How precious are thy thoughts of peace (James Montgomery Poems)
How precious are thy thoughts of peace,O God! to me; how great their sum!New every morn, they never cease;They were, ...
Immortality Poems (1478 Poems)
Immortality: An Aspiration (James Herbert Morse Poems)
And will the spirit falter and its fireBurn low and slow, and die, when we grow old?The brain be silent, ...
Sierran Pan (Henry Meade Bland Poems)
I am fire and dew and sunshine,I am mist on the foamy wave,I'm the rippling note from the field-lark;s throat,I'm ...
Written For My Son (Mary Barber Poems)
When Athens was for Arts and Arms renown'd,Olympic Wreaths uncommon Merit crown'd.These slight Distinctions from the Learn'd and Wise,Convey'd eternal ...
At Last (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
In youth, when blood was warm and fancy high,I mocked at death. How many a quaint conceitI wove about his ...
II. Elliott In Fort Sumter (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AND high amongst these chiefs of iron grain,Large-statured natures, souls of Spartan mien,Superbly brave, inflexibly serene,Man of the, stalwart hope, ...
Keats (Lizette Woodworth Reese Poems)
An English lad, who, reading in a book,A ponderous, leathern thing set on his knee,Saw the broad violet of the ...
Down from the worlds of radiant light (Joseph Proud Poems)
Down from the worlds of radiant lightBehold the Savior come,To ransom souls from endless nightAnd bring the wand'rers home.He calls ...
Petrarca’s Retreat (Luigi Alamanni Poems)
Vaucluse, ye hills and glades and shady vale,So long the noble Tuscan bard's retreat,When warm his heart for cruel Laura ...
Africa (Lewis Grandison Alexander Poems)
Thou art not dead, although the spoiler's handLies heavy as death upon thee; though the wrathOf its accursed might is ...
Soldiers at Peace (Herbert Ashley Asquith Poems)
Mourn not for these, the children of the spring :On Flemish plains and far Aegean sand,Mourn not for these, who ...
Heredity (John Liddell Kelly Poems)
More than a fleshly immortalityIs mine. Though I myself return againTo dust, my qualities of heart and brain,Of soul and ...
Hymn: Hear my cry, O God! attend (John Bowring Poems)
Hear my cry, O God! attend To my humble, earnest prayer;From the earth's remotest end I will call, if Thou wilt hear.When ...
Return (Kostas Karyotakis Poems)
In your current is the laughter of the gods,Saronica immortal, the blessing of our ship,like your deep calm, and just ...
A Vernal Hymn (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE fresh spring burgeons into bloom--And Earth with all her vernal charmsLies like a queenly bride enclaspedWithin her heavenly bridegroom's ...
The Dancing Bear (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Far over Elf-land poets stretch their sway,And win their dearest crowns beyond the goalOf their own conscious purpose; they controlWith ...
Ancient Myths (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
YE pleasant myths of Eld, why have ye fled?The earth has fallen from her blissful primeOf summer years, the dews ...
Leigh Hunt (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
DESPITE misfortune, poverty, the dearthOf simplest justice to his heart and brain,This gracious optimist lived not in vain;Rather, he made ...
Chopin (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Soul, that in music, as a flower in light,Didst gem, and bloom, and vanish, with a breathThat mist-like o'er the ...
The Salt Marshes (Peter McArthur Poems)
THERE was a light upon the sea that madeFamiliar things mysterious, which to teach,With inarticulate, alluring speech,The living wind with ...
Sonnet. Written In Disgust Of Vulgar Superstition (John Keats Poems)
The church bells toll a melancholy round,Calling the people to some other prayers,Some other gloominess, more dreadful cares,More hearkening to ...
April In September (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
WHAT song is in the sap of this brave oak-treeThat to the north-star faces,Ravened each June by caterpillar massesTill all ...
Festus – Dedication (Philip James Bailey Poems)
MY FATHER! unto thee to whom I oweAll that I am, all that I have and can;Who madest me in ...
Sonnet: As From The Darkening Gloom A Silver Dove (John Keats Poems)
As from the darkening gloom a silver doveUpsoars, and darts into the eastern light,On pinions that nought moves but pure ...
No Cloud is on the Heavens (George Sterling Poems)
No cloud is on the heavens, and on the seaNo sail: the immortal, solemn ocean liesUnbroken sapphire to the walling ...
Tennyson: In Lucem Transitus, October, 1892 (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
FROM the misty shores of midnight, touched with splendors of the moon,To the singing tides of heaven, and the light ...
The Druid (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Godlike beneath his grave divinities,The last of all their worshippers, he stood.The shadows of a vanished multitudeEnwound him, and their ...
Gallipoli (John William Streets Poems)
Upon the margin of a rugged shoreThere is a spot now barren, desolate,A place of graves, sodden with human goreThat ...
Gordon (Obadiah Cyrus Auringer Poems)
'Tis not so sad to know that thus he died,Small power hath Death to trouble such as he,Whom, overcome by ...
Flowers (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Oh, why for us the blighted bloom!The blossom that lies withering!The Master of Life's changeless loomHath wrought for us no ...