Song of the Shingle-Spli (Henry Kendall Poems)
IN dark wild woods, where the lone owl broods And the dingoes nightly yell- Where the curlew's cry goes floating ...
Food Poems (1269 Poems)
The Lucky Horseshoe (James Thomas Fields Poems)
A farmer travelling with his loadPicked up a horseshoe in the road,And nailed it fast to his barn door,That Luck ...
Her Offering (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
Lay aside your pen for a moment,And listen, my dear to me,While I tell you a strange, sweet story,The sweetest ...
The Downward Road (Louisa May Alcott Poems)
Two Yankee maids of simple mien, And earnest, high endeavour, Come sailing to the land of France, To escape the winter weather. When first ...
How The Robin Came (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
AN ALGONQUIN LEGEND.HAPPY young friends, sit by me,Under May's blown apple-tree,While these home-birds in and outThrough the blossoms flit about.Hear ...
The Two Brothers (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
It was a vision…Two angels appeared to me… two genii.I say angels, genii, because both had no clothes on their ...
To James T. Fields (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
ON A BLANK LEAF OF "POEMS PRINTED, NOT PUBLISHED."Well thought! who would not rather hearThe songs to Love and Friendship ...
The Happy Change — (a temperance rhyme.) (John Critchley Prince Poems)
"Oh! will he come?" said Alice Wray, "He did not once deceive,And for the dear sake of the past I will again ...
The Song Of Food And Dwelling (Jetsun Milarepa Poems)
I bow down at the feet of the wish-fulfilling Guru.Pray vouchsafe me your grace in bestowing beneficial food,Pray make me ...
A Dream Of The War (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Forget-me-nots grow by the stream,Their blue eyes look up to the skies;I think I have seen in a dreamAs blue ...
Infallible Tokens Of Predestation Vnto Saluation. (Henry Arthington Poems)
He that doth looke to raigne with Christ,In euerlasting blessednesse,Must take great care that he persist,In these degrees of holinesse.The ...
A Fairy Tale (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
NIGH to where Grayrigg's ancient hallYet stands, as country legends tell,And hoary-headed swains have heard,The fairy people lov'd to dwell:There ...
1977: Poem For Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer (June Jordan Poems)
You used to say, "June?Honey when you come down here yousupposed to stay with me. Whereelse?"Meanin homeagainst the beer the ...
Laventie (Ivor Gurney Poems)
One would remember stillMeadows and low hillLaventie was, as to the line and elm rowGrowing through green strength wounded, as ...
The Australian Slanguage (William Thomas Goodge Poems)
'Tis the everyday AustralianHas a language of his own,Has a language, or a slanguage,Which can simply stand alone.And a 'dickon ...
The Khan’s Devil (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The Khan came from Bokhara townTo Hamza, santon of renown."My head is sick, my hands are weak;Thy help, O holy ...
To Jane: The Invitation (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Best and brightest, come away!Fairer far than this fair Day,Which, like thee to those in sorrow,Comes to bid a sweet ...
Night Phases of Drunkenness (Janet Hamilton Poems)
PHASE IThe midnight hour hath chimed, The night is wild and cold;I see a trembling hand Yon cottage door unfold.A pale and ...
Puck (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
She is sleeping on the grass,Where her daily footsteps pass;All her errands left undoneAt the bidding of the sun;From the ...
Splitting (Sydney Wheeler Jephcott Poems)
Morning.Out from the hut at break of day,And up the hills in the dawning grey;With the young wind flowingFrom the ...
To Edward Williams (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.The serpent is shut out from Paradise.The wounded deer must seek the herb no moreIn which its heart-cure lies:The widowed ...
We Must Cleave To Christ, Without Suffering Any Thing To Turn Us Away From Him (Rees Prichard Poems)
If father, if mother, if daughter, if son,If houses, if lands, if the wife of thy love —Shou'd strive to ...
S (Alfred Comyn Lyall Poems)
<i>Mors Janua Vitae.</i>I am the God of the sensuous fireThat moulds all Nature in forms divine;The symbols of death and ...
To The Negotiations In Kabul (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
You, the brutal-hearted sky-scraping mountain tribes!Lamb and horseflesh - is all your menu describes;Long beards and handcrafted rugs, your loud ...
Songs of the Voices of Birds: A Raven in a White Chine (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I saw when I looked up, on either hand, A pale high chalk-cliff, reared aloft in white;A narrowing rent soon closed ...
The Singular Sangfroid Of Baby Bunting (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Batholomew Benjamin BuntingHad only three passions in life,And one of the trio was hunting,The others his babe and his wife.And ...
Of Child With Bird At The Bush (John Bunyan Poems)
My little bird, how canst thou sitAnd sing amidst so many thorns?Let me a hold upon thee get,My love with ...
Lines Suggested By A Portrait Of The Unfortunate Queen Of France (Margaret Holford Poems)
And this was she! the peerless and the bright,The false world's darling! she who did possess(And held awhile in Europe's ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. III. The Quill And The Counter (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
When, O when, shall the life of a Man Be worth a Man's while to live?When, to this old White-Slavery plan Its ...
The Precipitate Cock And The Unappreciate (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A rooster once pursued a worm That lingered not to brave him, To see his wretched victim squirm A pleasant thrill it gave ...