A Thought Of The Stars (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
I remember once, when a careless child, I played on the mossy lea; The stars looked forth in the shadowy west, And I ...
Home Poems (6136 Poems)
Mirth And Grief. An Allegory (John Anster Poems)
In vain--ah me!--in vain, with murmured charmOf love--inwoven sounds, would I recallThe long--forgotten art--in vain imploreAt noon the colouring of ...
Dedicated To Dr. W. H. Sheppard (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
On, on to the darkest continent,As the Adriatic sailed,In Eighteen Hundred and ...
The Assault (Robert Nichols Poems)
The beating of the guns grows louder.'Not long, boys, now.'My heart burns whiter, fearfuller, prouder;Hurricanes growAs guns redouble their fire.Through ...
How The Babes In The Wood Showed They Couldn’t Be Beaten (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A man of kind and noble mind Was H. Gustavus Hyde. 'Twould be amiss to add to this At present, for he died, In ...
Magdalena (Marietta Holley Poems)
Who falsely called thee destroyer, still white Angel of Death? Oh not a destroyer here, but a kind restorer, thou,For the ...
Change (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Change is the order of the universe.Worlds wax and wane; suns die and stars are born.Two atoms of cosmic dust ...
Canada (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Dear Canada, our native land, Our love for thee grows day by day;Our fathers left the olden strand, O'er sea and rapids ...
Love’s Likeness (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
A rose hedged with a briar.Drummond.Alas! what else is love but sorrow.Byron.THERE is softness in the dew;And in starlight trembling ...
A Satire. A Humble Imitation (Nora Pembroke Poems)
The rage for writing has spread far and wide,Letters on letters now are multiplied,And every mortal, who can hold a ...
Westward Ho! (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
Away to the west! Westward ho! Westward ho!Where over the prairies the summer winds blow!Why known to so few were ...
The Feast Of The Gael (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
St. Patrick's DayI.WHAT a onion of hearts is the love of a motherWhen races of men in her name unite!For ...
The Lone One At The Old Trysting-Place (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
IT is the twilight hour, and o'er the earthThe softening spells of evening shadows steal.All here is stillness now, and ...
The Swan Song of Parson Avery (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
When the reaper's task was ended, and the summer wearing late,Parson Avery sailed from Newbury, with his wife and children ...
The Wounded Daisy (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
At twilight in beautiful summers,When all the dew is shed,And all the singers and hummersAre safe at home in bed,In ...
Babylon (John Buchan Poems)
(The Song of NEHEMIAH'S WorkmenHow many miles to Babylon?'Three score and ten.Can I get there by candle-light?Yes, and back again.We ...
Idyll (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
A village Chorus is supposed to be assembled, and about tocommence its festive procession.[Written for the birthday of the Duchess ...
November (Robert Nichols Poems)
As I walk the misty hillAll is languid, fogged, and still;Not a note of any birdNor any motion's hint is ...
My Mother (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
MY dear, lost mother, it is midnight now,The sky is dark and starless, and the earthSeems bound as with a ...
To Sir Henry Wotton (John Donne Poems)
SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,For thus, friends absent speak. This ease controlsThe tediousness of my life ; but ...
The Withered Leaf (Peter John Allan Poems)
WRITTEN FOR MY DEAR LITTLE FRIEND, J. M. A LEAFLET fair, In the summer air, Had echoed the zephyr's laugh, And smiled full bright, In ...
Fighting Mac – A Life Tragedy (Robert W Service Poems)
A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies.A last defiance to dark Death is ...
The Teacher’s Soliloquy (Jared Barhite Poems)
And so another week has gone, And I once more am left alone Within my silent room; My mind is worn by fervent ...
Book Of the Parsees – The Bequest Of The Ancient Persian Faith (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
BRETHREN, what bequest to you should comeFrom the lowly poor man, going home,Whom ye younger ones with patience tended,Whose last ...
Songs with Preludes: Dominion (Jean Ingelow Poems)
When found the rose delight in her fair hue?Color is nothing to this world; ’tis IThat see it. Farther, I have ...
Monday In Whitsun-Week (John Keble Poems)
Since all that is not Heaven must fade,Light be the hand of Ruin laid Upon the home I love:With lulling spell ...
A Ballad (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
O, were you at war in the red Eastern land?What did you hear, and what did you see?Saw you my ...
The Wives Of Brixham (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
A TRUE STORYYou see the gentle water,How silently it floats;How cautiously, how steadily,It moves the sleepy boats;And all the little ...
Immorality (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Have you heard, my friend, the slander that the Negro has to face?Immorality, the grossest, has been charged up to ...
The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IWhere's your kingdom, little king? Where the land you call your own, Where your palace and your throne?Fluttering lightly on the wing Through ...