“Let me die the death of the righteous” (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
"Let me die the death of the righteous"By the river Euphrates the prophet abode,To whom Balak his messengers sent,Entreating his ...
Learning Poems (1295 Poems)
My Own Character (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Dear Fanny, I mean, now I'm laid on the shelf,To give you a sketch—ay, a sketch of myself.'Tis a pitiful ...
King Solomon And The Bees (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
A Tale of the TalmudWhen Solomon was reigning in his glory, Unto his throne the Queen of Sheba came,(So in the ...
Mysie, An Aul’ Warl’, But Ower True Story (Janet Hamilton Poems)
She wrocht her wark an' never lintit,Her wrangs to nane she ever mintit;An' tho' they war baith grit an' sair,O' ...
Spring: Monday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Thou, Lord! art all in all—and man is nought:For tho' in privileged hours his soaring thoughtWould seem to catch a ...
Wail Of The Divorced (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
How can I give thee up, my child, my dearest, earliest born,While fond hopes are 'round thee clustered, like bright ...
The Two Comets (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
There once dwelt in Olympus some notable oddities,For their wild singularities call'd Gods and Goddesses.—But one in particular beat'em all ...
In Memoriam: Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse (Henry Kendall Poems)
SHALL he, on whom the fair lord, Delphicus, Turned gracious eyes and countenance of shine,Be left to lie without a wreath ...
Boy-Dreams (Mabel Forrest Poems)
I was a Pirate once,A blustering fellow with scarlet sash,A ready cutlass and language rash;From a ship with a rum-filled ...
Sudden Death (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Where are ye, spirits of the dead?That erst with us held converse kind?Bright o'er our hearts your sunlight shedAnd with ...
Fact Versus Form (Jared Barhite Poems)
As shadows are to material forms, As mists to the copious shower As dead calms are to tornado storms That in tropical region ...
A Poet in the Kitchen (George Bradley Poems)
West Fifty-third was still Hell's Kitchenthe summer I first came to town,Eleventh Avenue was boarded up,the West Side Drive was ...
Important Queries (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Why this hurrying to and fro, Why all this strange commotion?The good ship Briton rolls and sways Upon a stormy ocean.Oh! where ...
The Signs (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
Dedicated to the Zodiac ClubWho knows how many thousand years agoThe twelvefold Zodiac was made to showThe course of stars ...
Programme (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
READER--gentle--if so beSuch still live, and live for me,Will it please you to be toldWhat my tenscore pages hold?Here are ...
Merchandise (J Milton Hayes Poems)
MERCHANDISE! Merchandise! Tortoiseshell, spices,Carpets and Indigo sent o'er the highseas;Mothero'Pearl from the Solomon IslesBrought by a brigantine ten thousand miles.Rubber ...
To my Friend Mr. Motteux, on His Tragedy Called Beauty in Distress, Published in 1698 (John Henry Dryden Poems)
'Tis hard, my friend, to write in such an age,As damns not only poets, but the stage.That sacred art, by ...
The Ship That Never Returned (Henry Clay Work Poems)
. On a summer's day while the waves were rippling, with a quiet and a gentle breeze; A ship set sail with ...
Tread Softly (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
In the courts of truth tread softly, Though your tread be firm and bold;Your steps may awaken echoes, Resounding through years untold.The ...
On St. David’s Day (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
To Mrs. E.C. Morrieson'Twas not chance but deep design,Tho' of whom I can't divineMade the courtly Valentine(Corpulent saint and bishop)Such ...
To A Bereaved Friend (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THY Mary hath gone from thee; - thou hast foldedFor the last time her dear form to thy breast,And on ...
All For The Cause (William Morris Poems)
Hear a word, a word in season,for the day is drawing nigh,When the Cause shall call upon us,some to live, ...
At School-Close (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
BOWDOIN STREET, BOSTON, 1877.The end has come, as come it mustTo all things; in these sweet June daysThe teacher and ...
XXIII. The Truth (Giovanni Pascoli Poems)
And there was a flowering garden in the sea,in a sea glossy as the sky; and a songof two Sirens ...
To Damascus (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where the sinister sun of the Syrians beatOn the brittle, bright stubble,And the camels fell back from the swords of ...
His Star In The West (Lucy Larcom Poems)
OUR way stir is onward; the world is yet youngWith a beauty that never was dreamed of, or sung:Her wonders ...
Star-Gazing (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
LET be what is: why should we strive and wrestleWith awkward skill against a subtle doubt?Or pin a mystery 'neath ...
Oak, Pine And Silver Birch (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
IOak, whose mossed antiquity stands leafily ashiver,Oldest oracles, each dawn, in earth's ear to deliver,Prom your whispering world of leaves, ...
The Three Urns (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LIST to an Arab parable, whereinThe beauty of the Orient fancy shrinesA star-like truth, the iconoclastic WestIs blind to see, ...
A Hail to the Hunter (Holman Francis Day Poems)
Oh, we're getting under cover, for the "sport" is on the way,-Pockets bulge with ammunition, and he's coming down to ...