Process (Mary Eliza Fullerton Poems)
Time erodes the fundamental.. . . . .Civilization said long ago,"Man is fixt and set,Unchanging now,Amid the fretOf evolution.The tides ...
England Poems (928 Poems)
Strange Service (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Little did I dream, England, that you bore meUnder the Cotswold Rills beside the water meadowsTo do you dreadful service, ...
Revolutions (Matthew Arnold Poems)
Before man parted for this earthly strand,While yet upon the verge of heaven he stood,God put a heap of letters ...
To the Crew of the H.M.S. BIRMINGHAM (Robert Henry Forster Poems)
You that have been first in war To meet that menace of the sea,The sunken craft that ne'er before Hath tried death's ...
The M’Camley Mixture (William Thomas Goodge Poems)
Jack M'Camley,Lank and long,Ox-persuader,Billabong.Bluff and heartySort o' party,Got the 'blanky' habit strong!Says the parson,Bright old bird,'Why'd you use thatHorrid word? ...
Homecoming (John Freeman Poems)
When I came home from wanderings In a tall chattering ship,I thought a hundred happy things,Of people, places, and such things As ...
Gifts (Mary Booth Poems)
To QUEEN ELISABETH OF THE BELGIANS.From the Mother of John the Baptist."WHEN all my fruitful years were done,God breathed on ...
Mrs. Browning’s Grave At Florence (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
FLORENCE wears an added grace, All her earlier honors crowning;Dante's birthplace, Art's fair home, Holds the dust of Barrett Browning.Guardian of the ...
No! (Jessie Pope Poems)
By bridge and battery, town and trench,They're fighting with bull-dog pluck;Not one, from Tommy to General French,Is down upon his ...
A New Song to an Old Tune (William Ernest Henley Poems)
SONS of Shannon, Tamar, Trent,Men of the Lothians, Men of Kent,Essex, Wessex, shore and shire,Mates of the net, the mine, ...
To Mrs. Hannah More (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
FAIR Star of Genius, which with tow'ring blaze,Ascends from earth, and soars above our praise!Immortal talent and amazing fire!What laws ...
Written On Board The S. S. “Egypt,” September 5th, 1884 (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Kind friends and passengers, we nearOur destined port, in England dear,But ere we land, our thanks are due,To our skilled ...
Duty (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Duty! shorn of which the wisest And the best were little worth,How with dignity thou risest O'er the littleness of earth:How thou ...
St George For England (Mary Booth Poems)
ST GEORGE! St George for England!Clear rings the ancient cry;St George! St George for England!Who dares to do and die?The ...
The Mother (May Herschel-Clarke Poems)
If I should die, think only this of me:That there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England. ...
England (John Henry Newman Poems)
Type of the West, and glorying in the nameMore than in Faith's pure fame!Oh. trust not crafty fort nor rock ...
Sonnet To A Stilton Cheese (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
Stilton, thou shouldst be living at this hour And so thou art. Nor losest grace thereby; England has need of thee, and ...
The Blackest Lie (Jessie Pope Poems)
(The Frankfurter Zeitung states that Belgium intrigued with England and France to drag Germany into war.)BIG bully Belgium,Breathing blood and ...
By Severn (Ivor Gurney Poems)
If England, her spirit lives anywhereIt is by Severn, by hawthorns and grand willows.Earth heaves up twice a hundred feet ...
The Statue of Our Queen (Henry Lawson Poems)
PRIDE, selfishness in every line, And on its face a frown,It stands, a sceptre in its hand, And points forever down.And who ...
The Men Who Loved The Cause That Never Dies (John Freeman Poems)
O come you down from the far hillsWhereon you fought, triumphed and died,Men at whose names the quick blood thrillsAnd ...
To G. G. (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
AN AUTOGRAPH.Graceful in name and in thyself, our riverNone fairer saw in John Ward's pilgrim flock,Proof that upon their century-rooted ...
Italy (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.HOW must the Seasons smile in Arno's vale,The milder Climate of Italian groves,Where the soft Zephyrs and the morning galeBreathe ...
Once In Winter-Time In England (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
Once in winter-time in EnglandWhen the snow lay on the ground,As a child walked near a garden,Let me tell you ...
To Seem the Stranger Lies My Lot (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems)
To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life Among strangers. Father and mother dear, Brothers and sisters are in ...
Sonnet LXIV. Written At Ghent. (Henry Alford Poems)
Alas for England, if her native hearts Were only to be won by stately towers, Or oft--recurring chime of many parts, With lively ...
Absence (John Drinkwater Poems)
This was a fair land For the young soul to find,Whose orchards are renewed And blossom in the mind. Far wave, far heaven, ...
To Samuel E. Sewall And Harriet W. Sewall Of Melrose (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
OLOR ISCANUS queries: "Why should weVex at the land's ridiculous miserie?"So on his Usk banks, in the blood-red dawnOf England's ...
Sonnet XLIV. Written In An Interval Of Melancholy Foreboding Respecting The Church. (Henry Alford Poems)
Herbert and Crashaw, and that other name Now dear as those, of him beneath whose eye Arose ``the second Temple's'' honoured frame, After ...
To The Prussians Of England (Ivor Gurney Poems)
When I remember plain heroic strengthAnd shining virtue shown by Ypres pools,Then read the blither written by knaves for foolsIn ...