The Day Is Done (Parody of H.W. Longfellow) (Phoebe Cary Poems)
The day is done, and darknessFrom the wing of night is loosed,As a feather is wafted downward,From a chicken going ...
Honesty & Integrity Poems (829 Poems)
Remorse (John Hartley Poems)
None ever knew I had wronged her, That secret she kept to the end.None knew that our ties had been stronger, Than ...
The Meditation. (Henry Baker Poems)
If Wealth produc'd Content, if Heaps of GoldCould Happiness insure, I too would toil,And break my Rest: wou'd seek the ...
The Toadstool (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THERE 's a thing that grows by the fainting flower,And springs in the shade of the lady's bower;The lily shrinks, ...
Mak th’ Best Ont (John Hartley Poems)
Mak th' best on't,--mak th' best on't,--tho' th' job be a bad en, God bless mi life! childer, its useless to ...
A Man’s a Man for A’ That (Robert Burns Poems)
Is there for honesty povertyThat hings his head, an' a' that;The coward slave - we pass him by,We dare be ...
Sonnet III. – A Doubt of Martyrdom (John Suckling Poems)
O! for some honest lover's ghost, Some kind unbodied post Sent from the shades below! I strangely long to knowWhether the noble chaplets ...
NewsFfrom St. James’s. (Mary Barber Poems)
A courtier, summon'd hence of late,Was call'd to Minos' Judgment Seat.The Cretan Sage began the Charge,Recounted all his Crimes at ...
April Treason (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
So he took her as anointedIn the part he had appointed,She was lips for smiling faintly,Eyes to look and level ...
An Apology Written For My Son To The Reverend Mr. Sampson, (Mary Barber Poems)
With Joy your Summons we obey,And come to celebrate this Day.Yet I, alas! despair to please;For you require exalted Lays:And, ...
Advice To The Dealer, Or Drover (Rees Prichard Poems)
If thou'rt a Dealer, honest be each act,And fairly pay for what to thee is sold;Be to thy promise and ...
Beaten (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Where is the spirit of striving that once was so strong in my heart?And where is the lofty devotion that ...
Droop’st thou and fail’st? but these have never tired (Christopher John Brennan Poems)
Droop'st thou and fail'st? but these have never tired;winds of the region, free, they shine and sing,unurged, unguerdon'd: hast thou ...
Song: Go and catch a falling star (John Donne Poems)
Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the ...
“You used to say to me “I love you!”…” (Konstantin Simonov Poems)
You used to say to me "I love you!",But that was through your teeth, at night,The bitter truth of "I ...
To Sir Henry Wotton II (John Donne Poems)
HERE'S no more news than virtue ; I may as wellTell you Calais, or Saint Michael's tales, as tellThat vice ...
Defence Not Defiance (A Rifle Song) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Nearer the muttering thunders roll, Blacker and heavier frowns the sky,—Yet our dauntless English soul Faces the storm with a steady eye;Hands ...
A Worn-Out Pencil (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Welladay! Here I lay You at rest--all worn away, O my pencil, to the tip Of our old companionship! Memory Sighs to see What you are, and ...
Sonnet II (Juan Boscan Poems)
2.Amiable sleep (this dream), harmonious thrillssoothing me ( when I'm dreaming that I dreamt ).Honesty deceived, yet I will be ...
On The Death of John Cassell (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The True and Esteemed Friend of the Working ManWhat mournful voices thrill upon my ears? What wailing tones of sorrow vex ...
By Any Other Name (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
First the teacher called the roll, Clos't to the beginnin', "Addeliney Bowersox!" Set the school a-grinnin'. Wintertime, and stingin'-cold When the session took up-- Cold as ...
O Ignis Spiritus (Hildegard von Bingen Poems)
O fire of the comforting Spirit,life of the life of all Creation,you are holy in quickening all Kind.You are holy ...
The House-Top (Herman Melville Poems)
No sleep. The sultriness pervades the airAnd blinds the brain—a dense oppression, suchAs tawny tigers feel in matted shades,Vexing their ...
Vignettes (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
"AND Smith has made money?""O, no; that's a myth:Smith never made moneyBut money made Smith!"_______________A sculptor is Deming-a great man, ...
Give It ‘Em Hot (John Hartley Poems)
Give it 'em hot, an be hanged to ther feelins! Souls may be lost wol yor choosin' yor words!Out wi' them ...
To Henry The Fifth (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
My youth was passing, Sire, whilst you amongThe cradle-wrappings slept; my morning-songSung o'er your pillow. Winds of heaven have thrownUs ...
The World is Full of Kindness (Henry Lawson Poems)
The World is full of kindness- And not the poor alone;We Christians in our blindness Bow down to hearts of stone;The clever, ...
Art Thou Poor (Thomas Dekker Poems)
Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?O sweet content!Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplexed?O punishment!Dost thou laugh ...
England’s Heart (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
England's heart! Oh never fear The sturdy good old stock;Nothing's false or hollow here, But solid as a rock:England's heart is sound ...
Reseda (Paul Colinet Poems)
Step-ladder, tiny pyramid for miserly hunchbacks, near-sighted reckoner, the reseda, gathered in its cunninglittle cabin, breaks up, clears itself of ...