Eternal Providence (John Langhorne Poems)
Light of the world, Immortal Mind;Father of all the human kind!Whose boundless eyes, that knows no rest,Intent on Nature's ample ...
Fathers Poems (4146 Poems)
On Beauty. A Riddle (Matthew Prior Poems)
Resolve Me, Cloe, what is This:Or forfeit me One precious Kiss.'Tis the first Off-spring of the Graces;Bears diff'rent Forms in ...
My Native Twang (John Hartley Poems)
They tell me aw'm a vulgar chap,An owt to goa to th' schooilTo leearn to talk like other fowk,An' net ...
Thou Hidden Love of God (Gerhard Tersteegen Poems)
Thou hidden Love of God, whose height,Whose depth unfathomed no one knows,I see from afar Thy beauteous light,And inly sigh ...
Uncle Ben (John Hartley Poems)
A gradely chap wor uncle Ben As iver lived ith' fowd:He made a fortun for hissen, An' lived on't when he'r owd.His ...
At Last (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A dark, tempestuous night; the stars shut in With shrouds of fog; an inky, jet-black blotThe firmament; and where the moon ...
A Summer Evening (Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham Poems)
It is a lovely eve. Meek Twilight nowBegins her gentle, but too short-lived, reign.The evening star glows in her radiant ...
An Idyll (Coventry Patmore Poems)
'And even our women,' lastly grumbles Ben,'Leaving their nature, dress and talk like men!'A damsel, as our train stops at ...
The Murdered Lover (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Say a mass for my soul's repose, my brother, Say a mass for my soul's repose, I need it, Lovingly lived we, ...
The Blessed (English Translation) (Gertrud Kolmar Poems)
I am in the darkness and alone.In front of me stands the door.When I open it, I am bathed in ...
Religious Reflections On Winter: The Creator To Be Praised For All Things (Mary Botham Howitt Poems)
'Tis night! Oh, now come forth to gazeUpon the heavens, intense and bright!Look on yon myriad worlds, and say,Though beauty ...
The Clear Vision (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I did but dream. I never knewWhat charms our sternest season wore.Was never yet the sky so blue,Was never earth ...
I Have No Power (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
"I have no power to change youor explain your waysNever believe a man can change a womanThose men are pretenderswho ...
The Female Genitals (Gwerful Mechain Poems)
Every foolish drunken poet,boorish vanity without ceasing,(never may I warrant it,I of great noble stock,)has always declaimed fruitless praisein song ...
The Old Homestead (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
'Tis an old deserted homestead On the outskirts of the town, Where the roof is all moss-covered, And the walls are tumbling down; But ...
Cock-Crowing (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Father of lights! what sunny seed,What glance of day hast Thou confinedInto this bird? To all the breedThis busy ray ...
My Father (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
MY father! in the vague, mysterious past,My boyish thoughts have wandered o'er and o'er,To thy lone grave upon a distant ...
A Trifle To A friend, (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
ON THE EVE OF HIS DEPARTURE FOR EUROPE.THOU'LT leave us! O'er the wild waves of the deep,Where winds in fierce ...
Death Of Captain Cooke, (William Lisle Bowles Poems)
OF 'THE BELLEROPHON,' KILLED IN THE SAME BATTLE.When anxious Spain, along her rocky shore,From cliff to cliff returned the sea-fight's ...
Opening The Gate For Papa (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
Hurrying out to the gateway Go two little pattering feet;Eagerly out through the palings Peer two eyes bright and sweet.A footstep as ...
To My Missionary Friends (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
MR. AND MRS. I.G. BLISS.Why, dear friends, oh! tell us whereforeYou're so anxious to be gone;Is the country late adoptedDearer ...
I Fights Mit Sigel (Grant P Robinson Poems)
I met him again, he was trudging along, His knapsack with chickens was swelling;He'd "Blenkered" these dainties, and thought it no ...
The Little Mourner. (Henry Alford Poems)
``Child, whither goest thou Over the snowy hill? The frost--air nips so keen That the very clouds are still: From the golden folding curtains The ...
Mother Is Dead (Nettie Squire Sutton Poems)
In memory of sister, Mattie Monson. Mother is dead, those dear hands are folded;Hands that have labored from morn- ing till late.Jesus has ...
Weltschmertz (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
You ask why I am sad to-day, I have no cares, no griefs, you say? Ah, yes, 't is true, I have ...
The Further Bank (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
I long to go over there to the further bank of the river. Where those boats are tied to the bamboo ...
Childhood (Jens Baggesen Poems)
There was a time when I was very small, When my whole frame was but an ell in height;Sweetly, as I ...
Kilns (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Severn has kilns set all along her banksWhere the thin reeds grow and rushes in ranks;And the carts tip rubbish ...
The Drunkard’s Vision (Henry Lawson Poems)
A public parlour in the slums, The haunt of vice and villainy,Where things are said unfit to hear, And things are done ...
A True Tale (John Hartley Poems)
Ther's a Squire lives at th' Hall 'at's lukt up to, As if he wor ommost a god.He's hansum, he's rich, ...