Stonewall Jackson (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE fashions and the forms of men decay,The seasons perish, the calm sunsets die,Ne'er with the same bright pomp of ...
Eternity Poems (2976 Poems)
Elegy On The Death Of Mr. Phillips (Thomas Chatterton Poems)
No more I hail the morning's golden gleam,No more the wonders of the view I sing;Friendship requires a melancholy theme,At ...
Life (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE ministering spirits from aboveDescend with energy creative fraught,They breathe on nature with the breath of love,And lo! she wakens ...
The Complaint And The Advice Of Dives, To His Five Brethren (Part 2) (Rees Prichard Poems)
A Deep and bottomless abyss,My drear and dismal dungeon is,And all its walls are rais'd so high,That none can o'er ...
Ego (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF A FRIEND.On page of thine I cannot traceThe cold and heartless commonplace,A statue's fixed and ...
From “To a Writer of the Day” (Langdon Elwyn Mitchell Poems)
TECHNIQUE Could but this be broughtInto your ken,-that the technique is thought!Escape from "Style," the notion men can useWords without thoughts,-so ...
The Lambs on the Boulder (James Wright Poems)
I hear that the Commune di Padova has an exhibition of master- pieces from Giotto to Mantegna. Giotto is the ...
On Old Cape Ann (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. ANNISQUAM Old days, old ways, old homes beside the sea; Old gardens with old-fashioned flowers aflame, Poppy, petunia, and many a name Of many ...
The Reign Of Reason (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
The day of truth is dawning. I beholdO'er darksome hills the trailing robes of goldAnd silent footsteps of the gladsome ...
Allan Herbert (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SCENE I.[The hall of a country house in Westmoreland, surrounded with portraits of the M. . . . family. Allan ...
Festus – XLIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Man's final doom conceive: the award to allEarth's tribes of souls by spirits elect, their chiefsSaintly, themselves through purifying ruleOf ...
The Grave (excerpt) (Robert Blair Poems)
While some affect the sun, and some the shade.Some flee the city, some the hermitage;Their aims as various, as the ...
Lines, Occasioned By The Death Of An Infant. (Judith Sargent Murray Poems)
To the EDITORS of the MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE.GENTLEMEN,If the effusions of the maternal heart, as a recent disappointment of long cherished ...
Death In Life (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Within my veins it beats And burns within my brain; For when the year is sad and sear I dream the dream again. Ah! ...
Hymns From The French Of Lamartine (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I. "Encore un hymne, O ma lyre Un hymn pour le Seigneur, Un hymne dans mon delire, Un hymne dans mon bonheur." One hymn more, ...
De Blanco (Whiteness) (Manuel Gutierrez Najera Poems)
What thing than the lily unstained is more white?More pure than the mystic white taper so bright?More chaste than the ...
At Washington (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WITH a cold and wintry noon-light.On its roofs and steeples shed,Shadows weaving with t e sunlightFrom the gray sky overhead,Broadly, ...
Ode To Beauty (Henry James Pye Poems)
I. Enchanting power! whose influence blest O'er Nature reigns with pleasing sway, Whose mild command each gentler breast Enraptur'd glories to obey: O give my ...
The Lincoln-Chil (James Oppenheim Poems)
Clearing in the forest,In the wild Kentucky forest,And the stars, wintry stars strewn above!O Night that is the starriestSince Earth ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 06 – Origins And Savage Period Of Mankind (Lucretius Poems)
But mortal manWas then far hardier in the old champaign,As well he should be, since a hardier earthHad him begotten; ...
An Ode Upon a Question Moved, Whether Love Should Continue Forever (Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury Poems)
Having interred her infant-birth,The watery ground that late did mourn,Was strewed with flowers for the returnOf the wished bridegroom of ...
Advice To Those Who Are Desirous Of Obtaining God’s Favour, And Forgiveness Of Their Sins (Rees Prichard Poems)
Whoe'er would have the sins forgiven,Whereby he has offended heaven,He must with diligence pursueThose useful Precepts, that ensue.Thou, first of ...
Dictated In The Presence Of The Glacier Of The Rhone (Translated From The French) (Mary Ann Carter Poems)
Oft when my mind in transformations rich,Floats tranquilly over the ocean of things,And God who's the centre of that true ...
Funeral Music (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk: beheaded 1450John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester: beheaded 1470Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers: beheaded 14831Processionals ...
Lines Written in August (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
The day of tumult, strife, defeat, was o'er;Worn out with toil, and noise, and scorn, and spleen,I slumbered, and in ...
Pygmalion (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE sculptor paused before his finished work, -A wondrous statue of divinest mould.Like Cytherea's were the rounded limbs,The hands, in ...
The Metamorphosi (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold unionShown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd;any a name ...
Epilogue To Schiller’s “Song Of The Bell” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
And so it proved! The nation felt, ere long, That peaceful signal, and, with blessings fraught, A new-born joy appeared; in gladsome ...
Spring: Friday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Sing thy Creator's praise, and ownHim greatest—wisest—God alone;He wraps himself in robes of light,And, clothed in garments pure and bright,Of ...
Elegy I (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenlypressed me against ...