For The Commemoration Services (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
CAMBRIDGE, JULY 21, 1865FOUR summers coined their golden light in leaves,Four wasteful autumns flung them to the gale,Four winters wore ...
Fire Poems (6356 Poems)
Self-Relianc (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
I love the man whose lofty mind On God and its own strength relies;Who seeks the welfare of his kind, And dare ...
St. John. 1647 (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"To the winds give our banner!Bear homeward again!"Cried the Lord of Acadia,Cried Charles of Estienne;From the prow of his shallopHe ...
The Shepherd’s Week (excerpt) (John Gay Poems)
MONDAY, OR, THE SQUABBLELobbin Clout, Cuddy, CloddipoleCUDDYHold, witless Lobbin Clout, I thee advise,Lest blisters sore on thy own tongue arise.Lo ...
Ode On The Birth Of The Prince Of Wales (Henry James Pye Poems)
I.1 . The fading beam of parting day Forsakes the western sky, Now shines Diana's gentler ray With virgin majesty; Her face with milder glory ...
A November Night (Sarah Teasdale Poems)
There! See the line of lights,A chain of stars down either side the street --Why can't you lift the chain ...
The Temple Of Friendship (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
IN the depths of the silent wood the temple of Friendship stood,Like a dream of snow-white stone, or a vestal ...
The Sisters (Mary Aldis Poems)
We fourLive here togetherMy three old sisters and IIn a white little cottageWith flowers on each side of the path ...
Bryant’s Seventieth Birthday (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
NOVEMBER 3, 1864O EVEN-HANDED Nature! we confessThis life that men so honor, love, and blessHas filled thine olden measure. Not ...
The Cambridge Churchyard (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
Our ancient church! its lowly tower,Beneath the loftier spire,Is shadowed when the sunset hourClothes the tall shaft in fire;It sinks ...
Charge Of Fremont’s Body-Guard (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
On they ride--on they ride--Only three hundred,--Ride the brave Body-Guard,From the "Prairie Scouts" sundered:Two thousand riflemen,Ambushed on either side,The signal ...
HERE I sit with my paper. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
HERE I sit with my paper, my pen my ink,First of this thing, and that thing,and t'other thing think ;I ...
The Double-Heade (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Far away in the twilight timeOf every people, in every clime,Dragons and griffins and monsters dire,Born of water, and air, ...
Hymn (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Who shall commemorate all Thy chosen namesThou who art Sire at once and Son of man?Servant, friend, brother, bridegroom, husband, ...
Fore-Song Of Malmorda (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
I.To me by early mornCame memories of Old Ireland by the sea,The tenderest and sweetest that there be,Wherein the songs ...
The Portrait (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
In some quaint Nurnberg maler-atelierUprummaged. When and where was never clearNor yet how he obtained it. When, by whom'Twas painted—who ...
Stanzas From The Fledgling Bard And The Poetry Societry (George Reginald Margetson Poems)
_Part I_I'm out to find the new, the modern school,Where Science trains the fledgling bard to fly,Where critics teach the ...
Evening Hexameters (Henry Alford Poems)
Darkly the minster--towers, against the glow of the sunset,Rise from the purple band of mist that beleaguers the city:Golden the ...
Norembega (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE winding way the serpent takesThe mystic water took,From where, to count its beaded lakes,The forest sped its brook.A narrow ...
Safi (Henry Kendall Poems)
Strong pinions bore Safi, the dreamer, Through the dazzle and whirl of a race,And the earth, raying up in confusion, Like a ...
Concerning Purgatory (Rees Prichard Poems)
There's nought in nature that can purge a soul,But the Lamb's blood, which for our sins was slain;It cleanses ev'ry ...
The Invitation to Selborne (Gilbert White Poems)
See Selborne spreads her boldest beauties roundThe varied valley, and the mountain ground,Wildly majestic! what is all the prideOf flats, ...
Wanderlieder (John Hay Poems)
I stand at the break of dayIn the Champs Elysees.The tremulous shafts of dawningAs they shoot o'er the Tuileries early,Strike ...
Suum Cuique (John Henry Dryden Poems)
When lawless men their neighbours dispossess,The tenants they extirpate or oppress,And make rude havoc in the fruitful soil,Which the right ...
The Fisher’s Wife (Marietta Holley Poems)
A long, low waste of yellow sandLay shining northward far as eye could reach,Southward a rocky bluff rose highBroken in ...
Funeral Tree of the Sokokis (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Around Sebago's lonely lakeThere lingers not a breeze to breakThe mirror which its waters make.The solemn pines along its shore,The ...
The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis. 1756 (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Around Sebago's lonely lakeThere lingers not a breeze to breakThe mirror which its waters make.The solemn pines along its shore,The ...
The Braidwood Coach (Guy Eden Poems)
Now, all aboard, my sonnies, for the time is slipping past,We've got to make ten miles before the dawn,Our team's ...
Sunday Next Before Advent (John Keble Poems)
Will God indeed with fragments bear, Snatched late from the decaying year? Or can the Saviour's blood endear The dregs of a polluted ...
The Robber Polydore (Joanna Baillie Poems)
O! HOLY Mary, hear the blast!The elms 'twill overthrow,Where, hung in chains, a murderer's bonesAre tossing to and fro.The robber ...