Feronde (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new;The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue;His large domains howe'er were not the cause,Nor ...
Home Poems (6136 Poems)
An Epistle To Dr. Moore (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
Whether dispensing hope, and easeTo the pale victim of disease,Or in the social crowd you sit,And charm the group with ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. II. (Plunder – Poets) (Henry Baker Poems)
Plunder.Now in the empty Isles of Juno's FanePhoenix, and dire Ulysses, chosen Guards,Watch o'er the Prey. There Trojan Treasure snatch'dFrom ...
Five Visions Of Captain Cook (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
ICOOK was a captain of the AdmiraltyWhen sea-captains had the evil eye,Or should have, what with beating krakens offAnd casting ...
The Water Carriers (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Argument:Jack and Gill went up the hillTo draw a pail of water.Jack fell down and broke his crownAnd Gill came ...
The Island: Canto III. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.The fight was o'er; the flashing through the gloom,Which robes the cannon as he wings a tomb,Had ceased; and sulphury ...
A Poem (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
Written for the Celebration of the Fourth Anniversary of President Lincoln's Emancipation ProclamationTo P. A. BELL, Esq., A PIONEER IN ...
A Story Of Doom: Book VIII. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Then one ran, crying, while Niloiya wrought,"The Master cometh!" and she went withinTo adorn herself for meeting him. And ShemWent ...
A Contrast (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Trained tenderly by Heaven and Earth,Up grew she to her gentle height,-Grew to the level of the lightThat shines by ...
The Last Walk In Autumn (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I.O'er the bare woods, whose outstretched handsPlead with the leaden heavens in vain,I see, beyond the valley lands,The sea's long ...
Evangeline: Part The Second. V. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
IN that delightful land, which is washed by the Delaware's waters,Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle.Stands ...
Tribute To Rev. William Paul Quinn (James Madison Bell Poems)
Late Senior Bishop, African M. E. Church.Death is the common lot of all, Yet nothing do we so much dread;Nothing, that ...
Immortal Eve – III (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1Peace, clamorous trumpets! Silence, drums!Be breathless all and hush!Let die applause. My lady comes,My lady of the blush.She's bashfuller than ...
An Octopus (Marianne Moore Poems)
of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,it lies "in grandeur and in mass"beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;dots of cyclamen-red and ...
A Family Record (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WOODSTOCK, CONN., JULY 4, 1877NOT to myself this breath of vesper song,Not to these patient friends, this kindly throng,Not to ...
Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,To welcome home mankind's mysterious friendWine, true begetter of all arts that be;Wine, privilege of ...
The Youthful Villager And The Hermit (James Madison Bell Poems)
Once on a clear autumnal day, With weary heart and spirit bowed,I sought a silent scene away From all the turmoil of ...
Ginevra (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Wild, pale, and wonder-stricken, even as oneWho staggers forth into the air and sunFrom the dark chamber of a mortal ...
The Glen of Arrawatta (Henry Kendall Poems)
A SKY of wind! And while these fitful gustsAre beating round the windows in the cold,With sullen sobs of rain, ...
The Bottle-Scrue (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
The Patten, Fan, and Petticoat,Three modern Themes of special Note,In parlous Rhimes immortal live,If Rhimes immortal Life can give;The Mouse--Trap ...
British Georgics. April (James Grahame Poems)
Through boughs still leafless, or through foliage thin,The sloping primrose-bed lies fair exposed,Begemmed with simple flowers, gladdening the sight.Hail! month ...
Policeman X (John Oxenham Poems)
IF HE WOULD BUT DAREI stood, unseen, within a sumptous room,Where one clothed all in white sat silently.So sweet his ...
The Old Man’s Story (Mary Botham Howitt Poems)
There was an old and quiet man,And by the fire sate he,"And now," he said, "to you I'll tellA dismal ...
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
the spiritual, Platonic old England .S. T. COLERIDGE, Anima Poetae'Your situation', said Coningsby, looking up the green and silent valley, ...
Hymns to the Night : 5 (Novalis Poems)
In ancient times, over the widespread families of men an iron Fate ruled with dumb force. A gloomy oppression swathed ...
A November Night’s Traveller (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HE , who with journey well begun,Beneath the beam of morning's sun,Stretching his view o'er hill and dale,And distant city, ...
The Quid Pro Quo; Or The Mistakes (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DAME FORTUNE often loves a laugh to raise,And, playing off her tricks and roguish ways,Instead of giving us what we ...
The Character Of The Bore (John Donne Poems)
Well; I may now receive and die. My sin Indeed is great, but yet I have been in A purgatory, such as ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XI: Hiawatha’s Wedding-Feas (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis,How the handsome YenadizzeDanced at Hiawatha's wedding;How the gentle Chibiabos,He the sweetest of musicians,Sang his songs ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Absence – Advice) (Henry Baker Poems)
Absence.Neglected, now, behold my Tresses flow:Nor sparkling Diamonds on my Fingers glow.All plain, and cheap, the humble Weeds I wear:No ...