Bourke (Henry Lawson Poems)
I've followed all my tracks and ways,from old bark school to Leicester Square,I've been right back to boyhood's days, and ...
Greed Poems (582 Poems)
An Epistle To Lady Bowyer (Mary Jones Poems)
How much of paper's spoil d what floods of ink!And yet how few how very few can think!The knack of ...
Old Man Gram (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
In little Gram Court lives old man Gram,The patriarch of the place;Where often you'll see his face,Eager and greedy, peering ...
June On The Merrimac (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
O dwellers in the stately towns,What come ye out to see?This common earth, this common sky,This water flowing free?As gayly ...
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 ...
The Fishermen Of Wexford (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
THERE is an old tradition sacred held in Wexford town,That says: "Upon St. Martin's Eve no net shall be let ...
The Vote of Thanks Debate (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
Merrill’s Garden (John Freeman Poems)
There is a garden where the seeded stems of thin long grass are bowedBeneath July's slow rains and heat and ...
The Terrors Of Guilt (Matilda Betham Poems)
YON coward, with the streaming hair,And visage, madden'd to despair,With step convuls'd, unsettled eye,And bosom lab'ring with a sigh,Is Guilt! ...
The Captains (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Captains sailed from all the World-from all the world and Spain;And each one for his country's ease, her glory ...
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 ...
The Boss Over the Board (Henry Lawson Poems)
When he's over a rough and unpopular shed,With the sins of the bank and the men on his head;When he ...
Elegy for Tibullus (Ovid Poems)
If Memnon's mother mourned, Achilles's mother mourned,and our sad fates can touch great goddesses,then weep, and loose your hair in ...
Psalm LXXXIII. (83) (John Milton Poems)
Be not thou silent now at lengthO God hold not thy peace,Sit not thou still O God of strengthWe cry ...
Fairies (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
On the tremulous coppice, From her plenteous hair, Large golden-rayed poppies Of moon-litten air The Night hath flung there. In the fern-favored hollow The fire-flies fleet Uncertainly ...
Mesri And Delilah (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
A PERSIAN TALE.The fable of the following little tale is taken from an ingenious and justly admired AuthorYe blooming Maids ...
A Gallery To The Temple. The Triumphe (Ralph Knevet Poems)
The King of Heaven, the Conquerour Of Earth, and Hell, mounts on An Asse, which never did before, Weare bridle, or caparison: For t'was ...
Wendell Phillips (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
WHAT shall we mourn? For the prostrate tree that sheltered the young green wood?For the fallen cliff that fronted the ...
Fallen (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
My country! by our fathers rearedAs champion of the world's opprest;Whose moral force the tyrant feared;Whose flag all struggling freemen ...
The Dispute (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
Once 'mid group of native mountains Hot dispute arose,Elbrus, angry, did with Kasbek Argument propose."Now beware!" the hoary Elbrus, Warning did exclaim--"To enslave ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
O who can build with puissant breast a songWorthy the majesty of these great finds?Or who in words so strong ...
The Avaricious Wife And Tricking Gallant (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise,When men are duped by artful women's eves;Though death his weapon freely will ...
Book V – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
O who can build with puissant breast a songWorthy the majesty of these great finds?Or who in words so strong ...
Reflection (Riann Erucolii Poems)
The light that spills through the crack in the doorIllumines only her faceAnd my grandmother smilesIf only all of life ...
Nemesis (Henry Lawson Poems)
It is night-time when the saddest and the darkest memories haunt,When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flaunt,When ...
How Rudeness And Kindness Were Justly Rewarded (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Once on a time, long years ago(Just when I quite forget),Two maidens lived beside the Po,One blonde and one brunette.The ...
Samadhi (Paramahansa Yogananda Poems)
Vanished are the veils of light and shade,Lifted the vapors of sorrow,Sailed away the dawn of fleeting joy,Gone the mirage ...
Ode– (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
IDo ye quail but to hear, Carolinians,The first foot-tramp of Tyranny's minions?Have ye buckled on armor, and brandished the spear,But ...
Man the Monarch (Mary Leapor Poems)
Amaz'd we read of Nature's early ThroesHow the fair Heav'ns and pond'rous Earth arose:How blooming Trees unplanted first began;And Beasts ...
The Postern Gate (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I chose me a lovely garden,Beneath whose ivied wallA lake's blue wavelets murmurAs evening shadows fall,--A garden, whose leafy windowsFrame ...