Elegy III. On the Untimely Death of a Certain Learned Acquainance (William Shenstone Poems)
If proud Pygmalion quit his cumbrous frame,Funereal pomp the scanty tear supplies;Whilst heralds loud, with venal voice, proclaim,Lo! here the ...
Fairness Poems (7680 Poems)
The Law Of Death (John Hay Poems)
The song of Kilvani: fairest sheIn all the land of Savatthi.She had one child, as sweet and gayAnd dear to ...
Luthien Tinuviel (J. R. R. Tolkien Poems)
"The leaves were long, the grass was green,The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,And in the glade a light was seenOf stars ...
Autumn-Time (Hattie Howard Poems)
Like music heard in mellow chime, The charm of her transforming time Upon my senses steals As softly as from sunny walls, In day's ...
My Thanks, (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
ACCOMPANYING MANUSCRIPTS PRESENTED TO A FRIEND.'T is said that in the Holy LandThe angels of the place have blessedThe pilgrim's ...
Putnam (Grace Greenwood Poems)
LET the haughty smile, the low defame,The heartless worldling mock;I thank my God my fathers cameOf the good old Pilgrim ...
The Country-Seat (Mary Baker Eddy Poems)
Wild spirit of song,--midst the zephyrs at play In bowers of beauty,--I bend to thy lay, And woo, while I worship in ...
Occasion’d By Reading The Memoirs Of Anne Of Austria (Mary Barber Poems)
Ye heedless Fair, who pass the live--long Day,In Dress and Scandal, Gallantry and Play;Who thro' new Scenes of Pleasure hourly ...
Charles VII And Joan Of Arc At Rheims (Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon Poems)
A glorious pageant filled the church of the proud old city of Rheims,One such as poet artists choose to form ...
Twilight Over Mtatsminda (Nikoloz Baratashvili Poems)
O Mtatsminda ! Thou Holy Mount ! the sight does hauntThe soul to thought - a place that wilderness has ...
The Deserted Mansion (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Damp and drear the lonely halls,Faint the misty sunlight fallsThrough the casement, soil'd and dim,In the chambers, grey and grim.On ...
Too Late (John Hay Poems)
Had we but met in other days,Had we but loved in other ways,Another light and hope had shone On your life ...
Jenny Allen (Marietta Holley Poems)
I never shall hear your voice again, Your voice so gentle and lowBut the thought of you, Jenny Allen, Will go with ...
Written January First, 1792 (Janet Little Poems)
TO-DAY old wrinkl'd Time appears;A smile adorns his brow,While to our list of fleeting years,He adds the ninety-two.Our fav'rite hopes, ...
Fourth Sunday In Advent (John Keble Poems)
Of the bright things in earth and air How little can the heart embrace!Soft shades and gleaming lights are there - I ...
The Dying Year (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
With dirge-like music, low, Sounds forth again the solemn harp of Time; Mass for the buried hours, a funeral chime O'er human joy ...
A Slight Misunderstan (Henry Lawson Poems)
Oh, do you hear the argument, far up above the skies?The voice of old Saint Peter, in expostulation rise?Growing shrill, ...
Brumana (James Elroy Flecker Poems)
Oh shall I never never be home again! Meadows of England shining in the rain Spread wide your daisied lawns: your ramparts ...
The Two Brothers (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
It was a vision…Two angels appeared to me… two genii.I say angels, genii, because both had no clothes on their ...
To A Lady, Who Had Yellow Hair (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Whilst on thy Golden Locks I gaze,And what I like sincerely praise,Coldly you turn your Head away,And tax with Flattery ...
Excerpt – (Roald Dahl Poems)
'This famous wicked little taleShould never have been put on saleIt is a mystery to meWhy loving parents cannot seeThat ...
Kemp Owyne (Henry Morley Poems)
Her mother died when she was young, Which gave her cause to make great moan;Her father married the warst woman That ever ...
Beyond The Potomac (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THEY slept on the field which their valor had won,But arose with the first early blush of the sun,For they ...
Runnamede, A Tragedy. Prologue (John Logan Poems)
Before the records of renown were kept,Or theatres for dying heroes wept,The race of fame by rival chiefs was run,The ...
Elegy (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Where are ye, friend of my youth? And echo answered, 'Where!'"Where are ye, dear companions of my youth? I gaze around and ...
Australia (John Laurence Rentoul Poems)
SHE rose amid the Nations, tall and fair, The wide South seas kissed at her garment hem, Lights of new ...
Astrophel’s Song Of Phyllida And Corydon (Nicholas Breton Poems)
Fair in a morn (O fairest morn!), Was never morn so fair,There shone a sun, though not the sun That shineth in ...
Kitty’s Dream (Henry Baker Poems)
On her couch, one summer's day;Beauteous, youthful Kitty lay:Venus saw her from above,(Smiling Venus, queen of love)Amaz'd at each celestial ...
Oceanus’ Mirror, Trinity Lake, N. Y. (Jared Barhite Poems)
I've been charmed by many a picture, That has brought its master renown; I have looked on beautiful valleys From the mountain's lofty ...
A Slight Misunderstanding at the Jasper Gate (Henry Lawson Poems)
Oh, do you hear the argument, far up above the skies?The voice of old Saint Peter, in expostulation rise?Growing shrill, ...