Loch Uisk, Isle Of Mull (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
Yon vale among the mountains, So sheltered from the sea,That lake which lies so lonely, Shall tell their tale to thee.Here stood ...
Fate & Destiny Poems (4950 Poems)
The Legend (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Hail to the Man, whom sacred thirst of FameAmongst the stars enroll'd a shining Name!In whose great Soul Apollo fix'd ...
D (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Man was made of social earth,Child and brother from his birth;Tethered by a liquid cordOf blood through veins of kindred ...
The Shepherd’s Week : Wednesday; or, The Dumps (John Gay Poems)
Sparabella.The wailings of a maiden I recite,A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight.Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat,Nor the ...
The Black Rock (John Gould Fletcher Poems)
To Thomas HardyIOff the long headland, threshed about by round-backed breakers,There is a black rock, standing high at the full ...
Epilogue to Schiller’s Song of the Bell (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
To this city joy reveal it! Peace as its first signal peal it! (Song of the Bell—concluding lines.)AND so it proved! The ...
Prometheus-Christ (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
LASHED to the planet, glaring at the sky,An eagle at his heart-the Pagan Christ!Why is it, Mystery? O, dumb Darkness, ...
Patient Mercy Jones (James Thomas Fields Poems)
Let us venerate the bonesOf patient Mercy Jones,Who lies underneath these stones.This is her story as once told to meBy ...
The Passing Of Cadieux (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
THAT man is brave who at the nod of fateWill lay his life a willing offering down,That they who loved ...
The Beauteous Terrorist (Sir Henry Parkes Poems)
Soft as the morning's pearly light,Where yet may rise the thunder-cloud,Her gentle face was ever brightWith noble thought and purpose ...
Hannah Thomburn (Henry Lawson Poems)
They lifted her out of a story Too sordid and selfish by far,They left me the innocent glory Of love that was pure ...
On A Country Life (James Thomson Poems)
I hate the clamours of the smoky towns,But much admire the bliss of rural clowns;Where some remains of innocence appear,Where ...
October (May Swenson Poems)
1A smudge for the horizonthat, on a clear day, showsthe hard edge of hills andbuildings on the other coast.Anchored boats ...
The Spleen (Matthew Green Poems)
This motley piece to you I send,Who always were a faithful friend;Who, if disputes should happen hence,Can best explain the ...
The Peasant And His Angry Lord (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
ONCE on a time, as hist'ry's page relates,A lord, possessed of many large estates,Was angry with a poor and humble ...
Hope’s Invitation (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
The shades of the Night are now fading away,And Morn in her balmy effulgence is seen ;The lark pours his ...
The Vision. Canto First. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
ON Kilda's rock a man of pensive mien,Sat thoughtful, gazing on the restless deep,And as he mark'd with what a ...
Elegy XIII: His Parting From Her (John Donne Poems)
SINCE she must go, and I must mourn, come night,Environ me with darkness, whilst I write ;Shadow that hell unto ...
Edward Of Walham Green; Or, The Reward Of Duty And Valour (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
YOUNG Edward was a noble youth,A finer ne'er was seen;He was his aged gran-dam's pride,And lov'd by all the green.Yet ...
The Clyster (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try;To found our tales on what we can rely;Th' experiment repeatedly I've made,And ...
A Speech Against Peace At The Close Committee (John Denham Poems)
But will you now to peace incline, And languish in the main design, And leave us in the lurch? I would not monarchy ...
A Psalm Of Councel (Joseph Furphy Poems)
Though some good folks may take it ill,As trifling with parsonic frill,Thus saith the Lord to Jim and Bill,In admonition ...
Persephone (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Subject given—“Light and Shade.”She stepped upon Sicilian grass, Demeter’s daughter fresh and fair,A child of light, a radiant lass, And gamesome as ...
A Legend Of The Hartz (George W Sands Poems)
Many ages ago, near the high Hartz, there dweltA rude race of blood-loving giants, who feltNo joy but the fierce ...
To A Lady Who Commanded Me To Send Her An Account In Verse (Mary Barber Poems)
How I succeed, you kindly ask;Yet set me on a grievous Task,When you oblige me to rehearse,The Censures past upon ...
A Strange Stooary (John Hartley Poems)
Aw know some fowk will call it crime, To put sich stooaries into ryhme,But yet, contentedly aw chime Mi simple ditty:An if ...
A poem On Contentment (Janet Little Poems)
INSCRIBED TO JANET NICOL, A POOR OLD WAN-DERING WOMAN, WHO LIVES BY THE WALLAT LOUDOUN AND USED SOMETIMES TOBE VISITED ...
Destiny (Harrison Smith Morris Poems)
OUR many years are made of clay and cloud, And quick desire is but as morning dew;And love and life, that ...
Attention please! Attention please! (Roald Dahl Poems)
'Attention please! Attention please!Don't dare to talk! Don't dare to sneeze!Don't doze or daydream! Stay awake!Your health, your very life's ...
The Crane (Wilfred Wilson Gibson Poems)
The biggest crane on earth, it liftsTwo hundred ton more easilyThan I can lift my heavy head:And when it swings, ...