The Parting Rosary (John O Brien Poems)
They have brought the news, my darlin', that I've waited for so long.Faith, 'twas little news they brought me; every ...
Fairness Poems (7680 Poems)
Movement of Bodies (Henry Reed Poems)
Those of you that have got through the rest, I am going to rapidlyDevote a little time to showing you, ...
Verses On Our Own Flowery Kirtled Spring (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WELCOME , sweet time of buds and bloom, renewingThe earliest objects of delight, and wooingThe notice of the grateful heart! ...
England (John Russell Hayes Poems)
(To C. and M.)The day is fair, the breeze is free, The ship has crossed the bar,And you are fleeting o'er ...
The Dove (Matthew Prior Poems)
In Virgil's Sacred Verse we find,That Passion can depress or raiseThe Heav'nly, as the Human Mind:Who dare deny what Virgil ...
The Mermaid (Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom Poems)
Leaving the sea, the pale moon lights the strand. Tracing old runes, a youth inscribes the sand. And by the rune-ring waits ...
Murmurs Of A Patriot (Mugurditch Chrimian Hairig Poems)
GOD-kindled soul, brave general of the hostMade strong by Christ! New Judas Maccabeus,Chief conqueror, giving courage for the fight,Victorious alike ...
Declining Days (Henry Francis Lyte Poems)
Why do I sigh to find Life's evening shadows gathering round my way? The keen eye dimming, and the buoyant mind Unhinging day ...
The Widow (John Wilson Poems)
The courtly hall is gleaming brightWith fashion's graceful throng--All hearts are chained in still delight,For like the heaven-borne voice of ...
Saint Christopher — A Legend. (John Critchley Prince Poems)
"My limbs wax strong, my thoughts expand," Said Christopher of old,As he lay musing 'mid the hills, His flock within the fold,-"I ...
Idleness (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune Fitfully on the skylight, and the shade Of the fast flying clouds across my ...
Two Moods Of Failure (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
ITHE LAST CUP OF CANARYSo, the powder's low, and the larder's clean, And surrender drapes, with its black impending,All the stage ...
Bayonet Song (Sydney Thompson Dobell Poems)
Fire away, fire away, boys must have their play,There'll be hard work yetBefore sunset:But what of the day when the ...
The Muses Threnodie: Seventh Muse (Henry Adamson Poems)
Up springs the sun, the day is cleer and fair,(Henry Adamson)
To My Own Heart (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
I am a little world made cunningly.Donne.COME, let me sound thy depths, unquiet seaOf thought and passion; let thy wild ...
Sher Afzul (Laurence Hope Poems)
This was the tale Sher Afzul told to me, While the spent camels bubbled on their knees,And ruddy camp-fires twinkled through ...
In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbigh-shire, (Katherine Philips Poems)
I CANNOT hold, for though to write were rude,Yet to be silent were Ingratitude,And Folly too; for if PosterityShould never ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 07 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
LXXXVI'But if our sins us of his help deprive,Of his high justice let no mercy fall;Yet should our deaths us ...
Picture (Josiah Gilbert Holland Poems)
Winter's wild birthnight! In the fretful East The uneasy wind moans with its sense of cold, And sends its sighs through gloomy ...
Arms And The Man – Heroes And Statesmen (James Barron Hope Poems)
Of their great names I may record but few; He who beholds the Ocean white with sails And copies each confuses all ...
Three Songs Of Zahir-u-Din (Laurence Hope Poems)
The tropic day's redundant charms Cool twilight soothes away,The sun slips down behind the palms And leaves the landscape grey. I want to ...
The Dream of Freedom (Owen Suffolk Poems)
'Twas night, and the moonbeams palely fellOn the gloomy walls of a cheerless cell,Where a captive sought a brief reposeFrom ...
Hymn To Light (Abraham Cowley Poems)
First-born of Chaos, who so fair didst comeFrom the old Negro's darksome womb!Which, when it saw the lovely child,The melancholy ...
Arcades (John Milton Poems)
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, ...
The Last Survivor (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
YES! the vacant chairs tell sadly we are going, going fast,And the thought comes strangely o'er me, who will live ...
Disappointment (Ovid Poems)
But oh, I suppose she was ugly; she wasn't elegant;I hadn't yearned for her often in my prayers.Yet holding her ...
The Angels of Buena Vista (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Speak and tell us, our Ximena, looking northward far away,O'er the camp of the invaders, o'er the Mexican array,Who is ...
The God And The Bayadere – An Indian Legend (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
MAHADEVA, Lord of earth For the sixth time comes below,As a man of mortal birth,— Like him, feeling joy and woe.Hither loves ...
The Wooing Of Sir Keith (Howard Pyle Poems)
King Arthur sat in his royal hall, And about on either handWas many a noble lordling tall, The greatest in the land.Sat ...
In Mythic Seas (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
'Neath saffron stars and satin skies, dark-blue, Between dim sylvan isles, a happy two. We sailed, and from the siren-haunted shore, All mystic ...