The River Of Dreams (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
The river of dreams runs quietly down From its hidden home in the forest of sleep, With a measureless motion calm and ...
Fairness Poems (7680 Poems)
The Gascon Punished (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A GASCON (being heard one day to swear,That he'd possess'd a certain lovely fair,)Was played a wily trick, and nicely ...
The Parting Of Decourcy And Wilhelmine (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
(Written in her fourteenth year.)Lo! enthron'd on golden clouds,Sinks the monarch of the day;Now yon hill his glory shrouds,And his ...
Eclogue 1: Meliboeus Tityrus (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
MELIBOEUSYou, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopyReclining, on the slender oat rehearseYour silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,And home's familiar ...
The Tri-Portrait (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
'Twas a rich night in June. The air was all Fragrance and balm, and the wet leaves were stirred By the soft ...
The Singing Leaves (James Russell Lowell Poems)
A BALLADI'What fairings will ye that I bring?' Said the King to his daughters three;'For I to Vanity Fair am bound,Now ...
Dead Waves (Ondas Muertas) (Manuel Gutierrez Najera Poems)
In the deep darkness underneath the groundThat never has been reached by mortal sight,There silent currents of black water glideIn ...
Little Nellie In The Prison (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HUGH FALCON learned this happy truth one day;('Twas a fair noontide in the month of May)--When, as the chaplain of ...
Vox Populi (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
Yea peoples of the earth, put not your trustIn princes, nor in any child of manSet over you in lordship, ...
Daphne to Apollo. Imitated From The First Book Of Ovid’s Metamorphosis (Matthew Prior Poems)
Apollo.Abate, fair fugitive, abate thy speed,Dismiss thy fears, and turn thy beauteous head;With kind regard a panting lover view;Less swiftly ...
Ecologue I (Virgil Poems)
MELIBOEUS, TITYRUSMeliboeus.You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopyReclining, on the slender oat rehearseYour silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,And home's ...
Butterfly And Honey-Bee (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Who painted thy wings for a vision, a pageant of summer,Butterfly gay?Who made thee, thou hovering silence for ever at ...
A Ballad of Death (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears,Girdle thyself with sighing for a girthUpon the sides of mirth,Cover thy ...
The Song Of The Forest (John Freeman Poems)
ITo Thee, Most Holy, Most Obscure, light-hidden,Shedding light in the darkness of the mindAs gold beams wake the air to ...
Thelema and Macareus (Voltaire Poems)
Thelema's lively, all admireHer charms, but she's too full of fire;Impatience ever racks her breast,Her heart a stranger is to ...
Catterskill Falls (William Cullen Bryant Poems)
Midst greens and shades the Catterskill leaps,From cliffs where the wood-flower clings;All summer he moistens his verdant steepsWith the sweet ...
The Armada (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise;I tell of the thrice famous deeds she wrought in ...
Haverhill (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
1640-1890.O river winding to the sea!We call the old time back to thee;From forest paths and water-waysThe century-woven veil we ...
Ode I: The Remonstrance (Mark Akenside Poems)
If, yet regardful of your native land,Old Shakespeare's tongue you deign to understand,Lo, from the blissful bowers where heaven rewardsInstructive ...
Cito Pede Preterit Aetas (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
A mellower light doth Sol afford,His meridian glare has pass'dAnd the trees on the broad and sloping swardTheir length'ning shadows ...
Advice, To Have One’s Conversation and Demeanour Always According To The Rules Of The Gospel (Rees Prichard Poems)
Be thy demeanour of the Christian sort,Be it obliging, affable, and right,In ev'ry place to which thou may'st resort,As is ...
The Passions (William Collins Poems)
An Ode for MusicWhen Music, heavenly maid, was young,While yet in early Greece she sung,The Passions oft, to hear her ...
Roses Of June (Marietta Holley Poems)
She sat in the cottage door, and the fair June moon looked down On a face as pure as its own, ...
Saint Edmond’s Eve (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Oh! did you observe the Black Canon pass,And did you observe his frown?He goeth to say the midnight mass,In holy ...
Ode to the Cambro-Brito (Michael Drayton Poems)
Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance; Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the ...
The Patriot’s Game (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I.TEAR down the crape from the column! Let the shaft stand white and fair!Be silent the wailing music-there is no ...
A Man Meets A Woman In The Street (Randall Jarrell Poems)
Under the separated leaves of shadeOf the gingko, that old treeThat has existed essentially unchangedLonger than any other living tree,I ...
On Mr. Abraham Cowley, His Death, And Burial Amongst The Ancient Poets (John Denham Poems)
Old Chaucer, like the morning star,To us discovers day from far;His light those mists and clouds dissolved,Which our dark nation ...
Melrose Abbey (John Wilson Poems)
It was not when the sun through the glittering sky,In summer's joyful majesty,Looked from his cloudless height;-It was not when ...
The Isle Of Voices (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The wind blew free that morn that we, High-hearted, sailed away; Bound for Favonian islands blest, Remote within the utmost West, Beyond the golden ...