Carcassonne (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
"I'M growing old, I've sixty years;I've labored all my life in vain:In all that time of hopes and fearsI've failed ...
Fathers Poems (4146 Poems)
Yanks (James W Foley Poems)
O'Leary, from Chicago, and a first-class fightin' man,For his father was from Kerry, where the gentle art began:Sergeant Dennis P. ...
The Observant “Eldest” Speaks (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"PA vows that all gluttony's wicked;He's always for docking my meat,And ne'er at dessert will he give meEnough of what's ...
For My Grandsons, Eddy And Ally (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
I here engageUpon this page A picture to portray,Of two of an ageYet neither a sage, But right honest hearts have they.Each ...
The Blessed Company (Lucy Larcom Poems)
GOD never meant us to be separatedFrom one another, in our work and thought;Spirits that share His Spirit He has ...
A War Wedding (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE dreamy earth is flooded o'erWith warm and hazy light,September's latest boon, beforeShe feels the hoar frost in the night;And, ...
The Sunday Rail: II (Janet Hamilton Poems)
A Scottish Summer Sabbath MorningThe still repose, the holy calmOf this blest morn, a sacred balmSheds on my world-worn weary ...
Child-Songs (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Still linger in our noon of timeAnd on our Saxon tongueThe echoes of the home-born hymnsThe Aryan mothers sung.And childhood ...
Where is it Clean (Evie Shockley Poems)
when your mother can rise from her placeon the pew during the early service,early enough that the sun barely fills ...
San Gabriel, On The Pacific Coast (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
Grey-cowled monk, whose faith so earnest Guides these Indians' childlike hearts,As their hands to toil thou turnest, Teaching them the Builder's arts,Speak ...
John IV. 24. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
God is a Spirit; and they that worship him, must worship Him in spirit and in truth.WHERE shall we worship ...
The Guile of Dad M’Ginnis (William Thomas Goodge Poems)
When M,Ginnis struck the mining camp at Jamberoora CreekHis behaviour was appreciated highly;For, although he was a quiet man, in ...
A Legend Of The Blesses Virgin (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
THE day of Joseph's marriage unto Mary,In thoughful mood he said unto his wife,Behold, I go into a far-off countryTo ...
Hymns and Odes for Temperance Occasions I (John Pierpont Poems)
Wake! wake! friends of your kind!There's a Demon, a Demon, abroad!Ye'll scent him in every breath of the wind;—Around him ...
Ode XV: On Domestic Manners (Unfinished) (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Meek honor, female shame, O! whither, sweetest offspring of the sky, From Albion dost thou fly;Of Albion's daughters once the favorite fame? O ...
In Time Of Drought (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
"The river of God is full of water."-Psalm.——————————————————————————————————————— —The rushes are black by the river bed, And the sheep and the ...
The Moon-Prayer (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
IN the azure aerial ocean the silver cloudshover; stars twinkle, stars are merry, but themoon is pale and silent.The forest ...
Young Henry (Julia A Moore Poems)
Air — "Drummer Boy of Waterloo"Young Henry was as faithful boyAs ever stood on the American soil,And he did enlist, ...
“A Noted Traveler” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Even in such a scene of senseless playThe children were surprised one summer-dayBy a strange man who called across the ...
Lamentation (Nora Pembroke Poems)
(WALTER AND FREDDIE.)From morn to eve, from evening unto morning, I mourn and cannot rest;So mourns the mother bird when home ...
Winter: Saturday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Lord! to whose being ages are but moments,Fugitive moments! Thou, Eternal Father!Listen in mercy—for life's passing shadows Soon will be scatter'd.'Tis ...
The Way I Treated Father [A Bush Song] (Henry Lawson Poems)
I WORKED with father in the bush At splitting rails and palings.He never was unkind to me, Although he "had his failings:"And ...
The Effusions Of Sorrow. March The 12th, 1807. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
O SAINTED spirit of my parent dear,Like ills with these I feel, you never knew;For under eye of loving mother ...
Song III (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Have mercy on me, my Lord,For a foe treds o'er me and strivesMindfully that time and againI be wearied by ...
My Goddess (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
SAY, which ImmortalMerits the highest reward?With none contend I,But I will give itTo the aye-changing,Ever-movingWondrous daughter of Jove.His best-beloved offspring.Sweet ...
Deism (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Must Ethiopians be employ'd for you?Much I rejoice if any good I do.I ask O unbeleiver, Satan's childHath not thy ...
The Wail Of Two Cities (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
Chicago, October 9,1871.GAUNT in the midst of the prairie,She who was once so fair;Charred and rent are her garments,Heavy and ...
The Prairie on Fire (Phoebe Cary Poems)
The long grass burned brownIn the summer's fierce heat,Snaps brittle and dry'Neath the traveller's feet,As over the prairie,Through all the ...
In Memory Of My Parents (Nettie Squire Sutton Poems)
J is for the journey he has taken,0 is only I am left to mourn;H is for the hour he ...
Matter For Gratitude (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people's thanksThat Thine avenging sword has spared our ranks-That Thou hast parted from ...