It Is Great To Be Alive (Harry Hooton Poems)
This is an obvious imitation of Walt Whitman, is it?Well, and wouldn't that be better than another in sickly rime?Perhaps ...
Heroism Poems (1602 Poems)
On Self – Abasement And Humility (Hakim Sanai Poems)
Lowliness befits thee, violence suits thee not; a, naked man frantic in a bee-house is out of place. Leave aside ...
Rinaldo (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
CHORUS.To the strand! quick, mount the bark!If no favouring zephyrs blow,Ply the oar and nimbly row,And with zeal your prowess ...
Falling Asleep Over The Aeneid (Robert Lowell Poems)
An old man in Concord forgets to go to morning service. He falls asleep, while reading Vergil, and dreams that ...
For The Commemoration Services (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
CAMBRIDGE, JULY 21, 1865FOUR summers coined their golden light in leaves,Four wasteful autumns flung them to the gale,Four winters wore ...
GOLIAH’S Defeat. In the Manner of Lucan. (Mather Byles Poems)
When the proud Philistines for War declar'd,And Israel's Sons for Battle had prepar'd,Before the Heathen Camp a Monster stalk'd,And awful ...
Congratulatory Lines on the Jubilee :Humbly addressed to His Majesty (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
HAPPY Britannia, favour'd Isle! Fate on thee delights to smile; Even amid the woes of war, Thund'ring dreadful from afar; Let no discordant voice ...
Charge Of Fremont’s Body-Guard (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
On they ride--on they ride--Only three hundred,--Ride the brave Body-Guard,From the "Prairie Scouts" sundered:Two thousand riflemen,Ambushed on either side,The signal ...
A Painful history (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Three youths in the heyday of life's hopeful spring, On a bright April morn gaily hied,With three little skiffs, each one ...
A Word to Texas Jack (Henry Lawson Poems)
Texas Jack, you are amusin'. By Lord Harry, how I laughedWhen I seen yer rig and saddle with its bulwarks ...
How Much Fortunatus Could Do With A Cap (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Fortunatus, a fisherman Dane, Set out on a sudden for Spain, Because, runs the story, He'd met with a hoary Mysterious sorcerer chap, Who, trouble ...
War (Janetta Philipps Poems)
When fell Oppression o'er the earthHer iron sceptre waved with fearful sway,To thee, dread power of War, the fiend gave ...
Leichhardt (Henry Kendall Poems)
LORDLY harp, by lordly master wakened from majestic sleep,Yet shall speak and yet shall sing the words which make the ...
Presented To The King, At His Arrival In Holland, After The Discovery Of The Conspiracy. 1696 (Matthew Prior Poems)
Ye careful Angels, whom eternal FateOrdains, on Earth and human Acts to wait;Who turn with secret Pow'r this restless Ball,And ...
Sermon in a Churchyard (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
Let pious Damon take his seat,With mincing step and languid smile,And scatter from his 'kerchief sweet,Sabaean odours o'er the aisle;And ...
Albert Sidney Johnston (Kate Brownlee Sherwood Poems)
I hear again the tread of war go thundering through the land,And Puritan and Cavalier are clinching neck and hand,Round ...
Heroes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Children, when you sat wishing,Down last night on the sands,Beckoning moments of glory,With little helpless hands,I heard you saying and ...
Deirdre’s Lament For The Sons Of Usnach (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
As for Deirdre, she cried pitifully, wearily, and tore her fair hair,and she was talking of the sons of Usnach, ...
The People’s Reminiscences (Pierre Jean de Beranger Poems)
(LES SOUVENIRS DU PEUPLE) Ay, many a day the straw-thatched cot Shall echo with his glory! The humblest shed, these fifty years, Shall know ...
Helen At The Loom (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
Helen, in her silent room,Weaves upon the upright loom;Weaves a mantle rich and dark,Purpled over, deep. But markHow she scatters ...
The Bride-Cake (Maria Logan Poems)
"HERE! take this potent charm," Mauritius said,"And see if Time hath ought in store for thee;"With care beneath thy downy ...
Keenan’s Charge (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
The sun had set;The leaves with dew were wet:Down fell a bloody duskOn the woods, that second day of May,Where ...
The Face Of Qana (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
The face of QanaPale, like that of Jesusand the sea breeze of April…Rains of blood.. and tears..2They entered Qana stepping ...
Grinie’s Flight With Diarmid (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
(FROM THE GAELIC)The Hern at early morning cries,Where at Sleve-gail the meadow lies.Say, Duin's son, whom I love well,Canst thou ...
Charles The Fifth’s Clocks (John Quincy Adams Poems)
With Charles the Fifth art thou acquainted, reader?Of Ferdinand and Isabel the grandson,In ages past of Europe's realms file leader,Among ...
Lincoln (Henrietta Cordelia Ray Poems)
To-day, O martyred chief, beneath the sunWe would unveil thy form; to thee who wonTh' applause of nations for thy ...
O’Hussey’s Ode To The Maguire (James Clarence Mangan Poems)
WHERE is my chief, my master, this bleak night, mavrone? O cold, cold, miserably cold is this bleak night for Hugh! Its ...
Pauline – Part I – Introduction (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Fair morning sat upon the mountain-top,Night skulking crept into the mountain-chasm.The silent ships slept in the silent bay;One broad blue ...
The First American Congress (Joel Barlow Poems)
Columbus looked; and still around them spread,From south to north, th' immeasurable shade;At last, the central shadows burst away,And rising ...
Lines Written After Reading Sir Edward Seaward’s Narrative (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Brave beauteous pair! if e'er indeedYour names were clothed in mortal weed;If ye are more than lovely gleams,Whose dwelling is ...