The Lord’s Prayer (Rees Prichard Poems)
A. Our Father, who the universe didst frame — Our Father, from whose Love all blessings flow, Hallow'd for ever be thy ...
Ghost Poems (1478 Poems)
7 Days on the Sea (May Swenson Poems)
Monday The world is a ball of water. See, it is round-sided. I move across its topside, upon the world, not in it. The boat ...
Thebais – Book One – part IV (Pablius Papinius Statius Poems)
For by the black infernal Styx I swear, (That dreadful oath which binds the thunderer) 'Tis fixed; th' irrevocable doom ...
Beechwood (John Freeman Poems)
Hear me, O beeches! YouThat have with ageless anguish slowly risenFrom earth's still secret prisonInto the ampler prison of aery ...
An Epistle Of The Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole (Richard Savage Poems)
Still let low wits, who sense nor honour prize,Sneer at all gratitude, all truth disguise;At living worth, because alive, exclaim,Insult ...
The Rhemese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer:Of France the pride and honour I aver;The Holy Ampoule and delicious wine,Which ...
The Tent On The Beach (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I would not sin, in this half-playful strain,--Too light perhaps for serious years, though bornOf the enforced leisure of slow ...
“Now Summer with her wanton court is gone” (John Armstrong Poems)
Now Summer with her wanton court is goneTo revel on the south side of the world,And flaunt and frolic out ...
Cathlin Of Clutha (James Macpherson Poems)
An address to Malvina, the daughter of Toscar. The poet relates the arrival of Cathlin in Selma, to solicit aid ...
Hudibras, Part I (excerpts) (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth,The manner how he sallied forth;His arms and equipage are shown;His ...
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
the spiritual, Platonic old England .S. T. COLERIDGE, Anima Poetae'Your situation', said Coningsby, looking up the green and silent valley, ...
The Song Of Hiawatha III: Hiawatha’s Childhood (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Downward through the evening twilight,In the days that are forgotten,In the unremembered ages,From the full moon fell Nokomis,Fell the beautiful ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book VI – Part 04 – The Plague Athens (Lucretius Poems)
'Twas such a manner of disease, 'twas suchMortal miasma in Cecropian landsWhilom reduced the plains to dead men's bones,Unpeopled the ...
The Meeting (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The elder folks shook hands at last,Down seat by seat the signal passed.To simple ways like ours unused,Half solemnized and ...
Comala, A Dramatic Poem (James Macpherson Poems)
This poem. is valuable on account of the light it throws on the antiquity of Ossian's compositions. The Caracul mentioned ...
The Austral Months (Henry Kendall Poems)
JanuaryThe first fair month! In singing Summer's sphereShe glows, the eldest daughter of the year.All light, all warmth, all passion, ...
My Lady Of Verne (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
It all comes back as the end draws near; All comes back like a tale of old! Shall I tell you all? ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XIX: The Ghosts (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Never stoops the soaring vultureOn his quarry in the desert,On the sick or wounded bison,But another vulture, watchingFrom his high ...
Uriel: (In Memory of William Vaughn Moody) (Percy MacKaye Poems)
IURIEL, you that in the ageless sunSit in the awful silences of light,Singing of vision hid from human sight,-Prometheus, beautiful ...
Winona – Winona’s Warning (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
'Twas sunrise; the spirits of mist trailed their white robes on dewy savannas,And the flowers raised their heads to be kissed by ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XV: Hiawatha’s Lamentation (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
In those days the Evil Spirits,All the Manitos of mischief,Fearing Hiawatha's wisdom,And his love for Chibiabos,Jealous of their faithful friendship,And ...
The Monster Diamond (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
A TALE OF THE PENAL COLONY OF WEST AUSTRALIA."I'LL have it, I tell you! Curse you!-there!"The long knife glittered, was ...
Chatterton’s Will (Thomas Chatterton Poems)
Burgum, I thank thee, thou hast let me seeThat Bristol has impress'd her stamp on thee,Thy generous spirit emulates the ...
The Cynotaph, (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
Poor Tray charmant!Poor Tray de mon Ami!-- Dog-bury, and Vergers.Oh! where shall I bury my poor dog Tray,Now his fleeting ...
On Connecticut River (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
From that lone lake the sweetest of the chainThat links the mountain to the mighty main,Fresh from the rock and ...
The Ghosts Of The Trees (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
The silver fangs of the mighty axe, Bit to the blood of our giant boles;It smote our breasts and smote our ...
The Bees of Myddelton Manor (Juliana Mary Louisa Probyn Poems)
BUZZING, buzzing, buzzing, my golden-belted bees:My little son was seven years old-the mint-flower touched his knees; Yellow were his curly locks; Yellow ...
At The Saturday Club (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THIS is our place of meeting; oppositeThat towered and pillared building: look at it;King's Chapel in the Second George's day,Rebellion ...
Noey Bixler (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Another hero of those youthful yearsReturns, as Noey Bixler's name appears.And Noey--if in any special way--Was notably good-natured.--Work or playHe ...
The Bay Of Seven Islands (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
FROM the green Amesbury hill which bears the nameOf that half mythic ancestor of mineWho trod its slopes two hundred ...