Vox Populi (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
Yea peoples of the earth, put not your trustIn princes, nor in any child of manSet over you in lordship, ...
Liberty & Freedom Poems (2444 Poems)
Ecologue I (Virgil Poems)
MELIBOEUS, TITYRUSMeliboeus.You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopyReclining, on the slender oat rehearseYour silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,And home's ...
The Dead (John William Streets Poems)
Let music vast, triumphal, fill the world's great nave,Voicing the peerless theme of noble youthWho rose to Life's sublimest greatness ...
Ode I: The Remonstrance (Mark Akenside Poems)
If, yet regardful of your native land,Old Shakespeare's tongue you deign to understand,Lo, from the blissful bowers where heaven rewardsInstructive ...
The Patriot’s Game (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I.TEAR down the crape from the column! Let the shaft stand white and fair!Be silent the wailing music-there is no ...
Ye Songs Of Freemen (J G Carter Poems)
Ye sons of freemen wake to sadness, Hark! Hark, what myriads bid you rise;Three millions of our race in madness Break out ...
Derne (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
NIGHT on the city of the Moor!On mosque and tomb, and white-walled shore,On sea-waves, to whose ceaseless knockThe narrow harbor ...
Squire Percy’s Pride (Marietta Holley Poems)
The Squire was none of your common men Whose ancestors nobody knows,But visible was his lineage In the lines of his Roman ...
To – -, During His Illness (L. Virginia Smith French Poems)
Ah! linger yet - a God of love is breathingNew life and passion through the frozen earth,As once of old ...
The Gallows (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I.THE suns of eighteen centuries have shoneSince the Redeemer walked with man, and madeThe fisher's boat, the cavern's floor of ...
The Priests Of Ireland (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
YOU have waited, Priests of Ireland, until the hour was late:You have stood with folded arms until 'twas asked-Why do ...
Anhelli – Chapter 10 (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)
And lo, those exiles in the snowy tabernacle,in the absence of the Shaman, had begun to quarrel among themselves,and had ...
The Slaves Of Martinique (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
BEAMS of noon, like burning lances, through the tree-tops flash and glisten,As she stands before her lover, with raised face ...
Murmurs Of A Patriot (Mugurditch Chrimian Hairig Poems)
GOD-kindled soul, brave general of the hostMade strong by Christ! New Judas Maccabeus,Chief conqueror, giving courage for the fight,Victorious alike ...
To My Own Heart (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
I am a little world made cunningly.Donne.COME, let me sound thy depths, unquiet seaOf thought and passion; let thy wild ...
In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbigh-shire, (Katherine Philips Poems)
I CANNOT hold, for though to write were rude,Yet to be silent were Ingratitude,And Folly too; for if PosterityShould never ...
Arms And The Man – Heroes And Statesmen (James Barron Hope Poems)
Of their great names I may record but few; He who beholds the Ocean white with sails And copies each confuses all ...
The Dream of Freedom (Owen Suffolk Poems)
'Twas night, and the moonbeams palely fellOn the gloomy walls of a cheerless cell,Where a captive sought a brief reposeFrom ...
The Pastoral Letter (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
So, this is all, - the utmost reachOf priestly power the mind to fetter!When laymen think, when women preach,A war ...
Rungate Rungate (Robert Hayden Poems)
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darknessand the darkness thicketed with shapes of terrorand the hunters pursuing and ...
An Ante-Bellum Sermon (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
We is gathahed hyeah, my brothahs, In dis howlin' wildaness,Fu' to speak some words of comfo't To each othah in distress.An' we ...
Thoughts of New England (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Gloucester streets walking in Autumn twilight,Past Kineburgh's cottage and old Raven Tavern,That Hoare he kept, the Puritan, who tiredOr fired, ...
Afar in the Desert (Thomas Pringle Poems)
Afar in the Desert I love to ride,With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side:When the sorrows of life the ...
Voluntaries (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
I.Low and mournful be the strain,Haughty thought be far from me;Tones of penitence and pain,Moanings of the tropic sea;Low and ...
The March of Ivan (Henry Lawson Poems)
Are you coming, Ivan, coming?-Ah, the ways are long and slow,In the vast land that we know not-and we never ...
The Lumbermen (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WILDLY round our woodland quartersSad-voiced Autumn grieves;Thickly down these swelling watersFloat his fallen leaves.Through the tall and naked timber,Column-like and ...
The Tocsin (John Pierpont Poems)
"If the pulpit be silent, whenever or wherever there may be a sinner, bloody with this guilt, within the hearing ...
1620-1920 (Le Baron Russell Briggs Poems)
BEFORE him rolls the dark, relentless ocean;Behind him stretch the cold and barren sands;Wrapt in the mantle of his deep ...
Expostulation (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
OUR fellow-countrymen in chains!Slaves, in a land of light and law!Slaves, crouching on the very plainsWhere rolled the storm of ...
An Elegy address’d to His Excellency Governour BELCHER: On the Death of his Brother-in-Law (Mather Byles Poems)
Pensive, o'ercome, the Muse hung down her Head,And heard the fatal News,—"The Friend is dead.Dumb, fixt in Sorrow, she forgot ...