Written In The National Gallery, (George W Sands Poems)
at the city of Washington, on looking at a Mummy, supposed to have belonged to a race extinctbefore the occupation ...
Heroism Poems (1602 Poems)
Sonnets of the Empire (Archibald Thomas Strong Poems)
Gloriana's EnglandFORTH sped thy gallant sailors, blithe and free,Fearing nor foeman's hate, nor iron clime,Nor Lima's flame, nor Plata's fever-slime,So ...
Rover (Henry Kendall Poems)
NO classic warrior tempts my pen To fill with verse these pages-No lordly-hearted man of men My Muse's thought engages.Let others choose ...
Night In State Street (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Art thou he?-The seer and sage, the hero and lover-yea,The man of men, then away from the haughtydayCome with me!Ho-ho! ...
Haidouks (Khristo Botev Poems)
Father and SonCome, Grandfather, blow on your pipe now,And I will take up the tuneWith songs of our heroes, of ...
Any Soldier To His Son (Anonymous Poems)
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack ...
For A Child (Harriet Monroe Poems)
E. H. M.Nov. 17th, 1890-Feb. 13th, 1904Still he lies,Pale, wan, and strangely wise.Under the white coverletHe lies here sleeping yet,Though ...
New Year Ode, 1863 (George Washington Cruikshank Poems)
Let the bier move onward.—Let no tear be shed.The midnight watch is ended: The grim old year is dead.His life ...
How Rifleman Brown came to Valhalla (Gilbert Frankau Poems)
To the lower Hall of Valhalla, to the heroes of no renown,Relieved from his spell at the listening-post, came Rifleman ...
The Old Player (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THE curtain rose; in thunders long and loudThe galleries rung; the veteran actor bowed.In flaming line the telltales of the ...
Any Soldier To His Son (George Willis Poems)
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack ...
The Earth-Mother (John Sandes Poems)
Cometh a voice:-'My children, hear; From the crowded street and the close-packed mart I call you back with my message ...
A Bachelor-Bookworm’s Complaint Of The Late Presidential Election (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A MAN of peace, I never dared to marry,Lover of tranquil hours, I dwelt apart;Outside the realm where noisy schemes ...
Frida And Her Poet (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A BRAVE young poet born in days of Eld,Dwelt 'mid the frozen Northlands; he beheld,And wondering, sung the marvels of ...
Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 04 (Sa di Poems)
A band of Arab brigands having taken up their position on the top ofa mountain and closed the passage of ...
The Ode of Tarafah (Tarafah ibn al Abd Poems)
A young gazelle there is in the tribe, dark-lipped, fruit-shaking,flaunting a double necklace of pearls and topazes,holding aloof, with the ...
A Prize Poem (Henry Timrod Poems)
A fairy ringDrawn in the crimson of a battle-plain —From whose weird circle every loathsome thing And sight and sound of ...
Avenging The Maine (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
Sing, O Muse! the avenging of the Maine,The direful woes, the fate of Spain.A heinous deed t' our ship they ...
Triumphs Of The Free (James Madison Bell Poems)
Hail, thou observed of many lands, Let all thy banners be unfurled,This brilliant act of thine commands The commendations of the world;And ...
An Ode in Blessed Memory (Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov Poems)
1A sudden bliss has seized my mind,And to a mountain peak it carries meUp where the wind's forgotten how to ...
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 ...
The Old Veteran And Napoleon (Janos Garay Poems)
There were three at one table: the pot-bellied judge- the hero on half-pay - the journalist drudge;and scattered about, from ...
Subh-I-Kazib (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
I.SEE where the man wakes late from his dreaming,Late in the night from the sleep that has been;See where regret ...
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 ...
Custer’s Last Charge (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
On through the mist of the morning,On through the midday glare;A hard, rough ride by the Rosebud's side,Cutting swaths through ...
How Prince Arthur Was Welcomed To Pembroke (Nora Pembroke Poems)
Do you know the town Pembroke so loyal and longAnd so worthy the praise of a poet in song?Nestled down ...
Our Canal (Harriet Monroe Poems)
To Colonel Goethals and the Other Laborers in the Canal ZoneIn lazy laughing Panama-O flutter of ribbon 'twixt the seas!-The ...
The Hasteners (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
The last walls of shame fell,And we rejoiced…And we danced…And we were blessed with the signing of the peace of ...
The Temple of Friendship (Voltaire Poems)
Sacred to peace, within a wood's recess,A blest retreat, where courtiers never press,A temple stands, where art did never tryWith ...
A Dream Of Other Days (John Russell Hayes Poems)
I fell asleep upon a summer's dayAs on a shady woodland bank I lay,And as I slept there came to ...