Naples (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
INSCRIBED TO ROBERT C. WATERSTON, OF BOSTON.Fold her, O Father, in Thine arms, And let her henceforth be A messenger of love ...
Fathers Poems (4146 Poems)
The Hand-Organ Ball (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
When Twilight her soft robe of shadow spreads down. And hushed is the roar and the din,When Evening is cooling the ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions VIII (John Pierpont Poems)
Shall that old chamber be forgot,Where first the light divineShone on our infant Sunday School,So pleasant, but lang syne?'T was ...
The Dead Feast of the Kol-Folk (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
We have opened the door,Once, twice, thrice!We have swept the floor,We have boiled the rice.Come hither, come hither!Come from the ...
A Crushed Hero (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
On a log behind the pigsty of a modest little farm,Sits a freckled youth and lanky, red of hair and ...
Address To Mrs. WM. Anderson (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On the Early Death of her only Son."We weep with those who weep:" I sympathiseWith thee, oh mother! with the ...
A Sweet Lullaby (Nicholas Breton Poems)
Come, little babe; come, silly soul,Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,Born, as I doubt, to all our doleAnd to thyself ...
The Confederacy (Jane T H Cross Poems)
Born in a day, full-grown, our Nation stood, The pearly light of heaven was on her face;Life's early joy was coursing ...
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Hail, happy day, when, smiling like the morn,Fair Freedom rose New-England to adorn:The northern clime beneath her genial ray,Dartmouth, congratulates ...
How Jack Made The Giants Uncommonly Sore (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Of all the ill-fatedBoys ever createdYoung Jack was the wretchedest lad:An emphatic, erratic,Dogmatic fanaticWas foisted upon him as dad!From the ...
Driving Home the Cattle (Kate Putnam Osgood Poems)
Out of the clover and blue-eyed grassHe turned them into the river-lane;One after another he let them pass,Then fastened the ...
Dora (Jean Ingelow Poems)
A waxing moon that, crescent yet,In all its silver beauty set,And rose no more in the lonesome nightTo shed full-orbed ...
Ballad Of The Army Carts (Du Fu Poems)
Wagons rattling and banging,horses neighing and snorting,conscripts marching, each with bow and arrows at his hip,fathers and mothers, wives and ...
The Black Knight (Johann Ludwig Uhland Poems)
'T was Pentecost, the Feast of Gladness,When woods and fields put off all sadness.Thus began the King and spake:"So from ...
A Thanksgiving, For Relief From One’s Enemies (Rees Prichard Poems)
YE angels, and ye human sons of care!Ye heav'ns and earth, and all that in them are,Praise ye the Lord ...
Tannhauser (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
There in the garden of pleasure she lies,My fond Aphrodite, and weepsFor the lover who fled from the light of ...
The Garden of God (Janet Hamilton Poems)
In a vineyard where grape-laden boughs To the trellised wall heavily cling,Where the voice of the turtle is heard, And the song ...
The Black Knight. (From The German Of Uhland) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
'Twas Pentecost, the Feast of Gladness,When woods and fields put off all sadness,Thus began the King and spake:So from the ...
Daniel Henry Deniehy (Henry Kendall Poems)
TAKE the harp, but very softly for our brother touch the strings:Wind and wood shall help to wail him, waves ...
Dirge (John Anster Poems)
CHORUS.Like the oak of the vale was thy strength and thy height,Thy foot, like the erne of the mountain in ...
A Notable Dinner (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Once the nation's chief was honored by the company of one,Who to lift a fallen people had a work of ...
To The Detracter (John Andrewes Poems)
Think'st thou it makes thy Reputation faire,if by thy muddy tongue thou canst impaireAn other mans? looke how a murtherer ...
Lachin Y Gair (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Away, ye gay landscapes, ye garden of roses!In you let the minions of luxury rove;Restore me to the rocks, where ...
Jim (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
There was a Boy whose name was Jim;His Friends were very good to him.They gave him Tea, and Cakes, and ...
Verses – II (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
To the Memory of Mr. George Lang, Who Died in Sydney, 18thJanuary, 1825.On Board the Medway, in the British Channel.AND ...
One Of The Signers (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
O storied vale of MerrimacRejoice through all thy shade and shine,And from his century's sleep call backA brave and honored ...
Once More. A Lesson From The Bruce’s Spider (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.With six defeats half mad, The hunted Bruce in his lairAt Rachrin's Isle, all sullen and sad, Lion-like brooded there:"And must I ...
Midnight Musings (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
The gloomy night has cast a shroud Upon the dwelling-place of men;Hushed are the voices of the crowd, And silence reigns o'er ...
Upon The Disobedient Child (John Bunyan Poems)
Children become, while little, our delights!When they grow bigger, they begin to fright's.Their sinful nature prompts them to rebel,And to ...
A Song Of The Snow (John Hartley Poems)
Oh the snow,--the bright fleecy snow!Isn't it grand when the north breezes blow?Isn't it bracing the ice to skim o'er,With ...