A Slight Misunderstanding at the Jasper Gate (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, ...
Greatness Poems (247 Poems)
The morning sun (Muhammad Iqbal Poems)
Far from the ignoble strife of Man's tavern you areThe wine-cup adorning the sky's assemblage you areThe jewel which should ...
The Wood Giant (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
From Alton Bay to Sandwich Dome,From Mad to Saco river,For patriarchs of the primal woodWe sought with vain endeavor.And then ...
Olympia XI (Pindar Poems)
OLYMPIA Xl-FOR AGESIDAMUS OF THE WESTWIND LOCRIANS:WINNER IN THE BOYS BOXING MATCH Old Time, Old Shifting Trade-Time there is for the ...
Dedicatory Address To Her Royal Highness The Princess Of Wales (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
WHEN virtue and dignity jointly combine,Like the sun's radiant beams, more effulgent they shine;For when virtue is hid by Obscurity's ...
To The Right Honourable Earl Stanhope (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
O Stanhope! great in Council, and in Fight,Whom the first Scenes of publick Life delight,In Fields of Death to meet ...
May, 1917 (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE earth is damp: in everythingI taste the bitter breath of pallid spring.Hark! In the air a fanning sound,Like distant ...
To Sir Henry Wotton At His Going Ambassador To Venice (John Donne Poems)
AFTER those reverend papers, whose soul is Our good and great king's loved hand and fear'd name ;By which to you ...
Raftery’s Praise Of Mary Hynes (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
Going to Mass by the will of God, the day came wet and the wind rose;I met Mary Hynes at ...
The Heart And The Mind (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Warm heart, soft heart, generous and gentle, Full of sweet affections, sympathies, and loves,--How thou transcendest all the merely mental, How dost ...
Reflections Suggested By Winter (James Thomson Poems)
'Tis done! dread winter spreads its latest glooms,And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year.How dead the vegetable kingdom lies!How dumb ...
An Exotic (Henry Timrod Poems)
Not in a climate near the sunDid the cloud with its trailing fringes float,Whence, white as the down of an ...
Winter: Saturday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Lord! to whose being ages are but moments,Fugitive moments! Thou, Eternal Father!Listen in mercy—for life's passing shadows Soon will be scatter'd.'Tis ...
Lines To D. G. T., Of Sherwood (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
Blessings on thee, noble boy! With thy sunny eyes of blue, Speaking in their cloudless depths Of a spirit pure and true. In thy ...
The Female Genitals (Gwerful Mechain Poems)
Every foolish drunken poet,boorish vanity without ceasing,(never may I warrant it,I of great noble stock,)has always declaimed fruitless praisein song ...
The Heralds Of The Gael (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
The topmost glory of a race is boundWithin the gleaming virtues of its sons.Not by its carven gold shall it ...
X. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Through sorrow at the poor-spiritedness of the Afghans,I have abandoned greatness, and taken meanness in hand.Had this much even been ...
The Hymn Of Man (Khalil Gibran Poems)
I was,And I am.So shall I be to the end of time,For I am without end.I have cleft the vast ...
A Character (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
So noble that he cannot seeHe stands in aught above the rest,But does his greatness easily,And mounts his scaffold with ...
Benedicite (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
God's love and peace be with thee, whereSoe'er this soft autumnal airLifts the dark tresses of thy hair.Whether through city ...
Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (ex (Samuel Daniel Poems)
Power above powers, O heavenly eloquence,That with the strong rein of commanding wordsDost manage, guide, and master th' eminenceOf men's ...
Ode On The Inauguration Of The Australian Commonwealth (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
INow fervent be our festal lay,Our hearts with joy are lighted,While all the world beholds to-dayOur Continent united :And England's ...
Yosemite: From “The Washington Sequoia” (Milicent Washburn Shinn Poems)
Soul of a tree ungrown, new life out of God's life proceeding,Folded close in the seed, waking-O wonder of wonders-Waking ...
Farewell to Love (John Donne Poems)
Whilst yet to prove,I thought there was some deity in loveSo did I reverence, and gaveWorship, as atheists at their ...
Sarpedon’s Speech To Glaucus, In The Twelfth Book Of Homer (John Denham Poems)
Thus to Glaucus spakeDivine Sarpedon, since he did not findOthers, as great in place, as great in mind:--Above the rest ...
God Is Good (John Oxenham Poems)
I faced a future all unknown,No opening could I see,I heard without the night wind moan,The ways were dark to ...
Ballad Of The Armada (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
King Philip had vaunted his claims; He had sworn for a year he would sack us; With an army of heathenish names He ...
Federic Douglass (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
We would render fitting tribute,We would add to thy great fame,We would crown thee with due honorAnd immortalize thy name.Till ...
Rhapsody (Matilda Betham Poems)
LO! here a cloud comes sailing, richly cladIn royal purple, which the parting beamsOf bounteous Phoebus edge with tints of ...
The United Fruit Co. (Pablo Neruda Poems)
When the trumpet sounded, it wasall prepared on the earth,the Jehovah parcelled out the earthto Coca Cola, Inc., Anaconda,Ford Motors, ...