The Hut by the Black Swamp (Henry Kendall Poems)
Now comes the fierce north-easter, bound About with clouds and racks of rain,And dry, dead leaves go whirling round In rings of ...
English Poems (766 Poems)
The Dream Ring Of The Desert (J Milton Hayes Poems)
THE MERCHANT Abu Khan shunned the customs of his race,And sought the cultured wisdom of the West.His daughter fair Leola ...
Song and Science: “The Twilight of the Poets” (Milicent Washburn Shinn Poems)
SPIRIT of song, whose shining wings have borneOur souls of old to many a clear blue height,Comes there the day ...
A Christmas Carol (Alfred Austin Poems)
Hark! In the air, around, above,The Angelic Music soars and swells,And, in the Garden that I love,I hear the sound ...
The Impecunious Fop (Joseph Hall Poems)
See'st thou how gaily my young master goes, Vaunting himself upon his rising toes; And pranks his hand upon his dagger's side; And ...
Epitaph On Miss Stanley, In Holyrood Church, Southampton (James Thomson Poems)
E. S.Once a lively image of human nature, Such as God made itWhen he pronounced every work of his to be ...
Black Kate (Henry Kendall Poems)
KATE, they say, is seventeen- Do not count her sweet, you know.Arms of her are rather lean- Ditto, calves and feet, you ...
Athenasia (Oscar Wilde Poems)
To that gaunt House of Art which lacks for naughtOf all the great things men have saved from Time,The withered ...
To my dead friend Ben Johnson (Henry King Poems)
I see that wreath which doth the wearer arm'Gainst the quick strokes of thunder, is no charmTo keep off deaths ...
A Business Transaction (James Jeffrey Roche Poems)
To Amsterdam and its Commodore,I over his pipe and his eau-de-vie,A flibote skimming the Texel shoreBrought serious news for the ...
After The Lecture On Spion Kop (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
"Man, Blake was fine: ev'ry word that he spokeSnapped out like the crack of a whip.D ye mind where he ...
“The Wishing Star.” (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
Day floated down the sky; a perfect day,Leaving a footprint of pale primrose goldAlong the west, that when her lover, ...
An Australian Paean-1876 (Marcus Clarke Poems)
The English air is fresh and fair,The Irish fields are green;The bright light gleams o'er Scotland's streams,And glows her hills ...
Biftek Aux Champignons (Henry Augustin Beers Poems)
MIMI, do you remember- Don't get behind your fan- That morning in September On the cliffs of Grand Manan, Where to the shock of ...
A Good Time Going! (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
BRAVE singer of the coming time,Sweet minstrel of the joyous present,Crowned with the noblest wreath of rhyme,The holly-leaf of Ayrshire's ...
The Drums of Battersea (Henry Lawson Poems)
They can't hear in West o' London, where the worst dine with the best-Deaf to all save lies and laughter, ...
At A Vatican Exercise (excerpt) (John Milton Poems)
The Latin speeches ended, the English thus beganHail native language, that by sinews weakDidst move my first endeavouring tongue to ...
Eiplogue (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SPOKEN FOR 'SHE STOOPSTO CONQUER'THERE is a place, so Ariosto sings,A treasury for lost and missing ...
Keeping His First Wife Now (Henry Lawson Poems)
IT'S OH! for a rivet in marriage bonds, And a splice in the knot untied-The sanctity of the marriage tie Is growing ...
To F. C. In Memoriam Palestine, ’19 (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
Do you remember one immortal Lost moment out of time and space, What time we thought, who passed the portal Of that divine ...
After The Battle (Richard Chenevix Trench Poems)
WE crown'd the hard-won heights at length,Baptiz'd in flame and fire;We saw the foeman's sullen strength,That grimly made retire-Saw close ...
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 ...
Auld Mither Scotland (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Scotland, the land of all I love, The land of all that love me;Land whose green sod my youth hath trod, Whose ...
The Oceanides I (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
THE OUTWARD-BOUND SHIPShe is on her way, a goodly ship, With her tacklings loosed, her pilot gone;Behind, beneath, around, the deep, And ...
Do You Think That I Do Not Know? (Henry Lawson Poems)
They say that I never have written of love,As a writer of songs should do;They say that I never could ...
The Occasion of the Law Suit. chapter I (John Arbuthnot Poems)
I need not tell you of the great quarrels that have happened in ourneighbourhood since the death of the late ...
The Western (Herbert Ashley Asquith Poems)
THOR draws a chord invisible Across the shaking sky:I hear the tearing of the shell, The bullets sing and cry,As, charging through ...
The Australian Slanguage (William Thomas Goodge Poems)
'Tis the everyday AustralianHas a language of his own,Has a language, or a slanguage,Which can simply stand alone.And a 'dickon ...
Heart it is, not a brick or stone (Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Khan Poems)
Dil Hi To Hai Na Sang-o-KhistDard Se Bhar Na Aaye Kyon?Royenge Hum Hazaar BaarKoyee Hamein Sataye Kyon?Dair Nahin, Haram Nahin,Dar ...
Oak and Olive (James Elroy Flecker Poems)
IThough I was born a Londoner,And bred in Gloucestershire,I walked in Hellas years agoWith friends in white attire:And I remember ...