Si Descendero In Infernum, Ades (James Russell Lowell Poems)
O wandering dim on the extremest edge Of God's bright providence, whose spirits sighDrearily in you, like the winter sedge That shivers ...
Law & Regulation Poems (3637 Poems)
Home Thoughts From Abroad (John Buchan Poems)
Aifter the war, says the papers, they'll no be content at hame,The lads that hae feucht wi' death twae 'ear ...
The Yankee Girl (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
She sings by her wheel at that low cottage door,Which the long evening shadow is stretching before;With a music as ...
Easter Day (John Keble Poems)
Oh! day of days! shall hearts set freeNo "minstrel rapture" find for thee?Thou art this Sun of other days,They shine ...
Us For Sam (Pat O Cotter Poems)
While all Europe is a shambles And the whole world is at war,And half the land the sun shines on Is drenched ...
Rest (Jared Barhite Poems)
When wearisome task is finished And flesh with fatigue is oppressed, When muscles are tired and languid And sinews are sorely distressed, No balm ...
The Moneyless Man (Henry Thompson Stanton Poems)
Is there no secret place on the face of the earth,Where charity dwelleth, where virtue has birth?Where bosoms in mercy ...
Shiver The Goblet (John Hartley Poems)
Shiver the goblet and scatter the wine! Tempt me no more with the sight!I care not though brightly as ruby it ...
The Refinery (Robert Pinsky Poems)
'. . . our language, forged in the dark bycenturies of violentpressure, underground,out of the stuff of dead life.'Thirsty and ...
The Army Of Reform (Grace Greenwood Poems)
YES, ye are few, - and they were few,Who daring storm and sea,Once raised upon old Plymouth rock"The anthem of ...
To The Rev. John James (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On His Going Out To CanadaArise, for this is not thy rest; go forthAnd brave the frozen rigours of the ...
The Oneness Of The Philosopher With Nature (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
I love to see the little stars All dancing to one tune; I think quite highly of the Sun, And kindly of the ...
The Going Out Of The Tide (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
The eastern heaven was all faint amethyst,Whereon the moon hung dreaming in the mist;To north yet drifted one long delicate ...
The Beggar’s Opera (excerpts) (John Gay Poems)
Air I.An old woman clothed in gray, &c.1- Through all the employments of life- Each neighbour abuses his brother;- Whore and rogue they ...
The Press Evangel (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
GOD'S order, "Light!" when all was void and darkBrought mornless noon, a flame without a spark.A gift unearned, that none ...
Hymn #3 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE frith is crossed, the previous war-fare past,Through swampy plains, dark woods and deserts vast,O'er heaths, and flowery slopes and ...
Away To Canada (Joshua McCarter Simpson Poems)
I'm on my way to Canada,That cold and dreary land;The dire effects of slavery,I can no longer stand.My soul is ...
Get Off The Track (J Hutchinson Jr Poems)
Ho! the car EmancipationRides majestic thro' our nation,Bearing on its train the story,Liberty! a nation's glory.Roll it along, thro' the ...
Hymn VI. Behold! th’ Ambassador Divine (John Logan Poems)
Behold! th' Ambassador Divine,Descending from above,To publish to mankind the lawOf everlasting love!On him, in rich effusion pour'd,The heavenly dew ...
The Red Winds Come! (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
TOO long mere words have thralled us. Let us think!Oh ponder, are we "free and equal" yet?That July bombast, writ ...
The Desponding Negro (John Collins Poems)
On Afric's wide Plains, where the Lion now roaring,With Freedom stalks forth, the vast Desert exploring,I was dragg'd from my ...
Against Swearing (Rees Prichard Poems)
His clothes were rent by each indignant Jew,When any dar'd Jehovah's name blaspheme:But many Christians no emotion shew,When any, now, ...
A Poet’s Epitaph (William Wordsworth Poems)
Art thou a Statist in the vanOf public conflicts trained and bred?--First learn to love one living man;'Then' may'st thou ...
A Thousand Years From Now (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I SAT within my tranquil room;The twilight shadows sank and roseWith slowly flickering motions, wavedGrotesquely through the dusk repose;There came ...
A Song. — In Robert Bruce’s Days. To the tune of Cumbernald-house (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
In Robert Bruce's Days,The Flemings wore the Bays.Their Courage it surpassed monny:For they the Dagger drew,And serv'd their King ay ...
The William P. Frye (Jeanne Robert Foster Poems)
I saw her first abreast the Boston LightAt anchor; she had just come in, turned head,And sent her hawsers creaking, ...
The Truth Suppressed (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Why do people sit in darkness as regards the Negro race?Why so ignorant are nations of conditions in the case?'Tis ...
To Miss Polly Peachum A Town Pastoral (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Farewell! ye Nymphs, who range the humble Plains;Henceforth a nobler Subject swells my Strains;Aid all ye Muses; all your Strength ...
Jap Miller (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Jap Miller down at Martinsville's the blamedest feller yit! When _he_ starts in a-talkin' other folks is apt to quit!-- 'Pears like ...
Autumn: Saturday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The cold wind strips the yellow leaf,The stars are twinkling faintly o'er us;All nature wears her garb of grief;While day's ...