Bethlehem (Michael Fairless Poems)
The AngelsSoft and slow, soft and slow,With angels' wings of fire and snow,To rock Him gently to and fro.Fire to ...
Fathers Poems (4146 Poems)
The Battle-Cry Of The South (James Ryder Randall Poems)
Arm yourselves and be valiant men, and see that ye be in readiness againstthe morning, that ye may fight with ...
Our Country (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WE give thy natal day to hope,O Country of our love and prayer!Thy way is down no fatal slope,But up ...
By the Cliffs of the Sea (Henry Kendall Poems)
In a far-away glen of the hills, Where the bird of the night is at rest,Shut in from the thunder that ...
In Memoriam. Charles Olives Baylis, M.D. (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Late Medical Officer of Health for West Kent, and formerly ofBirkenhead_.DIED DECEMBER 12TH, 1884.Broken the silver cord! the harp unstrung!And ...
Cromwell (Henry Lawson Poems)
They took dead Cromwell from his grave, And stuck his head on high;The Merry Monarch and his men, They laughed as they ...
Under Sentence (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
PLACE--Scotland. TIME--Thirteenth Century.OFF! off! no treacherous priest for me!What's Heaven? what's Hell? Eternity!It hath no meaning to mine ear.Unless--Stay, father! ...
Epistle From Mrs. Yonge To Her Husband (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
Think not this paper comes with vain pretenseTo move your pity, or to mourn th'offense.Too well I know that hard ...
The Ballad of the Rousabout (Henry Lawson Poems)
A Rouseabout of rouseabouts, from any land-or none-I bear a nick-name of the bush, and I'm-a woman's son;I came from ...
Five Letters To My Mother (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
Good morning sweetheart.Good morning my Saint of a sweetheart.It has been two year mothersince the boy has sailedon his mythical ...
The Christmas Sheaf (Phoebe Cary Poems)
"Now, good-wife, bring your precious hoard,"The Norland farmer cried,"And heap the hearth, and heap the board,For the blessed Christmas-tide."And bid ...
My Father, Mother, Brothers, Sisters (John Pierpont Poems)
They are all gone, but one.—A daughter and a sonWere, from my parents, early taken away;And my own childhood's joyWas ...
Aphrodite (From Sappho) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Throned on the rainbow, goddess Aphrodite,Daughter of Zeus, wile-weaver, I beseech thee,Neither with fears nor sorrows, O thou dread one, Thrall ...
Dialogues (Pietro Aretino Poems)
ANTONIA What did you see? Tell me, please!NANNA In the cell I saw four sisters, the General, and the three ...
Lamentin’ An Repentin’ (John Hartley Poems)
Awst be better when spring comes, aw think, But aw feel varry sickly an waik,Awve noa relish for mait nor for ...
When The Grain Is Golden and The Wind Is Chilly Then it is Time To Harvest (Nick Carbo Poems)
Leron-leron sinta, umakyat sa papayaDala-dala'y buslo', sisidlan ng bungaIn a dusty village in Cagayan Valley,Ramon and his father were planting ...
My Angel (Marietta Holley Poems)
Last night she came unto me, And kneeling by my side,Laid her head upon my bosom, My beautiful, my bride;My lost one, ...
To The Museum Committee (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
O ye in power, thus placed to ministerTo every pressing local, social claim,Of those who gave you this authority,Trusting you ...
An Address Of An Ex-Confedera (Maurice Thompson Poems)
II was a rebel, if you please,A reckless fighter to the last,Nor do I fall upon my kneesAnd ask forgiveness ...
His Dowter Gate Wed (John Hartley Poems)
He'd had his share ov ups an daans, His sprees an troubles too;Ov country joys an life i' taans, He'd run th' ...
Ritner (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THANK God for the token! one lip is still free,One spirit untrammelled, unbending one knee!Like the oak of the mountain, ...
An Old Master (Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis Poems)
We were cartin' lathes and palin's from the slopes of Mount St. Leonard,With our axles near the road-bed and the ...
Seele Im Raum (Randall Jarrell Poems)
It sat between my husband and my children.A place was set for it-a plate of greens.It had been there: I ...
Fall Of Superstition (Nathan Covington Brooks Poems)
A Prize PoemThe star of Bethlehem rose, and truth and lightBurst on the nations that reposed in night,And chased the ...
An Eastern Legend (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
Who in Bagdad knows not Jaffar, the Sun of the Universe?One day, many years ago (he was yet a youth), ...
Fable L: The Hare and Many Friends (John Gay Poems)
Friendship, like love, is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame. The child, whom many fathers share, Hath seldom known ...
On The Shores Of The Sea Of Galilee (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
The twelve Apostles sought the Master's face,And told Him all that they had said and done :But people thronged Him ...
Spring: Tuesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
'Tis now the solemn hour when spirits comeTo alarm credulity—'tis now the hourWhen disembodied ghosts have awful powerTo burst the ...
Ned the Larrikin (Henry Kendall Poems)
A SONG that is bitter with grief-a ballad as pale as the lightThat comes with the fall of the leaf, ...
Palestine (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Blest land of Judea! thrice hallowed of song,Where the holiest of memories pilgrim-like throng;In the shade of thy palms, by ...