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 ...
Joy & Excitement Poems (9043 Poems)
Abraham’s Sacrifice (Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon Poems)
The noontide sun streamed brightly downMoriah's mountain crest,The golden blaze of his vivid raysTinged sacred Jordan's breast;While towering palms and ...
Transformation & Escape (Gregory Corso Poems)
1I reached heaven and it was syrupy.It was oppressively sweet.Croaking substances stuck to my knees.Of all substances St. Michael was ...
The Battle Of Antioch (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
The clear eye of morning was cloudless and blue,And the air was all fresh with the fragrance of dew,And the ...
Lines Written October 23, 1836, A Few Hours After The Birth Of My First Child. (Henry Alford Poems)
Beautiful babe, I gaze upon thy face That bears no trace of earth: thy silk--soft cheek Gladdens me even to tears, and ...
A Dozen Ballads About White Slavery. II. The Factory Slave (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Pale, and shabby, and looking so ill, Hungry and cold and wet, On a winter's morning going to mill The factory-child I met:All ...
Masha (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
When I lived, many years ago, in Petersburg, every time I chanced to hire asledge, I used to get into ...
The Three Copecks (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
CROUCHED low in a sordid chamber,With a cupboard of empty shelves,Half starved, and, alas, unableTo comfort or help themselves,Two children ...
One Among The Million (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.One among the million, fainting on the way,Stricken by the heat and the burden of the day,Looked to me for ...
Poet’s Enchanted Life (James Avis Bartley Poems)
THE ANGEL-CHILD.A fairy land of grass and flowers, And of the greenest treesA land of singing brooks and springs, A land of ...
The Leap From The Long Bridge (Grace Greenwood Poems)
AN INCIDENT AT WASHINGTON.A woman once made her escape from the slave-prison, which stands midway between the Capitol and the ...
My Castle In Spain (John Hay Poems)
There was never a castle seen So fair as mine in Spain:It stands embowered in green, Crowning the gentle slopeOf a hill ...
Azolan (Voltaire Poems)
At village lived, in days of yore,A youth bred in Mahomet's lore;His well-turned limbs were formed with grace,With blooming beauty ...
Strophes (Kostas Karyotakis Poems)
1.For twenty years I gambledwith books instead of cards;for twenty years I gambledand I squandered my life.Poor now I lie ...
A Pastoral Ballad II: Hope (William Shenstone Poems)
My banks they are furnish'd with bees,Whose murmur invites one to sleep;My grottos are shaded with trees,And my hills are ...
To Thee, O May, I Must Complain (Herzog Heinrich von Breslau Poems)
Poet. To thee, O May, I must complain, O summer, I complain to thee, And thee, thou flower-bespangled plain, And meadow, dazzling bright to ...
Could I hear the Kookaburras once again (John O Brien Poems)
May a fading fancy hover round a gladness that is over?May a dreamer in the silence rake the ashes of ...
Birthday Of Daniel Webster (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
JANUARY 18, 1856WHEN life hath run its largest roundOf toil and triumph, joy and woe,How brief a storied page is ...
It’s_Got_To Be (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"When it's _got_ to be,"--like! always say, As I notice the years whiz past,And know each day is a yesterday, When we ...
May, 1918 (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE moon at midnight quenched her vaporous light,Leaving the stars but faintly brightLike tapers that burn ill;And in the fragrant ...
April Showers (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
He said there was on earth no fairer sightThan April shadows from the tall green flagsWe taunted him with overflows ...
Christmas Eve (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Christmas-eve came to us darkly, Darkly to our cottage door,Not with brave and boisterous greeting, As it used to come of yore;Not ...
Sudden Death (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Where are ye, spirits of the dead?That erst with us held converse kind?Bright o'er our hearts your sunlight shedAnd with ...
To The Memory Of Charles B. Storrs (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Thou hast fallen in thine armor,Thou martyr of the LordWith thy last breath crying "Onward!"And thy hand upon the sword.The ...
How Have I Caught At Fleeting Joys (Patience Worth Poems)
How have I caught at fleeting joys,And swifter fleeting sorrows, and days and nights,And morns and eves, and seasons too,Aslipping ...
The Hunter of the Uruguay to his Love (Louisa Stuart Costello Poems)
Would'st thou be happy, would'st thou be free,Come to our woody islands with me!Come, while the summer sun is high,Beneath ...
Cradle Song (Josephine Preston Peabody Poems)
ILord Gabriel, wilt thou not rejoiceWhen at last a little boy's Cheek lies heavy as a rose And his eyelids close?Gabriel, when ...
A Fictitious Dialogue, Between Two Gentlemen. (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
SAID a beau to his friend, who resides on Brook Green,"Oh, Charles! near your house I've a new beauty seen!Her ...
Summer: Thursday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Calm is the eve, and nature's wasting strengthIs, by the gentle influence of repose,Repair'd, rekindled;—with the morning's dawn,As if new-born, ...
An Irish Easter Legend (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
"Whoso kneels down upon Easter mornOn the Druids stone, and prays,Shall see Christ's face zvhen the day is bornIn the ...