A Grammarian’s Funeral Shortly after the Revival of Learnin (Robert Browning Poems)
Let us begin and carry up this corpse,Singing together.Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpesEach in its tetherSleeping safe ...
Greed Poems (582 Poems)
Colhorn (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
Lo, a castle, tall, lake-mirrored, Ringed around by mountain forms,Roofless, ruined, still defying Summer's rains and winter's storms.Every shattered lifeless window, Every stone ...
The Old Man And The Boy (George W Sands Poems)
Father, I have dreamed a dream,When the rosy morning hourPoured its light on field and stream,Kindling nature with its pow'r;--O'er ...
New Year Ode, 1863 (George Washington Cruikshank Poems)
Let the bier move onward.—Let no tear be shed.The midnight watch is ended: The grim old year is dead.His life ...
Some Songs After Master Singers (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
ISONG With a hey! and a hi! and a hey-ho rhyme! O the shepherd lad He is ne'er so glad As when he pipes, ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 04 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XXXIThus spake the nymph, yet spake but to the wind,She could not alter his well-settled thought;O miracle! O strife of ...
Grannie’s Crack Aboot The Famine In Auld Scotlan’ In 1739-40 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Oh saw ye e'er sic witless bairns, Sic wasterie o' blessin's gien?Oh had they dree'd what we ha'e dree'd, Oh had they ...
Japan,–Old And New (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The son of a Japanese lord am I,--A Prince of the olden time;My hair is white, though black as nightIn ...
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 ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book III – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
O thou who first uplifted in such darkSo clear a torch aloft, who first shed lightUpon the profitable ends of ...
Book III – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
O thou who first uplifted in such darkSo clear a torch aloft, who first shed lightUpon the profitable ends of ...
The Vanity Of Human Wishes (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
I walk'd and did a little Mole-hill viewFull peopled with a most industrious crewOf busie Ants, where each one labor's ...
My Choice (Jared Barhite Poems)
I would rather dwell a hermit In some silent peaceful wood, Where no voice of human being Ever breaks the solitude; Where babbling brook, ...
A Country Pathway (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I come upon it suddenly, alone-- A little pathway winding in the weedsThat fringe the roadside; and with dreams my own, I ...
Pats Of Butter (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Fairies can hide anywhere,Up and down, and in and out,'Neath the cushion of a chair,In a teapot's empty spout;They can ...
On A Country Life (James Thomson Poems)
I hate the clamours of the smoky towns,But much admire the bliss of rural clowns;Where some remains of innocence appear,Where ...
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 ...
A Psalm Of Councel (Joseph Furphy Poems)
Though some good folks may take it ill,As trifling with parsonic frill,Thus saith the Lord to Jim and Bill,In admonition ...
Paris Journal (James Douglas Morrison Poems)
So much forgotten alreadySo much forgottenSo much to forgetOnce the idea of purityborn, all was lostirrevocablyThe Black Musicianin a house ...
Prelude – The Mississippi (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Onward rolls the Royal River, proudly sweeping to the sea,Dark and deep and grand, forever wrapt in myth and mystery.Lo ...
Chocolate Cake (Michael Rosen Poems)
I love chocolate cake.And when I was a boyI loved it even more.Sometimes we used to have it for teaand ...
To Stella Visiting Me in My Sickness (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Pallas, observing Stella's witWas more than for her sex was fit,And that her beauty, soon or late,Might breed confusion in ...
De La Charite Pour Les Pauvres Prisonniers, Dieppe (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YES , 'tis a year since last that plaintive cry,"Pity the prisoners," touch'd my wand'ring ear:And now again their hat ...
To The South (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
ON ITS NEW SLAVERY Heart of the Southland, heed me pleading now, Who bearest, unashamed, upon my brow The long kiss of the ...
Marguerite de Roberval (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
O THE long days and nights! The days that bringNo sunshine that my shrinking soul can bear,The nights that soothe ...
The Dance Of The Seven Deadly Sins (William Dunbar Poems)
I.Of Februar the fiftene nichtFull lang before the dayis lichtI lay intill a tranceAnd then I saw baith Heaven and ...
The Clinchiad : Complete (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
See Clinchie to the hen approach,A scoundrel screen'd in gilded coach.Near to Edina's lofty town,Upon a worthy Baron's ground,A poor ...
A Woman, A Dog, And A Walnut Tree (Pat O Cotter Poems)
This Land is the orphan kiddie Of the group with their stars in the Flag,And it's looked on Outside as an ...
Invocation (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Goddess of Liberty! O thouWhose tearless eyes behold the chain,And look unmoved upon the slain,Eternal peace upon thy brow,-Before thy ...
War (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurledDeath, fate, and ruin, on a bleeding world.See! on yon heath what countless victims ...