Belshazzar’s Feast (Joanna Baillie Poems)
'TWAS night in Babylon,--yet many a beamOf lamps, far glittering from her domes on high,Shone, brightly mingling in Euphrates' stream,With ...
Joy & Excitement Poems (9043 Poems)
From the “Commemoration Ode” (Harriet Monroe Poems)
WASHINGTONWHEN dreaming kings, at odds with swift paced time, Would strike that banner down,A nobler knight than ever writ or rhyme With ...
Winter Thoughts (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Stern Winter! stormy, sullen, cold, and dun,Thou joyless outcast from the genial sun,Thou gloomiest offspring of the rolling year,With front ...
New-York in 1826. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Two years have elapsed since the verse of S. W. Met your bright eyes like a fanciful gem;With that kind of ...
The Tournament (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
The churches twelve of WallingfordA stately sight they were,When gleaming shields were hangingFrom every column fair;For a mile around the ...
The Old Shepherd And The Squire (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
DEEP in a solitary glen,Far from the cheerful haunts of men;By poverty opprest, and taughtThe lonely task of silent thought,A ...
The Character Of A Good Parson. Imitated From Chaucer, And Enlarged (John Henry Dryden Poems)
A parish-priest was of the pilgrim-train;An awful, reverend, and religious man.His eyes diffused a venerable grace,And charity itself was in ...
Australia To England (John Farrell Poems)
What of the years of Englishmen? What have they brought of growth and graceSince mud-built London by its fen Became the Briton's ...
On The Wreck Of The Halsewell (Henry James Pye Poems)
A FRAGMENT. Now the loud winds with angry pinions sweep The laboring bosom of the stormy deep, The face of day o'erspread by ...
Advice To A Woman, Not To Grieve Too Much For The Death Of Her Child (Rees Prichard Poems)
O! Martha, Martha, cease thy plaintive moan —Take comfort — check thy over frequent sighsFor thy dear babe — whom ...
A poem, Sacred to the Glorious memory of King George (Richard Savage Poems)
Let gaudy Mirth, to the blithe Carrol-song,In loose light-measur'd Numbers dance along;Thou, Muse no flow'ry Fancies here display,Nor warble with ...
Lines (Judith Sargent Murray Poems)
LINES, Inscribed to an amiable, and affectionate Mother, upon the Death of her eldest Son, who fell a victim to ...
Beechenbrook – VIII (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
"My Douglass! my darling!--there once was a time, When we to each other confessed the sublime And perfect sufficiency love could bestow, On ...
Ode VI: Hymn To Cheerfulness (Mark Akenside Poems)
How thick the shades of evening close!How pale the sky with weight of snows!Haste, light the tapers, urge the fire,And ...
The Johnstown Disaster, 1889 (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Look down, ye Alleghenies, into the Conemaugh vale,And see the rising waters, and hear the bitter wail;The swollen streams now ...
Il Penseroso (John Milton Poems)
Hence, vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!How little you bestedOr fill the fixed mind with all your ...
Paradiso: Canto I (Dante Alighieri Poems)
The glory of Him who moveth everythingDoth penetrate the universe, and shineIn one part more and in another less.Within that ...
Lines, Inscribed To An Amiable, And Affectionate Mother (Judith Sargent Murray Poems)
Lines, Inscribed to an amiable, and affectionate Mother, upon the Death of her eldest Son, who fell a victim to ...
To Mrs. Pleydell, With A Pot Of Honey, During The Ferment Occasioned By The Popish Bill Of Toleratio (Hector MacNeill Poems)
Remov'd thank God! from fierce contentions;Unknown to parties or Conventions;Alike averse to rage and folly,And foe to gloomy melancholy;Amid confusion, war, ...
February (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
They went to the February place: 'Twas fashioned, with curious art, Of colored sugar and paper lace, With a front door shaped like ...
Elegy X (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
That some day, emerging at last from the terrifying visionI may burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels!That of the ...
Old (Ralph Hoyt Poems)
By the wayside, on a mossy stone, Sat a hoary pilgrim, sadly musing;Oft I marked him sitting there alone. All the landscape, ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 01 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
THE ARGUMENT.The camp at great Jerusalem arrives:Clorinda gives them battle, in the breastOf fair Erminia Tancred's love revives,He jousts with ...
The Return From The Quest (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Argument:Hark! hark!The dogs do bark;Beggars are coming to town.Some in rags,And some in tags,And some in velvet gown.The summer brooded ...
St Patricks Day (John O Brien Poems)
'Tis the greatest splash of sunshine right through all my retrospection On the days when fairies brought me golden dreams without ...
The Merchant Ship (Henry Kendall Poems)
The Sun o'er the waters was throwing In the freshness of morning its beams;And the breast of the ocean seemed glowing With ...
Cathloda – Duan III (James Macpherson Poems)
Ossian, after some general reflections, describes the situation of Fingal, and the position of the army of Lochlin. - The ...
Love: An Elegy (Mark Akenside Poems)
Too much my heart of Beauty's power hath known,Too long to Love hath reason left her throne;Too long my genius ...
March (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The March house, strangely, was built in a tree, With a fluttering roof of leaves, And strong, straight boughs for the walls ...
The King’s Missive (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
UNDER the great hill sloping bareTo cove and meadow and Common lot,In his council chamber and oaken chair,Sat the worshipful ...