Love’s Likeness (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
A rose hedged with a briar.Drummond.Alas! what else is love but sorrow.Byron.THERE is softness in the dew;And in starlight trembling ...
Fairness Poems (7680 Poems)
The Son Of Dalvorig (Mihran Damadian Poems)
BRAVE son of Dalvorig, Dalvorig's son am I;Son am I of the mountain, son am I of the rock.Not like ...
Song Of Azael. (Harriet Annie Wilkins Poems)
I heard the voice of the Death Angel speak, As slowly he pass'd me by,And I saw him throw snow on ...
Inauguration Of Ashton-Under-Lyne Infirmary (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Fair town of toil, whose enterprise and powerExpand and strengthen every day and hour,To thy brave sons all honour and ...
Sydney Exhibition Cantata (Henry Kendall Poems)
Songs of morning, with your breathSing the darkness now to death;Radiant river, beaming bay,Fair as Summer, shine to-day;Flying torrent, falling ...
Oh, Life, I Have Taken You For My Lover! (Laurence Hope Poems)
Oh, Life, I have taken you for my Lover, I rent your veils and I found you fair ;If a fault ...
An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester (John Milton Poems)
This rich Marble doth enterrThe honour'd Wife of Winchester,A Vicounts daughter, an Earls heir,Besides what her vertues fairAdded to her ...
My Child (John Pierpont Poems)
I cannot make him dead! His fair sunshiny head Is ever bounding round my study-chair; Yet, when my eyes, now ...
The Little Bell (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind!His promises are naught, too oft we find;I vowed (I hope in tolerable ...
The Ballad Of The Sixty-Ninth. 1861-1911 (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
Clouds black with thunder o'er the Southern states;North, East and West a sickening fear;The Union on the dark laps of ...
Disappointment (Laurence Hope Poems)
Oh, come, Beloved, before my beauty fades, Pity the sorrow of my loneliness.I am a Rosebush that the Cypress shades, No sunbeams ...
Pleasant Street (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
'T IS Pleasant, indeed,As the letters readOn the guideboard at the crossing.Over the streetThe branches meet,Gently swaying and tossing.Through its ...
Krishna And His Three Handmaidens (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AND where he sat beneath the mystic stars,Nigh the twin founts of Immortality,That feed fair channels of the Stream of ...
The Isle of Sleep (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
In those dark mornings, deep in June, When brooding birds stir in the nest,And heavy dews slip down the leaves, And drop ...
In the Height of Fashion (Henry Lawson Poems)
SO at last a toll they'll levy For the passing fool who sings-Take the harp grown dull and heavy (With the dried ...
Lady Hamilton (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
Round Sizergh's antique, massy walls,Full frequent swept the whistling blast;It sigh'd along the spacious halls,And through the tap'stried chambers past.The ...
My Mother (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
MY dear, lost mother, it is midnight now,The sky is dark and starless, and the earthSeems bound as with a ...
Eclogue the Third Abra (William Taylor Collins Poems)
SCENE, a forest TIME, the EveningIn Georgia's land, where Tefflis' towers are seen,In distant view along the level green,While evening ...
To my Friend Mrs. Lloyd (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
My very dear friendShould never dependUpon anything clever or witty,From a poor country wightWhen attempting to write,To one in your ...
The Withered Leaf (Peter John Allan Poems)
WRITTEN FOR MY DEAR LITTLE FRIEND, J. M. A LEAFLET fair, In the summer air, Had echoed the zephyr's laugh, And smiled full bright, In ...
An Epistle From Signora F—a To A Lady (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Condemn not, Madam, as I write in Haste,My Thoughts confus'd, or any Word misplac'd.Of cens'ring Tongues I scorn the little ...
Love-Trilogy (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I.SHE stood against the Orient sun,Her face inscrutable for light;A myriad larks in unisonSang o'er her, soaring out of sight.A ...
Thanksgiving (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
When first in ancient time, from Jubal's tongueThe tuneful anthem filled the morning air,To sacred hymnings and elysian songHis music-breathing ...
To Miss Julia Dean, (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
ON SEEING HER AS JULIET.OH, thou art wondrous fair! I did not dreamThus to behold the fancy of the great,Immortal ...
At the Opera (Victor James Daley Poems)
THE CURTAIN rose-the play began-The limelight on the gay garbs shone;Yet carelessly I gazed uponThe painted players, maid and man,As ...
The Lake Of The Van (2) (Hakob Melik-Hakobian Poems)
DEEP silence everywhere-a hush profound!One might imagine nature to be dead.Sitting here mournfully, a pilgrim lone,O brilliant moon, I see ...
Coercion: A Poem For Then And Now (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
Who talks of coercion? who dares to deny A resolute people the right to be free?Let him blot out forever one ...
To his unconstant Friend (Henry King Poems)
But say thou very woman, why to meThis fit of weakness and inconstancie?What forfeit have I made of word or ...
Fair Mead Lodge (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HAIL , Fair Mead! hail, my forest glade!Thou green isle, girt around with shade!Woods, where of old with hound and ...
The Beauteous Flower – Son Of The Imprisioned Count (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
COUNT.I KNOW a flower of beauty rare,Ah, how I hold it dear!To seek it I would fain repair,Were I not ...