The Dole Of Jarl Thorkell (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE land was pale with famineAnd racked with fever-pain;The frozen fiords were fishless,The earth withheld her grain.Men saw the boding ...
God Poems (16918 Poems)
To The Rev. J. Gilpin, On His Improved Edition Of The “Pilgrim’S Progress” (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
When, Reverend Sir, your good design, To clothe our Pilgrim gravely fine, And give him gentler mien and gait, First reached my ear, ...
Psalm LXXX. (80) (John Milton Poems)
Thou Shepherd that dost Israel keepGive ear in time of need,Who leadest like a flock of sheepThy loved Josephs seed,That ...
September (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
The hills are clad in purple and in gold, The ripened maize is gathered in the shock,The frost has kissed the ...
Afridi Love (Laurence Hope Poems)
Since, Oh, Beloved, you are not even faithful To me, who loved you so, for one short night,For one brief space ...
Heroes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Children, when you sat wishing,Down last night on the sands,Beckoning moments of glory,With little helpless hands,I heard you saying and ...
Grant At Rest– August 8, 1885 (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Sir Launcelot rode overthwart and endlong in a wide forest, and held nopath but as wild adventure led him... And he returned ...
The Captains (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Captains sailed from all the World-from all the world and Spain;And each one for his country's ease, her glory ...
The Song of a Prison (Henry Lawson Poems)
Now this is the song of a prison-a song of a gaol or jug-A ballad of quod or of chokey, ...
Matty’s Reason (John Hartley Poems)
"Nah, Matty! what meeans all this fuss? Tha'rt as back'ard as back'ard can be;Ther must be some reason, becoss It used to ...
The Diary of Ana (Ana Poems)
'Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
The Hermit Of Gibraltar (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
(A TRUE STORY)He died among the flowers, when dawn was leapingLike a freed lion through the sever'd east;'Twere but a ...
A Spring Scene. (Henry Alford Poems)
MOTHER. So thou hast brought thy bosom full of daisies And gilded celandine. There, pour them forth-- A pretty April snow--storm. Now enfold Thine ...
Black Bonnets (Henry Lawson Poems)
A day of seeming innocence,A glorious sun and sky,And, just above my picket fence,Black Bonnet passing by.In knitted gloves and ...
The People’s Reminiscences (Pierre Jean de Beranger Poems)
(LES SOUVENIRS DU PEUPLE) Ay, many a day the straw-thatched cot Shall echo with his glory! The humblest shed, these fifty years, Shall know ...
Meeting Of My Departed Mother And Father (Mary Baker Eddy Poems)
Joy for thee, happy friend! thy bark is past The dangerous sea, and safely moored at last-- Beyond rough foam. Soft gales celestial, ...
Naboth (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Great honour hath Boston, the city, won of late in a glorious frayWith a handful of Portuguese fishers on that ...
The Bucking-Tub (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF once in love, you'll soon invention findAnd not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind;The youngest 'prentice, when he ...
The Pastor’s Complaint (Rees Prichard Poems)
What sorrows in my soul, O God! arise,The vast perverseness of mankind to see?Shou'd any strive to lead them to ...
Two Altars. (Harriet Annie Wilkins Poems)
"And Cain talked with Abel, his brother."The sun was rising on earth, sin-tainted, yet beautiful,Delicate gold-colored cloudlets in all their ...
Communion With Nature (Jared Barhite Poems)
'Tis sweet to hold communion With Nature true and wild, And feel the thrill of gladness She breathes upon her child, When close upon ...
John Maynard (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
'Twas on Lake Erie's broad expanse One bright midsummer day,The gallant steamer Ocean Queen Swept proudly on her way.Bright faces clustered on ...
Ode To Psyche (John Keats Poems)
O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear, And pardon that thy secrets should be sung Even into ...
Keenan’s Charge (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
The sun had set;The leaves with dew were wet:Down fell a bloody duskOn the woods, that second day of May,Where ...
To a Mountain (Henry Kendall Poems)
To thee, O father of the stately peaks,Above me in the loftier light — to thee,Imperial brother of those awful ...
The Storm; Or, The Atheist Destroyed. (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
'TWAS on a gloomy sombre night,When clust'ring clouds had form'dInto a mass so densely thick,That Nature seem'd appall'd!The whistling winds ...
Life (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
"OH,1ife, is very, very beautifulTo my young heart. No clouds are on its sky,Save those the rainbow crowns; no waters ...
Labour! (A Ballad For Artisans) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Fair work for fair wages! -- it's all that we ask, An Englishman loves what is fair,We'll never complain of the ...
Some Characters I Much Adore (Jared Barhite Poems)
An honest man with noble mind, With heart sincere, true, and refined, Who lives for God and all mankind, Who cares for rich ...
Concerning Perseverance In A State Of Grace (Rees Prichard Poems)
No one e'er his Maker's matchless might withstood,He's ever stedfast, and supremely good,He will fulfil, whate'er he did propose,And none, ...