The Mathematician in Love (William John Macquorn Rankine Poems)
I.A mathematician fell madly in loveWith a lady, young, handsome, and charming:By angles and ratios harmonic he stroveHer curves and ...
Law & Regulation Poems (3637 Poems)
The Curse Of Hungary (John Hay Poems)
Saloman looked from his donjon bars,Where the Danube clamors through sedge and sand,And he cursed with a curse his revolting ...
In The “Old South” (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
She came and stood in the Old South Church,A wonder and a sign,With a look the old-time sibyls wore,Half-crazed and ...
University (Karl Shapiro Poems)
To hurt the Negro and avoid the JewIs the curriculum. In mid-SeptemberThe entering boys, identified by hats,Wander in a maze ...
To The Memory Of A Friend. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
COME thou sweet Muse my lay inspire,That wak'st to pensive strains the lyre,Come thy mournful numbers pour;Oh be thy notes ...
Psalm XIX. L. M. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
The Glory of God Displayed in the Works of Nature, and the InfinitelySuperior Excellence of the Holy Scriptures, as a ...
By The Fireside : Tegner’s Death (Tegner’s Drapa) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
I heard a voice, that cried,"Balder the BeautifulIs dead, is dead!"And through the misty airPassed like the mournful cryOf sunward ...
The Lion’s Cub (Maurice Thompson Poems)
The whelp that nipped its mother's dug in turning from her breast,And smacked its lusty lips and built its own ...
The Inscription, Which Was Lately Found On A Large Marble Pillar Amonst Some Ruins At Whitehall (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
This Monument, consign'd to latest Times,Stands to perpetuate Wolsey's daring Crimes;Who long, by wicked Arts, of Power possess'd,(The Lust of ...
Arise, America! (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
The soul of a nation awaking,-High visions of daybreak,-I saw;A people renewed; the forsakingOf sin, and the worship of law.Sing, ...
The Temple Dancing Girl (Laurence Hope Poems)
You will be mine; those lightly dancing feet, Falling as softly on the careless streetAs the wind-loosened petals of a flower, Will ...
Elegy VIII (Henry James Pye Poems)
WRITTEN AT MINSTED IN THE NEW FOREST O rising Sun! on this auspicious day With brighter beams gild every hill and grove; Ye ...
A Notable Dinner (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Once the nation's chief was honored by the company of one,Who to lift a fallen people had a work of ...
The Shallows Of The Ford (Henry Herbert Knibbs Poems)
Did you ever wait for daylightwhen the stars along the riverFloated thick and white as snowflakesin the water deep and ...
The Dismissed. (George Pope Morris Poems)
The wing of my spirit is broken, My day-star of hope has declined;For a month not a word have I spoken That's ...
Reflections at Dawn (Phyllis McGinley Poems)
I wish I owned a Dior dressMade to my order out of satin.I wish I weighed a little lessAnd could ...
“The Rock” In El Ghor (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Dead Petra in her hill-tomb sleeps,Her stones of emptiness remain;Around her sculptured mystery sweepsThe lonely waste of Edom's plain.From the ...
Vision (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
SOON shall you come as the dawn from the dumb abysm of night,Traveler birthward, Hastener earthward out of the gloom!Soon ...
Honour’s Appeal To Justice (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
Unjust, untrue, is he who dares Upon our honor to intrude,And claims that with the sin of crime The Negro's nature is ...
Epilogue To Mary Queen Of Scots (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
What could luxurious woman wish for more,To fix her joys, or to extend her pow'r?Their every wish was in this ...
Of the vanitie of this life (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
I reade in Poets faigned bookes,That wise Vlysses wandring came,Where Circes through her fawning lookes,Did worke his men a spightfull ...
Persevere (John Hartley Poems)
What tho' th' claads aboon luk dark, Th' sun's just waitin to peep throo;Let us buckle to awr wark, For ther's lots ...
Of The Love Of Christ (John Bunyan Poems)
The love of Christ, poor I! may touch upon;But 'tis unsearchable. O! there is noneIts large dimensions can comprehendShould they ...
The Sphinx (George Sylvester Viereck Poems)
IWithin a sultry desert land,Where neither flowers nor shadows are,Hid to the breast in shifting sandThere stands an image secular.Where ...
A New Girl Up At White’s (Edward George Dyson Poems)
THERE'S a fresh track down the paddockThrough the lightwoods to the creek,And I notice Billy CraddockAnd Maloney do not speak,And ...
Man’s Cruelty To His Brother (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.Man's inhumanity to Man! Oh hideous tale to tell,—What cheek unblanch'd can calmly scan Those characters of hell?What pen, what poet, dares ...
Time From His Grave (John Freeman Poems)
When the south-west wind cameThe air grew bright and sweet, as though a flameHad cleansed the world of winter. The ...
The Sycophantic Fox And The Gullible Raven (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A raven sat upon a tree, And not a word he spoke, forHis beak contained a piece of Brie. Or, maybe it ...
An Evening Reflection (Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov Poems)
1The day conceals its brilliant face,And dark night covers up the fields,Black shadows creep upon the hills,Light's rays recede from ...
The World I Am Passing Through (Lydia Maria Francis Child Poems)
FEW, in the days of early youth,Trusted like me in love and truth.I 've learned sad lessons from the years;But ...