The Fate of the Explorers (A Fragment) (Henry Kendall Poems)
Set your face toward the darkness - tell of deserts weird and wide,Where unshaken woods are huddled, and low, languid ...
Heroism Poems (1602 Poems)
Two Scenes From The Life Of Blondel (James Russell Lowell Poems)
SCENE I.--_Near a castle in Germany._'Twere no hard task, perchance, to win The popular laurel for my song;'Twere only to comply ...
The Legend (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Hail to the Man, whom sacred thirst of FameAmongst the stars enroll'd a shining Name!In whose great Soul Apollo fix'd ...
Elegy I (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenlypressed me against ...
A Song For Soldiers (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
WHAT song is best for the soldiers?Take no heed of the words, nor choose yon the style of the story;Let ...
Stonewall Jackson’s Grave (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
A simple, sodded mound of earth, Without a line above it; With only daily votive flowers To prove that any love it: The token ...
Coeur De Lion And His Horse (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
"Ah, Fanuel, my noble horse, and art thou, art thou slain?Wilt thou never bear me to the chase or the ...
At Fredericksburg-Dec. 13, 1862 (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
GOD send us peace, and keep red strife away;But should it come, God send us men and steel!The land is ...
The Widow Of Glencoe (William Edmondstoune Aytoun Poems)
Do not lift him from the bracken,Leave him lying where he fell-Better bier ye cannot fashion:None beseems him half so ...
Persephone (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Subject given—“Light and Shade.”She stepped upon Sicilian grass, Demeter’s daughter fresh and fair,A child of light, a radiant lass, And gamesome as ...
The Volunteers At Shipka (Ivan Vazov Poems)
What if we still carry shame on our forehead,Marks of the whip, signs of bondage abhorrent;What if remembrance of infamous ...
Ode XIII: On Lyric Poetry (Mark Akenside Poems)
I. 1.Once more I join the Thespian choir,And taste the inspiring fount again:O parent of the Grecian lyre,Admit me to ...
Ode To Peace (John Duncombe Poems)
O'er desolated fields, where moveTo War's dread notes th' embattled host,O Peace! display thy olive-wreath,And bid the gentle voice of ...
Uncle Mart’s Poem (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
THE OLD SNOW-MANHo! the old Snow-Man That Noey Bixler made!He looked as fierce and sassy As a soldier on parade!--'Cause Noey, when ...
Ode I: The Remonstrance (Mark Akenside Poems)
If, yet regardful of your native land,Old Shakespeare's tongue you deign to understand,Lo, from the blissful bowers where heaven rewardsInstructive ...
On Mr. Abraham Cowley, His Death, And Burial Amongst The Ancient Poets (John Denham Poems)
Old Chaucer, like the morning star,To us discovers day from far;His light those mists and clouds dissolved,Which our dark nation ...
The Three Warnings (Hester Lynch Piozzi Poems)
The tree of deepest root is foundLeast willing still to quit the ground;Twas therefore said, by ancient sages,That love of ...
Murmurs Of A Patriot (Mugurditch Chrimian Hairig Poems)
GOD-kindled soul, brave general of the hostMade strong by Christ! New Judas Maccabeus,Chief conqueror, giving courage for the fight,Victorious alike ...
Thoughts At A Vestibule (Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov Poems)
Here's a vestibule. On holidaysOvercome by slavish fear,The whole population, in a state of awe,Rushes to the sacred doors.Having left ...
Arms And The Man – Heroes And Statesmen (James Barron Hope Poems)
Of their great names I may record but few; He who beholds the Ocean white with sails And copies each confuses all ...
Voluntaries (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
I.Low and mournful be the strain,Haughty thought be far from me;Tones of penitence and pain,Moanings of the tropic sea;Low and ...
Jim the Splitter (Henry Kendall Poems)
The bard who is singing of Wollombi JimIs hardly just now in the requisite trim To sit on his Pegasus fairly;Besides, ...
To Stella Visiting Me in My Sickness (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Pallas, observing Stella's witWas more than for her sex was fit,And that her beauty, soon or late,Might breed confusion in ...
On Parting (Khristo Botev Poems)
1868Don't cry, mother, don't grievethat I grew up as an outlaw,an outlaw, mother, a rebel,and abandoned you to your sorrow,mourning ...
When Sheridan Hurled The Discus (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
"Pinch me; ay, punch me, for fear I m not sitting here reading the paper.Sure as the sun in the ...
Thomas At Chickamauga (Kate Brownlee Sherwood Poems)
It was that fierce contested field where Chickamauga layBeneath the wild tornado that swept her pride away;Her dimpling dales and ...
To Miss S. E. Gaskin, (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
On the second Anniversary of our arrival inBarbados.1.TWO years have fled on downy wings away,Since we together hail'd this western ...
Ode to Peace (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
I. She comes, benign enchantress, heav'n born PEACE! With mercy beaming in her radiant eye; She bids the horrid din of battle cease, And ...
Homer. Iliad, Book VI, 440-502 (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
Then to her answered and spake great Hector the waving-crested :" I too grieve for all this, dear love, but ...
Verse (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
1FriendsThe old word is dead.The old books are dead.Our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead.Dead is the mind ...