On Seeing a Corpse on the Shore (Kakinomoto no Asomi Hitomaro Poems)
On the sands of Sanuki's shorefolk gather fine seaweed,and the eye never wearies of this fair land,a divine land, most ...
Home Poems (6136 Poems)
Under The Stars (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The breath of summer stirs the trees,A thousand roses round me bloom,Whose saffron petals give the breezeA wealth of exquisite ...
The Solitary Lament (Mary Alice Walton Poems)
The terrors of night have fallen on me,The shadow of forms no longer I see,Eyes that have lingered on objects ...
Woman (Janet Hamilton Poems)
There is an element of powerThat suits the needs of every hour—All wants to which our state gives birth—The life, ...
On The Big Horn (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE years are but half a score,And the war-whoop sounds no moreWith the blast of bugles, whereStraight into a slaughter ...
Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness (John Donne Poems)
Since I am coming to that holy room, Where, with thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made thy music; ...
The Coral Insect (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Toil on! toil on! ye ephemeral train,Who build in the tossing and treacherous main;Toil on,--for the wisdom of man ye ...
The Sunday Rail: I (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Now range up the carriages, feed up the fires!To the rail, to the rail, now the pent up desiresOf the ...
To The Thirty-Ninth Congress (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
O PEOPLE-CHOSEN! are ye notLikewise the chosen of the Lord,To do His will and speak His word?From the loud thunder-storm ...
The Old Homestead (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
'Tis an old deserted homestead On the outskirts of the town, Where the roof is all moss-covered, And the walls are tumbling down; But ...
A Trifle To A friend, (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
ON THE EVE OF HIS DEPARTURE FOR EUROPE.THOU'LT leave us! O'er the wild waves of the deep,Where winds in fierce ...
Death Of Captain Cooke, (William Lisle Bowles Poems)
OF 'THE BELLEROPHON,' KILLED IN THE SAME BATTLE.When anxious Spain, along her rocky shore,From cliff to cliff returned the sea-fight's ...
The Song-Sparrow (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
AT rest upon some quiet limbAnd singing to his pretty "marrow,"Sweet-breasted friend of child and man,I love the bright eyes ...
Fortuna Et Cupidas (Irving Layton Poems)
Appetite and chance, luck and desiretogether make a man's fatenot the follish lines on his palm nor the conjugationof stars ...
To My Missionary Friends (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
MR. AND MRS. I.G. BLISS.Why, dear friends, oh! tell us whereforeYou're so anxious to be gone;Is the country late adoptedDearer ...
I Fights Mit Sigel (Grant P Robinson Poems)
I met him again, he was trudging along, His knapsack with chickens was swelling;He'd "Blenkered" these dainties, and thought it no ...
Invocation To Mother Earth (Grace Greenwood Poems)
0 EARTH! thy face hath not the graceThat smiling Heaven did bless,When thou wert "good," and blushing stoodIn thy young ...
Mary Marton (John Mayne Poems)
Poor WILLIAM was landed at bonny Dumbarton, Where the streams from Lochlomond run into the sea;At home, in sweet Ireland, he ...
Autumn: To My Mother (Jean Starr Untermeyer Poems)
How memory cuts away the years,And how clean the picture comesOf autumn days, brisk and busy;Charged with keen sunshine.And you, ...
A little while, a little while, (Emily Jane Bront Poems)
A little while, a little while,The noisy crowd are barred away;And I can sing and I can smileA little while ...
The Dying Old Year, 1867 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Avaunt, away! dread shapes of hate and fearThat hover round me," moan'd the dying Year:"Dark treason, superstition, and misrule!Man, 'neath ...
Little Libbie (Julia A Moore Poems)
One more little spirit to Heaven has flown, To dwell in that mansion above,Where dear little angels, together roam, In God's everlasting ...
A Tear And A Smile (Khalil Gibran Poems)
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heartFor the joys of the multitude.And I would not have the tears ...
Long Years Have Past Since Last I Stood (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
LONG years have past since last I stoodAlone amid this mountain scene,Unlike the future which I dreamed,How like my future ...
My Old Sweetheart (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
My old sweetheart is away to-day; I feel as I did of old,In my courting days, when far away I yearned for ...
For The Dedication Of The New City Library, Boston (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
PROUDLY, beneath her glittering dome,Our three-hilled city greets the morn;Here Freedom found her virgin home,--The Bethlehem where her babe was ...
The Native Country (John Freeman Poems)
Where is that country? The unresting mindLike a lapwing nears and leaves it and returns.I know those unknown hill-springs where ...
It Cannot Be (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
It cannot beRose, violet, lily,Their crushed life should retain,Flowers that recall thy sweetness be ensouled,And thou distil to nothing, thou ...
Jerusalem The Golden (Gerald Massey Poems)
JERUSALEM the Golden! I weary for one GleamOf all thy glory folden In distance and in dream!My thoughts, like Palms in Exile, Climb ...
Free Men Of God (John Oxenham Poems)
Free men of God, the New Day breaksIn golden gleams across the sky;The darkness of the night is past,This is ...