To The Author’s Brother. On the choice of a Wife in the Year 1789 (Maria Logan Poems)
O THOU, the best of brothers and of friends!Say, who but thee could wake the sleeping lyre?Fann'd by thy breath ...
Hospitality Poems (1067 Poems)
The Lover (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
I SAT in a friendly company And wagged my wicked tongue so well, My friends were listening close to hear The wickedest tales ...
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 ...
Bridging The Gulf; Or, The Union Of Classes (John Collings Squire Poems)
SIR ROGER TREPAN was a sensitive man, and very much moved by the war.It made him aware of a number ...
The Indian Chief And Conconay (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
(Written in her fifteenth year.)The Indian Chieftain is far away,Through the forest his footsteps fly,But his heart is behind him ...
Two Brothers (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHO presses on my knee this kindly pat,And with a merry archness in my faceLooks up?--a youngling of my own ...
The Swamp Fox (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
WE follow where the Swamp Fox guides,His friends and merry men are we;And when the troop of Tarleton rides,We burrow ...
Elegy II (Henry James Pye Poems)
Now the brown woods their leafy load resign And rage the tempests with resistless force? Mantled with snow the silver mountains shine, And ...
To The Commodore Of The Russian Squadron (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Bound For Kamtschatka, Now Lying In The Harbour Of PortJackson.HAIL! Chieftain, from the distant landsThat own the Czar's imperial reign;With ...
The Padlock (Voltaire Poems)
I triumphed, love's victorious powerPrevailed, and near approached the hourWhich should have crowned our mutual flame,Just then your tyrant husband ...
The Rancho In The Rain (Henry Herbert Knibbs Poems)
The rabbit's ears are flattened and he's squattin' scared and still,Ag'inst the dripping cedar; and the quail below the hillAre ...
Thanksgiving (Hattie Howard Poems)
Nature, erewhile so marvelously lovely, is bereft Of her supernal charm; And with the few dead garlands of departed splendor left, Like crape ...
A Memorial (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Oh, thicker, deeper, darker growing,The solemn vista to the tombMust know henceforth another shadow,And give another cypress room.In love surpassing ...
The Relic (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
TOKEN Of friendship true and tried,From one whose fiery heart of youthWith mine has beaten, side by side,For Liberty and ...
The Southerly Buster (Henry Lawson Poems)
There's a wind that blows out of the South in the drought, And we pray for the touch of his breathWhen ...
The Dancing Seal (Wilfred Wilson Gibson Poems)
When we were building Skua Light--The first men who had lived a nightUpon that deep-sea Isle--As soon as chisel touched ...
The Kinship Of The Celt (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
It's the flag of France! the flag of France, I see!Life to it! Health to it! fold on fold,With the ...
Lines On The Death Of William Sotheby, Esq (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LEARNING and fancy were combinedTo stimulate his manly mind;Open, generous and acute,Steady of purpose, in pursuitArdent and hopeful; all the ...
Macarius The Monk (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
IN the old days, while yet the Church was young,And men believed that praise of God was sungIn curbing self ...
Hop, Skip And Jump: A Queer Trio Personified. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
O! HOP is a sailor used up in the war,With a single good leg to stand on;And a face as ...
Verses Sent To Mrs. Baillie On Her Birthday, 1813 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
A JUDGEMENT clear, a pensive mindWith feelings tender and refined;A generous heart in kindness glowing,An open hand on all bestowing;A ...
My “Promenade Solitaire” (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Up and down in my garden fair,Under the trellis where grapes will bloom,With the breath of violets in the air,As ...
A Pastoral Between Thirsis And Corydon, Upon The Death Of Damon, By Whom Is Meant Mr. W. Riddell (James Thomson Poems)
Thir.Say, tell me true, what is the doleful causeThat Corydon is not the man he was?Your cheerful presence used to ...
Rich And Poor (A Ballad For Union) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O ladies, lords, and gentlemen, Attend to what I say,For well I wot you'll like it when You listen to my lay;And ...
Democracy (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
BEARER of Freedom's holy light,Breaker of Slavery's chain and rod,The foe of all which pains the sight,Or wounds the generous ...
To the Autumnal Equinox (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
NOW tranquil beauty is no more,The crowding billows seek the shore;And while against the rock they dash,See! the blue fire ...
Ch 01 Manner of Kings Story 13 (Sa di Poems)
I heard a king, who had changed night into day by pleasures, saying in his drunkenness:'We have in the world ...
On Domestic Happiness (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF A FRIEND.ALCANOR bids me hail the welcome morn,Seven times return'd, since, when in youthful pride,While ...
Elegy III. On the Untimely Death of a Certain Learned Acquainance (William Shenstone Poems)
If proud Pygmalion quit his cumbrous frame,Funereal pomp the scanty tear supplies;Whilst heralds loud, with venal voice, proclaim,Lo! here the ...
Summer: Wednesday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Father! at whose awakening nodThe early day-break gilds the hills;'Tis Thine almighty mandate, God!Which mountain, valley, sea and sod,With light ...