Protestant Popery: Or, The Convocation – Canto I (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
A Priestly--War I sing, and bloodless Field,And pious Chiefs, in Paper Warfare skill'd;Chiefs, that full oft have quarrell'd for their ...
God Poems (16918 Poems)
Beechenbrook – III (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
Ye, who by the couches of languishing ones, Have watched through the rising and setting of suns,-- Who, silent, behind the close ...
The King’s Quire (excerpt) (James I of Scotland Poems)
...Bewailing in my chamber thus allone,Despeir{.e}d of all joye and remedye,For-tirit of my thoght, and wo begone,Unto the wyndow gan ...
The German Parnassus (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
'NEATH the shadowOf these bushes,On the meadowWhere the cooling water gushes.Phoebus gave me, when a boy,All life's fullness to enjoy.So, ...
Sable Island (Joseph Howe Poems)
Dark Isle of Mourning—aptly art thou named, For thou hast been the cause of many a tear; For deeds of treacherous strife ...
The Second Hymn Of Callimachus. To Apollo (Matthew Prior Poems)
Hah! how the laurel, great Apollo's tree,And all the cavern shakes! Far off, far off,The man that is unhallow'd: for ...
The Tunning of Elenor Rumming (John Skelton Poems)
Tell you I chyll, If that ye wyll A whyle be styll, Of a comely gyll That dwelt on a hyll: But she is not ...
Eclogue 3: Menalcas Daemoetas Palaemon (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
MENALCASWho owns the flock, Damoetas? Meliboeus?DAMOETASNay, they are Aegon's sheep, of late by himCommitted to my care.MENALCAS O every wayUnhappy sheep, ...
Crispus Attucks (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
Negro Patriot-Killed In Boston, March 5,!770.WHERE shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story?Our laurels ...
The Splendid Shilling (James Bramston Poems)
Happy the Man, who void of Care and Strife, In silken or in leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling He nor hears ...
To A Young Lady, With A Bottle Of Irish Usquebaugh (Hector MacNeill Poems)
"Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus."In spite of all that poets tell us(For poets are but lying fellows)Of Cupid's flames, ...
Nora To David Herbison (Nora Pembroke Poems)
There's a place in the North where the bonnie broom grows,Where winding through green meadows the silver Maine flows,Every lark ...
Mistress Hale Of Beverly (Lucy Larcom Poems)
The roadside forests here and there were touched with tawny gold;The days were shortening, and at dusk the sea looked ...
Requiescat In Pace (Jean Ingelow Poems)
O my heart, my heart is sick awishing and awaiting:The lad took up his knapsack, he went, he went his ...
Parrhasius (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
There stood an unsold captive in the mart,a gray-haired and majestical old man,chained to a pillar. It was almost night,and ...
When Christie Comes Again (Gerald Massey Poems)
WHEN the merry spring-tide Floods all the land;Nature hath a Mother's heart, Gives with open hand;Flowers running up the lane Tell us May ...
Basil Moss (Henry Kendall Poems)
SING, mountain-wind, thy strong, superior song-Thy haughty alpine anthem, over tractsWhose passes and whose swift, rock-straitened streamsCatch mighty life and ...
The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(1571.)The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;“Pull, if ye never pulled before; Good ringers, pull ...
Ode IV: To The Honourable Charles Townshend In The Country (Mark Akenside Poems)
I. 1.How oft shall i surveyThis humble roof, the lawn, the greenwood shade,The vale with sheaves o'erspread,The glassy brook, the ...
Roberval (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
A LEGEND OF OLD FRANCE.Never did rosy morning Sweep o'er the skirts of night,Calm nature's face adorning, With more intense delight;Never did ...
New York City Hard Time Blues (Miguel Pinero Poems)
NYC BluesBig time time hard on on me bluesNew York City hard sunday morning bluesyeahJunkie waking upbones ache trying to ...
Vignette – XXVI (Matilda Betham Poems)
ELEGY ON EDWARD BETHAM,_Lost in the Duchess of Gordon East Indiaman, off the Cape of Good Hope_. --------Lovely as are the ...
Witchcraft: New Style (Lascelles Abercrombie Poems)
The sun drew off at last his piercing fires.Over the stale warm air, dull as a pondAnd moveless in the ...
Ode To Naples (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
EPODE 1a.I stood within the City disinterred;And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfallsOf spirits passing through the streets; and ...
Spirit Of The Everlasting Boy (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
ODE FOR THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLJune 11, 1910IThe British bard who looked on Eton's walls,Endeared by distance in ...
Beechenbrook – IX (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
When fierce and fast-thronging calamities rush Resistless as destiny o'er us, and crush The life from the quivering heart till we feel Like ...
To an ingenious young Gentleman, on his dedicating a Poem to the Author. (Mather Byles Poems)
To you, dear Youth, whom all the Muses own,And great Apollo speaks his darling Son,To you the Muse directs her ...
On the Sea (Yehudah HaLevi Poems)
I.My God, break not the breakers of the sea,Nor command to the deep, 'Become dry'.Until I thank Your mercies, and ...
The Legend Of The Falls (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
On the Spirit-Island sitting under midnight's misty moon,Lo I see the spirits flitting o'er the waters one by one!Slumber wraps the ...
Letter In Prose And Verse To Mrs. Bunbury (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
MADAM,I read your letter with all that allowance which critical candour couldrequire, but after all find so much to object ...