; the world is yet youngWith a beauty that never was dreamed of, or sung:Her wonders ...
Ode For The New Year (Jonathan Odell Poems)
When rival nations first descried,Emerging from the boundless mainThis land by tyrants yet untried,On high was sung this lofty strain:Rise ...
Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount.[On Her Leaving The Town After The Coronation] (Alexander Pope Poems)
As some fond virgin, whom her mother's careDrags from the town to wholesome country air,Just when she learns to roll ...
Star-Gazing (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
LET be what is: why should we strive and wrestleWith awkward skill against a subtle doubt?Or pin a mystery 'neath ...
Oak, Pine And Silver Birch (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
IOak, whose mossed antiquity stands leafily ashiver,Oldest oracles, each dawn, in earth's ear to deliver,Prom your whispering world of leaves, ...