Lines, Inscribed To An Amiable, And Affectionate Mother (Judith Sargent Murray Poems)
Lines, Inscribed to an amiable, and affectionate Mother, upon the Death of her eldest Son, who fell a victim to ...
Goals Poems (848 Poems)
The Progress Of Marriage (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Aetatis suae fifty-two,A rich Divine began to wooA handsome young imperious girl,Nearly related to an Earl.Her parents and her friends ...
A Fantasy of War (Henry Lawson Poems)
From Australia.OH, tell me, God of Battles! Oh, say what is to come!The King is in his trenches, the millionaire ...
Sonnets of the Empire (Archibald Thomas Strong Poems)
Gloriana's EnglandFORTH sped thy gallant sailors, blithe and free,Fearing nor foeman's hate, nor iron clime,Nor Lima's flame, nor Plata's fever-slime,So ...
Night In State Street (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Art thou he?-The seer and sage, the hero and lover-yea,The man of men, then away from the haughtydayCome with me!Ho-ho! ...
For A Child (Harriet Monroe Poems)
E. H. M.Nov. 17th, 1890-Feb. 13th, 1904Still he lies,Pale, wan, and strangely wise.Under the white coverletHe lies here sleeping yet,Though ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book VI – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
'Twas Athens first, the glorious in name,That whilom gave to hapless sons of menThe sheaves of harvest, and re-ordered life,And ...
The Lincoln-Chil (James Oppenheim Poems)
Clearing in the forest,In the wild Kentucky forest,And the stars, wintry stars strewn above!O Night that is the starriestSince Earth ...
The Tragedy Queen (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
HER triumphs are over, the crownHas passed from her brow;And she smiles, "To whom now does the townMy poor laurels ...
The Fate of the Explorers (A Fragment) (Henry Kendall Poems)
Set your face toward the darkness - tell of deserts weird and wide,Where unshaken woods are huddled, and low, languid ...
Oglethorpe (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
An Ode to be read on the laying of the foundationstone of the new Oglethorpe University,January, 1915, at Atlanta,GeorgiaIAS when ...
The River Of Dreams (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
The river of dreams runs quietly down From its hidden home in the forest of sleep, With a measureless motion calm and ...
On the Death of Arnold Toynbee (John William Mackail Poems)
Good-bye; no tears nor cries Are fitting here, and long lament were vain. Only the last low words be softly said, And the ...
Bill the Bullock-Driv (Henry Kendall Poems)
The Leaders of millions, the lords of the lands, Who sway the wide world with their willAnd shake the great globe ...
Discouragement (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
"Forward, comrades, ever forward"!Shout the leaders in the fight;"Scale the ramparts! Plant the standardOn the citadel of light!"Break the chains ...
The Ballad of Oriskany (Obadiah Cyrus Auringer Poems)
SHE leaned her cheek upon her hand,And looked across the glooming land;She saw the wood from farm to farmTouched by ...
The Dream of Freedom (Owen Suffolk Poems)
'Twas night, and the moonbeams palely fellOn the gloomy walls of a cheerless cell,Where a captive sought a brief reposeFrom ...
Hymn To Light (Abraham Cowley Poems)
First-born of Chaos, who so fair didst comeFrom the old Negro's darksome womb!Which, when it saw the lovely child,The melancholy ...
The Seeking Of The Waterfall (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
They left their home of summer easeBeneath the lowland's sheltering trees,To seek, by ways unknown to all,The promise of the ...
The Negro Has A Chance (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
As my mind in fancy wanders,While we figure on Life's stage,While in queries deep we ponder,O'er the past years ripe ...
Fainting by the Way (Henry Kendall Poems)
Swarthy wastelands, wide and woodless, glittering miles and miles away,Where the south wind seldom wanders and the winters will not ...
The Pious Editor’s Creed (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I du believe in Freedom's cause, Ez fur away ez Payris is;I love to see her stick her claws In them infarnal ...
When Sheridan Hurled The Discus (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
"Pinch me; ay, punch me, for fear I m not sitting here reading the paper.Sure as the sun in the ...
Thomas At Chickamauga (Kate Brownlee Sherwood Poems)
It was that fierce contested field where Chickamauga layBeneath the wild tornado that swept her pride away;Her dimpling dales and ...
From The Pentlands Looking North And South (John Buchan Poems)
Around my feet the clouds are drawnIn the cold mystery of the dawn;No breezes cheer, no guests intrudeMy mossy, mist-clad ...
An Epistle To Rheinhart Kleiner, Esq., Poet-Laureate, And Author Of “Another Endless Day” (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
KLEINER! in whose quick pulses wildly beat The youth's ambition, and the lyrist's heat, Whose questing spirit scorns our lowly flights, And dares ...
A Story Of The Sea (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Were you ever told the legend oldOf the birth of storms at sea?You should hear the tale in a Channel ...
Extracts From Verses Written For The New-Year,1823 (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
WHERE streams of light, in golden showers,First fell on long lost Eden's bowers,And music, from the shouting skies,Wandered to Eve's ...
Lincoln (John Vance Cheney Poems)
The hour was on us; where the man? The fateful sands unfaltering ran, And up the way of tears He came into the ...
Scum O’ The Earth (Robert Haven Schauffler Poems)
IAt the gate of the West I stand,On the isle where the nations throng.We call them "scum o' the earth";Stay, ...