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 ...
Inspirational Poems (597 Poems)
The Labours Of Ferhad (Nizami Ganjavi Poems)
On lofty Beysitoun the lingering sunlooks down on ceaseless labors, long begun:The mountain trembles to the echoing soundOf falling rocks, ...
To Lamartine (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I did not praise thee when the crowd, 'Witched with the moment's inspiration,Vexed thy still ether with hosannas loud, And stamped their ...
The Story Of Lovers Leap (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
[At Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, one of the famous resorts of the South, may be seen the historic ...
Musings (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
INSPIRATION. All who have toiled for Art, who've won or lost, Sat equal priests at her high Pentecost; Only the chrism and sacrament ...
Blind Tom, Singing (James David Corrothers Poems)
ILONG, long ago I saw Blind Tom.The noisy audience became calm,And a hush fell o'er the whispering din,When the blind ...
The Poet, And His Interpreters (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
FULL of songs he woke one morning,Every song a weighty wonderHolding universal beingNewly dressed in words of thunder."Men shall hear ...
My Library (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Shrine of my mind, my Library!Each morn I greet thee with delight,When, soul-refreshed, I bring to theeThe benediction of the ...
Ode To Genius (Margaret Holford Poems)
Whence is that pow'r, whose awful magic call,Imperious bids the astonish'd world attend,Before whose shrine adoring myriads fall,To whom the ...
Charity : A Paraphrase On 1 Cor. Chap. 13 (Matthew Prior Poems)
Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue,Than ever Man pronounc'd, or Angel sung:Had I all Knowledge, Human and Divine,That Thought ...
The Pilgrim (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
KIND shepherd! if thy hoary locks,Bespeaking venerable age,May trust and confidence inspire,Oh! wilt thou, with thy counsel sage,Assist a sad ...
Ode To Eloquence (Henry Carey Poems)
Heard ye those loud-contending waves, That shook Cecropia's pillar'd state?Saw ye the mighty, from their graves, Look up, and tremble at her ...
Tobogganing (Hattie Howard Poems)
Oh, the rare exhilaration, Oh, the novel delectation Of a ride down the slide! Packed like ice in zero weather, Pleasure-seekers close together, On a ...
The Lover And The Painter (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
O painter bold and true, lord of every flying hue,Whose immortal hand all lovely things implore,Now to thy glory set, ...
The Naturalist’s (Gilbert White Poems)
To Thomas Pennant, Esquire.… equidem credo, quia sit divinitus illisIngenium. ~ Virgil, Georgics. When day declining sheds a milder gleam, What time ...
Damon And Pythias: A Romance (P G Wodehouse Poems)
Since Earth was first created, Since Time began to fly,No friends were e'er so mated, So firm as JONES and I.Since primal ...
Invocation To The spirit Of Poesy (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Queen of all harmonious things,Dancing words, and speaking strings.Cowley.SPIRIT, or Power, or Spell, or whatsoe'erOf name beseems thee best, Ethereal ...
The Prayer Of Nature (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair?Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone ...
How A Girl Was Too Reckless Of Grammar (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Matilda Maud Mackenzie frankly hadn't any chin,Her hands were rough, her feet she turned invariably in;Her general form was German,By ...
To Maecenas (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Maecenas, you, beneath the myrtle shade,Read o'er what poets sung, and shepherds play'd.What felt those poets but you feel the ...
Thoughts On Friendship. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
FAME, and honour, wealth, and friendship,All are objects of desire,Frequent sought with ceaseless trouble,All can ardent hopes inspire.Fame is but ...
Kitty’s Dream (Henry Baker Poems)
On her couch, one summer's day;Beauteous, youthful Kitty lay:Venus saw her from above,(Smiling Venus, queen of love)Amaz'd at each celestial ...
Lines Written At Norwich On The First News Of Peace (Amelia Opie Poems)
What means that wild and joyful cry?Why do yon crowds in mean attireThrow thus their ragged arms on high?In want ...
School Rhymes (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
O academic muse that hast for longCharmed all the world with thy disciples' song,As myrtle bushes must give place to ...
Memory (Jared Barhite Poems)
Earthly scenes are worth preserving, Bitter though they sometimes be; Who would wish to sink in Lethe All the fruits of Memory? None could ...
The Woods (Hattie Howard Poems)
I love the woods when the magic hand Of Spring, as if sweeping the keys Of a wornout instrument, touches the earth; When ...
The Oak (James Russell Lowell Poems)
What gnarled stretch, what depth of shade, is his! There needs no crown to mark the forest's king;How in his leaves ...
The Centenary Of A Hero (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
George Stephenson, the heroic son of Britain's hardy race,The world this day holds festival, his grand career to trace;And proudly ...
The Soul’s Thankfulness (John Quarles Poems)
Most gracious God, I having lately feltThe fervour of thy mercies, needs must meltInto a thankfulnesse, Ah should I beUngratefull ...
Isabel (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
They said that I was strange. I could not bear Confinement, and I lov'd to feel the wind Blowing upon my forehead, ...