Old Hudson Rovers (Michael Earls Poems)
(For Joyce Kilmer)When the dreamy night is on, up the Hudson river,And the sheen of modern taste is dim and ...
Honesty & Integrity Poems (829 Poems)
An Excellent New Ballad, Called, A Bob For The C———t. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Ye Poets, take Heed how you trust to the Muse, fa, la.What Words to make Choice of, and what to ...
To The Reformers Of England (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
GOD bless ye, brothers! in the fightYe 're waging now, ye cannot fail,For better is your sense of rightThan king-craft's ...
Lines In Imitation Of The Style Of Beattie’s Minstrel (Margaret Holford Poems)
Yes, it is hard the steep ascent to climbWhence Fame's proud structure beams upon the eye,And well I wot, that ...
Tim (Jared Barhite Poems)
We remember well when a schoolboy, When pliant in mind and limb, We had for a boon companion, A bright youth whose name ...
The Bonny Brown Hand (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
OH, drearily, how drearily, the sombre eve comes down!And wearily, how wearily, the seaward breezes blow!But place your little hand ...
The Hue and Cry (James Hurdis Poems)
Oyez, my good people draw near, My story surpasses belief,Yet deign for a moment to hear,And assist me to catch a ...
The Golden Wedding (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
A half a century of time, The mingled pain and blissThat make the history of life Between that day and this;Two lives ...
Somdy’s Chonce (John Hartley Poems)
What's a poor lass like me to do, 'At langs for a hooam ov her own?Aw'm a hale an bonny wench ...
Missed his Mark (John Hartley Poems)
Aw like fowrk to succeed i' life if they've an honest aim,An even if they chonce to trip awm varry ...
Happy Sam’s Song (John Hartley Poems)
Varry monny years ago, when this world wor rather young,A varry wicked sarpent, wi' a varry oily tongue,Whispered summat varry ...
Wasted Energy (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
South Pokus is religious,--that's the honest, livin' truth;South Pokus folks are pious,--man and woman, maid and youth;And they listen every ...
Bad Luck (A Ballad For The Richer Diggins) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Be it what you will, brother,— worse than what you say,—Try to make the best of things, or beat them as you ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. X. Slop-Jobbing (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Surely, to labour for what is not bread,—To earn for an egg a stone instead,— Cheap work, with victuals so dear;Tho' ...
Arise, America! (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
The soul of a nation awaking,-High visions of daybreak,-I saw;A people renewed; the forsakingOf sin, and the worship of law.Sing, ...
Bayard Taylor (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I."And where now, Bayard, will thy footsteps tend?"My sister asked our guest one winter's day.Smiling he answered in the Friends' ...
To The Detracter (John Andrewes Poems)
Think'st thou it makes thy Reputation faire,if by thy muddy tongue thou canst impaireAn other mans? looke how a murtherer ...
Jim (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
There was a Boy whose name was Jim;His Friends were very good to him.They gave him Tea, and Cakes, and ...
Robert (Robbie) Burns [1759-1796] (Old Poetry Poems)
A life that spanned less than 40 years but this man has left an indelible mark on the world of ...
Persevere (John Hartley Poems)
What tho' th' claads aboon luk dark, Th' sun's just waitin to peep throo;Let us buckle to awr wark, For ther's lots ...
Bonny Yorksher (John Hartley Poems)
Bonny Yorksher! how aw love thi! Hard an rugged tho' thi face is;Ther's an honest air abaat thi, Aw ne'er find i' ...
To The Detracted (John Andrewes Poems)
Though Wolues against the siluer Moon do bark,they blemish not her brightnes, nor the spightOf bauling Curres, (which she disdains ...
Th’ Lesser Evil (John Hartley Poems)
Young Harry wor a single chap, An wod have lots o' tin,An monny a lass had set her cap, This temptin prize ...
Critics Nightwatch (Gwen Harwood Poems)
Once more he tried, before he slept,to rule his ranks of words. They brokefrom his planned choir, lolled, slouched and ...
The Irishman (James Orr Poems)
The savage loves his native shore, Though rude the soil and chill the air; Then well may Erin's sons adore Their isle which ...
The School-Committee Man (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
Sometimes when we're in school, and it's the afternoon and late, And kinder warm and sleepy, don't yer know;And p'r'aps a ...
An Epistle To Mr. Robert Burns (Janet Little Poems)
FAIRFA' the honest rustic swain,The pride o' a' our Scottish plain;Thou gi'es us joy to hear thy strain,And notes sae ...
Aw Wodn’t For All Aw Could See (John Hartley Poems)
Why the dickens do some fowk keep thrustin, As if th' world hadn't raam for us all?Wi consarn an consait they're ...
Epilogue To Tancred And Sigismunda (James Thomson Poems)
Cramm'd to the throat with wholesome moral stuff,Alas! poor audience! you have had enough.Was ever hapless heroine of a playIn ...
The Cab Lamps (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE CRESCENT MOON and clock tower are fair above the wallAcross the smothered lanes of 'Loo, the stifled vice and ...