The Slaves Of Martinique (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
BEAMS of noon, like burning lances, through the tree-tops flash and glisten,As she stands before her lover, with raised face ...
Home Poems (6136 Poems)
Birds In The Night (Paul Verlaine Poems)
You were not over-patient with me, dear; This want of patience one must rightly rate:You are so young! Youth ever was ...
The Pilgrim’s Vision (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
IN the hour of twilight shadowsThe Pilgrim sire looked out;He thought of the "bloudy Salvages"That lurked all round about,Of Wituwamet's ...
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 ...
The Kitten (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WANTON droll, whose harmless playBeguiles the rustic's closing day,When, drawn the evening fire about,Sit aged crone and thoughtless lout,And child ...
A Villiage Tale. Related Almost In The Words Of The Narrator. (Henry Alford Poems)
He was a blessed father; and he taught Us, his four children (for in that my day There were no schools as ...
The Angels Of Earth (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Angels of Earth! they soothe and bless The troubled soul of man,Bestow the most of happiness, They can.Angels of Earth--they are but ...
The Ballad of Oriskany (Obadiah Cyrus Auringer Poems)
SHE leaned her cheek upon her hand,And looked across the glooming land;She saw the wood from farm to farmTouched by ...
On a Spanish Cathedral (Henry Kendall Poems)
DEEP under the spires of a hill, by the feet of the thunder-cloud trod,I pause in a luminous, still, magnificent ...
The Devil’s Drive: An Unfinished Rhapsody (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
The Devil return'd to hell by two, And he stay'd at home till five;When he dined on some homicides done in ...
The New Home (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Pent the wynds and closes narrow, Breathing pestilential air,Crush'd beneath oppression's harrow, Faint with famine, bow'd with care,—Gaunt Affliction's sons and daughters! Why ...
The Dream of Freedom (Owen Suffolk Poems)
'Twas night, and the moonbeams palely fellOn the gloomy walls of a cheerless cell,Where a captive sought a brief reposeFrom ...
The Charter; (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
ADDRESSEDTO MY NEPHEWATHANASE C. L. COQUEREL,ON HIS WEDDING DAY, 1819.CHILD of my heart! while others hailThis festive morn, when joys ...
The Old Bachelor’s Story (John Hartley Poems)
It was an humble cottage, Snug in a rustic lane,Geraniums and fuschias peep'd From every window-pane;The dark-leaved ivy dressed its walls, Houseleek adorned ...
Of Love To God (John Bunyan Poems)
When I do this begin to apprehend,My heart, my soul, and mind, begins to bendTo God-ward, and sincerely for to ...
The Great Beech (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
With heart disposed to memory, let me standNear this monarch and this minstrel of the land,Now that Dian leans so ...
Matilda (John Anster Poems)
Scene.--A Terrace overlooking the Garden of a Convent--Matilda and Bertha in conversation.Matilda.Oh! think not that I mourn the lonely doomThat ...
Lamentations of Jeremiah I: Sorrows of Captive Zion (Prophet Jeremiah Poems)
1 How doth the city sit solitary,that was full of people!How is she become as a widow!She that was great ...
Afar in the Desert (Thomas Pringle Poems)
Afar in the Desert I love to ride,With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side:When the sorrows of life the ...
An Ode – Inscribed To The Memory Of The Hon. Colonel George Villiers (Matthew Prior Poems)
Say, dearest Villiers, poor departed friend,(Since fleeting life thus suddenly must end)Say, what did all thy busy hopes avail,That anxious ...
Ayin Nedivah (‘Generous Eye’): Qasida for Solomon Ibn Ghiyyat (Yehudah HaLevi Poems)
I can't stop crying.My eyes are like peddler women.What they buy is: you are gone.What they sell is: tears,And business ...
Master Fritz (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
Fritz and I are not brother and sister, but we're next-door neighbours; for we both live next door.I mean we ...
Friendship And Single Life, Against Love And Marriage (John Denham Poems)
Love! in what poison is thy dart Dipp'd, when it makes a bleeding heart? None know but they who feel the smart.It ...
Peddling Round the World (Henry Lawson Poems)
When at first in foreign parts Was her flag unfurled,England was a Gipsy lass Peddling round the world.Sailing on the Spanish Main- Everywhere ...
The Lumbermen (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WILDLY round our woodland quartersSad-voiced Autumn grieves;Thickly down these swelling watersFloat his fallen leaves.Through the tall and naked timber,Column-like and ...
Old Stone Chimney (Henry Lawson Poems)
The rising moon on the peaks was blending Her silver light with the sunset glow,When a swagman came as the day was ...
The Deformed Artist (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
The twilight o'er Italia's sky Had spread a shadowy veil, And one by one the solemn stars Looked forth, serene and pale; As quietly ...
Verses For Alfeo Faggi’s Stations Of The Cross (Padraic Colum Poems)
IHERE Pilate's Court is:None may clatter nor callWhere the Wolf giving suckTo the Twins glares on all"Strip Him and scourge ...
The Captain’s Well (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
From pain and peril, by land and main,The shipwrecked sailor came back again;And like one from the dead, the threshold ...
Lochiel’s Warning (Thomas Campbell Poems)
Wizard. - Lochiel.Wizard.- Lochiel! Lochiel, beware of the dayWhen the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array!For a field of ...