Love (Jared Barhite Poems)
Love is a sort of cannibal And lives upon its kind, It dares all dangers, fears no foes And to the world is ...
God Poems (16918 Poems)
The Hero (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"O for a knight like Bayard,Without reproach or fear;My light glove on his casque of steel,My love-knot on his spear!"O ...
Eclogue IV (Virgil Poems)
POLLIOMuses of Sicily, essay we nowA somewhat loftier task! Not all men loveCoppice or lowly tamarisk: sing we woods,Woods worthy ...
My Father, Mother, Brothers, Sisters (John Pierpont Poems)
They are all gone, but one.—A daughter and a sonWere, from my parents, early taken away;And my own childhood's joyWas ...
Creation Light (James Madison Bell Poems)
Deep in the unrecorded past, There was an age of darkness vast,And boundless as the realms of space. An age that held, ...
A Divine Pastorall (Thomas Parnell Poems)
Strephon & I upon a bank were laid,Where the gay spring in varied colours playd,& her rich odours lavish nature ...
The Moonmen (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I stood in the forest on HURON HILL When the night was old and the world was still. The Wind was a ...
Liberty (Jared Barhite Poems)
Into the port where Liberty stands Inviting the nations to woo her, Malefactors swarm from foreign lands, Whose tenets would surely undo her. Criminals, ...
Channing (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Not vainly did old poets tell,Nor vainly did old genius paintGod's great and crowning miracle,The hero and the saint!For even ...
The Conversation. A Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
It always has been a thought discreetTo know the company you meet;And sure there may be secret dangerIn talking much ...
Ode XII: On Recovering From A Fit Of Sickness, In the Country (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Thy verdant scenes, O Goulder's hill,Once more i seek, a languid guest:With throbbing temples and with burden'd breastOnce more i ...
The Ride Of Collin Graves (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
AN INCIDENT OF THE FLOOD IN MASSACHUSETTS, ON MAY16,1874.NO song of a soldier riding downTo the raging fight from Winchester ...
A Sabbath Scene (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
SCARCE had the solemn Sabbath-bellCeased quivering in the steeple,Scarce had the parson to his deskWalked stately through his people,When down ...
Hurrah, Germania! (Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath Poems)
Hurrah! Germania mine! What fire is in thine eye, as there Thou bendest o'er the Rhine! How in July's full blaze dost thou Flash ...
Christmas (Henry Timrod Poems)
How grace this hallowed day?Shall happy bells, from yonder ancient spire,Send their glad greetings to each Christmas fire Round which the ...
Experience To The Poet (Margaret Holford Poems)
Why idly, shepherd, through the live-long day,In thriftless song thy youthful leisure waste?The busy world now beckons thee away;Oh! quit ...
Religion and Death (Nathaniel Cotton Poems)
Lo! a form divinely brightDescends, and bursts upon my sight;A seraph of illustrious birth!(Religion was her name on earth);Supremely sweet ...
Another On The Same Subject (Rees Prichard Poems)
Thou God of mercy! consolation's Sire!Thou author of my health, my chief delight!Hear an afflicted sinner's warm desire,Who begs for ...
Rantoul (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
One day, along the electric wireHis manly word for Freedom sped;We came next morn: that tongue of fireSaid only, "He ...
A Song Concerning The Devil And The Drunkard (Rees Prichard Poems)
FROM the fraudulent fiend, that still without end Most mortals trepans and beguiles,Who wou'd hook us all in, to do ev'ry ...
The Captive (James Russell Lowell Poems)
It was past the hour of trysting, But she lingered for him still;Like a child, the eager streamlet Leaped and laughed adown ...
St. Michael And All Angels (John Keble Poems)
Ye stars that round the Sun of righteousness In glorious order roll,With harps for ever strung, ready to bless God for each ...
Dungog (Henry Kendall Poems)
HERE, pent about by office walls And barren eyes all day,'Tis sweet to think of waterfalls Two hundred miles away!I would not ...
Landscapes (Louis Untermeyer Poems)
The rain was over, and the brilliant air Made every little blade of grass appear Vivid and startling-everything was there ...
My Irish Love (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
Beside the saffron of a curtain, litWith broidered flowers, below a golden fringeThat on her silver shoulder made a glow,Like ...
The Conversion Of St. Paul (John Keble Poems)
The mid-day sun, with fiercest glare,Broods o'er the hazy twinkling air: Along the level sandThe palm-tree's shade unwavering lies,Just as thy ...
In Memory Of Douglas Vernon Cow (Muriel Stuart Poems)
THIS POEM, DEDICATED TO HIS MOTHER.To twilight heads comes Death as comes a friend.As with the gentle fading of the ...
An Address Of An Ex-Confedera (Maurice Thompson Poems)
II was a rebel, if you please,A reckless fighter to the last,Nor do I fall upon my kneesAnd ask forgiveness ...
Jerusalem (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
Four lamps were burning o'er two mighty graves -Godfrey's and Baldwin's - Salem's Christian kings;And holy light glanced from Helena's ...
Adelaide Ironside (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Knowest thou now, O Love! Oh pure from the death of thy summer of sweetness!Seest thou now, O new-born Delight ...