Out In The Cold (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
Out from a narrow, crowded street,Sick'ning resort of shame and crime, Wearing upon her brow a curse,Out in the darkness, lost ...
Fate & Destiny Poems (4950 Poems)
The Virtues Of Sid Hamet The Magician’s Rod (Jonathan Swift Poems)
The rod was but a harmless wand, While Moses held it in his hand;But, soon as e'er he laid it down,Twas ...
A Revery (Katherine Philips Poems)
DEATH is a leveller; beauty and kings,And conquerours, and all those glorious things,Are tumbled to their graves in one rude ...
Superstition (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
I ain't superstitious,But dis I sho' do know,Dat ef a rooster walks his se'f upEn crows right in y'o do',Dar's ...
Ballad Of The Old Cypress (Du Fu Poems)
In front of the temple of Chu-ko Liang there is an old cypress. Its branchesare like green bronze; its roots ...
British Association, Notes Of The President’s Address (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
In the very beginnings of science, the parsons, who managed things then,Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in ...
Monsieur D’Alveron. An Incident, Founded On Fact (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Poor Monsieur d'Alveron! I well rememberThe day I visited his ruinous cot,And heard the story of his fallen fortunes.It was ...
Fifty Years (1863-1913) (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
O brothers mine, to-day we standWhere half a century sweeps our ken,Since God, through Lincoln's ready hand,Struck off our bonds ...
To My Georgie (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
MY cousin, I am gazing on thee now,And well I mark, with soul of joy and pride,The changing beauty of ...
The Old Woman (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I was walking over a wide plain alone.And suddenly I fancied light, cautious footsteps behind my back…. Someone was walking ...
To The Commodore Of The Russian Squadron (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Bound For Kamtschatka, Now Lying In The Harbour Of PortJackson.HAIL! Chieftain, from the distant landsThat own the Czar's imperial reign;With ...
The Padlock (Voltaire Poems)
I triumphed, love's victorious powerPrevailed, and near approached the hourWhich should have crowned our mutual flame,Just then your tyrant husband ...
Midnight-September 19, 1881 (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD.ONCE in a lifetime, we may see the veilTremble and lift, that hides symbolic things;The Spirit's vision, ...
To Hope (John Keats Poems)
When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom;When no fair dreams before my "mind's ...
The Story Of Lovers Leap (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
[At Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, one of the famous resorts of the South, may be seen the historic ...
Hymn To The Sun (Matthew Prior Poems)
Light of the World, and Ruler of the Year,With happy Speed begin Thy great Career;And, as Thou dost thy radiant ...
Fy, Let Us A’ To The Wedding (Joanna Baillie Poems)
(AN AULD SANG NEW BUSKIT.)FY , let us a' to the wedding,For they will be lilting there;For Jock's to be ...
Fameless Graves (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I WALKED the ancient graveyard's ample round,Yet found therein not one illustrious nameWedded by Death to Fame.The sea-winds moaned by ...
A Brussen Bubble (John Hartley Poems)
Bet wor a stirrin, strappin lass, Shoo lived near Woodus Moor;--An varry keen shoo wor for brass, Tho little wor her stoor.Shoo'd ...
Australia’s Pride (William Thomas Goodge Poems)
Now Pat Ahearne, of IngleburnUpon the Castlereagh,Was flush of cash and very 'flash'As shearer-persons say.At Yankee grab his luck was ...
On A Bust Of General Grant (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Strong, simple, silent are the lawsThat sway this universe, of none withstood,Unconscious of man's outcries or applause,Or what man ...
Ode XII: To Sir Francis Henry Drake, Baronet (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Behold; the Balance in the skySwift on the wintry scale inclines:To earthy caves the Dryads fly,And the bare pastures Pan ...
Come Into the Garde, Maud (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
Come into the garden, Maud,For the black bat, Night, has flown,Come into the garden, Maud,I am here at the gate ...
To The Reverend Mr. Mabell, Of Cambridge (Mary Barber Poems)
Tho' great Longinus claims thy aiding Hand,And hopes, thro' thee, t'instruct a barb'rous Land,Where vile Conceits the Pow'r of Wit ...
Virgidemariu (Joseph Hall Poems)
With some pot-fury, ravish'd from their wit, They sit and muse on some no-vulgar writ: As frozen dunghills in a winter's morn, That ...
Arms And The Man – The Beginning Of The End (James Barron Hope Poems)
As some spent gladiator, struck by Death, Whose reeling vision scarce a foe defines, For one last effort gathers all his breath, England ...
St. Mark’s Eve – A Fragment (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
'Twas the Eve of St. Mark, and she stood by the church, And gazed with undaunted eyeOn the ruin'd form of ...
Under The Locusts (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
WHAT do the old men say, Sitting out of the sun? Many strange and common things, And so would any one. Locust trees are ...
The Massacre Of The Bards (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
The sunlight from the sky is swept,But, over Snowdon's summit kept, One brand of cloud yet burns,-By ghostly hands far out ...
Farewell And Defiance To Love (John Clare Poems)
Love and thy vain employs, awayFrom this too oft deluded breast!No longer will I court thy stay,To be my bosom's ...