Songs of the Voices of Birds: A Poet in his Youth, and the Cuckoo-Bird (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Once upon a time, I layFast asleep at dawn of day;Windows open to the south,Fancy pouting her sweet mouthTo my ...
Greatness Poems (247 Poems)
Hermann And Dorothea – VIII. Melpomene (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
HERMANN AND DOROTHEA.So tow'rd the sun, now fast sinking to rest, the two walk'd together,Whilst he veil'd himself deep in ...
Song I (George Wither Poems)
Lordly gallants! tell me this (Though my safe content you weigh not),In your greatness, what one bliss Have you gained, that I ...
The Death Of Hampden (Pakenham Thomas Beatty Poems)
SCENE.-A tent in the Parliamentary camp. HAMPDEN lies wounded, and CROMWELL is bending over him. Hampden. Spare all who yield; alas, that ...
The Wayside Cross (John William Streets Poems)
Beneath a hawthorn bush, dying, he layUpon an orchard slope, a gentle hill;The silvery moonlight thro' the night did playUpon ...
Oglethorpe (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
An Ode to be read on the laying of the foundationstone of the new Oglethorpe University,January, 1915, at Atlanta,GeorgiaIAS when ...
The Dead (John William Streets Poems)
Let music vast, triumphal, fill the world's great nave,Voicing the peerless theme of noble youthWho rose to Life's sublimest greatness ...
War (Janetta Philipps Poems)
When fell Oppression o'er the earthHer iron sceptre waved with fearful sway,To thee, dread power of War, the fiend gave ...
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 ...
Theodore Roosevelt (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Last of the giants, in whose soul shone clear The sacred torch of greatness and of right, A stricken world, that cannot ...
Lincoln, 1809–February 12, 1909 (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Yea, this is he, whose name is synonym Of all that's noble, though but lowly born; Who took command upon a stormy ...
Eclogue 4: Pollio (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
POLLIOMuses of Sicily, essay we nowA somewhat loftier task! Not all men loveCoppice or lowly tamarisk: sing we woods,Woods worthy ...
Honeymooning (John O Brien Poems)
To the rooms where I am dining in the glaring city's dayCome the happy honeymooners from the country far away,Two ...
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 ...
On The Birth Of Albert Edward, Prince Of Wales (Nora Pembroke Poems)
Sing and rejoice, With heart and voice,An heir is born to the British Crown, A royal son, A princely one,One born to glory ...
On The Death Of The Queen (John Cutts Poems)
She's gone! The Beauty of our Isle is fled; Our Joy cut off, the Great MARIA dead. We faint beneath the Stroak ...
The Student (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
ALONE he sat. His broad and lofty browWas bent upon his thin, pale hand; his locksOf jet hung o'er it ...
A Revery (Katherine Philips Poems)
DEATH is a leveller; beauty and kings,And conquerours, and all those glorious things,Are tumbled to their graves in one rude ...
The Royal Hermitage: a Poem (Jane Brereton Poems)
While to our Queen each duteous Bard conveysThe faithful Tribute of exalted Praise;While Genius, Learning, all their Force combine,To make ...
Aftermath (John Frederic Herbin Poems)
August is hot from the touch of an ardent sun,Lolling and still in fields and windless places;Idle all day like ...
Shakespeare (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
TERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONAPRIL 23, 1864"Who claims our Shakespeare from that realm unknown,Beyond the storm-vexed islands of the deep,Where Genoa's roving mariner ...
The Misanthrope’s Reverie (Joseph Warren Watson Poems)
What's man but a heathenish bandit?Earth's charity proves but a lie -Tis given with looks that remand it;Philanthropy's all in ...
An American To Mother England (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
England! My England! can the surging seaThat lies between us tear my heart from thee?Can distant birth and distant dwelling ...
Spring: Thursday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
The heavens, O Lord! Thy power proclaim,And the earth echoes back Thy name;Ten thousand voices speak Thy might,And day to ...
On the Memory of Mr. Edward King, Drown’d in the Irish Seas (John Cleveland Poems)
I like not tears in tune, nor do I prize His artificial grief that scans his eyes; Mine weep down pious beads, ...
Human Pride (Karl Heinrich Marx Poems)
When these stately Halls I scanAnd the giant burden of these Houses,And the stormy pilgrimage of ManAnd the frenzied race ...
We Are Accused Of Terrorism (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
We are accused of terrorismIf we dare to write about the remains of a homelandThat is scattered in pieces and ...
Used Up (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Where shall be found the niche unfill'd,—A spot unclaim'd, a field untill'd?Who may secure a vacant spaceFairly to run and ...
An Australian Paean-1876 (Marcus Clarke Poems)
The English air is fresh and fair,The Irish fields are green;The bright light gleams o'er Scotland's streams,And glows her hills ...
A Slight Misunderstan (Henry Lawson Poems)
Oh, do you hear the argument, far up above the skies?The voice of old Saint Peter, in expostulation rise?Growing shrill, ...