Immortal Eve – I (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1I the first man, the majestyOf creatures, Time's tall birth,Spring at God's finger-touch erect,Glorying upon earth.Above me the blue solemn ...
Life Poems (14739 Poems)
Cen’lin, Prince Of Mercia (Matilda Betham Poems)
WHEN Britain many chiefs obey'd,And seven Saxon princes sway'd,The Mercian monarch, fam'd afar,In peace respected, fear'd in war,Favour'd by heav'n ...
The Bleeding Rock: Or, The Metamorphosis Of A Nymph Into Stone (Hannah More Poems)
Where beauteous Belmont rears her modest browTo view Sabrina's silver waves below,Lived young Ianthe, fair as beauty's Queen;She reign'd unrivall'd ...
A Little Te Deum Of The Commonplace (John Oxenham Poems)
_With hearts responsive And enfranchised eyes, We thank Thee, Lord,--_For all things beautiful, and good, and true;For things that seemed not good ...
The Rhemese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer:Of France the pride and honour I aver;The Holy Ampoule and delicious wine,Which ...
The Mosaic Of Creation, Or The First Six Days. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
In the dark Backward of six thousand Years,(So Moses writes and all our Christian Seers)The World, a rude, unfashion'd Embryo ...
Our Profession (Jared Barhite Poems)
There's an art in our profession, Which cannot be wholly learned From all books in our possession, Though their leaves be deftly turned Till ...
Kings And Queens Of England (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
FROM THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS OR THE NORMAN CONQUEST, TO THE PRESENT REIGN,INCLUSIVE.First, William the Norman lays claim to the ...
Banishment Of Man From The Garden Of The Lord (James Madison Bell Poems)
Dedicated to Rev. William S. Bradden as a tribute to one who has served his God, his Country and his ...
Miss Thompson Goes Shopping (Martin Armstrong Poems)
Miss Thompson at HomeIn her lone cottage on the downs,With winds and blizzards and great crownsOf shining cloud, with wheeling ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 05 – Origins Of Vegetable And Animal Life (Lucretius Poems)
And now to what remains!- Since I've resolvedBy what arrangements all things come to passThrough the blue regions of the ...
The Misanthrope Reclaimed – Act II (George W Sands Poems)
The verge of Creation. Enter Werner and Spirit.Werner.We have outtravelled light and sound:The harmonies that pealed around us, asThrough yon ...
The Fan : A Poem. Book III. (John Gay Poems)
Thus Mommus spoke. When sage Minerva rose,From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows,Her skilful hand an ivory pallet grac'd,Where shining ...
The Tree Of Life (Henry Charles Beeching Poems)
Recognition in four SeasonsARGUMENT A prophet, desiring to recover for men the fruit of the Tree of Life, seems to find ...
Feronde (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new;The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue;His large domains howe'er were not the cause,Nor ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book I – Part 02 – Substance Is Eternal (Lucretius Poems)
This terror, then, this darkness of the mind,Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,Nor glittering arrows of morning can ...
The Ear-Maker And The Mould-Mender (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled):Six months his better half he left with child,A simple, comely, modest, youthful ...
The Bard (Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky Poems)
My friends, can you descry that mound of earthAbove clear waters in the shade of trees?You can just hear the ...
From Mount Ebal (John Bunyan Poems)
Thus having heard from Gerizzim, I shallNext come to Ebal, and you thither call,Not there to curse you, but to ...
The Princess Of Peru (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Far to the wilds of rich Peru,Gonzalo came--of pallid hue,Strange in these Western lands of night,Where nought, save woman's eyes, ...
An Epistle To Dr. Moore (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
Whether dispensing hope, and easeTo the pale victim of disease,Or in the social crowd you sit,And charm the group with ...
The Outlaw (Matilda Betham Poems)
BEFORE the fair Aurora spreadHer azure mantle o'er the skies,While sleep its pleasing influence shed,On grateful mortals weary eyes.Emerg'd from ...
The American Way (Gregory Corso Poems)
1I am a great AmericanI am almost nationalistic about it!I love America like a madness!But I am afraid to return ...
The Water Carriers (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Argument:Jack and Gill went up the hillTo draw a pail of water.Jack fell down and broke his crownAnd Gill came ...
The Poem Of Imru al Qays (Imru al Qays ibn Hujr Poems)
Stop, oh my friends, let us pause to weep over the remembrance of my beloved.Here was her abode on the ...
Chevy Chase (Henry Morley Poems)
(the later version.)God prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all!A woeful hunting once there did In Chevy Chase befall.To ...
A Letter To Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, Occasioned By The Victory At Blenheim (Matthew Prior Poems)
Since hired for life, thy servile Muse must singSuccessive conquests and a glorious King;Must of a man immortal vainly boast,And ...
The Quaker Alumni (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
From the well-springs of Hudson, the sea-cliffs of Maine,Grave men, sober matrons, you gather again;And, with hearts warmer grown as ...
A Shower In War-Time (Sydney Thompson Dobell Poems)
Rain, rain, sweet warm rain,On the wood and on the plain!Rain, rain, warm and sweet,Summer wood lush leafy and loud,With ...
The Last Walk In Autumn (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I.O'er the bare woods, whose outstretched handsPlead with the leaden heavens in vain,I see, beyond the valley lands,The sea's long ...