A Riddle Song (Walt Whitman Poems)
THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind,Nor lore nor ...
Fairness Poems (7680 Poems)
James Russell Lowell (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
1819-1891THOU shouldst have sung the swan-song for the choirThat filled our groves with music till the dayLit the last hilltop ...
Farewell To Cuba (Maria Gowen Brooks Poems)
ADIEU, fair isle! I love thy bowers, I love thy dark-eyed daughters there;The cool pomegranate's scarlet flowers Look brighter in their jetty ...
Mr. Samuel Tudor, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, January 29th, 1862, aged 92.We saw him on a winter's day, Beneath the hallowed dome,Where for so many ...
Draw It Mild (Pierre Jean de Beranger Poems)
(LES PETITS COUPS) Let's learn to temper our desires, Not harshly to constrain; And since excess makes pleasure less, Why, so much more refrain. Small ...
A Memory: Banks of Calder And Cousin Dora (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Straying, musing, singing, dreaming,'Neath the leafy banners streaming,Fleck'd with golden sunbeams gleaming Through the woodland's dun;On lone Calder's banks reclining,Where the ...
Phoebe (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Ere pales in Heaven the morning star, A bird, the loneliest of its kind,Hears Dawn's faint footfall from afar While all its ...
I Am Fashion’s Toy– (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
LINES WRITTEN UPON SEEING A FASHIONABLY-DRESSEDLADY ASK A SERVANT FOR A FEW BLADES OF GRASS,WHICH SHE PLACED UPON HER BOSOMOh! ...
Story Of Lilavanti (Laurence Hope Poems)
They lay the slender body down With all its wealth of wetted hair,Only a daughter of the town, But very young and ...
Lines Suggested By A Portrait Of The Unfortunate Queen Of France (Margaret Holford Poems)
And this was she! the peerless and the bright,The false world's darling! she who did possess(And held awhile in Europe's ...
An Ember Picture (James Russell Lowell Poems)
How strange are the freaks of memory! The lessons of life we forget,While a trifle, a trick of color, In the wonderful ...
A Song Of Fatherland (Leo Alishan Poems)
WE are the sons of valiant men, Armenians great and free;Our grandsires were descended from a hero-ancestry ;Our fathers brave ...
The Enchanted Island. By Danby (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
AND there the island lay, the waves aroundHad never known a storm; for the north windWas charm'd from coming, and ...
To the ryght worthe and verteous Lady Dame Griseel Stvarte Lady Meldrum (Patrick Gordon Poems)
Madame, if I should smouther vp thy praiseFor most ingrate, thow iustlye might me blameAll eyes should sie, all tongues ...
“The World Is Given To The Wicked” (John Bowring Poems)
'Tis sometimes hard to turn our eyeUpon that wreck of hopes and dreams,Which lighted hours of ecstasyWith virtue's smiles and ...
The Return Of The Goddess (James Bayard Taylor Poems)
Not as in youth, with steps outspeeding morn, And cheeks all bright from rapture of the way, But in strange mood, half ...
The Dream (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
My dream was such: It seemed the afternoon Of some deep tropic day, and yet a moon Stood round and full with largeness ...
Life And Immortality (James Beattie Poems)
"O ye wild groves, oh, where is now your bloom!"(The muse interprets thus his tender thought)Your flowers, your verdure, and ...
The Hollow (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Fleet swallows soared and darted 'Neath empty vaults of blue; Thick leaves close clung or parted To let the sunlight through; Each wild rose, ...
To The Countess Of Loudoun (Janet Little Poems)
WILL gentle LOUDOUN deign to lend an ear,When nature speaks, and sorrow drops a tear?Within your walls my happiness I ...
The Ship’s Return (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THOU com'st, fair bark, in gallant prideThy swan-white sails exulting spread;Nor I the graceful triumph chide,For silent are the tears ...
At An Early Morning (Henry Vanderford Poems)
On Witnessing Three Sistes Depositing Flowers On The Grave Of A Friend, In St. Ann's Cemetery, Middletown, DelawareAt an early ...
The Sailor’s Song, Returning (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
The sea goes up; the sky comes down.Oh, can you spy the ancient town,-The granite hills so green and gray,That ...
Ernst Of Edelsheim (John Hay Poems)
I'll tell the story, kissing This white hand for my pains:No sweeter heart, nor falser E'er filled such fine, blue veins.I'll sing ...
Caledonia (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Fair Caledonia! honoured name!The Muse shall boast thy worth and fame;The circling seas that dash and boilAround thy shores with ...
On The Difficulty Of Attaining Poetical Excellence (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
BUT few the Delian god inspiresWith genuine true poetic fires;But few who bear the poet's name,Shall share the lasting wreath ...
On St. Crispin’s day, October 25th, 1763 (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
Come let us prepare,Jolly hearts ev'ry where,Each shoemaker sing and be merry,Let mirth now abound,And bumpers go round,Of Claret, Champaign, ...
Donald And Flora. A Ballad, On The Death Of A Friend Killed At The Battle Of Saratoga (Hector MacNeill Poems)
When many hearts were gay,Careless of aught but play,Poor Flora slipt away Sadd'ning to Mora.Loose flow'd her yellow hair,Quick heav'd her ...
Ennisfall (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
When last I took a sad farewell Of thee—my native Ennisfall,The cold pale moon-light softly fell On the grey turrets of thy ...
To A Bereaved Mother (John Quincy Adams Poems)
Sure, to the mansions of the blestWhen infant innocence ascends,Some angel, brighter than the rest,The spotless spirit's flight attends.On wings ...