A Story Of Doom: Book IV. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Now while these evil ones took counsel strange,The son of Lamech journeyed home; and, lo!A company came down, and struck ...
Joy & Excitement Poems (9043 Poems)
The Mysterious Visitor (Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky Poems)
Spirit, lovely guest, who are you?Whence have you flown down to us?Taciturn and without a soundWhy have you abandoned us?Where ...
The Moody Seer (Joanna Baillie Poems)
"THE sun shines in a cloudless sky,The lake is blue and still;Up, Flora! on thine errand hie,And climb the eyrie ...
Adam’s Race (Rees Prichard Poems)
ADAM and EVE's unhappy, sinful, Race,Late heirs apparent of the fiery lake,To you, great joy is come — your sorrows ...
Poetry (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
I had rather write one word upon the rockOf ages than ten thousand in the sand.The rock of ages! lo ...
Christ’s Triumph after Death (excerpts) (Giles Fletcher Jr Poems)
IBut now the second Morning, from her bow'r,Began to glister in her beams, and nowThe roses of the day began ...
The Poet (Mark Akenside Poems)
-A RhapsodyOf all the various lots around the ball,Which fate to man distributes, absolute;Avert, ye gods! that of the Muse's ...
The Decree Of Odin (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
"'I loosened the bonds which bindThe Pestilence, my slave;I sent him forth as the wind,I bade him stand in the ...
Nature in Perfection (Richard Savage Poems)
Mater ait, tacta est dea Nomine Matris.Ovid--- Utinam modo dicere PossemCarmina digna dea, certe est dea carmine digna.VirgilLet hireling Poets ...
Rural Sports: A Georgic – Canto II. (John Gay Poems)
Now, sporting muse, draw in the flowing reins,Leave the clear streams a while for sunny plains.Should you the various arms ...
In the Room (James B.V. Thomson Poems)
'Ceste insignefable et tragicque comedie' RABELMS.IThe sun was down, and twilight greyFilled half the air; but in the room,Whose curtain ...
Blind Old Milton (William Edmondstoune Aytoun Poems)
Place me once more, my daughter, where the sunMay shine upon my old and time-worn head,For the last time, perchance. ...
To Cuba (Juan Francisco Manzano Poems)
CUBA, of what avail that thou art fair! Pearl of the seas, the pride of the Antilles! If thy poor sons, have ...
Tasso Dying (Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov Poems)
What festival is ancient Rome preparing? Where flow the crowds in noisy waves?Why these aromas, myrrh's sweet smoke And censers all around ...
Cadyow Castle (Sir Walter Scott Poems)
Addressed to the Right Hon. Lady Anne Hamilton.When princely Hamilton's abodeEnnobled Cadyow's Gothic towers,The song went round, the goblet flow'd,,And ...
In Memoriam A.H. (Maurice Baring Poems)
The wind had blown away the rainThat all day long had soaked the level plain.Against the horizon's fiery wrack,The sheds ...
Elegy On Newstead Abbey (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
'It is the voice of years that are gone!they roll before me with all their deeds.'~OSSIANNewstead! fast-falling, once-resplendent dome! Religion's shrine! ...
The Splendid Shilling (John Arthur Phillips Poems)
— — Sing, Heavenly Muse,Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime,A Shilling, Breeches, and Chimera's Dire. Happy the Man, who void ...
Festus – XII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
All man's acts,Serious or trivial, all man's thoughts perchancePass not unmarked of angel eye, or God's.We know in daytime there ...
Paraphrases From Scriptures. (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared thelight and the sun.Thou hast set all the ...
Vestigia Quinque Retrorsum (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AN ACADEMIC POEM1829-1879Read at the Commencement Dinner of the Alumni of HarvardUniversity, June 25, 1879.WHILE fond, sad memories all around ...
Reflections Of King Hezekiah, In His Sickness (Hannah More Poems)
"Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die." - Isaiah xxxviii.What! and no more? — Is this, my soul, ...
The Lovers’ Last Meeting (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
IT was a calm, still, Sabbath eve--no breezeWent o'er the sleeping flowers, no murmured sound,From Nature's harp of many voices, ...
A Leak In The Dike (Phoebe Cary Poems)
A Story of HollandThe good dame looked from her cottage At the close of the pleasant day,And cheerily called to her ...
The Seasons: A Masque. As Represented By Father Christmas And His Attendants (Henry Alford Poems)
Part I.The Prologue was given by Father Christmas habited in a red robe, with a white beard and an icy ...
Oswald, The Minnesinger (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
A Legend of Schloss Forst, near MeranPROLOGUEOswald von Wolkenstein, the Last of the Minnesingers, loved a beautifulwoman, named Sabina, who ...
Friar Philip’s Geese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR,The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware;Yet, why suppose the sex my ...
Madhushala (The Tavern) (Harivansh Rai Bachchan Poems)
Seeking wine, the drinker leaves home for the tavern.Perplexed, he asks, "Which path will take me there?"People show him different ...
At The Saturday Club (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THIS is our place of meeting; oppositeThat towered and pillared building: look at it;King's Chapel in the Second George's day,Rebellion ...
George Mullen’s Confession (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
For the sake of guilty conscience, and the heart that ticks thetimeOf the clockworks of my nature, I desire to ...