Fairies (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
On the tremulous coppice, From her plenteous hair, Large golden-rayed poppies Of moon-litten air The Night hath flung there. In the fern-favored hollow The fire-flies fleet Uncertainly ...
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Voyage Of The Good Ship Union (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
1862'T is midnight: through my troubled dreamLoud wails the tempest's cry;Before the gale, with tattered sail,A ship goes plunging by.What ...
The Abandoned (Mathilde Blind Poems)
SHE sat by the wayside and wept, where roses, red roses and white,Lay wasted and withered and sere, like her ...
Jimmy’s Choice (John Hartley Poems)
One limpin Jimmy wed a lass;An this wor th' way it coom to pass--He'd saved a little bit o' brass, An ...
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 Land Of The Living (Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig Poems)
I know of a landWhere hair does not grey, and where time's rule is banned,Where sun does not burn, and ...
Harry The First (Marietta Holley Poems)
In his arm-chair, warmly cushioned,In the quiet earned by labor,Life's reposeful Indian summer,Grandpa sits; and lets the paperLie upon his ...
To Sir Henry Wotton (John Donne Poems)
SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,For thus, friends absent speak. This ease controlsThe tediousness of my life ; but ...
The Wounded Daisy (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
At twilight in beautiful summers,When all the dew is shed,And all the singers and hummersAre safe at home in bed,In ...
My last Thought (Jose Rizal Poems)
Land I adore, farewell! thou land of the southern sun's choosing!Pearl of the Orient seas! our forfeited Garden of Eden!Joyous I yield ...
“I Arise and go Down to the River” (Laurence Hope Poems)
I arise and go down to the River, and currents that come from the sea,Still fresh with the salt of ...
Lady Surrey’s Lament For Her Absent Lord (Henry Howard Poems)
Good ladies, you that have your pleasure in exile, Step in your foot, come take a place, and mourn with me ...
The Student (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
ALONE he sat. His broad and lofty browWas bent upon his thin, pale hand; his locksOf jet hung o'er it ...
The Dream Of Christ (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I saw her twins of eyelids listless swoon Mesmeric eyes, Like the mild lapsing of a lulling tune On wide surprise, While slow the ...
A Little Maid of Sappho (George Sylvester Viereck Poems)
O little siren of the rose-white skin,Reared to strange music and to stranger sin,With scornful lips that move to no ...
Ode On A Grecian Urn (John Keats Poems)
1.Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more ...
To Harriet — It Is Not Blasphemy To Hope That Heaven (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
It is not blasphemy to hope that HeavenMore perfectly will give those nameless joysWhich throb within the pulses of the ...
The Step Mother (Susanna Strickland Moodie Poems)
Well I recall my Father's wife,The day he brought her home.His children looked for years of strife,And troubles sure to ...
Another Generation (John Collings Squire Poems)
THERE is a woman like a seed,There is a man in embryo,Whose spirits, faces, sex indeedTheir very mothers do not ...
Waxy: Or, Verses Upon A Young LDY’S Birth-Day (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Hail to the Light of this revolving Morn,On which such Beauty to the World was born,Or rather made--for thus Traditions ...
Alice (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.Beautiful Alice, serene little saint, My treasure!— O better than mine,—What mind can imagine, or eloquence paint Thy gladness and glory divine?A ...
The Woodman And The Nightingale (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
A woodman whose rough heart was out of tune(I think such hearts yet never came to good)Hated to hear, under ...
Just a Love Letter (Henry Cuyler Bunner Poems)
NEW YORK, July 20, 1883.DEAR GIRL:The town goes on as thoughIt thought you still were in it;The gilded cage seems ...
Alice (John Hartley Poems)
Dear little Alice lay dying;-- I see her as if 'twas to-day,And we stood round her snowy bed, crying, And watching her ...
A Letter (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Dear Miss Lucy: I been t'inkin' dat I 'd write you long fo' dis, But dis writin' 's mighty tejous, an' ...
Vine And Sycamore (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I Here where a tree and its wild liana, Leaning over the streamlet, grow, Once a nymph, like the moon'd Diana, Sat in the ...
Oenone (William Edmondstoune Aytoun Poems)
On the holy mount of Ida,Where the pine and cypress grow,Sate a young and lovely woman,Weeping ever, weeping low.Drearily throughout ...
Going For The Cows (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. The juice-big apples' sullen gold, Like lazy Sultans laughed and lolled 'Mid heavy mats of leaves that lay Green-flatten'd 'gainst the glaring day; And ...
Contrasted Scenes From Real Life (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Scene I—Marriage of Sir R. Peel With Lady E. HaySee yonder gorgeous fane, its doors expand,Throng'd with the rank, wealth, ...
Fragment (Henry Kirke White Poems)
The western gale,Mild as the kisses of connubial love,Plays round my languid limbs, as all dissolved,Beneath the ancient elm's fantastic ...