The Avenging Angel (William Wilfred Campbell Poems)
1 When the last faint red of the day is dead,2 And the dim, far heaven is lit3 With the ...
Grief Poems (3171 Poems)
In Memory Of Mrs. Adeline K. O’Brien, (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
ON VISTING HER HOUSE AFTER HER DEATH.SHE is not here! Alas, she is not here!Yet all still breathes and speaks ...
In The Twilight (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
In the twilight gray and shadowy, Deepening o'er the sunset's glow,Softly through the mystic dimness Flitting shadows come and go.As my thoughts ...
Rizpah (Henry Kendall Poems)
SAID one who led the spears of swarthy Gad,To Jesse's mighty son: "My Lord, O King,I, halting hard by Gibeon's ...
Lines, (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
HAIL , precious drops! may you relief impartUnto the Royal Mourner's gentle heart.Hail, precious drops! by nature kindly lent,Grief's overpow'ring ...
The Meeting Of The Dryads (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
IT was not many centuries since,When, gathered on the moonlit green,Beneath the Tree of Liberty,A ring of weeping sprites was ...
A Love Secret (Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Poems)
Love has its secrets, joy has its revealings.How shall I speak of that which love has hid?If my beloved shall ...
A Young Lady’s Lamentation (Janet Little Poems)
FOR THELOSS OF HER SISTER BY MARRIAGE.WHAT tongue can half my woes express?What force of eloquence can tell?The causes of ...
A Letter Sent To Mrs. Barber (Mary Barber Poems)
Thou glorious Ruler of the beauteous Day!Have sev'nteen Years so swiftly roll'd away?Hast thou so oft the heav'nly Circle run,When ...
Retrospective Reflections (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.WHEN soften'd sadness steals upon the mind,And Memory's hand has touched each finer chord,What joy so pure, what rapture so ...
Barnsley Colliery Explosion (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Far, far below, oh, far below,Where sulphurous lightnings flash and glow,Where blasting, bellowing thunders roarWith rending crash—dark Stygian shore;Black gulf ...
Colonel Samuel Colt, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, on Friday morning, January 10th, 1862.And hath he fallen,--whom late we saw In manly vigor bold?That stately form,--that ...
The First Canzone Of The Convito (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE.I.Ye who intelligent the Third Heaven move,Hear the discourse which is within my heart,Which cannot be ...
Fragment X (James Macpherson Poems)
It is night; and I am alone, forlornon the hill of storms. The wind isheard in the mountain. The torrentshrieks ...
Love’s Servile Lot (Robert Southwell Poems)
LOVE, mistress is of many minds,Yet few know whom they serve;They reckon least how little LoveTheir service doth deserve.The will ...
When Lincoln Died (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
A five-year old in a Cape Cod village, twenty miles from the rail,Falmouth, Falmouth, loveliest Falmouth,Wearing her silvery, pearl-embroidered ocean ...
A Pastoral Between Thirsis And Corydon, Upon The Death Of Damon, By Whom Is Meant Mr. W. Riddell (James Thomson Poems)
Thir.Say, tell me true, what is the doleful causeThat Corydon is not the man he was?Your cheerful presence used to ...
The Dying Philosopher (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
I have crept forth to die among the trees.They have sweet voices that I love to hear,Sweet, lute-like voices. They ...
Summer: Sunday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Thou art my glory—Thou my song, whose throneIs built upon the highest heavens—and thenceRollest the spheres by Thine omnipotence—Thou art ...
Darkened Hours (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WITH folded arms and drooping headI stand, my heart's blest goal unwon,My soul's high purpose unattained;But life, but life goes ...
As red men die (Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Poems)
Captive! Is there a hell to him like this?A taunt more galling than the Huron's hiss?He--proud and scornful, he--who laughed ...
Ghost Glen (Henry Kendall Poems)
"Shut your ears, stranger, or turn from Ghost Glen now,For the paths are grown over, untrodden by men now;Shut your ...
The Lucky Horseshoe (James Thomas Fields Poems)
A farmer travelling with his loadPicked up a horseshoe in the road,And nailed it fast to his barn door,That Luck ...
The Call To Bran (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
One time Bran, son of Febal, was out by himself near his dun, and heheard music behind him. And it ...
Ranger (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
A little boat in a cave,And a child there fast asleep;Floating out on a wave,Out to the perilous deep-Out to ...
Stanzas to Mary (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Nay ;— do not strive to check my tears, But let them flow unheeded on ; —The cherish'd hope of future ...
Sonnets of Twilight and Youth (John William Streets Poems)
I: VISIONCharmed with the ceaseless music of the brook-Babbling with hope and with Youth's deathless song;Full with the joys of ...
Regeneration (Henry Vaughan Poems)
A ward, and still in bonds, one dayI stole abroad;It was high spring, and all the wayPrimrosed and hung with ...
Sixth Sunday After Trinity (John Keble Poems)
When bitter thoughts, of conscience born, With sinners wake at morn, When from our restless couch we start, With fevered lips and withered ...
The Beautiful Sea (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
I have pined for the sight of the sea for years-Pined amid hoping, and wished amid fears;And my heart grew ...