A Tale Of Society As It Is: From Facts, 1811 (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.She was an aged woman; and the yearsWhich she had numbered on her toilsome wayHad bowed her natural powers to ...
Honesty & Integrity Poems (829 Poems)
On Lending a Punch-Bowl (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
This ancient silver bowl of mine, it tells of good old times,Of joyous days and jolly nights, and merry Christmas ...
Disobedience (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Says he, "I'll take my father's gun,Obedience is absurd;And would not it be awful funIf I could shoot a bird!"Says ...
His Dowter Gate Wed (John Hartley Poems)
He'd had his share ov ups an daans, His sprees an troubles too;Ov country joys an life i' taans, He'd run th' ...
Centenary Poem (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Recited at Burns' Centenary Festival, held at Mauchlin, January 25, 1859Oh Bard beloved! as pilgrims to thy shrine, With song and ...
Ritner (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THANK God for the token! one lip is still free,One spirit untrammelled, unbending one knee!Like the oak of the mountain, ...
Hang Him! (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
'It happened in 1803,' began my old acquaintance, 'not long beforeAusterlitz. The regiment in which I was an officer was ...
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 ...
The Shamrock And The Lily (John Banim Poems)
Sir Shamrock, sitting drinking,At close of day, at close of day,Saw Orange ...
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 Honest Jury, Or, Caleb Triumphant (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Rejoice, ye good Writers; your Pens are set free;Your Thoughts and the Press are at full Liberty;For your King and ...
The Logicians Refuted (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
IN IMITATION OF DEAN SWIFTLOGICIANS have but ill defin'dAs rational, the human kind;Reason, they say, belongs to man,But let them ...
Daniel Gray (Josiah Gilbert Holland Poems)
IF I shall ever win the home in heavenFor whose sweet rest I humbly hope and pray,In the great company ...
Sheep Sheering. Written at Mr. John E—‘s, Gedney (Joseph Proud Poems)
From days unnumber'd hath the custom beenTo shear, in summer months, the loaded sheep,And keep the jocund feast: so still ...
Song For Th’ Hard Times, (1879.) (John Hartley Poems)
Nah chaps, pray dooant think it's a sarmon awm praichin, If aw tell yo some nooations at's entered mi pate;For ther's ...
The Traveller’s Prayer (Rees Prichard Poems)
Thou guardian of the weak, thou poor man's friend!Hear from thy glorious throne, Almighty God!That dost thine aid to fearful ...
To The Flattered (John Andrewes Poems)
Fond Man, that suck'st the pleasing poyson in(which from the Syrens vnsuspected tongueIs kindly offer'd to thine eare) whereinare all ...
Arms And The Man – The Beginning Of The End (James Barron Hope Poems)
As some spent gladiator, struck by Death, Whose reeling vision scarce a foe defines, For one last effort gathers all his breath, England ...
Every Thing (Harold Monro Poems)
Since man has been articulate,Mechanical, improvidently wise,(Servant of Fate),He has not understood the little criesAnd foreign conversations of the smallDelightful ...
A Confidence (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
UNCLE JOHN, he makes me tired;Thinks 'at he's jest so all-firedSmart, 'at he kin pick up, so,Ever'thing he wants to ...
My Sort O’ Man (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I don't believe in 'ristercrats An' never did, you see; The plain ol' homelike sorter folks Is good enough fur me. O' course, I ...
Address For The Benefit Of James Sheridan Knowles. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Nay, Mr. Simpson!--'Tis not kind--polite--To shut me out, sir?--I'm in such a fright!--I can not speak the lines, I'm sure!--Oh, ...
My Own Place (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Whoever I am, wherever my lot, Whatever I happen to be,Contentment and Duty shall hallow the spot That Providence orders for me;No ...
An Alarm to the Meal-mongers and Corn-sellers in Scotland (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
Ye mealy mouth'd mobbers, attend to my song,Whose plunder brings plenty of blessings along.No gospel or law starv'd people regard,For ...
Freedom (In Alcaics.) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Bulwark of England, God-given Liberty!Name much malign'd, yet noble and glorious, How rarely the masses who claim thee Judge as they ought ...
Used Up (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Where shall be found the niche unfill'd,—A spot unclaim'd, a field untill'd?Who may secure a vacant spaceFairly to run and ...
To the Right Honourable The Countess Dowager Of Devonshire, On A Piece Of Wiessen’s (Matthew Prior Poems)
Wiessen and nature held a long contestIf she created or he painted best;With pleasing thought the wondrous combat grew,She still ...
The Flag (Julia Ward Howe Poems)
There's a flag hangs over my threshold, whose folds are more dear to meThan the blood that thrills in my ...
A Neglected “Woman’s Right” (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
I have listened to this cry of "Woman's Rights," this clamoringfor the ballot, for redress for woman's wrongs, and I ...
From ‘Samson Agonistes’ i (John Milton Poems)
OH how comely it is and how revivingTo the Spirits of just men long opprest!When God into the hands of ...