The Legend Of The Stone (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The year was dying, and the day Was almost dead; The West, beneath a sombre gray, Was sombre red. The gravestones in the ghostly ...
Good & Evil Poems (1819 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
My Birthday (John Henry Newman Poems)
Let the sun summon all his beams to hold Bright pageant in his court, the cloud-paved skyEarth trim her fields and ...
A Rune Of The Rain (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
O many-toned rain!O myriad sweet voices of the rain!How welcome is its delicate overtureAt evening, when the moist and glowing ...
Charles The Fifth’s Clocks (John Quincy Adams Poems)
With Charles the Fifth art thou acquainted, reader?Of Ferdinand and Isabel the grandson,In ages past of Europe's realms file leader,Among ...
Lines Written After Reading Sir Edward Seaward’s Narrative (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Brave beauteous pair! if e'er indeedYour names were clothed in mortal weed;If ye are more than lovely gleams,Whose dwelling is ...
Why Should The American Negro Be Proud? (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
Why should the American negro be proud?This question was asked in tones clear and loud,The Negro who once was in ...
The Wife Of Manoah To Her Husband (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Against the sunset's glowing wallThe city towers rise black and tall,Where Zorah, on its rocky height,Stands like an armed man ...
At Her Window (Henry Kendall Poems)
To-night a strong south wind in thunder singsAcross the city. Now by salt wet flats,And ridges perished with the breath ...
The Bachelor (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
THE wind went cold as the day went old, And I went very sad, Till I saw something by the road That brought ...
The Female Martyr (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"BRING out your dead!" The midnight streetHeard and gave back the hoarse, low call;Harsh fell the tread of hasty feet,Glanced ...
An Ancient Legend (Philip James Bailey Poems)
A stone stands in a rustic townWhich once the neighbouring hill did crown;Nigh to the house of God it layBefore ...
The Christmas Sheaf (Phoebe Cary Poems)
"Now, good-wife, bring your precious hoard,"The Norland farmer cried,"And heap the hearth, and heap the board,For the blessed Christmas-tide."And bid ...
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 ...
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 ...
St. Luke (John Keble Poems)
Two clouds before the summer gale In equal race fleet o'er the sky:Two flowers, when wintry blasts assail, Together pins, together die.But ...
Elijah (Henry Kendall Poems)
INTO that good old Hebrew's soul sublimeThe spirit of the wilderness had passed;For where the thunders of imperial StormRolled over ...
Ned the Larrikin (Henry Kendall Poems)
A SONG that is bitter with grief-a ballad as pale as the lightThat comes with the fall of the leaf, ...
Lucifer’s Deputy (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A POET once, whose tuneful soul, perchance,Too fondly leaned toward sin, and sin's romance,On a long vanished eve, so calm ...
Advice, How To Govern Our Words, According To God’s Will (Rees Prichard Poems)
LET all thy words a Christian import bear,Let them, with grace, at all times season'd be,That they may knowledge give ...
Cooranbean (Henry Kendall Poems)
Years fifty, and seven to boot, have smitten the children of menSince sound of a voice or a foot came ...
Liberty Lighting The World (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
MAJESTIC warder by the Nation's gate,Spike-crowned, flame-armed like Agony or Glory,Holding the tablets of some unknown law,With gesture eloquent and ...
The Battle of Naseby (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
Oh! wherefore come ye forth, in triumph from the North,With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red?And ...
A Satire. A Humble Imitation (Nora Pembroke Poems)
The rage for writing has spread far and wide,Letters on letters now are multiplied,And every mortal, who can hold a ...
Oh, Life, I Have Taken You For My Lover! (Laurence Hope Poems)
Oh, Life, I have taken you for my Lover, I rent your veils and I found you fair ;If a fault ...
Upon Parties (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Curst be that busy Wretch, that human Beast,(Some crafty Statesman or ambitious Priest)Who first his own pernicious Schemes to buildHis ...
In the Height of Fashion (Henry Lawson Poems)
SO at last a toll they'll levy For the passing fool who sings-Take the harp grown dull and heavy (With the dried ...
Lady Hamilton (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
Round Sizergh's antique, massy walls,Full frequent swept the whistling blast;It sigh'd along the spacious halls,And through the tap'stried chambers past.The ...
Immorality (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Have you heard, my friend, the slander that the Negro has to face?Immorality, the grossest, has been charged up to ...