The Pilgrim (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
KIND shepherd! if thy hoary locks,Bespeaking venerable age,May trust and confidence inspire,Oh! wilt thou, with thy counsel sage,Assist a sad ...
Flowers Poems (6764 Poems)
The Homestead (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
AGAINST the wooded hills it stands,Ghost of a dead home, staring throughIts broken lights on wasted landsWhere old-time harvests grew.Unploughed, ...
The Choice (George Wither Poems)
Me so oft my fancy drewHere and there, that I ne'er knewWhere to place desire beforeSo that range it might ...
Third Sunday After Easter (John Keble Poems)
Well may I guess and feel Why Autumn should be sad; But vernal airs should sorrow heal, Spring should be gay and glad: Yet ...
Come, Sing Australian songs to me! (John O Brien Poems)
Come, Little One, and sing to me A song our big wide land to bless,Around whose gentle parent-knee We've twined the flowers ...
Invocation (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. O Life! O Death! O God! Have I not striven? Have I not known thee, God, As thy stars know Heaven? Have I not ...
The Captive Of The White City (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
FLOWER of the foam of the wavesOf the beautiful inland sea, -White as the foam that lavesThe ships of the ...
Lotus Leaves (Oscar Wilde Poems)
I -There is no peace beneath the moon,-Ah! in those meadows is there peaceWhere, girdled with a silver fleece,As a ...
Slainthe! (Patrick MacGill Poems)
I SPEAK with a proud tongue of the people who were And the people who are, The worthy of Ardara, the Rosses ...
Winter: Wednesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The hour of peace resumes againIts tranquil, silent, solemn reign;Sorrow a short cessation knowsOn the soft couch of calm repose,And ...
Heather Bells (John Hartley Poems)
Ye little flowrets, wild an free, Yo're welcome, aye as onny!Ther's but few seets 'at meet mi ee 'At ivver seem as ...
Seventeen (Robert Nichols Poems)
All the loud winds were in the garden wood,All shadows joyfuller than lissom houndsDoubled in chasing, all exultant cloudsThat ever ...
The Lover’s Farewell (George Moses Horton Poems)
And wilt thou, love, my soul display, And all my secret thoughts betray? I strove but could not hold thee fast, My heart ...
The Passing Strange (John Masefield Poems)
Out of the earth to rest or rangePerpetual in perpetual change,The unknown passing through the strange.Water and saltness held togetherTo ...
A Man And His Image (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
All day the nations climb and crawl and pray In one long pilgrimage to one white shrine,Where sleeps a saint whose ...
The Emigrant’s Love-Letter (John Nevay Poems)
My young heart's luve! twal' years ha'e been A century to me; I ha'e na seen thy smile, nor heard Thy voice's melodie. The ...
He makes the Eagles and Ocelots dance with him! (Nezahualcoyotl Poems)
He makes the Eagles and Ocelots dance with him!Come to see the Huexotzinca:On the dais of the Eagle he shouts ...
Lines II (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Yes, my stray steps have wander'd, wander'd farFrom thee, and long, heart-soothing Poesy!And many a flower, which in the passing ...
Death’s Genius (Johannes Carsten Hauch Poems)
Oh you who weep, brush all your tears aside!And you who mourn, recall grief won't abide!For you'll know rest when ...
(From) The Invocation to Kali (May Sarton Poems)
There are times whenI think only of killingThe voracious animalwho is my perpetual shame,The violent oneWhose raging demandsBreak down peace ...
The Oriental Nosegay. By Pickersgill (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
THROUGH the light curtains came the perfumed air,And flung them back and show'd a garden, whereThe eye could just catch ...
Sunday After Ascension (John Keble Poems)
The Earth that in her genial breastMakes for the down a kindly nest,Where wafted by the warm south-west It floats at ...
Yellow Clover (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
Must I, who walk alone,Come on it still,This Puck of plantsThe wise would do away with,The sunshine slantsTo play with,Our ...
The Complaint Of The Goddess Of The Glaciers To Doctor Darwin (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
WHILE o'er the Alpine cliffs I musing stray'd, And gaz'd on nature, in her charms severe,The last soft beam of parting ...
To Thyrza: And Thou Art Dead, As Young And Fair (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
And thou art dead, as young and fair As aught of mortal birth;And form so soft, and charms so rare, Too soon ...
The Opossum-Hunt (Henry Kendall Poems)
Hear ye not the waters beating where the rapid rivers, meeting With the winds above them fleeting, hurry to the distant ...
The Little White Glove (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE early springtime faintly flushed the earth,And in the woods, and by their favorite streamThe fair, wild roses blossomed modestly,Above ...
To John Milton (John Clare Poems)
_"From his honoured friend, William Davenant"_Poet of mighty power, I fainWould court the muse that honoured thee,And, like Elisha's spirit, ...
Mon-Daw-Min (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
OR, THE ORIGIN OF THE INDIAN-CORN.Cherry bloom and green buds bursting Fleck the azure skies;In the spring wood, hungering, thirsting, Faint an ...
It’s Hard To Keep A Clean Shirt Clean (June Jordan Poems)
Poem for Sriram ShamasunderAnd All of Poetry for the PeopleIt's a sunlit morningwith jasmine bloomingeasilyand a drove of robin redbreastsdiving ...