The Midnight Storm (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
NOW thickening darkness spreads her solemn shade,What awful sounds the startled ear invade,Awake the hallow'd silence of the night,And strike ...
Forgiveness Poems (1956 Poems)
Friendship An Heavenly Flame (Elizabeth Beverley Poems)
"O'er glass of punch, the other day, Two friends were chatting time away:- TOM smil'd-and then he gave a toast, ...
Grey Thrush at the Door (C J Dennis Poems)
Swe-e-et! Swe-e-et! Low at first and flattering, Full of soft seductiveness on a wheedling note.Who comes in mercy now, crumbs ...
When Baby Strayed (Fay Inchfawn Poems)
When Baby strayed, it seemed to me,Sun, moon and stars waned suddenly.At once, with frenzied haste, my feetRan ...
Revenge: An Ode (Emma Lyon Poems)
STERN tyrant! blot on nature's brow! Accurst Revenge! of darkness bred;Engender'd on the dismal bough, Whence issu'd all ...
O, This Is Blessing, This Is Rest (Anna Laetitia Waring Poems)
O, this is blessing, this is rest Unto Thine arms, O Lord, I flee:I hide me in Thy faithful breast,And ...
Is Wee Jamie Wuakin’ Yet? (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Is wee Jamie waukin' yet? Lyin' unco lang;Better cuddlin' in his bed When his mammy's thrang.Here he's comin' ow'r the ...
The Broken Doll (Charles Lamb Poems)
An infant is a selfish sprite;But what of that? the sweet delightWhich from participation springs,Is quite unknown to these young ...
To Peace (Christian Milne Poems)
PEACE ! with thy placid mien,Who'st long a stranger beenTo Freedom's sons on Britain's rocky shore--O come! and with thee ...
God Shall Be All In All (Alfred Gibbs Campbell Poems)
Do they not greatly err, who hold That He who made the human soul Will not its destinies controlFor final ...
Lines (Elizabeth Beverley Poems)
Occasioned by my Child's being unfortunately burnt todeath, at Plymouth Dock, in Devonshire. MY child--my child--my Emma's dead! What ...
Integrity (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Immortal life is something to be earned,By slow, self-conquest, comradeship with pain,And patient seeking after higher truths.We cannot follow our ...
My Savior, On The Word Of Truth (Anna Laetitia Waring Poems)
My Savior, on the word of truthIn earnest hope I live;I ask for all the precious thingsThy boundless love can ...
Lincoln (George Henry Boker Poems)
Crown we our heroes with a holier wreathThan man e'er wore upon this side of death;Mix with their laurels deathless ...
The Fate of a Harpist (C J Dennis Poems)
There is women, yer Worship, of various kinds: An' some of 'em's fluffy a' foolish,An' some is sispicious an' mean ...
Israel’s Prayer (Caroline Fry Poems)
FORSAKEN, desolate,Ah! where is he, The God Eternal, whom our fathers served?A God whose name his children vainly boast, ...
Dying Song (Alice Cary Poems)
Leave me, O leave me! my o'erwearied feet,O my beloved! may walk no more with thee;For I am standing where ...
The Day of The Lord (Charles Kingsley Poems)
The Day of the Lord is at hand, at hand:Its storms roll up the sky:The nations sleep starving on heaps ...
Written in the Blank Page of the Sorrows of Werther (Anna Seward Poems)
O thou, who turnest this impassioned leaf, Where Anguish claims the sympathetic grief, If no relentless prejudice can bind In ...
The Harp of Judah (Caroline Fry Poems)
For whom is the harp of Judah strung,That silent erst on the willows hung?Whence are the stranger sounds that creptO'er ...
Good Friday (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
O, SAD and solemn holy day,O, bitterest of bitter hours!Behold He staggers on His wayBeneath the cross that saps His ...
The Murderess (Alice Cary Poems)
ALONG the still cold plain o'erhead,In pale embattled crowds,The stars their tents of darkness spread,And camped among the clouds;Cinctured with ...
I Weep, But Not Rebellious Tears (Caroline Anne Bowles Southey Poems)
I weep, but not rebellious tears;I mourn, but not in hopeless woe;I droop, but not with doubtful fears;For whom I've ...
The Fairy’s Reproach (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Poems)
I.By the glow-worm's lamp in the dewy brake; By the gossamer's airy net;By the shifting skin of the faithless snake, ...
Sanctuary (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Neighbour! for pity a hound cries on your steps, With pleading eyes, with sore and weary feet. Neighbour! your pity ...
Helva (Alice Cary Poems)
Her white hands full of mountain flowers,Down by the rough rocks and the sea,Helva, the raven-tressed, for hours,Has gazed forth ...
The Song Of A Nature Worshiper (Cale Young Rice Poems)
Live! Live! Live! O send no day unto death, Undrained of the light, of the song, of the dew, Distilling ...
The Wren’s Nest (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems)
I TOOK the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely finished their wee hall, That, ...
Second Nature (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WHEN I was young how fair the skies,Such folly of cloud, such blue depths wise,Such dews of morn, such calms ...
Dedication To Her Royal Highness The Princess Charlotte Of Wales (Emma Lyon Poems)
WHILE thought unbending wings thy playful hour, Say, lovely Princess! dares my Muse advance?Or hope, mild beaming in thy ...