Spring In The North (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IAh, who will tell me, in these leaden days,Why the sweet Spring delays,And where she hides,-the dear desire Of every heart ...
Haste Poems (1196 Poems)
A Satire. A Humble Imitation (Nora Pembroke Poems)
The rage for writing has spread far and wide,Letters on letters now are multiplied,And every mortal, who can hold a ...
To Dr. Sherlock, On His Practical Discourse Concerning Death (Matthew Prior Poems)
Forgive the muse who, in unhallow'd strains,The saint one moment from his God detains;For sure whate'er you do, where'er you ...
Idyll (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
A village Chorus is supposed to be assembled, and about tocommence its festive procession.[Written for the birthday of the Duchess ...
Eclogue the Third Abra (William Taylor Collins Poems)
SCENE, a forest TIME, the EveningIn Georgia's land, where Tefflis' towers are seen,In distant view along the level green,While evening ...
An Epistle From Signora F—a To A Lady (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Condemn not, Madam, as I write in Haste,My Thoughts confus'd, or any Word misplac'd.Of cens'ring Tongues I scorn the little ...
Injustice of the Courts (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Whites alone upon the jury in a number of the states,Thus they crush a helpless Negro with their prejudicial hates;Legal ...
Verses Sent To A Lady On Her Birthday (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
The joyous day illumes the sky That bids each care and sorrow fly To shades of endless night: E'en frozen age, thawed in ...
Mercy To Animals (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O boys and men of British mould, With mother's milk within youA simple word for young and old, A word to warn ...
Moon in the Armenian Cemetery (Leo Alishan Poems)
O moon, fair lamp divinely lit! God set you in the sky To lead night's hosts, for darkness blind And ...
To A Youthful Friend (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Few years have pass'd since thou and I Were firmest friends, at least in name,And childhood's gay sincerity Preserved our feelings long ...
Convict Once – Part Fourth. (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
I.1"I HAVE no heart and no time to go forth to the world, there to choose meOne who may be ...
A Gallery To The Temple. The Prodigall (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Disrob'd by Sinne, expos'd to the cold aire, Of dire dispaire, I sighe I grone: Famish'd for want of heav'nly sustenance, My spirit faints, And ...
The Swamp Fox (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
WE follow where the Swamp Fox guides,His friends and merry men are we;And when the troop of Tarleton rides,We burrow ...
May-Day ; Or, The Discovery. A Pastoral. In The Manner of Cunningham (Hector MacNeill Poems)
See! rob'd in new beauties, young May cheers the lawn! Ye virgins! how charming her air!Haste! cull her fresh flow'rets dew-dropping ...
A Pastoral Dialogue Between Two Shepherdesses (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade,Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid,Whilst the World dissolves in Heat,Take this cool, and ...
Mrs. Harvey Seymour, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, Sunday, May 5th, 1861.She found a painless avenue to makeThe great transition from a world of careTo ...
An Incident Of War (Maurice Thompson Poems)
Our new flagbearer, pale and slim,A beardless youth of quiet mien,Much chaffed at by old soldiers grim(Before in battle he ...
Edith (Janetta Philipps Poems)
Oh ! heard ye not the sighing gale,That fans the twilight grove!And heard ye not the plaintive wail,That tells of ...
A Real Incident of The Persecuting Times In Scotland (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The Scene—A Lonely Low Thatched Cottage Near Airdrie Burn, New MonklandShe lay within that lonely cot,And seemed by all, save ...
An Elegy (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
SWEET Child of Sensibility!Haste thee from mirth and noise and folly,And o'er sad scenes of melancholy,Come, and muse, and mourn ...
At the Fords Of Jordan (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
A little way farther to guide thee I goWhere the footing is firm and the waters are low;Then we part, ...
An Evening Thought (Jupiter Hammon Poems)
Salvation comes by Jesus Christ alone,The only Son of God;Redemption now to every one,That love his holy Word.Dear Jesus we ...
Address To Garibaldi In His Retirement At Caprera, 1868 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Lone dweller of the stony isle!Dost thou at fortune's caprice smile,Soars thy great mind above thy state,Serene amid the shocks ...
Stuart (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A CUP of your potent "mountain dew,"By the camp-fire's ruddy light;Let us drink to a spirit as leal and trueAs ...
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 ...
To The Morning (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Beams of the daybreak faint! I hailYour dubious hues, as on the robeOf night, which wraps the slumbering globe,I mark ...
The Midnight Invocation (James Hurdis Poems)
Ye fairies who float on the breeze, And in blossoms delight to repose, Or regale with convenience and ease In the moss-cover'd bud ...
Written In The Prospect Of Death (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Sad solitary Thought, who keep'st thy vigils.Thy solemn vigils, in the sick man's mind;Communing lonely with his sinking soul,And musing ...
First Sunday In Lent (John Keble Poems)
"Angel of wrath! why linger in mid-air, While the devoted city's cryLouder and louder swells? and canst thou spare, Thy full-charged vial ...