The Greatest Jest (Patience Worth Poems)
That the mountains are hap-hazard strewn;That the valleys sink but by a whim;That the songs of all the birds areBut ...
Eternity Poems (2976 Poems)
Lines Addressed To A Brother, (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
Whose brilliancy of talent, strength of mind,and undeviating regard to Truth at the ageof eight years, merit admiration and applause.1.IF ...
An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife Who died and were buried together (Richard Crashaw Poems)
TO these whom death again did wedThis grave 's the second marriage-bed.For though the hand of Fate could force'Twixt soul ...
The Word (Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev Poems)
In the days when the God eternalWas declining face to the new world,By the Word they stopped the sun's inferno,And ...
Salvation Drawing Nearer (John Newton Poems)
Darkness overspreads us here,But the night wears fast away;Jacob's star will soon appear,Leading on eternal day!Now 'tis time to rouse ...
Psalm C (Rees Prichard Poems)
Come all ye nations of the earth —Come all with jollity and mirth,And with gay heart the praises singOf God ...
Summer-Like (George Orwell Poems)
Summer-like for an instant the autumn sun bursts out,And the light through the turning elms is green and clear;It slants ...
The Vow Of Love (James Avis Bartley Poems)
'Twas evening's hour of magic power, The sun went brightly down,And shadows fell as with a spell, Along the mountains brown.On high ...
The Greater Cats (Victoria Sackville-West Poems)
The greater cats with golden eyesStare out between the bars.Deserts are there, and the different skies,And night with different stars.They ...
Bagley Wood (Lionel Pigot Johnson Poems)
THE night is full of stars, full of magnificence: Nightingales hold the wood, and fragrance loads the dark. Behold, what fires august, ...
Statue (Henrikas Radauskas Poems)
The birds come closer.I can't catch them.Fog and smoke carry them.I can't bendAnd catch the fish in the fountain.I'll go ...
Mysteries of Providence (John Bowring Poems)
Lord! in the unbeginning years, Whose course is wrapt in trackless night,Ere Thou hadst launched the heavenly spheres, Or waked this wandering ...
Glad Be Our Goodbye (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
When I am gone, and swift the train has curvedBehind the bend,It may be that my light goodby has servedTo ...
Homer’s Hymn To The Sun (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Offspring of Jove, Calliope, once moreTo the bright Sun, thy hymn of music pour;Whom to the child of star-clad Heaven ...
Chorus of Fire (Robert Wadsworth Lowry Poems)
O! golden Hereafter, thine every bright rafterWill shake in the thunder of sanctified song;And every swift angel proclaim an evangel,To ...
Drapple-thorned Aphrodite, (Sappho Poems)
Dapple-throned Aphrodite,eternal daughterf God,snare-knitter! Don't, I beg you,cow my heart with grief! Come,as once when you heard my far-off cry ...
Best (Helen Hunt Jackson Poems)
Mother, I see you with your nursery light,Leading your babies, all in white,To their sweet rest;Christ, the Good Shepherd, carries ...
Waiting (John Burroughs Poems)
Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;I rave no more 'gainst time or ...
Hymn VI: Sinners, Turn, Why Will Ye Die? (John Wesley Poems)
Sinners, turn, why will ye die?God, your Maker, asks you why?God, who did your being give,Made you with himself to ...
I Am Beside Thee (Patience Worth Poems)
Touch me, mine ain!Touch me with a hand of loving.Let thy flesh bespeak me thy companionship.Behold, I am before thee ...
The Soul’s Complaint Against The Body. (From The Anglo-Saxon) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Much it behovethEach one of mortals,That he his soul's journeyIn himself ponder,How deep it may be.When Death cometh,The bonds he ...
The Road To The Bow (James David Corrothers Poems)
Ever and ever anon, After the black storm, the eternal, beauteous bow!Brother, to rosy-painted mists that arch beyond, Blithely I go.My brows ...
The True Heaven (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE bliss for which our spirits pine,That bliss we feel shall yet be given,Somehow, in some far realm divine,Some marvellous ...
Pious Pie Poem Puns (Jared Barhite Poems)
One pious afternoon in June When pyronomics held full sway, My pilot, fancy, led me on To seek new fields, piebald and gay. The ...
When She Comes (O V de L Milosz Poems)
When she comes - will her eyes go green, gray,Gray or green in the river?The hours will be new in ...
O Love of God, How Strong and True! (Horatius Bonar Poems)
O love of God, how strong and true!Eternal, and yet ever new;Uncomprehended and unbought,Beyond all knowledge and all thought.O love ...
Hymn: The earth, and all the earth contains (John Bowring Poems)
The earth, and all the earth contains, Are Thine, O Lord! Upon the seasThou reared'st the world, and it remains Subservient to ...
Wedlock: A Satire (Mehetabel Wright Poems)
Thou tyrant, whom I will not name,Whom heaven and hell alike disclaim;Abhorred and shunned, for different ends,By angels, Jesuits, beasts ...
I Found A Few Old Letters (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
XIV I found a few old letters of mine carefully hidden in thy box-a few small toys for thy memory to ...
Saturday Evening (John Newton Poems)
Safely through another week,God has brought us on our way;Let us now a blessing seek,On th' approaching Sabbath-day:Day of all ...