Mooni (Henry Kendall Poems)
AH, to be by Mooni now! Where the great dark hills of wonder, Scarred with storm and cleft asunder By ...
God Poems (16918 Poems)
A Poem. Dedication of the Pittsfield Cemetery (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
ANGEL of Death! extend thy silent reign!Stretch thy dark sceptre o'er this new domainNo sable car along the winding roadHas ...
The Ballad Of The Battle Of Gibeon (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
Five kings rule o'er the Amorite,Mighty as fear and old as night;Swathed with unguent and gold and jewel,Waxed they merry ...
Almon Keefer (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Ah, Almon Keefer! what a boy you were,With your back-tilted hat and careless hair,And open, honest, fresh, fair face and ...
Seasonal Cycle – Chapter 05 – Winter (Kalidasa Poems)
"Oh, dear with best thighs, heart-stealing is this environ with abundantly grown stacks of rice and their cobs, or with ...
A Grammarian’s Funeral Shortly after the Revival of Learnin (Robert Browning Poems)
Let us begin and carry up this corpse,Singing together.Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpesEach in its tetherSleeping safe ...
Christmas Day In the Workhouse (George Robert Sims Poems)
It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,And the cold bare walls are brightWith garlands of green and holly,And the place ...
Advice And Warning To The Adulterer (Rees Prichard Poems)
HEAR my advice, Adulterer obscene!And often in thy mind these precepts roll,E'er thou dost haste with appetite unclean,And headlong passion ...
Ode (Michael Massey Robinson Poems)
FOR THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY, 1816.When Spain's proud Genius saw Columbus braveThe Western Course of the Atlantic Wave;Saw his aspiring Mind, ...
The Christian And The Moor-A Legend Of Granada (Peter John Allan Poems)
Before Granada's fated walls the Christian legions stand,A numerous and a valiant—but why a sullen band?The politic, wise Ferdinand's injunctions they ...
Afternoon Tea (Robert W Service Poems)
As I was saying . . . (No, thank you; I never take cream with my tea;Cows weren't allowed in ...
A Legend Of Buckingham Village (Nora Pembroke Poems)
PART IAway up on the River aux Lievres, That is foaming and surging always,And from rock to rock leaping through rapids, Which ...
Arthingtons Thankefulnesse, For The Lordes Exceeding Kindnes Extended Vnto Him. (Henry Arthington Poems)
O mightie God thou Lord omnipotent,who onely rulest all thinges at thy wyll,Whose throne is far abeue the fyrmament:and whose ...
Any Soldier To His Son (Anonymous Poems)
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack ...
Another Invitation, Or Exhortation To Worship Christ Jesus (Rees Prichard Poems)
Come all fresh and gay, let us keep Holiday, With hymns let us Jesus adore;Let us him celebrate, both early and ...
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 ...
How Rifleman Brown came to Valhalla (Gilbert Frankau Poems)
To the lower Hall of Valhalla, to the heroes of no renown,Relieved from his spell at the listening-post, came Rifleman ...
Advertisemen (Langston Hughes Poems)
Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf-Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES!Look! See what Vanity Fair says about the new ...
The Kelpie: A Scottish Legend (J S Poems)
"Kelpie's a river demon or a god,"Thus say the lexicons; I'll not belie 'em,For though I mind not in the ...
The Virginia Cadets (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
Shun! dress! shoulder a'ms!Fours right! Forward! March!That was how they kept us at it;Heads up stiff as starch.We were Virginia ...
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 Complaint Of New Amsterdam (Jacob Steendam Poems)
I'm a grandchild of the Gods Who on th' Amstel have abodes; Whence their orders forth are sent Swift for ...
Freedoms (Gerald Gould Poems)
1Those were our freedoms, and we come to this: The climbing road that lures the climbing feet Is lost: there lies no ...
The Broken Mug (John Esten Cooke Poems)
My mug is broken, my heart is sad! What woes can fate still hold in store!The friend I cherished a thousand ...
The Complaint And The Advice Of Dives, To His Five Brethren (Part 2) (Rees Prichard Poems)
A Deep and bottomless abyss,My drear and dismal dungeon is,And all its walls are rais'd so high,That none can o'er ...
An Invitation (James Russell Lowell Poems)
TO J F HNine years have slipt like hour-glass sandFrom life's still-emptying globe away,Since last, dear friend, I clasped your ...
Another, On The Same Occasion (Rees Prichard Poems)
Thou ruler of heaven, of earth, and the main,Of wind, and of weather, of tempests, and rain,O, list to the ...
The Antiquarian (Hattie Howard Poems)
Millions have been and passed from view Benignity who never knew; No aspiration theirs, nor aim; Existence soulless as the clay From whence they ...
Swift’s Pastoral (Padraic Colum Poems)
A story that has for its background Saint Patrick's Purgatory.Characters:JONATHAN SWIFT and ESTHER VANHOMRIGHESTHERI know the answer: 'tis ingenious.I'm tired ...
Any Soldier To His Son (George Willis Poems)
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack ...