With Dickens (Henry Lawson Poems)
In Windsor Terrace, number four, I've taken my abode-A little crescent from the street, A bight from City Road;And, hard up and ...
Honesty & Integrity Poems (829 Poems)
Summer Images (John Clare Poems)
Now swarthy Summer, by rude health embrowned, Precedence takes of rosy fingered Spring; And laughing Joy, with wild flowers prank'd, and crown'd, A ...
Manhattan: An Ode (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
Here at thy broad sea gate,On the ultimate ocean wave,Where millions in hope have entered in,Joyous, elateA home and a ...
King Stephen (John Keats Poems)
A FRAGMENT OF A TRAGEDYACT I.SCENE I. Field of Battle.Alarum. Enter King STEPHEN, Knights, and Soldiers.Stephen. If shame can on ...
Protestant Popery: Or, The Convocation – Canto V (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
While the fierce Contest rages from afar,And hostile Pamphlets breathe alternate War:The carnal Priests at ev'ry Shock o'erthrown,Now trust to ...
Visions for the Entertainmen (Nathaniel Cotton Poems)
Ye ductile youths, whose rising sunHath many circles still to run;Who wisely with the pilot's chart,To steer thro' life the ...
Old Donald (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Up in the Highlands of ScotlandThe fairies are very rude;I do not know if all are so-Some of them may ...
“Great Man of God, whom God doeth call, and choose” (John Adamson Poems)
Great Man of God, whom God doeth call, and chooseOn Earth his great Lieutenents place to use,Wee blesse the tyme, ...
Pax Animae (Spanish and English) (Manuel Gutierrez Najera Poems)
Speak not a word of wild, blaspheming grief!Be proud, be brave, though fallen in the strife,And gaze, oh poet, with ...
The Exile’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
YE that have faced the billows and the sprayOf good St. Botolph's island-studded bay,As from the gliding bark your eye ...
An Epistle To Sir John Blount City: London (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Wonder not Blount, whose magick HandLifts to the Clouds thy native Land,That in these busy, golden Times,Thy Ears are teaz'd ...
The King And The Abbot. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
From the German of Buerger.Ich will euch erzaehlen ein Maerchen gar schnurrig; u.s.w.PRAY, listen, good friends, and I'll tell you ...
Vestigia Quinque Retrorsum (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AN ACADEMIC POEM1829-1879Read at the Commencement Dinner of the Alumni of HarvardUniversity, June 25, 1879.WHILE fond, sad memories all around ...
The Progress Of Patriotism (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Sir Ralph, a simple, rural Knight,Could just distinguish Wrong from Right;When he receiv'd a Quarter's Rent,And almost half in Taxes ...
An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. Burleigh, May 14, 1689 (Matthew Prior Poems)
Sir,As once a twelvemonth to the priest,Holy at Rome, here Antichrist,The Spanish king presents a jennetTo show his love, -- ...
To A Young Lady, With A Bottle Of Irish Usquebaugh (Hector MacNeill Poems)
"Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus."In spite of all that poets tell us(For poets are but lying fellows)Of Cupid's flames, ...
Songs, Set To The Tunes Polly Peachum Sings In The Beggars Opera. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
I. Oh ponder well! do not me blameOh ponder well! do not me blameFor Follies that are past,If e'er I'm guilty ...
Natty Nancy (John Hartley Poems)
"Mooar fowk get wed nor what do weel," A've heeard mi mother say;But mooast young lads an lasses too, Think just th' ...
Almeda And Flavia (Janet Little Poems)
FLAVIA.WHILE dusky shades eclipse the solar ray,And fanning zephyrs 'mong the branches play,Where varied beauties deck the verdant groves,Let us ...
The Adventures Of Little Bob Bonnyface (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LITTLE Bob Bonnyface went out one dayInto his father's fields to play;Twas a morn undarkened by mist or cloud,With the ...
Lines On The Death Of Sir Walter Scott (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THOU pleasant noble Bard of fame far spread,Now art thou gathered to the mighty dead,And the dark coffin and the ...
The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Up and down the village streetsStrange are the forms my fancy meets,For the thoughts and things of to-day are hid,And ...
The Devil And The Monk (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Once Satan and a monk went on a "drunk,"And Satan struck a bargain with the monk,Whereby the Devil's crew was ...
An English Ballad, On The Taking Of Namur, By The King Of Great Britain (Matthew Prior Poems)
Dulce est desipere in loco.Some Folks are drunk, yet do not know it:So might not Bacchus give You Law?Was it ...
The Testament of Cressida (excerpt) (Robert Henryson Poems)
...Thus chydand with her drerie destenye,Weiping, scho woik the nicht fra end to end;Bot all in vane; hir dule, hir ...
Old Robin (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
SELL old Robin, do you say? Well, I reckon not today!I have let you have your way with the land,With ...
Parson Turell’s Legacy (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIRA MATHEMATICAL STORYFACTS respecting an old arm-chair.At Cambridge. Is kept in the College there.Seems but little ...
Roman Elegies (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake?All ...
To Mrs. Ward. By The Same. (Mary Barber Poems)
O thou, my beauteous, ever tender Friend,Thou, on whom all my worldly Joys depend,Accept these Numbers; and with Pleasure hearUnstudy'd ...