The Ballad of Mabel Clare (Henry Lawson Poems)
Ye children of the Land of Gold, I sing a song to you,And if the jokes are somewhat old, The main idea ...
Liberty & Freedom Poems (2444 Poems)
At Washington (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WITH a cold and wintry noon-light.On its roofs and steeples shed,Shadows weaving with t e sunlightFrom the gray sky overhead,Broadly, ...
The Debate In The Sennit (James Russell Lowell Poems)
SOT TO A NUSRY RHYME'Here we stan' on the Constitution, by thunder! It's a fact o' wich ther's bushils o' proofs;Fer ...
Are The Children At Home? (Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Poems)
Each day when the glow of sunset Fades in the western sky, And the wee ones, tired of playing, Go ...
Hail Columbia (Joseph Hopkinson Poems)
HAIL COLUMBIA Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause, Who fought and bled ...
The Goodnesse Of God Towards All Mankind, Manifold Wayes. (Henry Arthington Poems)
The First Point.In Creating all thinges for our vse, and vs for his glory.O Glorious God, how much is Man,For ...
The Exile Of The Gael (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
IT is sweet to rejoice for a day,-For a day that is reached at last!It is well for wanderers in ...
To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison (Thomas Tickell Poems)
If, dumb too long, the drooping Muse hath stay'd,And left her debt to Addison unpaid;Blame not her silence, Warwick, but ...
My Dream. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
I had a dream this morning off Madeira,About my poem and its publication.Methought it was still-born, and I could hear ...
The Phantom Bride (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
The worn bird of Freedom had furled o'er our land The shattered wings, pierced by the despot's rude hand, And stout hearts ...
Colin’s Mistakes. Written In Imitation Of Spenser’s Style (Matthew Prior Poems)
Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred,(Ye Nymphs, for every guard that sacred stream)To Wimple's woody shade his ...
The Wretched Condition Of Man By Nature (Rees Prichard Poems)
RASH Adam to the field of old,Mankind for one dear apple sold;And none can from his fangs get free,'Till Jesus ...
Our Canal (Harriet Monroe Poems)
To Colonel Goethals and the Other Laborers in the Canal ZoneIn lazy laughing Panama-O flutter of ribbon 'twixt the seas!-The ...
Lines Written in August (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
The day of tumult, strife, defeat, was o'er;Worn out with toil, and noise, and scorn, and spleen,I slumbered, and in ...
The Shepherd’s Calendar – October (John Clare Poems)
Nature now spreads around in dreary hueA pall to cover all that summer knewYet in the poets solitary waySome pleasing ...
My Choice (Jared Barhite Poems)
I would rather dwell a hermit In some silent peaceful wood, Where no voice of human being Ever breaks the solitude; Where babbling brook, ...
Prometheus-Christ (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
LASHED to the planet, glaring at the sky,An eagle at his heart-the Pagan Christ!Why is it, Mystery? O, dumb Darkness, ...
The Beauteous Terrorist (Sir Henry Parkes Poems)
Soft as the morning's pearly light,Where yet may rise the thunder-cloud,Her gentle face was ever brightWith noble thought and purpose ...
A Song For Soldiers (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
WHAT song is best for the soldiers?Take no heed of the words, nor choose yon the style of the story;Let ...
The Song Of Songs (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I HEARD a Spirit singing as, beyond the morning winging,Its radiant form went swinging like a star:In its song prophetic ...
The Vision. Canto First. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
ON Kilda's rock a man of pensive mien,Sat thoughtful, gazing on the restless deep,And as he mark'd with what a ...
From The Earth, A Cry (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
CAN the earth have a voice? Can the clods have speech,To murmur and rail at the demigods?Trample them! Grind their ...
Nauhaught, The Deacon (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
NAUHAUGHT, the Indian deacon, who of oldDwelt, poor but blameless, where his narrowing CapeStretches its shrunk arm out to all ...
Voyage of the (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A shallow stream, from fountainsDeep in the Sandwich mountains, Ran lake ward Bearcamp River;And, between its flood-torn shores,Sped by sail or ...
The Volunteers At Shipka (Ivan Vazov Poems)
What if we still carry shame on our forehead,Marks of the whip, signs of bondage abhorrent;What if remembrance of infamous ...
Ode XIII: On Lyric Poetry (Mark Akenside Poems)
I. 1.Once more I join the Thespian choir,And taste the inspiring fount again:O parent of the Grecian lyre,Admit me to ...
Mercian Hymns (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
IKing of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of the M5: architect of the historic rampart and ditch, the ...
Eclogue 1: Meliboeus Tityrus (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
MELIBOEUSYou, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopyReclining, on the slender oat rehearseYour silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,And home's familiar ...
English Eclogues II – The Grandmother’s Tale (Robert Southey Poems)
JANE.Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw roundThe fire, and Grandmamma perhaps will tell usOne of her stories.HARRY.Aye--dear Grandmamma!A pretty ...
Jim Crow: The Sequel (June Jordan Poems)
An angry Black woman on the subject of the angry White man:We didn't always need affirmative actionWhen we broke this ...