To Mrs. Ward. By The Same. (Mary Barber Poems)
O thou, my beauteous, ever tender Friend,Thou, on whom all my worldly Joys depend,Accept these Numbers; and with Pleasure hearUnstudy'd ...
Judgment Poems (679 Poems)
The Muleteer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind;The present tale Boccace relates you'll find;Agiluf was the noble monarch's name;Teudelingua he married, ...
The Vision Of Echard (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The Benedictine EchardSat by the wayside well,Where Marsberg sees the bridalOf the Sarre and the Moselle.Fair with its sloping vineyardsAnd ...
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 ...
The Day Of Judgment (Goronwy Owen Poems)
Almighty God thy heavenly aid bestow,O'er my rapt soul bid inspiration flow;Let voice seraphic, mighty Lord, be mine,Whilst I unfold ...
The Present Crisis (James Russell Lowell Poems)
When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breastRuns a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on ...
He Prayed and the Plague Ceased (John Quarles Poems)
Prayer and the Plague are two most pow'rful things,Being both derived from the King of Kings;The Plague is sent to ...
Inverawe (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
Does death cleanse the stains of the spirit When sundered at last from the clay,Or keep we thereafter till judgment, Desires that ...
A Legend Of Buckingham Village (Nora Pembroke Poems)
PART IAway up on the River aux Lievres, That is foaming and surging always,And from rock to rock leaping through rapids, Which ...
The Gate (John Oxenham Poems)
"A little child shall lead them."I trod an arduous way, but came at lastTo where the city walls rose fair ...
Festus – XLIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Man's final doom conceive: the award to allEarth's tribes of souls by spirits elect, their chiefsSaintly, themselves through purifying ruleOf ...
To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys (Henry King Poems)
It is, Sir, a confest intrusion hereThat I before your labours do appear,Which no loud Herald need, that may proclaimOr ...
Advice To Authors (Nicholas Boileau Despreaux Poems)
There is a kind of writer pleased with sound, Whose fustian head with clouds is compassed round-- No reason can disperse them ...
PARADOX. That Fruition destroyes Love (Henry King Poems)
Love is our Reasons Paradox, which stillAgainst the judgment doth maintain the Will:And governs by such arbitrary laws,It onely makes ...
Australia (John Farrell Poems)
O Radiant Land! o'er whom the Sun's first dawningFell brightest when God said " Let there be Light;"'O'er whom the ...
The Malamute (Pat O Cotter Poems)
When the stars from the skies have fallen And the smoke of the world's cleared away;When Saint Peter marks "30" in ...
Two Moods Of Failure (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
ITHE LAST CUP OF CANARYSo, the powder's low, and the larder's clean, And surrender drapes, with its black impending,All the stage ...
The New Home (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Pent the wynds and closes narrow, Breathing pestilential air,Crush'd beneath oppression's harrow, Faint with famine, bow'd with care,—Gaunt Affliction's sons and daughters! Why ...
Poetic Lines, Addressed To A Friend (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
YOU request me, my friend, on true courage to write;Yet do you reflect, that whilst I indite,Or attempt to explain ...
Abraham Davenport (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
In the old days (a custom laid asideWith breeches and cocked hats) the people sentTheir wisest men to make the ...
The Candle Seller (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
In Hester Street, hard by a telegraph post,There sits a poor woman as wan as a ghost.Her pale face is ...
To The Christian Reader (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
Reader, I am a fool;And have adventuredTo play the fool this once for Christ,The more his fame to spread.If this ...
Funeral Tree of the Sokokis (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Around Sebago's lonely lakeThere lingers not a breeze to breakThe mirror which its waters make.The solemn pines along its shore,The ...
The Difference (Jared Barhite Poems)
I have scanned the roll of teachers, Have noted the Aarons and Hurs Who have stayed education's Moses, And removed the cumbrous bars That ...
The Song Of The Bereaved (Nora Pembroke Poems)
With garments for sorrow torn, With eyelids heavy and red,A woman sat by a new-made grave, Bewailing her slaughtered dead--Weep! weep! weep! Tears ...
Judgment Day (John Freeman Poems)
When through our bodies our two spirits burnEscaping, and no more our true eyes turnOutwards, and no more hands to ...
The Victim Of Seduction (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
Loud howl'd the tempest of a winter's night,And dying lamps dispens'd a twinkling light ;No friendly star illum'd the vault ...
An Unrecorded Chronicle (Henry Glassford Bell Poems)
Roll back, roll back a hundred years,Thou ever-rolling wheel of time ;Restore again dead hopes and fears,Exhume the undiscovered crime.Why ...
Anniversary Poem (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
ONCE, more, dear friends, you meet beneathA clouded sky:Not yet the sword has found its sheath,And on the sweet spring ...
Valerie’s Confession. To A Friend. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THEY declare that I'm gracefully pretty,The very best waltzer that whirls;They say I am sparkling and witty,The pearl, the queen ...