Ione (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I.AH, yes, 't is sweet still to remember,Though 't were less painful to forget;For while my heart glows like an ...
God Poems (16918 Poems)
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 ...
The Triumph of Dead : Chap. 2 (Mary Sidney Herbert Poems)
That night, which did the dreadful hap ensue That quite eclips'd, nay, rather did replace The sun in skies, and ...
Immortal Eve – I (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1I the first man, the majestyOf creatures, Time's tall birth,Spring at God's finger-touch erect,Glorying upon earth.Above me the blue solemn ...
Through (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
A VISION OF VICTORY.I.LO! one whose back was sunward, caught the eyeOf one who faced some horror in the sky.With ...
Cen’lin, Prince Of Mercia (Matilda Betham Poems)
WHEN Britain many chiefs obey'd,And seven Saxon princes sway'd,The Mercian monarch, fam'd afar,In peace respected, fear'd in war,Favour'd by heav'n ...
The Bleeding Rock: Or, The Metamorphosis Of A Nymph Into Stone (Hannah More Poems)
Where beauteous Belmont rears her modest browTo view Sabrina's silver waves below,Lived young Ianthe, fair as beauty's Queen;She reign'd unrivall'd ...
The Duty Of Clergymen (Rees Prichard Poems)
Let holiness upon thy front appear,That all the people plainly may observe,By the behaviour thou art wont to bear,That thou ...
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 Teacher Of Wisdom (Oscar Wilde Poems)
From his childhood he had been as one filled with the perfectknowledge of God, and even while he was yet ...
The Mosaic Of Creation, Or The First Six Days. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
In the dark Backward of six thousand Years,(So Moses writes and all our Christian Seers)The World, a rude, unfashion'd Embryo ...
Our Profession (Jared Barhite Poems)
There's an art in our profession, Which cannot be wholly learned From all books in our possession, Though their leaves be deftly turned Till ...
The Fan : A Poem. Book III. (John Gay Poems)
Thus Mommus spoke. When sage Minerva rose,From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows,Her skilful hand an ivory pallet grac'd,Where shining ...
The Tree Of Life (Henry Charles Beeching Poems)
Recognition in four SeasonsARGUMENT A prophet, desiring to recover for men the fruit of the Tree of Life, seems to find ...
Banishment Of Man From The Garden Of The Lord (James Madison Bell Poems)
Dedicated to Rev. William S. Bradden as a tribute to one who has served his God, his Country and his ...
Feronde (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new;The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue;His large domains howe'er were not the cause,Nor ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book I – Part 02 – Substance Is Eternal (Lucretius Poems)
This terror, then, this darkness of the mind,Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,Nor glittering arrows of morning can ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Cow – Darkness) (Henry Baker Poems)
Cow.--Best the CowOf Aspect sour: her Head unshap'd and large,Her hanging Neck enormous: from her ChinHer swagging Dewlaps to her ...
From Mount Ebal (John Bunyan Poems)
Thus having heard from Gerizzim, I shallNext come to Ebal, and you thither call,Not there to curse you, but to ...
An Epistle To Dr. Moore (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
Whether dispensing hope, and easeTo the pale victim of disease,Or in the social crowd you sit,And charm the group with ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. II. (Plunder – Poets) (Henry Baker Poems)
Plunder.Now in the empty Isles of Juno's FanePhoenix, and dire Ulysses, chosen Guards,Watch o'er the Prey. There Trojan Treasure snatch'dFrom ...
Five Visions Of Captain Cook (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
ICOOK was a captain of the AdmiraltyWhen sea-captains had the evil eye,Or should have, what with beating krakens offAnd casting ...
Advice To A Youth (Rees Prichard Poems)
... Begin, ere thou dost older grow,Thy Saviour and thy God to know,His Statutes keep, his Word desire;So shall thy ...
The Poem Of Imru al Qays (Imru al Qays ibn Hujr Poems)
Stop, oh my friends, let us pause to weep over the remembrance of my beloved.Here was her abode on the ...
Chevy Chase (Henry Morley Poems)
(the later version.)God prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all!A woeful hunting once there did In Chevy Chase befall.To ...
A Letter To Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, Occasioned By The Victory At Blenheim (Matthew Prior Poems)
Since hired for life, thy servile Muse must singSuccessive conquests and a glorious King;Must of a man immortal vainly boast,And ...
The Quaker Alumni (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
From the well-springs of Hudson, the sea-cliffs of Maine,Grave men, sober matrons, you gather again;And, with hearts warmer grown as ...
A Shower In War-Time (Sydney Thompson Dobell Poems)
Rain, rain, sweet warm rain,On the wood and on the plain!Rain, rain, warm and sweet,Summer wood lush leafy and loud,With ...
The Last Walk In Autumn (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I.O'er the bare woods, whose outstretched handsPlead with the leaden heavens in vain,I see, beyond the valley lands,The sea's long ...
The Island: Canto III. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.The fight was o'er; the flashing through the gloom,Which robes the cannon as he wings a tomb,Had ceased; and sulphury ...