The Lament Of Yasmini, The Dancing-Girl (Laurence Hope Poems)
Ah, what hast thou done with that Lover of mine? The Lover who only cared for thee?Mine for a handful of ...
Fairness Poems (7680 Poems)
The Flower’s Lesson (Louisa May Alcott Poems)
There grew a fragrant rose-tree where the brook flows, With two little tender buds, and one full rose; When the sun went ...
Eclogue V (Virgil Poems)
MENALCAS, MOPSUSMenalcas.Why, Mopsus, being both together met,You skilled to breathe upon the slender reeds,I to sing ditties, do we not ...
How Prince Arthur Was Welcomed To Pembroke (Nora Pembroke Poems)
Do you know the town Pembroke so loyal and longAnd so worthy the praise of a poet in song?Nestled down ...
In Memoriam: Alice Fane Gunn Stenhouse (Henry Kendall Poems)
The grand, authentic songs that rollAcross grey widths of wild-faced sea,The lordly anthems of the Pole,Are loud upon the lea.Yea, ...
Venetian Epigrams (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
URN and sarcophagus erst were with life adorn'd by the heathenFauns are dancing around, while with the Bacchanal troopChequerd circles ...
The Phantom Bride (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
The worn bird of Freedom had furled o'er our land The shattered wings, pierced by the despot's rude hand, And stout hearts ...
To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison (Thomas Tickell Poems)
If, dumb too long, the drooping Muse hath stay'd,And left her debt to Addison unpaid;Blame not her silence, Warwick, but ...
An Eclogue (Thomas Parnell Poems)
Now early shepheards ore ye meadow pass,And print long foot-steps in the glittering grass;The Cows unfeeding near the cottage stand,By ...
Colin’s Mistakes. Written In Imitation Of Spenser’s Style (Matthew Prior Poems)
Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred,(Ye Nymphs, for every guard that sacred stream)To Wimple's woody shade his ...
Epilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken For ‘She Stoops To Conquer’ (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
'Enter' MRS. BULKLEY,'who curtsies very low as beginning to speak.Then enter' MISS CATLEY,'who stands full before her, and curtsies to ...
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 ...
A Dream Of Other Days (John Russell Hayes Poems)
I fell asleep upon a summer's dayAs on a shady woodland bank I lay,And as I slept there came to ...
To A Young Lady (John Trumbull Poems)
In vain, fair Maid, you ask in vain,My pen should try th' advent'rous strain,And following truth's unalter'd law,Attempt your character ...
The Child And The Dew-Drops (in memory of a lost son). (John Critchley Prince Poems)
"O dearest mother! tell me, pray, Why are the dew-drops gone so soon?Could they not stay till close of day,To sparkle ...
Effie: A Ballad (Janet Hamilton Poems)
She was wearin' awa'! she was wearin' awa'!Wi' the leaves in October, we thocht she wad fa',For her cheek was ...
Epithalamion Made At Lincoln’s Inn (John Donne Poems)
IHAIL sun-beams in the east are spread ;Leave, leave, fair bride, your solitary bed ; No more shall you return to ...
The Shepherd’s Week : Wednesday; or, The Dumps (John Gay Poems)
Sparabella.The wailings of a maiden I recite,A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight.Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat,Nor the ...
A Sweet Little Dear (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
I always was a remarkable child; so old for my age, and such a sensitive nature!-Mamma often says so.And I'm ...
The Mice. A Tale – To Mr. Adrian Drift (Matthew Prior Poems)
Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion,And, what is more, good education,Frolic and gay, in infant yearsEqually shared their parents' ...
An Out-Worn Sappho (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
How tired I am! I sink down all alone Here by the wayside of the Present. Lo,Even as a child I ...
The Black Destrier. A Ballad Of The Third Crusade (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
FIRST 'mid the lion Richard's host,Sir Aymer fought in Holy Land;And they loved him well for his honest heart,And they ...
Eclogue 6: To Varus (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
First my Thalia stooped in sportive moodTo Syracusan strains, nor blushed withinThe woods to house her. When I sought to ...
The Pleasures Of Contemplation (Mary Whateley Poems)
Light my lone passage thro' this vale of life,And raise the seige of Care! This silent hourTo thee is sacred, ...
A Picture Of Domestic Happiness (Juan Boscan Poems)
This peace that makes a happy life,-- And that is mine through my sweet wife; Beginning of my soul, and end, I've gained ...
Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds (John Keats Poems)
Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed,There came before my eyes that wonted threadOf shapes, and shadows, and ...
Unspoken Language (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
LANGUAGE is slow. The mastery of wantsDoth teach it to the infant, drop by drop,As brooklets gather.Years of studious toilUnfold ...
Pats Of Butter (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Fairies can hide anywhere,Up and down, and in and out,'Neath the cushion of a chair,In a teapot's empty spout;They can ...
Muley Malek, The King (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
THUNDER of guns, and cries-banners and spears and blood!Troops have died where they stood holding the vantage points-They have raced ...