Waxy: Or, Verses Upon A Young LDY’S Birth-Day (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Hail to the Light of this revolving Morn,On which such Beauty to the World was born,Or rather made--for thus Traditions ...
Heaven Poems (7789 Poems)
Fameless Graves (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I WALKED the ancient graveyard's ample round,Yet found therein not one illustrious nameWedded by Death to Fame.The sea-winds moaned by ...
Musings (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
INSPIRATION. All who have toiled for Art, who've won or lost, Sat equal priests at her high Pentecost; Only the chrism and sacrament ...
Alice (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.Beautiful Alice, serene little saint, My treasure!— O better than mine,—What mind can imagine, or eloquence paint Thy gladness and glory divine?A ...
The Woodman And The Nightingale (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
A woodman whose rough heart was out of tune(I think such hearts yet never came to good)Hated to hear, under ...
The Old Burying-Ground (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Our vales are sweet with fern and rose,Our hills are maple-crowned;But not from them our fathers choseThe village burying-ground.The dreariest ...
Elegy — Written in Spring (Michael Bruce Poems)
'Tis past: the iron North has spent his rage;Stern Winter now resigns the length'ning day;The stormy howlings of the winds ...
“Bothwell Brig” (Janet Hamilton Poems)
O, Bonnie Clyde! a shimmering gleam Oot owre thy rippling bosom plays,Whan frae the bricht blue sky o' June The sun leuks ...
Lines on A Fly-Leaf (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I need not ask thee, for my sake,To read a book which well may makeIts way by native force of ...
Wednesday Before Easter (John Keble Poems)
O Lord my God, do thou Thy holy will - I will lie still -I will not stir, lest I forsake ...
The Monks Of Basle (John Hay Poems)
I tore this weed from the rank, dark soilWhere it grew in the monkish time,I trimmed it close and set ...
A Satire Against The Citizens Of London (Henry Howard Poems)
London, hast thou accused me Of breach of laws, the root of strife? Within whose breast did boil to see, So fervent hot, ...
Clytia’s Lament To Apollo (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
Oh, wilt thou ne'er again, when fade the eves,Loved Cynthius, come soul-trembling to my joy,Till raptured stars shall steal out ...
Sexegesima Sunday (John Keble Poems)
Foe of mankind! too bold thy race: Thou runn'st at such a reckless pace,Thine own dire work thou surely wilt confound: 'Twas ...
Virgidemariu (Joseph Hall Poems)
With some pot-fury, ravish'd from their wit, They sit and muse on some no-vulgar writ: As frozen dunghills in a winter's morn, That ...
To A Pansy-Violet (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Found Solitary Among the Hills. I. O pansy-violet, With early April wet, How frail and pure you look Lost in this glow-worm nook Of heaven-holding hills: Down ...
To My Sister (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
SWEET sister, thou art very beautiful,Thy wild and dark eye-flashes, burns and glowsWith glorious spirit-lustre, and a spellOf deep and ...
The Coronation Of King Edward And Queen Alexandra (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
WITHIN the ancient Abbey now are gatheredFrom all the world the high estates of menTo see the Coronation of the ...
Songs with Preludes: Lamentation (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I read upon that book,Which down the golden gulf doth let us lookOn the sweet days of pastoral majesty; I read ...
Alice (John Hartley Poems)
Dear little Alice lay dying;-- I see her as if 'twas to-day,And we stood round her snowy bed, crying, And watching her ...
St. Mark’s Eve – A Fragment (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
'Twas the Eve of St. Mark, and she stood by the church, And gazed with undaunted eyeOn the ruin'd form of ...
A Strip of Blue (Lucy Larcom Poems)
I do not own an inch of land, But all I see is mine,-The orchard and the mowing-fields, The lawns and gardens ...
A Memorial tribute (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
READ AT THE MEETING HELD AT MUSIC HALL,FEBRUARY 8, 1876, IN MEMORY OF DR. SAMUEL G. HOWEI.LEADER of armies, Israel's ...
The Calm (John Donne Poems)
Our storm is past, and that storm's tyrannous rage, A stupid calm, but nothing it, doth 'suage. The fable is inverted, and ...
Monday Before Easter (John Keble Poems)
"Father to me thou art and mother dear, And brother too, kind husband of my heart -So speaks Andromache in boding ...
Summer: Sunday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
"Let not your hearts be troubled, but confide"In me as ye confide in God; I go"A mansion for my followers ...
The Brewing Of Soma (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The fagots blazed, the caldron's smokeUp through the green wood curled;"Bring honey from the hollow oak,Bring milky sap," the brewers ...
The Sun Hath Twice (Henry Howard Poems)
The sun hath twice brought forth the tender green, And clad the earth in lively lustiness; Once have the winds the trees ...
Nature and Art For an Album (John Henry Newman Poems)
"Man goeth forth" with reckless trust Upon his wealth of mind,As if in self a thing of dust Creative skill might find;He ...
Conscription Camp (Karl Shapiro Poems)
Your landscape sickens with a dry diseaseEven in May, Virginia, and your sweet pinesLike Frenchmen runted in a hundred warsAre ...