The Brothers (Marietta Holley Poems)
High on a rocky cliff did once a gray old castle stand,From whence rough-bearded chieftains led their vassals--ruled the land.For centuries ...
Flowers Poems (6764 Poems)
The Butterfly And The Fairies (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
A butterfly was grieved one dayBecause he could do nought but play;He envied bees and birds and ants,And senseless stones ...
Song of the Parao (Camping-ground) (Laurence Hope Poems)
Heart, my heart, thou hast found thy home! From gloom and sorrow thou hast come forth,Thou who wast foolish, and sought ...
Song Of The Spirits Of Spring (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Wafted o'er purple seas, From gold Hesperides, Mixed with the southern breeze, Hail to us spirits! Dripping with fragrant rains, Fire of our ardent veins, Life ...
Bob (Henry Kendall Poems)
SINGER of songs of the hills- Dreamer, by waters unstirred,Back in a valley of rills, Home of the leaf and the bird!-Read ...
To George Felton Mathew (John Keats Poems)
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song;Nor can remembrance, Mathew! bring to viewA ...
Lincoln (John Gould Fletcher Poems)
ILike a gaunt, scraggly pine Which lifts its head above the mournful sandhills; And patiently, through dull years of bitter ...
Thomas At Chickamauga (Kate Brownlee Sherwood Poems)
It was that fierce contested field where Chickamauga layBeneath the wild tornado that swept her pride away;Her dimpling dales and ...
The Royal Interview (Mrs. Walter Spencer Poems)
NOR guard nor pomp was there, nor regal state:Unseen the stranger pass'd the palace gate,Through lonely courts and gloomy antique ...
Eclogue 7: Meliboeus Corydon Thrysis (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
Daphnis beneath a rustling ilex-treeHad sat him down; Thyrsis and CorydonHad gathered in the flock, Thyrsis the sheep,And Corydon the ...
Voices Of The Night : Prelude (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Pleasant it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low,To lie amid some sylvan scene,Where, the long drooping ...
Eclogue VII (Virgil Poems)
MELIBOEUS, CORYDON, THYRSISDaphnis beneath a rustling ilex-treeHad sat him down; Thyrsis and CorydonHad gathered in the flock, Thyrsis the sheep,And ...
A Sea Dream (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
We saw the slow tides go and come,The curving surf-lines lightly drawn,The gray rocks touched with tender bloomBeneath the fresh-blown ...
The Legend of the New Year (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
I dreamed, and lo, I saw in my dream a beautiful gateway, Arched at the top, and crowned with turrets lance-windowed ...
Poem For Nana (June Jordan Poems)
What will we dowhen there is nobody leftto kill? *40,000 gallons of oil gushing intothe oceanBut Isit on top this mountainside ...
The Three Urgandas (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Cast on sleep there came to me Three Urgandas; and the sea In lost lands of Briogne Sounded moaning, moaning: Cloudy clad in awful ...
Burns (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
ON RECEIVING A SPRIG OF HEATHER IN BLOSSOM.No more these simple flowers belongTo Scottish maid and lover;Sown in the common ...
Ode To The Green Pond, (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
In the garden at Clevedale, whose waters havebeen immortalized from a Young Lady's fallinginto them.In imitation of Petrarch's Ode to ...
Sappho (James Wright Poems)
The twilight falls; I soften the dusting feathers,And clean again.The house has lain and moldered for three days.The windows smeared ...
Nottingham Castle (Philip James Bailey Poems)
On the Opening of the Castle as a Permanent Art Museum.Throw back the gates of time!See, on this rock sublime,The ...
Eclogue 9: Lycidas Moeris (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
LYCIDASSay whither, Moeris?- Make you for the town,Or on what errand bent?MOERIS O Lycidas,We have lived to see, what never yet ...
Homesick In Heaven (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THE DIVINE VOICEGo seek thine earth-born sisters,--thus the VoiceThat all obey,--the sad and silent three;These only, while the hosts of ...
In The Twilight (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
NOT bed-time yet! The night-winds blow,The stars are out,--full well we knowThe nurse is on the stair,With hand of ice ...
The Deacon And His Daughter (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
He saved his soul and saved his pork, With old time preservation;He did not hold with creosote, Or new plans of salvation;He ...
Falling Asleep Over The Aeneid (Robert Lowell Poems)
An old man in Concord forgets to go to morning service. He falls asleep, while reading Vergil, and dreams that ...
St. Matthew (John Keble Poems)
Ye hermits blest, ye holy maids, The nearest Heaven on earth, Who talk with God in shadowy glades, Free from rude care and ...
My Garden (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Sweet garden, wreathed in fruits and flowers,And domed by blue Tyrolean skies,Within thy rose-encircled bowers,Secluded from all curious eyes,I find ...
The Jewish May (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
May has come from out the showers,Sun and splendor in her train.All the grasses and the flowersWaken up to life ...
Apostophe To The memory Of Byron (Peter John Allan Poems)
I.Thou glorious painter of the thoughts that dwellIn the hot brain of genius, it was thineTo live in the delusion ...
An Idyll of the May (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
In the beautiful May weather, Lapsing soon into June; On a golden, golden day Of the green and golden May, When our hearts were ...