America (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
New England first a wilderness was foundTill for a continent 'twas destin'd roundFrom feild to feild the savage monsters runE'r ...
Food Poems (1269 Poems)
Leave off the Agony in Style (Julia A Moore Poems)
Come all ye good people, listen to me, pray,While I speak of fashion and style of today;If you will notice, ...
A Grace, Before Supper (Rees Prichard Poems)
LET ev'ry man, his head and grateful eyes,To God, our gen'rous caterer, lift up,And beg of him with supplicating cries,To ...
Mercies Seuen Acts Spirituall. Canto I. (Ralph Crane Poems)
MERCIE puts on a more celestiall face, commands the Pilgrime take a grauer Pen, For thou must write (quoth she) & I ...
Response To A Logician (Jetsun Milarepa Poems)
I bow at the feet of my teacher Marpa.And sing this song in response to you.Listen, pay heed to what ...
From the Top of the Stairs (Zbigniew Herbert Poems)
Of coursethose who are standing at the top of the stairsknowthey know everythingwith us it's differentsweepers of squareshostages of a ...
Malaria (Laurence Hope Poems)
He lurks among the reeds, beside the marsh, Red oleanders twisted in His hair,His eyes are haggard and His lips are ...
The Honey Bee (Nettie Squire Sutton Poems)
In the springtime, joyous spring- time,When the birds begin to sing,And we hear the murmuring brook- lets,Then the bees are on the ...
The Song of the Red Man (Henry Clay Work Poems)
When the palefaces came in their whitewing'd canoes,Long ago, from the sun-rising seaWhen they ask'd for a lodge, and we ...
He came unto His own, and His own received Him not (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poems)
As Christ the Lord was passing by, He came, one night, to a cottage door. He came, a poor man, to the ...
Leather Stocking (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
FAR away from the hill side, the lake, and the hamlet,The rock, and the brook, and yon meadow so gay;From ...
On The Death Of Alexander, Emperor Of The Russias, At Taganrok (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
Napoleon died upon Helena's rock; -Round and beneath were piled and stored the waves,Might and fathomless. Atlantic's shockRecoiled, and through ...
The Secret Of The Bees (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
How have you managed it? bright busy bee!You are all of you useful, yet each of you free.What man only ...
Dog (Harold Monro Poems)
You little friend, your nose is ready; you sniff,Asking for that expected walk,(Your nostrils full of the happy rabbit-whiff)And almost ...
Kept The Flag Floating (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
"Thank God, we have kept the flag floating."-- General White.Some men, like French, display much dash; They boldly rush upon the ...
Bigotry’s Victim (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.Dares the lama, most fleet of the sons of the wind,The lion to rouse from his skull-covered lair?When the tiger ...
The Palm-Tree (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Is it the palm, the cocoa-palm,On the Indian Sea, by the isles of balm?Or is it a ship in the ...
Dithyramb (John Byrne Leicester Warren Poems)
Sunbright ale is royal food, Jarring cups disloyal feud. I will cheer my soaking mood Till the orchards reel. Brews good ale is no ...
Prayer of the Weak (Joseph Warren Watson Poems)
O God, if I had but the power,I'd heal each heart that bleeds!No lonely one should need a friend,If thoughts ...
Heart-Hunger (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
THERE is no truth in faces, save in children:They laugh and frown and weep from nature's keys;But we who meet ...
‘Thou shalt Hear The Fool’s Judgment…. (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
'Thou shalt hear the fool's judgment….' You always told the truth, Ogreat singer of ours. You spoke it this time, ...
James Whitcomb Riley (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
(From a Westerner's Point of View.) No matter what you call it, Whether genius, or art, He sings the simple songs that come The ...
The Lord’s Day (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
To take a gift and spurn the noble Giver,To soil in gross perversion of its endA gift becoming even God ...
Ambition (Maria Gowen Brooks Poems)
WOE to thee, wild ambition! I employDespair's low notes thy dread effects to tell;Born in high Heaven, her peace thou ...
Ballad. (Henry Alford Poems)
Rise, sons of merry England, from mountain and from plain; Let each light up his spirit, let none unmoved remain; The morning ...
Aghadoe (John Todhunter Poems)
There's a glade in Aghadoe, Aghadoe, Aghadoe, There 's a green and silent glade in Aghadoe,Where we met, my love and ...
Tasting the Earth (James Oppenheim Poems)
In a dark hour, tasting the Earth.As I lay on my couch in the muffled night, and the rain lashed ...
Stallions In The Strand (Jan Struther Poems)
AUTHORITY, with white-gloved hand,Holds up the traffic in the Strand.Obediently each well-trained wheelRolls to a standstill. I can feelThe bus ...
This Will Not Win Him (Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems)
Reason says,I will win him with my eloquence.Love says,I will win him with my silence.Soul says,How can I ever win ...
Twenty-Third Psalm (Rees Prichard Poems)
MY shepherd is the Lord above,Who ne'er will suffer me to rove;In Him I'll trust; he is so good,He'll never ...