Gaudeamus Igitur (Margaret Louisa Woods Poems)
Come, no more of grief and dying! Sing the time too swiftly flying. Just an hour Youth's in flower, Give me roses to remember In ...
Failure Poems (658 Poems)
The Familist’s Hymn (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Father! to Thy suffering poorStrength and grace and faith impart,And with Thy own love restoreComfort to the broken heart!Oh, the ...
The Skyline Riders (Henry Lawson Poems)
Against the light of a dawning white My Skyline Riders stand-There is trouble ahead for a dark year dead And the selfish ...
Dolce Far Niente (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IOver the bay as our boat went sailing Under the skies of Augustine,Far to the East lay the ocean paling Under the ...
The Ride To The Lady (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
"Now since mine even is come at last,—For I have been the sport of steel,And hot life ebbeth from me ...
Mon-Daw-Min (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
OR, THE ORIGIN OF THE INDIAN-CORN.Cherry bloom and green buds bursting Fleck the azure skies;In the spring wood, hungering, thirsting, Faint an ...
The Flag (Julia Ward Howe Poems)
There's a flag hangs over my threshold, whose folds are more dear to meThan the blood that thrills in my ...
Thoughts Fer The Discuraged Farmer (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
The summer winds is sniffin' round the bloomin' locus' trees;And the clover in the pastur is a big day fer the ...
Unarmed Combat (Henry Reed Poems)
In due course of course you will all be issued withYour proper issue; but until tomorrow,You can hardly be said ...
Offering (Kenneth Allott Poems)
I offer you my forests and my street-criesWith hands of double-patience under the clock,The antiseptic arguments and liesUttered before the ...
The Diplomatic Platypus (Patrick Barrington Poems)
I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity,With whom I soon discovered a remarkable affinity.He used to ...
Ichabod (Janet Hamilton Poems)
A panting messenger of woe and dread,His garments torn, and dust upon his head,His wounded feet with blood and travel ...
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 ...
All For The Cause (William Morris Poems)
Hear a word, a word in season,for the day is drawing nigh,When the Cause shall call upon us,some to live, ...
To The South (Maurice Thompson Poems)
O subtle, musky, slumbrous clime!O swart, hot land of pine and palm,Of fig, peach, guava, orange, lime,And terebinth and tropic ...
The Origin Of Yankee Doodle. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Once in a time old Johnny Bull Flew in a raging fury,And swore that Jonathan should have No trials, sir, by jury;That ...
Farewell To Malta (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Adieu, ye joys of La Valette!Adieu, sirocco, sun, and sweat!Adieu, thou palace rarely enter'd!Adieu, ye mansions where I've ventured!Adieu, ye ...
Drawing Nearer (Lucy Larcom Poems)
ARE we daily drawing nearerThee, the Perfect, the Unseen?Grows the pathway ever clearer,Stretching sense and God between?Thine own messengers beside ...
The Haunted House (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThe shadows sit and stand about its doorLike uninvited guests and poor;And all the long, hot summer dayThe grating locust ...
The Evening Before My Brother’s Fifty-Third Birthday (Jared Barhite Poems)
Dear Brother, how the time speeds on And leaves its trace upon our forms; The days of sunny youth are gone And age ...
Thoughts About Eternity (Kazys Boruta Poems)
After an unsuccessful trip to eternityI returned to old Vilnius, my native city,and put up in a flat built not ...
The Ghost of Ribblesdale Place, Preston (Phoebe Hesketh Poems)
Where are they gonewho lived in the street where I was born?After the vans moved outdevelopers, accountants, insurance brokersmoved in ...
To Promise Is One Thing To Keep It, Another (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain; Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs All potent spells her heart to gain The ardent ...
When the Bear Comes Back Again (Henry Lawson Poems)
Oh, the scene is wide an' dreary an' the sun is settin' red,An' the grey-black sky of winter's comin' closer ...
Attainment (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
ON the Heights of Great Endeavour,- Where Attainment looms forever,- Toiling upward, ceasing never, Climb the fateful Centuries: Up the difficult, dark places, Joy and ...
The Three Urns (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LIST to an Arab parable, whereinThe beauty of the Orient fancy shrinesA star-like truth, the iconoclastic WestIs blind to see, ...
David’s Lament For Jonathan (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
Thou wast hard pressed, yet God concealed this thing From me; and thou wast wounded very sore,And beaten down, O son ...
For One Night Only (A Tragedy) (P G Wodehouse Poems)
I met him in a crowd;As if with care 'twas weighted,His shapely back was bowed,His brow was corrugated.I asked him, ...
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (Martin Luther Poems)
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:For still ...
Charge Of “The Black-Horse” (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Our columns are broken, defeated, and fled;We are gathered, a few from the flying and dead,Where ...