The Wretched Condition Of Man By Nature (Rees Prichard Poems)
RASH Adam to the field of old,Mankind for one dear apple sold;And none can from his fangs get free,'Till Jesus ...
Home Poems (6136 Poems)
The Shepherd’s Calendar – October (John Clare Poems)
Nature now spreads around in dreary hueA pall to cover all that summer knewYet in the poets solitary waySome pleasing ...
A Sweet Little Dear (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
I always was a remarkable child; so old for my age, and such a sensitive nature!-Mamma often says so.And I'm ...
The Mice. A Tale – To Mr. Adrian Drift (Matthew Prior Poems)
Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion,And, what is more, good education,Frolic and gay, in infant yearsEqually shared their parents' ...
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 Walk By Moonlight (Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Poems)
Last night — it was a lovely night, And I was very blest — Shall it not be for Memory A happy spot ...
The Water Witch (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
See! the milk-white doe is wounded. He will follow as it bounds Through the woods. His horn has sounded. Echoing, for his men ...
A Cottage In A Chine (Jean Ingelow Poems)
We reached the place by night, And heard the waves breaking:They came to meet us with candles alight To show the path ...
The Deserted (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
WHY didst thou leave me thus? Had memoryNo chain to bind thee to me, lone and wreckedIn spirit as I ...
Eclogue 6: To Varus (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
First my Thalia stooped in sportive moodTo Syracusan strains, nor blushed withinThe woods to house her. When I sought to ...
Prayer (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
SHE would not keep at home, the foolish woman, She would not mind her precious girls and boys, She had to go, ...
Prometheus-Christ (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
LASHED to the planet, glaring at the sky,An eagle at his heart-the Pagan Christ!Why is it, Mystery? O, dumb Darkness, ...
A Picture Of Domestic Happiness (Juan Boscan Poems)
This peace that makes a happy life,-- And that is mine through my sweet wife; Beginning of my soul, and end, I've gained ...
Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds (John Keats Poems)
Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed,There came before my eyes that wonted threadOf shapes, and shadows, and ...
The Beauteous Terrorist (Sir Henry Parkes Poems)
Soft as the morning's pearly light,Where yet may rise the thunder-cloud,Her gentle face was ever brightWith noble thought and purpose ...
The Lady’s Rock (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
A brother's eye had seen the grief That Duart's lady bore;His boat with sail half-raised flies down The sound by green Lismore.Ahaladah, ...
The Life Of Lincoln West (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
Ugliest little boythat everyone ever saw.That is what everyone said.Even to his mother it was apparent-when the blue-aproned nurse came ...
Ethnogenesis (Henry Timrod Poems)
IHath not the morning dawned with added light?And shall not evening call another starOut of the infinite regions of the ...
The Quaker Widow (James Bayard Taylor Poems)
THEE finds me in the garden, Hannah,-come in! 'T is kind of theeTo wait until the Friends were gone, who ...
October (May Swenson Poems)
1A smudge for the horizonthat, on a clear day, showsthe hard edge of hills andbuildings on the other coast.Anchored boats ...
From: Black Thursday (Mitchell Kilgour Beveridge Poems)
Yes, I remember, 'Twas in February,The sun for months had drunk and drunk from earthIt's hidden moisture, till 'Twas cracked ...
When The War Is Over (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
A CHRISTMAS LAY.I. Ah! the happy Christmas times! Times we all remember;-- Times that flung a ruddy glow O'er the gray December;-- Will they never ...
Edward Of Walham Green; Or, The Reward Of Duty And Valour (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
YOUNG Edward was a noble youth,A finer ne'er was seen;He was his aged gran-dam's pride,And lov'd by all the green.Yet ...
Solitude (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
I KNOW a little patch of mountain ground.Low-settled by itself; and MoosilaukeStands boldly in the west but never seesIts little ...
Eclogue VI (Virgil Poems)
TO VARUSFirst my Thalia stooped in sportive moodTo Syracusan strains, nor blushed withinThe woods to house her. When I sought ...
Advice To Prepare Ourselves, Before We Come To Worship God In Public (Rees Prichard Poems)
PULL off thy shoes, and make thy garments white,And sanctify thyself, ere thou dost dareApproach the throne of the dread ...
A Vision Of Death And Sleep (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
O'er her death-bedWith sobs I hung,Wild, idle sobs, and in my lonely painKiss'd the dead face again and yet again,And ...
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 ...
Ondas Muertas (Dead Waves) (Manuel Gutierrez Najera Poems)
In the deep darkness underneath the groundThat never has been reached by mortal sight,There silent currents of black water glideIn ...
The New Reformation (John Banim Poems)
Oh, did you hearWhat roaring cheer,What brave new coats ...