Apostrophe Of Time (James Madison Bell Poems)
O fleeting Time! whence art thou come? And whither do thy footsteps tend?Deep in the past where was thy home, And where ...
Home Poems (6136 Poems)
A Desolate Shore (William Ernest Henley Poems)
A desolate shore,The sinister seduction of the Moon,The menace of the irreclaimable Sea.Flaunting, tawdry and grim,From cloud to cloud along ...
Johnnie of the Silver Feather (Hamish Maclaren Poems)
Who has seen the Silver FeatherFlying in across the foam,Thro' the isles where thyme and heatherFlower sweet as honeycomb -Who ...
Sailor-Boy’s Song (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Away, away, o'er the bounding sea My spirit flies like a gull;For I know my Mary is watching for me, And the ...
A Rainy Day (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
Kind er _like_ a stormy day, take it all together,--Don't believe I'd want it jest only pleasant weather;If the sky ...
Goodbye To The Old Life (Wesley McNair Poems)
Goodbye to the old life,to the sadness of roomswhere my family slept as I satlate at night on myisland of ...
Parker’s Mountain (Kate Knapp Johnson Poems)
It is the summer bears ruled, the last summerof pure breathlessnesswhen I moved unaware, taken inby the netted branches of ...
Mother’s Recall (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Come back to me, O ye, my children;Come back to the home as of yore;As my longing eye peers through ...
Mother America. From The Manhattan Day Ode To Chicago (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
Mightiest type of the human,Praised be again and again,Broad-breasted mother of woman;Giant-limbed mother of men.Mother majestic and splendid,Mother of glories ...
When The Boys Come Home (John Hay Poems)
There's a happy time coming, When the boys come home.There's a glorious day coming, When the boys come home.We will end the ...
Amundsen (Mackinlay Kantor Poems)
They have taken the cold, red canvas to set it in history;They have left the body of Malmgren adrift on ...
A Parlourmaid (Lesbia Harford Poems)
"I want a parlourmaid.""Well, let me seeIf you were God, what kind of maid she'd be.""She would be tall,She would ...
Brave Boys Are They! (Henry Clay Work Poems)
Heavily falls the rain; Wild are the breezes tonight;But 'neath the roof, the hours as they fly, Are happy and calm and ...
Do the Dead Know what Time It Is? (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
The old guy put down his beer. Son, he said, (and a girl came over to the table where we were: asked us ...
“Wilt Thou Harass A Driven Leaf?” (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
O harass not a driven leaf, Nor stubble dry in wrath pursue;A life so brief load not with grief, Nor with thine ...
A Colloquy: (For M. W.) (Katharine Tynan Poems)
"When you get to Heaven, seek and find my boy. Mother him!" "Until you come?" "I shall never come.Earth was good ...
My Old Gray Nag (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
When the farm work's done, at the set of sun, And the supper's cleared away,And Ma, she sits on the porch ...
Musings (Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass Poems)
Often o'er life's pathway straying Come sweet strains of long ago, To the chords of memory playing Music sweet and music low. When upon ...
Home (James Montgomery Poems)
There is a land, of every land the pride,Beloved by heaven, o'er all the world beside;Where brighter suns dispense serener ...
Ode (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
O tenderly the haughty dayFills his blue urn with fire;One morn is in the mighty heaven,And one in our desire.The ...
The V-A-S-E (James Jeffrey Roche Poems)
From the madding crowd they stand apart,The maidens four and the Work of Art;And none might tell from sight aloneIn ...
Ode For Decoration Day (Henry Peterson Poems)
O gallant brothers of the generous South,Foes for a day and brothers for all time!I charge you by the memories ...
Vocation (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
When the gong sounds ten in the morning and I walk to school by ourlane. Every day I meet the hawker ...
Evening Scenery (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
SWEET Philomela tunes her soothing strain,And lulls awhile the piercing throb of pain;The distant bells soft murmur on the breeze,Which ...
Wishes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Looking back,Wander we through life's long track,Looking back,Where a parted sun's soft rayLingers yet across the way.Gazing home,As the slow ...
Never, Never Land (Henry Lawson Poems)
By hut, homestead and shearing shed,By railroad, coach and track-By lonely graves where rest the dead,Up-Country and Out-Back:To where beneath ...
The Reward (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Who, looking backward from his manhood's prime,Sees not the spectre of his misspent time?And, through the shadeOf funeral cypress planted ...
Modern Elfland (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
I Cut a staff in a churchyard copse, I clad myself in ragged things,I set a feather in my cap That fell ...
By Hut, Homestead And Shearing Shed, (Henry Lawson Poems)
By hut, homestead and shearing shed,By railroad, coach and track-By lonely graves where rest the dead,Up-Country and Out-Back:To where beneath ...
To M.I. (Matilda Betham Poems)
THOU, Margaret, lov'st the secret shade,The murmuring brook, or tow'ring tree;The village cot within the glade,And lonely walk have charms ...