The Creed (Rees Prichard Poems)
A. In God, the Father, whose Almighty Pow'r Did heav'n, earth, sea, into existence call, I do believe, and ever will adore Him, ...
Happiness Poems (5743 Poems)
He Called Her In (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
IHe called her in from me and shut the door.And she so loved the sunshine and the sky!--She loved them ...
Dedication – The Poems Of Goeth (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scaredThe gentle sleep that round my senses clung,And I, awak'ning, from my cottage fared,And ...
Ode to Fancy (Joseph Warton Poems)
O parent of each lovely Muse,Thy spirit o'er my soul diffuse,O'er all my artless songs preside,My footsteps to thy temple ...
Celia To Damon (Matthew Prior Poems)
What can I say? What Arguments can proveMy Truth? What Colors can describe my Love?If it's Excess and Fury be ...
Dorothy In The Garret (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
In the low-raftered garret, stooping Carefully over the creaking boards,Old Maid Dorothy goes a-groping Among its dusty and cobwebbed hoards;Seeking some bundle ...
The Wanderer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
WANDERER.YOUNG woman, may God bless thee,Thee, and the sucking infantUpon thy breast!Let me, 'gainst this rocky wall,Neath the elm-tree's shadow,Lay ...
The Reign Of Reason (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
The day of truth is dawning. I beholdO'er darksome hills the trailing robes of goldAnd silent footsteps of the gladsome ...
A Dream Of Bric-A-Brac (John Hay Poems)
I dreamed I was in fair Niphon.Amid tea-fields I journeyed on,Reclined in my jinrikishaw;Across the rolling plains I sawThe lordly ...
Festus – XLIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Man's final doom conceive: the award to allEarth's tribes of souls by spirits elect, their chiefsSaintly, themselves through purifying ruleOf ...
The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter IV. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
A Caution to all against a Legal Spirit; especially to those that have a Profession without Power, and Learning without ...
The Bard (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
Where dwells the spirit of the Bard--what skyPersuades his daring wing,--Folded in soft carnation, or in snowStill sleeping, far o'er ...
Fragments (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Saw'st thou that light? exclaim'd the youth, and paused:Through yon dark firs it glanced, and on the streamThat skirts the ...
The Shepherds Calendar – December-Christmass (John Clare Poems)
Christmass is come and every hearthMakes room to give him welcome nowEen want will dry its tears in mirthAnd crown ...
The Death Of Hampden (Pakenham Thomas Beatty Poems)
SCENE.-A tent in the Parliamentary camp. HAMPDEN lies wounded, and CROMWELL is bending over him. Hampden. Spare all who yield; alas, that ...
Beechenbrook – V (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
"To-morrow is Christmas!"--and clapping his hands, Little Archie in joyful expectancy stands, And watches the shadows, now short and now tall, That momently ...
The Debate In The Sennit (James Russell Lowell Poems)
SOT TO A NUSRY RHYME'Here we stan' on the Constitution, by thunder! It's a fact o' wich ther's bushils o' proofs;Fer ...
Epistle To The Labouring Poor (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
All you who turn the sturdy soil, Or ply the loom with daily toil, And lowly on through life turmoil For scanty fare, Attend, ...
Up And Down Old Brandywine (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Up and down old Brandywine, In the days 'at's past and gone--With a dad-burn hook-and line And a saplin' pole--swawn! I've had more ...
O Let Me Dream The Dreams Of Long Ago (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Call me not back, O cold and crafty world:I scorn your thankless thanks and hollow praise.Wiser than seer or scientist--contentTo ...
The Pigeons (John Freeman Poems)
The pigeons, following the faint warm light,Stayed at last on the roof till warmth was gone,Then in the mist that's ...
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 ...
Hail Columbia (Joseph Hopkinson Poems)
HAIL COLUMBIA Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, Who fought and bled ...
The Flower’s Lesson (Louisa May Alcott Poems)
There grew a fragrant rose-tree where the brook flows, With two little tender buds, and one full rose; When the sun went ...
The Daughter (Matilda Betham Poems)
"Come, mournful lute! dear echo of my woe! No stranger's tread in this lone spot I fear, Sweeter thy notes in such ...
Two Stanzas (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
There was once a town, the inhabitants of which were so passionately fondof poetry,that if some weeks passed by without ...
Venetian Epigrams (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
URN and sarcophagus erst were with life adorn'd by the heathenFauns are dancing around, while with the Bacchanal troopChequerd circles ...
Happy Birthday Tupac Shakur (Old Poetry Poems)
It is hard to get a balanced view of Tupac Amaru Shakur (or Lesane Parish Crooks as he was known as a ...
To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison (Thomas Tickell Poems)
If, dumb too long, the drooping Muse hath stay'd,And left her debt to Addison unpaid;Blame not her silence, Warwick, but ...
In Memoriam: Alice Fane Gunn Stenhouse (Henry Kendall Poems)
The grand, authentic songs that rollAcross grey widths of wild-faced sea,The lordly anthems of the Pole,Are loud upon the lea.Yea, ...