An Ode : While Blooming Youth And Gay Delight (Matthew Prior Poems)
While blooming youth and gay delightSit on thy rosy cheeks confess'd,Thou hast, my dear, undoubted rightTo triumph o'er this destined ...
Education Poems (4258 Poems)
Why Thus Longing? (Harriet Winslow Sewall Poems)
Why thus longing, thus forever sighing For the far off, unattained, and dim, While the beautiful, all round thee lying, Offers up its ...
Eyewash (Niall Montgomery Poems)
EYES always open eyesonions we were all found undereyes never in a hurry wait for meblink at the smash preserve ...
To My Aunty (Janet Little Poems)
MY ever dear an' worthy aunty,Wha ne'er o' wit nor lear was vaunty;Yet often could, like honest grandam,Unravel dreams; an' ...
The Sunday-School Picnic (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
Oh! the horns are all a-tootin' as we rattle through the town,And we fellers are a-hootin' and a-jumpin' up and ...
The Vision Of Saint Francis (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Francis D' Assisi, gentlest Saint of Saint's,Within his garden where the roses grewThat knew no thorn, slept from a wearinessOf ...
Child Thoughts (William Henry Drummond Poems)
WRITTEN TO COMMEMORATE THE ANNIVER-SARY OF MY BROTHER TOM 'S BIRTHDAYO memory, take my hand to-dayAnd lead me thro' the ...
Song, Woo’d And Married And A’ (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE bride she is winsome and bonny,Her hair it is snooded sae sleek,And faithfu' and kind is her Johnny,Yet fast ...
Bond Or Free? A Double Thought (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Alone, and unwitting, we spring into birthTo battle the battle of life upon earth;Alone, and unwilling, we drop from the ...
Sermon Time (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
"Blessed are the poor in spirit": there, I'll just remember that,And I'll say it over 'n over, till I've got ...
The Wide Ocean (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Ocean, if you were to give, a measure, a ferment, a fruitof your gifts and destructions, into my hand,I would ...
Dean Stanley (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
DEAD! dead! in sooth his marbled brow is cold,And prostrate lies that brave, majestic head;True! his stilled features own death's ...
The Last Salute (Robert Nichols Poems)
In a far field, away from England, liesA boy I friended with a care like love;All day the wide earth ...
Anecdote For Fathers (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
By the late W. W. (of H.M. Inland Revenue Service).And is it so? Can Folly stalkAnd aim her unrespecting dartsIn ...
Christmas Eve (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
Friend, old friend in the Manse by the fireside sitting,Hour by hour while the grey ash drips from the log;You ...
On Church Communion – Part IV. (John Byrom Poems)
A Christian, in so catholic a sense,Can give to none, but partial minds offence;Forc'd to live under some divided part,He ...
The Fly’s Revenge (Hannah Flagg Gould Poems)
"So," said a fly, as he paused and thoughtHow he had just been brushed about,"They think, no doubt, I am ...
To Jordan Came Our Lord the Christ (Martin Luther Poems)
To Jordan came our Lord the Christ,To do God's pleasure willing,And there was by Saint John baptized,All righteousness fulfilling;There did ...
Caledonia (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Fair Caledonia! honoured name!The Muse shall boast thy worth and fame;The circling seas that dash and boilAround thy shores with ...
His Lament For O’Daly (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
It was Thomas O'Daly that roused up young people and scattered them,and since death played on him, may God give ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. III. The Quill And The Counter (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
When, O when, shall the life of a Man Be worth a Man's while to live?When, to this old White-Slavery plan Its ...
The Complaint Of An Ancient Briton. (Disinterred By Archaeologists) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Two thousand years agone They heap'd my battle-grave,And each a tear and each a stone My mourning warriors gave;For I had borne ...
On Brooklyn Bridge (Jared Barhite Poems)
I stood upon the slender link That joins two cities into one, And saw from thence the storm-clouds drink Their moisture from the ...
‘Let’s Be Fools To-Night’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
We, three men of commerce, Striving wealth to raise,See but little promise In the coming days;Though our hearts are brittle, Hardened near to ...
Tim (Jared Barhite Poems)
We remember well when a schoolboy, When pliant in mind and limb, We had for a boon companion, A bright youth whose name ...
Inscription In A Beautiful Retreat Called Fairy Bower (Hannah More Poems)
Airy spirits, you who loveCooling bower, or shady grove;Streams that murmur as they flow,Zephyrs bland that softly blow;Babbling echo, or ...
The Broken Circle (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I STOOD On Sarum's treeless plain,The waste that careless Nature owns;Lone tenants of her bleak domain,Loomed huge and gray the ...
Toland’s Invitation To Dismal To Dine With The Calve’s Head Club (Jonathan Swift Poems)
If, dearest Dismal, you for once can dineUpon a single dish, and tavern wine,Toland to you this invitation sends,To eat ...
‘Snapdragon’ (John Henry Newman Poems)
'Snapdragon' a Riddle for a Flower BookI am rooted in the wallOf buttress'd tower or ancient hall;Prison'd in an art-wrought ...
Retrospectio (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
WHEN you and I were young, the daysWere filled with scent of pink and rose,And full of joy from dawn ...