A Legacy (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
No living atom comes at last to naught! Active in each is still the eternal Thought: Hold fast to Being if thou ...
Eternity Poems (2976 Poems)
Autumn: Tuesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Stillness reigns—the vapours stealSlowly down the mountain's brow,And the evening shadows veilNature's face of brightness now;Flowers put off their glorious ...
Our Oldest Friend (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I GIVE you the health of the oldest friendThat, short of eternity, earth can lend,--A friend so faithful and tried ...
To His Honour the Lieutenant-G (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
All-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow'r,Hope's tow'ring plumage falls to rise no more!Of scenes terrestrial how the glories fly,Forget their ...
Summer: Monday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The evening twilight gently dies;The air is cool; the silent nightSerenely reigns; the curtain'd skiesTo contemplation's shrine invite;The labours of ...
A Chant Of Love For England (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
A song of hate is a song of Hell; Some there be that sing it well. Let them sing it loud and ...
On The Death Of Canon Kingsley (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
MORTALS there are who seem, all over, flame,Vitalized radiance, keen, intense, and high,Whose souls, like planets in it dominant sky,Burn ...
To An Oak At Newstead (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Young Oak! when I planted thee deep in the ground, I hoped that thy days would be longer than mine;That thy ...
S (Alfred Comyn Lyall Poems)
<i>Mors Janua Vitae.</i>I am the God of the sensuous fireThat moulds all Nature in forms divine;The symbols of death and ...
Winter: Tuesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The earth again puts on its evening dress;And wakening yon innumerable stars,A twilight, milder than the eye of dayAnd fairer ...
Winter: Wednesday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
The earth again puts on its evening dress;And wakening yon innumerable stars,A twilight, milder than the eye of dayAnd fairer ...
Autumn: Friday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Father! Source of light and love!Thou, whose throne of majesty,Fix'd yon thousand suns above,Gladdens all the earth with joy:Mercy-streaming, promise-beaming,Let ...
The Battle Autumn of 1862 (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The flags of war like storm birds fly, The charging trumpets blow;Yet rolls no thunder in the sky, No earthquake strives below.And, ...
Arms And The Man – Pater Patrae (James Barron Hope Poems)
Achilles came from Homer's Jove-like brain, Pavilioned 'mid his ships where Thetis trod; But he whose image dominates this plain Came from the ...
Matrimony (John Keble Poems)
There is an awe in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fearHalf of the heart will still employ, As if we drew too ...
A Conversation (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
'Neither the Jungfrau nor the Finsteraarhorn has yet been trodden by thefoot of man!'The topmost peaks of the Alps… A ...
Here And There: Or This World And The Next: Being Suitable Thoughts For A New Year (Hannah More Poems)
Here bliss is short, imperfect, insincere,But total, absolute, and perfect there.Here time's a moment, short our happiest state,There infinite duration ...
The Two Conquerors (Janet Hamilton Poems)
'Twas ancient Macedon that gave to timeThe hero, world-renown'd—his sire sublimeOlympian Jove: so said the royal dameWhose breast maternal nursed ...
1959 (Gregory Corso Poems)
Uncomprising year-I see no meaning to life.Though this abled self is here nonetheless,either in trade gold or grammaticness,I drop the ...
Autumn: Wednesday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Extinguish'd is the last lone star,The shadows of night are gone,And lo! in the east, day's golden carIs fill'd by ...
The Answer (Katherine Hale Poems)
UNALTERED aisles that wait and wait forever, O woods that gleam and stir in liquid gold,What of your little lover who ...
Beacons (Charles Baudelaire Poems)
Reubens, river of forgetfulness, garden of sloth,Pillow of wet flesh that one cannot love,But where life throngs and seethes without ...
Life And Immortality (James Beattie Poems)
"O ye wild groves, oh, where is now your bloom!"(The muse interprets thus his tender thought)Your flowers, your verdure, and ...
Dies Irae (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
On that great, that awful day,This vain world shall pass away.Thus the sibyl sang of old,Thus hath holy David told.There ...
Revelations X. 5, 6. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and uponthe earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and ...
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 ...
Hymn of The Dunkers (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
KLOSTER KEDAR, EPHRATA, PENNSYLVANIA (1738)SISTER MARIA CHRISTINA singsWake, sisters, wake! the day-star shines;Above Ephrata's eastern pinesThe dawn is breaking, cool ...
The Return Journey (Jorge Carerra Andrade Poems)
My life was a geographyI surveyed over and over again,a book of maps or dreams.In America I awakened.Were these perhaps ...
To The Old Year-1865 (Mary Baker Eddy Poems)
Pass on, returnless year! The track behind thee is with glory crowned; The turf where thou hast trod is holy ground. Pass proudly ...
The Caged Eagle (George Sterling Poems)
Dost hear the west wind calling thee afar, O thou that hast beheld the night withdrawn, And past the crystal thresholds of ...