On A Miniature (Henry Augustin Beers Poems)
THINE old-world eyes-each one a violet Big as the baby rose that is thy mouth- Set me a-dreaming. Have our eyes not ...
Hair Poems (3954 Poems)
The First Green Leaves (Khoren Nar Bey de Lusignan Poems)
Scarce are the clouds' black shadows Pierced by a gleam of light, Scarce have our fields grown dark again, Freed ...
The Last Gift (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I LEAVE thee, love! In vain hast thouThe God of life implored;My clinging soul is torn from thine,My faithful, my ...
The Shallows Of The Ford (Henry Herbert Knibbs Poems)
Did you ever wait for daylightwhen the stars along the riverFloated thick and white as snowflakesin the water deep and ...
Scotia: A Vision (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Midnight's solemn peal had rung;My drowsy spirit listless hungBetween the certain and unreal,When visioned forms and shapes idealCome floating from ...
Out Of Time (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
1I saw Time flowing like a hundred yachtsThat fly behind the daylight, foxed with air;Or piercing, like the quince-bright, bitter ...
The Croton Ode. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Gushing from this living fountain,Music pours a falling strain,As the goddess of the mountainComes with all her sparkling train.From her ...
I Shall not Die for Thee (Padraic Colum Poems)
O woman, shapely as the swan,On your account I shall not die:The men you've slain — a trivial clan —Were ...
Old Memories (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Bright flashes of sunshine—sweet snatches of song—Warm gushings of kindness, come thrilling alongThe chords of old memories, melting the tone,And ...
Braid Claith (Robert Fergusson Poems)
Ye wha are fain to hae your nameWrote in the bonny book of fame,Let merit nae pretension claimTo laurel'd wreath,But ...
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 ...
The Speckled Trout (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
With rod and line I took my way That led me through the gossip trees, Where all the forest was asway With hurry ...
The Spell (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
"We have the receipt of fern seed: we walk invisible."—HENRY IVAnd we have met but twice or thrice!—Three times enough ...
Campaspe (Henry Kendall Poems)
Turn from the ways of this Woman! Campaspe we call her by name —She is fairer than flowers of the ...
The Soldier Boy’s Dream (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
A soldier boy lay dreamingIn his lonely prison cell,While the stars above were gleaming,And their lustre on him fell.His dreams ...
An Elegy on a Lap-dog (John Gay Poems)
Shock's fate I mourn; poor Shock is now no more, Ye Muses mourn, ye chamber-maids deplore. Unhappy Shock! yet more unhappy fair, Doom'd ...
I Speak Not of Beauty (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
I speak not of beauty; — it is not a face That can win the affection of hearts such as mine ...
A War Wedding (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE dreamy earth is flooded o'erWith warm and hazy light,September's latest boon, beforeShe feels the hoar frost in the night;And, ...
There Are Faeries (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThere are faeries, bright of eye,Who the wildflowers' warders are:Ouphes, that chase the firefly;Elves, that ride the shooting-star:Fays, who in ...
A Psalm Of Fortitude (Joseph Furphy Poems)
Are you, like me, a peevish brat,With feelings extra-fine?Are you disposed to whip the catWhen misadventure lays your flat?Then paste ...
Rosalind: Like to the Clear in Highest Sphere (Thomas Lodge Poems)
1 Like to the clear in highest sphere2 Where all imperial glory shines,3 Of selfsame colour is her hair,4 Whether ...
His Excellency General Washington (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light,Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write.While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms,She flashes ...
The Nizam’s Daughter (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
SHE is yet a child in years,Twelve springs are on her face,Yet in her slender form appearsThe woman's perfect grace.Her ...
Afmerica (Mary E Lee Poems)
Hang up the harp! I hear them say,Nor sing again an Afric lay.The time has passed; we would forget--And sadly ...
Unforgotten (Laurence Hope Poems)
Do you ever think of me? you who died Ere our Youth's first fervour chilled,With your soft eyes and your pulses ...
At End Of A Holiday (Roderic Quinn Poems)
'LEAVES and brambles from hill and hollowCome and gather!' the children cried;'The sun goes down, and the night will follow,A ...
October (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I oft have met her slowly wanderingBeside a leafy stream, her locks blown wild,Her cheeks a hectic flush, more fair ...
Music Of Summer (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThou sit'st among the sunny silencesOf terraced hills and woodland galleries,Thou utterance of all calm melodies,Thou lutanist of Earth's most ...
Ignoto (Christopher Marlowe Poems)
I love thee not for sacred chastity.Who loves for that? nor for thy sprightly wit:I love thee not for thy ...
The Rapidan (Kate Putnam Osgood Poems)
The languid Southern night was faintWith wafted breath of odorous bloom!The heavy masses of the treesWere clustered full of dewy ...