Beechenbrook – II (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
The feathery foliage has broadened its leaves, And June, with its beautiful mornings and eves, Its magical atmosphere, breezes and blooms, Its woods ...
Kiss Poems (2447 Poems)
If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Out of the melancholy that is madeOf ebbing sorrow that too slowly ebbs,Comes back a sighing whisper of the reed,A ...
Bruce And Douglas (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
LAY THE FIRST THE DEATH OF BRUCEThere is darkness in the chamber,There is silence by the hearth,For pale, and cold, ...
The Harp. A Legendary Tale. In Two Parts (Hector MacNeill Poems)
"Smeirg a loisgeadh a thiompan ria."PART I.Still'd is the tempest's blust'ring roar; Hoarse dash the billows of the sea;--But who on ...
Endymion: A Mystical Comment On Titian’s ‘Sacred And Profane Love’ (James Russell Lowell Poems)
IMy day began not till the twilight fell,And, lo, in ether from heaven's sweetest well,The New Moon swam divinely isolateIn ...
A Winter’s Tale For The Little Ones. (Gerald Massey Poems)
A MERRY sound of clapping hands, A call to see the sight;And lo! the first soft snow-flakes fall,So exquisitely virginal:'Tis my ...
An Indian-Summe (James Russell Lowell Poems)
What visionary tints the year puts on,When failing leaves falter through motionless airOr numbly cling and shiver to be gone!How ...
The Celt’s Paradise. Second Duan (John Banim Poems)
I went and came. The wild--wood tree,Again spread out my canopy.I could not sleep. I sat in griefAnd listened to ...
The Statues In The Block (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
"LOVE is the secret of the world," he said;"The cup we drain and still desire to drink.The loadstone hungers for ...
Richard Minutolo (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told,Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled;With beauteous objects in abundance blessed.No country round so ...
Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot;Of one who had the name of Nicaise got;A lad quite ignorant ...
The Rhemese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer:Of France the pride and honour I aver;The Holy Ampoule and delicious wine,Which ...
A Lay Of Fairy Land (John Wilson Poems)
It is upon the Sabbath-day, at rising of the sun,That to Glenmore's black forest-side a Shepherdess hath gone,From eagle and ...
An Epistle To Dr. Moore (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
Whether dispensing hope, and easeTo the pale victim of disease,Or in the social crowd you sit,And charm the group with ...
A Shower In War-Time (Sydney Thompson Dobell Poems)
Rain, rain, sweet warm rain,On the wood and on the plain!Rain, rain, warm and sweet,Summer wood lush leafy and loud,With ...
Love’s Triumph (Nathaniel Bloomfield Poems)
AN ELEGIAC BALLAD.[The Expostulation.--Continued.--Fears ofPoverty.--Encouragement.--Baldwin's Song.--Deceitfulness of visionsindulgence.--Tormenting distressing Passions.--Comforts of a lowFortune.--Poverty in England contrasted with other Countries.--TheQuestion.... The ...
A Story Of Doom: Book VIII. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Then one ran, crying, while Niloiya wrought,"The Master cometh!" and she went withinTo adorn herself for meeting him. And ShemWent ...
The Dream Of The World Without Death (William Cosmo Monkhouse Poems)
NOW, sitting by her side, worn out with weeping,Behold, I fell to sleep, and had a vision,Wherein I heard a ...
Immortal Eve – II (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1Dear, could the wise creator makeMe, nor imagine you,When from his wisdom's awful breathI came like trembling dew,You under my ...
The Bride Of Corinth (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came, Who in Athens lived, but hoped that heFrom a certain townsman there might claim, As ...
How Long (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery's gloomy ...
The Test Of Love (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Oft hast thou told me, Dick, in friendly Part.That the Usurper Love has seiz'd thy Heart;But thou art young, and, ...
A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love (Mary Wroth Poems)
In this strange Labyrinth how shall I turne,Wayes are on all sids while the way I misse:If to the right ...
Ballad Of A Strange Thing (Phelps Putnam Poems)
HIS name was Chance, Jack Chance, he said,And that his family was dead.He was a lucid fool, his eyesWere cool ...
The Mutiny Of The Chains (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
PENAL COLONY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 1857THE sun rose o'er dark Fremantle,And the Sentry stood on the wall;Above him, with white ...
Elfindale (James Avis Bartley Poems)
PART FIRST.Sweet Frankie lives in Elfindale;Where all the flowers are fair, and frail(Like her fair self,) a slender fairy,And like ...
Beechenbrook – I (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
There is sorrow in Beechenbrook Cottage; the day Has been bright with the earliest glory of May; The blue of the sky ...
The Last Bullet (John Farrell Poems)
Since the first human eyes saw the first timidstars break through Heaven and shine,Surely never a man was bowed down ...
Ode (Maria Gowen Brooks Poems)
Thou who wert born of Psyche and of LoveAnd fondly nurst on Poesy's warm breast Painting, oh, power adored! My country's sons ...
Forsaking All Others Part 3 (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
ITHERE was an instant when he might have saidHe could not see the lady; but insteadHe nodded with a blank, ...