To Ladies Of A Certain Age (John Trumbull Poems)
Ye ancient Maids, who ne'er must proveThe early joys of youth and love,Whose names grim Fate (to whom 'twas given,When ...
Heaven Poems (7789 Poems)
A Summer Night (Matthew Arnold Poems)
In the deserted, moon-blanched street, How lonely rings the echo of my feet! Those windows, which I gaze at, frown, Silent and white, ...
The Streams (John Kenyon Poems)
Two streams there were, two streams from separate founts, Both beautiful to see, and one-most holy; (From Siloa this, and this from ...
Ode To Naples (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
EPODE 1a.I stood within the City disinterred;And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfallsOf spirits passing through the streets; and ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book I – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,Dear Venus that beneath the gliding starsMakest to teem the many-voyaged mainAnd fruitful ...
A Story Of Doom: Book IX. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
The prayer of Noah. The man went forth by nightAnd listened; and the earth was dark and still,And he was ...
The Adventures Of Little Bob Bonnyface (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LITTLE Bob Bonnyface went out one dayInto his father's fields to play;Twas a morn undarkened by mist or cloud,With the ...
On the Sea (Yehudah HaLevi Poems)
I.My God, break not the breakers of the sea,Nor command to the deep, 'Become dry'.Until I thank Your mercies, and ...
Robert Buchanan (William Cosmo Monkhouse Poems)
'T WAS the body of Judas IscariotLay in the Field of Blood;'T was the soul of Judas IscariotBeside the body ...
To the Lord Chancellor Hyde. Presented on New-Year’s Day, 1662 (John Henry Dryden Poems)
My Lord,While flattering crowds officiously appearTo give themselves, not you, an happy year,And by the greatness of their presents proveHow ...
Before Sunrise (Maurice Thompson Poems)
Mid foliage green and gold,And bloom-sprays manifold,I feelThe fragrance of eternal freshness stealForth from the rising day,And far away,Like the ...
A Nation’s Test (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I.A NATION'S greatness lies in men, not acres;One master-mind is worth a million hands.No royal robes have marked the planet-shakers,But ...
Cathloda – Duan II (James Macpherson Poems)
Fingal, returning with day, devolves the command on Duth-maruno, who engages the enemy, and drives them over the stream of ...
Book I – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,Dear Venus that beneath the gliding starsMakest to teem the many-voyaged mainAnd fruitful ...
Liberty – Equality – Fraternity! (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
LIBERTY Liberty! — Who shall be free?—The winds of the air, and the waves of the sea,And the beast in his ...
Contrasted Songs: Song For The Night Of Christ’s Resurrection (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(A Humble Imitation)"And birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave."It is the noon of night,And the world's Great ...
The Devil And The Monk (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Once Satan and a monk went on a "drunk,"And Satan struck a bargain with the monk,Whereby the Devil's crew was ...
A Dirge For Wellington (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
A voice of lamentation From the islands of the Sea!Alas, thou sorrowing Nation, Bereaved — alas for thee!The wail as of a ...
On Happiness (James Thomson Poems)
Warm'd by the summer sun's meridian ray,As underneath a spreading oak I layContemplating the mighty load of woe,In search of ...
Andrew Rykman’s Prayer (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Andrew Rykman's dead and gone;You can see his leaning slateIn the graveyard, and thereonRead his name and date.Trust is truer ...
Brahm (Joseph Furphy Poems)
A spectral film that came and went,In its elusive way gave ventIn some unreal words which meant;"I think therefore I ...
From “The River-Fight” (Henry Howard Brownell Poems)
WOULD you hear of the River-Fight?It was two of a soft spring night;- God's stars looked down on all,And all was ...
A Ballad, Shewing How An Old Woman Rode Double, And Who Rode Before Her (Robert Southey Poems)
The Raven croak'd as she sate at her meal,And the Old Woman knew what he said,And she grew pale at ...
The Human Sacrifice (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I.FAR from his close and noisome cell,By grassy lane and sunny stream,Blown clover field and strawberry dell,And green and meadow ...
The Rainbow (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
The shower is past, and the sky O'erhead is both mild and serene, Save where a few drops from on high, Like gems, ...
Lamentations of Jeremiah III: Hope of Relief through God’s Mercy (Jeremiah Bible Poems)
1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.2 He hath led me, and ...
The Buried Flower (William Edmondstoune Aytoun Poems)
In the silence of my chamber,When the night is still and deep,And the drowsy heave of oceanMutters in its charmed ...
Walled Out (Jane Barlow Poems)
An' wanst we were restin' a bit in the sun on the smooth hillside, Where the grass felt warm to your ...
Madeline (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
A LEGEND OF THE MOHAWK. Where the waters of the Mohawk Through a quiet valley glide, From the brown church to her dwelling She ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XIV: Picture-Writ (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
In those days said Hiawatha,"Lo! how all things fade and perish!From the memory of the old menPass away the great ...