Wail Of The Divorced (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
How can I give thee up, my child, my dearest, earliest born,While fond hopes are 'round thee clustered, like bright ...
Hospitality Poems (1067 Poems)
Written April The 18th, 1796 (Matilda Betham Poems)
THE beauteous queen of social love,Descending from the realms above,Through the wide space of ether flew,With care this little world ...
Middle Harbour (John Le Gay Brereton Poems)
Lonely wonder, delight past hoping! Sky-line broken by stirring trees, Grey rocks hither and shoreward sloping, Silent bracken about my knees. Dusky scrub where ...
Ode Written on the Banks of the Passumsick River (Josias Lyndon Arnold Poems)
Passumsick, hail! Who glid'st along,Unknown to melody and song,Saving what sung the Indian bard,E'er yet refinement sought thy shore,While thy ...
Reflections (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
IN life's gay morn, while undepress'd by grief,The heart quick vibrates to the sense of joy;And mounting vig'rous, yet uncheck'd ...
On The Slain Collegians (Herman Melville Poems)
Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring warsAppeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it ...
L’Envoi (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I KNOW these lays will come to theeLike flowers along thy pathway strown,And wear, to thy young, generous eyes,A grace ...
To Celia (James Hurdis Poems)
Why, O Spring, so in vain are display'd Thy sweet blossoms that us'd to delight?And thy branches in beauty array'd, Why attract ...
Cleopatra’s Needle (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
(_Erected on the Thames Embankment, 1878_).Thou reverend relic from a far-off clime,Of ancient days, triumphant over Time.Thou ocean traveller, brought ...
Ode – On the Death of a Young Lady (John Logan Poems)
The peace of Heaven attend thy shade,My early friend, my favourite maid!When life was new, companions gay,We hail'd the morning ...
Falmouth Fire 1862 (John Harris Poems)
MIDNIGHT was on the mountains, Midnight was on the town,And sleep, the balmy seraph, Came sweetly, gently down,Sealing the lids of sorrow, Hushing ...
The Visit (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
FAIN had I to-day surprised my mistress,But soon found I that her door was fasten'd.Yet I had the key safe ...
On The Approach Of Winter. Addressed To A Friend. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
ALAS my friend, how quickly pleasure flies!Life's brightest hours the swiftest fade away:Hope's distant prospects glad our longing eyes;We reach ...
Above Crow’s Nest [Sydney] (Henry Lawson Poems)
A BLANKET low and leaden, Though rent across the west,Whose darkness seems to deaden The brightest and the best;A sunset white and ...
Mysterious (Hattie Howard Poems)
The morning sun rose bright and fair Upon a lovely village where Prosperity abounded, And ceaseless hum of industry In lines of friendly rivalry From ...
The Sweet South-Wind (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Over the fields and the waters there suddenly swept in mid-AprilSomething that seemed like a breath that was blown from ...
Shiver The Goblet (John Hartley Poems)
Shiver the goblet and scatter the wine! Tempt me no more with the sight!I care not though brightly as ruby it ...
Sketch of Lord Byron’s Life (Julia A Moore Poems)
"Lord Byron" was an Englishman A poet I believe,His first works in old England Was poorly received.Perhaps it was "Lord Byron's" fault And ...
Hymn #3 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE frith is crossed, the previous war-fare past,Through swampy plains, dark woods and deserts vast,O'er heaths, and flowery slopes and ...
The Lost Pleiad (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
NOT in the sky,Where it was seenSo long in eminence of light serene,-Nor on the white tops of the glistering ...
“Do you remember still the little song” (Lesbia Harford Poems)
Do you remember still the little songI mumbled on the hill at Aura, howI told you it was made for ...
Rural Sunday (Michael Barsley Poems)
With vacant stare in the market square,Tricked out in a lilac suit,The villager stands with great handsAnd chaffs with a ...
For One Night Only (A Tragedy) (P G Wodehouse Poems)
I met him in a crowd;As if with care 'twas weighted,His shapely back was bowed,His brow was corrugated.I asked him, ...
Reflections On Visiting The Monument Of Miss Smith, Of Coinstone (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
A PHILOSOPHIC maid, with tranquil mind,Life's gayer scenes and youth's fond hopes resign'd,Left Piercefield's lov'd retreats, from childhood dear,And came ...
The Great Southern Ocean And Van Dieman’s Land. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
The stormy Cape is passed; now the wide seaRolls with a prouder and a bolder swell;The joyous tar, chaunting "Ho, ...
Mr. John A. Taintor, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, on Saturday Evening, November 15th, 1862, aged 62years.A sense of loss is on us. One hath gone Whose ...
The Washingtonia (John Pierpont Poems)
Come join the Washingtonians,Ye young men bold and strong,And with a proud and cheerful zeal,Come, help the cause along.O that ...
Ode X: To Thomas Edwards, Esquire: On The Late Edition Of Mr. Pope’s Work (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Believe me, Edwards, to restrainThe licence of a railer's tongueIs what but seldom men obtainBy sense or wit, by prose ...
Blessings of Instruction (John Bowring Poems)
The heart has tendrils like the vine,Which round another's bosom twine,Outspringing from the living treeOf deeply-planted sympathy;Whose flowers are hope, ...
The Last Salute (Robert Nichols Poems)
In a far field, away from England, liesA boy I friended with a care like love;All day the wide earth ...