To Mrs. Arabella Marrow, In The Country (Elizabeth Singer Rowe Poems)
Whate'er delights the verdant field,The grove, and mossy fountain yield;Whate'er the gentle, blooming spring,Or summer in their glory bring;Let them ...
Envy & Jealousy Poems (868 Poems)
Love’s Treasure House (David MacDonald Ross Poems)
I went to Love's old treasure house last night, Alone, when all the world was still — asleep, And saw ...
Christmas Eve (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
BACK UP Old Age and Wrinkled Face,Come, Selfish Grown-Up, quit the place,You Pessimist, depart!Now, Gloomy Gus and Doleful Frown,There is ...
Elliott Hawkins (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I looked like Abraham Lincoln.I was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship,But standing for the rights of property ...
The First Tooth (Charles Lamb Poems)
SISTER.Through the house what busy joy,Just because the infant boyHas a tiny tooth to show.I have got a double row,All ...
Paul To Virginia (Alice Dunbar-Nelson Poems)
FIN DE SIECLE.I really must confess, my dear,I cannot help but love you,For of all girls I ever knew,There's none ...
Xanthias Jollied (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
AD XANTHIAM PHOCEUMHorace: Book II, Ode 4._"Ne sit ancillae tibi amor pudori."_Nay, Xanthias, feel unashamed That she you love is ...
The Bullfinch (Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin Poems)
Why do you strike up songs military Fife-like, o, bullfinch, my friend?Who'll take the lead in our fight with Hell's ...
The Lodge-Room (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Don't bring into the lodge-roomAnger, and spite, and pride.Drop at the gate of the templeThe strife of the world outside.Forget ...
XXV. How to be Invincible (Ellis Walker Poems)
When any man of greater pow'r you seeInvested with the robes of dignity,In honour's gaudiest, gayest liveryDreaded by all, whose ...
Wendell P. Bloyd (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
They first charged me with disorderly conduct,There being no statute on blasphemy.Later they locked me up as insaneWhere I was ...
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing The Delaware At The Museum Of Modern Art (Frank O Hara Poems)
Now that our hero has come back to usin his white pants and we know his nosetrembling like a flag ...
Song I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
FROM THE FRENCH OF CARDINAL BERNIS. I. FRUIT of Aurora's tears, fair rose,On whose soft leaves fond zephyrs play,Oh! queen ...
Lasso A Me! (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
ALAS for me!--ah! would that it were true I did not love thee--tyrant, then would I With calmness ...
Super Flamina (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
BY the dark rolling tide of the world's troubled waters,I sat down and wept on the willowy shore;For the sin ...
Literary Jealousy (Donald Marquis Poems)
dear boss i dont seewhy you keep that ugly boston bull terrier petehanging aroundeating his head offin these hard timeshe ...
Promise This-When You be Dying (Emily Dickinson Poems)
648Promise This-When You be Dying-Some shall summon Me-Mine belong Your latest Sighing-Mine-to Belt Your Eye-Not with Coins-though they be MintedFrom ...
The Other Fellow (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Whose luck is better far than ours?The other fellow's.Whose road seems always lined with flowers?The other fellow's.Who is the man ...
Prison Song (Alan Dugan Poems)
The skin ripples over my body like moon-wooed water, rearing to escape me. Where could it find another animal as ...
Ode On Sympathy (Emma Lyon Poems)
WHERE is the fount of sweeter flow, Replenish'd by the fost'ring skies,Than that which springs at others' woe ...
Ambition (Beilby Porteus Poems)
First Envy, eldest-born of hell, embruedHer hands in blood, and taught the sons of menTo make a death which nature ...
Winding The Clock (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
When I was but a little lad, my old Grandfather saidThat none should wind the clock but he, and so, ...
A Dream Of Glory (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
True glory on the earth is seldom seen,Tho' sought by many with a jealous eye;For where the heavenly birth has ...
To My Maltese Brothers (Dun Karm Poems)
On the day of the giving of the constitutionAwake from the lethargy which made dead your heart,People of talent, of ...
The Rural Life (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
HOW happy in his reed-roof'd cot,The rural peasant's humble lot,Who with the soaring lark foregoes,At early dawn his sweet repose:Round ...
The Purple Clover (Emily Dickinson Poems)
There is a flower that Bees prefer-And Butterflies-desire-To gain the Purple DemocratThe Humming Bird-aspire-And Whatsoever Insect pass-A Honey bear awayProportioned ...
Good Counsel of Chaucer (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
Flee from the press, and dwell with soothfastness;Suffice thee thy good, though it be small;For hoard hath hate, and climbing ...
If I Had Loved You More (Aline Murray Kilmer Poems)
IF I had loved you more God would have had pity;He would never have left me here in this desolate ...
Sonnet. “Oh weary, weary world! how full thou art” (Frances Anne Kemble Poems)
Oh weary, weary world! how full thou art Of sin, of sorrow, and all evil things! In thy ...
The Metamorphose (Ben Jonson Poems)
The fairy beam upon you, The stars to glister on you; A moon of light ...