A Letter To America (Henry Alford Poems)
This to Hale in the West, from the Dean beneath his Cathedral.Greeting and health, and many New--year and Christmas blessings;Also, ...
Gratitude Poems (322 Poems)
The Hermitage (John Wilson Poems)
Stranger! this lonely glen in ancient timesWas named the glen of blood; nor Christian feetBy night or day, from these ...
Chatterton’s Will (Thomas Chatterton Poems)
Burgum, I thank thee, thou hast let me seeThat Bristol has impress'd her stamp on thee,Thy generous spirit emulates the ...
The Choice (John Pomfret Poems)
If heaven the grateful liberty would giveThat I might choose my method how to live,And all those hours propitious fate ...
Menotomy Lake (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
THE INDIAN CAMP.OUT from the Northern forest, dim and vast;Out from the mysteryOf yet more shadowy times, a pathless past,Untracked ...
Quashey; An Authentic Tale: Founded On Matter Of Fact (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
NO more let Europe's offspring boastSuperior sense and worth;Or fancy virtue is attach'dTo any spot of earth;Nor e'er suppose that ...
New-York in 1826. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Two years have elapsed since the verse of S. W. Met your bright eyes like a fanciful gem;With that kind of ...
Australia To England (John Farrell Poems)
What of the years of Englishmen? What have they brought of growth and graceSince mud-built London by its fen Became the Briton's ...
February (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
They went to the February place: 'Twas fashioned, with curious art, Of colored sugar and paper lace, With a front door shaped like ...
The Author’s Farewell To Edinburgh.-1810. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
EDINA'S cloud-cap'd hills and spires,With castle-rocks, and cannon's roar,These fortresses which guard your coast,Encompass'd by the sea-girt shore.Your public domes ...
Preom (Giovanni Boccaccio Poems)
Beginneth here the book called Decameron, otherwise Prince Galeotto, wherein are contained one hundred novels told in ten days by ...
Psalm CIV. Paraphrased (James Thomson Poems)
To praise thy Author, Soul, do not forget;Canst thou, in gratitude, deny the debt?Lord, thou art great, how great we ...
Our Master (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Immortal Love, forever full,Forever flowing free,Forever shared, forever whole,A never-ebbing sea!Our outward lips confess the nameAll other names above;Love only ...
Spring: Friday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Sing thy Creator's praise, and ownHim greatest—wisest—God alone;He wraps himself in robes of light,And, clothed in garments pure and bright,Of ...
Jubilate Agno (excerpt) (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.For ...
An Elegie Upon Dr. Donne (Izaak Walton Poems)
Our _Donne_ is dead; England should mourne, may say We had a man where language chose to stay And shew her gracefull ...
from Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, lines 695-768 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him.For ...
For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry (excerpt, Jubilate Agno) (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.For ...
On Memphis Station (Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Poems)
Half awake and half dozing,Struck by a drear reality, but still lostIn an inner sea fog of Danaidean dreamsI stand ...
A Warning, Or Admonition, To Every Man, To Think On God In The Morning (Rees Prichard Poems)
WHEN first thou wakest, each succeeding day,Lift up to God above thy grateful eyes,And due respect to him be sure ...
Another Chance (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
A DRAMATIC LYRICCome, give me back my life again, you heavy-handed Death!Uncrook your fingers from my throat, and let me ...
How The Fatuous Wish Of A Peasant Came True (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
An excellent peasant, Of character pleasant, Once lived in a hut with his wife. He was cheerful and docile, But such an old fossil You ...
To Brother Jonathan (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Ho! Brother, I'm a Britisher, A chip of heart of oak,That wouldn't warp or swerve or stir From what I thought or ...
On Reading Mr. Clarkson’s History Of The Abolition Of The Slave Trade (John Wilson Poems)
'MID the august and never-dying lightOf constellated spirits, who have gain'dA throne in heaven, by power of heavenly acts,And leave ...
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 ...
Chalkey Hall (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
How bland and sweet the greeting of this breezeTo him who fliesFrom crowded street and red wall's weary gleam,Till far ...
Daniel Gray (Josiah Gilbert Holland Poems)
IF I shall ever win the home in heavenFor whose sweet rest I humbly hope and pray,In the great company ...
Wednesday Before Easter (John Keble Poems)
O Lord my God, do thou Thy holy will - I will lie still -I will not stir, lest I forsake ...
The Coronation Of King Edward And Queen Alexandra (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
WITHIN the ancient Abbey now are gatheredFrom all the world the high estates of menTo see the Coronation of the ...
Worship (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The Pagan's myths through marble lips are spoken,And ghosts of old Beliefs still flit and moanRound fane and altar overthrown ...