The Song Of Songs (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I HEARD a Spirit singing as, beyond the morning winging,Its radiant form went swinging like a star:In its song prophetic ...
Instinct Poems (162 Poems)
A Musing On A Victory (Sydney Thompson Dobell Poems)
Down by the Sutlej shore,Where sound the trumpet and the wild tum-tum,At winter's eve did comeA gaunt old northern lion, ...
Picture (Josiah Gilbert Holland Poems)
Winter's wild birthnight! In the fretful East The uneasy wind moans with its sense of cold, And sends its sighs through gloomy ...
The Vote of Thanks Debate (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
Keenan’s Charge (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
The sun had set;The leaves with dew were wet:Down fell a bloody duskOn the woods, that second day of May,Where ...
Wendell Phillips (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
WHAT shall we mourn? For the prostrate tree that sheltered the young green wood?For the fallen cliff that fronted the ...
The Logicians Refuted (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
IN IMITATION OF DEAN SWIFTLOGICIANS have but ill defin'dAs rational, the human kind;Reason, they say, belongs to man,But let them ...
The Condemned (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
AS in those lands of mighty mountain heights,The streams, by sudden tempests overcharged,Sweep down the slopes, hearing swift ruin with ...
Harvest-Home (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
WHO has not seen the chearful Harvest HomeEnliv'ning the scorch'd field, and greeting gayThe slow decline of Autumn ? All ...
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 ...
Shakespeare (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
TERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONAPRIL 23, 1864"Who claims our Shakespeare from that realm unknown,Beyond the storm-vexed islands of the deep,Where Genoa's roving mariner ...
Judge Not Too Hastily (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Oh! judge not too hastily man and his mind, Nor deem ye can read him at once and for aye,There is ...
The Men Who Sleep With Danger (Henry Lawson Poems)
The men who camp with DangerAre mostly quiet men:And one may use a rifle,And one may use a pen,And one ...
A Morning Exercise (William Wordsworth Poems)
FANCY, who leads the pastimes of the glad,Full oft is pleased a wayward dart to throw;Sending sad shadows after things ...
In Quest (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Have I not voyaged, friend beloved, with theeOn the great waters of the unsounded sea,Momently listening with suspended oarFor the ...
Lines On The Death Of Bismarck (John Jay Chapman Poems)
(Reprinted from "The Political Nursery," midsummer number, 1898)AT midnight Death dismissed the chancellor,But left the soul of Bismarck on his ...
On The Death of A Highly Gifted And Prococious Child (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Who died at the age of six years and two monthsToo fair, too pale, too pure and wiseFor earth, she ...
On The Russian War in the Crimea, 1854-5 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough hew them as we will."—-ShakspereBehold with awe, and high adoring wonder,The living car ...
Ode To Heaven (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
CHORUS OF SPIRITS:FIRST SPIRIT:Palace-roof of cloudless nights!Paradise of golden lights!Deep, immeasurable, vast,Which art now, and which wert thenOf the Present ...
Puck (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
She is sleeping on the grass,Where her daily footsteps pass;All her errands left undoneAt the bidding of the sun;From the ...
Rev. Dr. James W. Alexander, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church, New York, died at the VirginiaSprings, July, 1859.The great and good. How startling is ...
A Character (Joanna Baillie Poems)
ASK you, "What charms first chain'd my heart,"And held me from the world apart,"Made young ambition's turmoil cease,"And blest me ...
The Sparrow’s Nest (Mary Botham Howitt Poems)
Nay, only look what I have found!A Sparrow's nest upon the ground;A Sparrow's nest as you may see,Blown out of ...
To The Thirty-Ninth Congress (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
O PEOPLE-CHOSEN! are ye notLikewise the chosen of the Lord,To do His will and speak His word?From the loud thunder-storm ...
Matter and Mind (John Bowring Poems)
If in the vast material world No atom ever perished—thoughIn multitudinous changes hurl'd Upwards and downwards, to and fro,And all that in ...
At Hochfinstermunz (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Once more between its walls of pinesI see the long ravine expandTo where the ice-world's crystal linesDefine the realm of ...
In Memoriam: Rev. Samuel Robinson (Lizzie E Palmer Poems)
The sunbeams sparkle on the crystal waves,The feathery clouds float softly through the blueAmid the bending willows robin's sing—And fil ...
Seeds (John Oxenham Poems)
What shall we be like whenWe cast this earthly body and attainTo immortality?What shall we be like then?Ah, who shall ...
The Valise (Paul Colinet Poems)
The valise is a female greyhound of the water-henfamily. Essentially transportable, she's distinguishedfrom the water-hen community by the fact that ...
The Milch Kine Drawing The Ark : Faith’s Surrender Of All (John Newton Poems)
The kine unguided wentBy the directest road;When the Philistines homeward sentThe ark of Israel's God.Lowing they passed along,And left their ...