The Conquest Of England (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
PART FIRSTDuke William stood on the Norman shore,With all his merry men round;And he will sail the blue seas o'er,To ...
Life Poems (14739 Poems)
Hymns to the Night : 5 (Novalis Poems)
In ancient times, over the widespread families of men an iron Fate ruled with dumb force. A gloomy oppression swathed ...
The Hares, A Fable. (James Beattie Poems)
Yes, yes, I grant the sons of earthAre doom'd to trouble from their birth.We all of sorrow have our share;But ...
The Pleasaunce Of Maid Marian (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Argument:"Mary, Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow?Silver bells and cockle shellsAnd fair maids all in a row."Isolt the White, ...
The Believer’s Principles : Chap. III. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
The Believer's Principles concerning Justification and Sanctification, their Difference and Harmony.Sect. I.The difference between Justification and Sanctification; or, Righteousness Imputed ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Absence – Advice) (Henry Baker Poems)
Absence.Neglected, now, behold my Tresses flow:Nor sparkling Diamonds on my Fingers glow.All plain, and cheap, the humble Weeds I wear:No ...
Neighbour Peter’s Mare (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name),But little preached, except when vintage came;And then no preparation he requiredOn this he ...
Edwin and Angela, A Ballad (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
'Turn, gentle hermit of the dale,And guide my lonely way,To where yon taper cheers the valeWith hospitable ray.'For here, forlorn ...
The Triumph of Dead : Chap. 1 (Mary Sidney Herbert Poems)
That gallant lady, gloriously bright, The stately pillar once of worthiness, And now a little dust, a naked sprite, Turn'd ...
The Fan : A Poem. Book II. (John Gay Poems)
Olympus' gates unfold: in heaven's high towersAppear in council all the immortal powers;Great Jove above the rest exalted sate,And in ...
Toussaint L’Ouverture (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
'T WAS night. The tranquil moonlight smileWith which Heaven dreams of Earth, shed downIts beauty on the Indian isle, -On ...
Metamorphosis VIII, 611-724 (Ovid Poems)
Baucis and PhilemonTHUS Achelous ends: his audience hearWith admiration, and admiring, fearThe pow'rs of heav'n; except Ixion's son,Who laugh'd at ...
Ballad Of A Strange Thing (Phelps Putnam Poems)
HIS name was Chance, Jack Chance, he said,And that his family was dead.He was a lucid fool, his eyesWere cool ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XXII: Hiawatha’s Departure (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
By the shore of Gitche Gumee,By the shining Big-Sea-Water,At the doorway of his wigwam,In the pleasant Summer morning,Hiawatha stood and ...
Edgar And Ellen (Matilda Betham Poems)
"Arrest thy steps! On these sad plains, Fair dame, no farther go! But listen to the martial strains, Whose wildness speaks of woe! Hark! ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book VI – Part 04 – The Plague Athens (Lucretius Poems)
'Twas such a manner of disease, 'twas suchMortal miasma in Cecropian landsWhilom reduced the plains to dead men's bones,Unpeopled the ...
The Mutiny Of The Chains (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
PENAL COLONY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 1857THE sun rose o'er dark Fremantle,And the Sentry stood on the wall;Above him, with white ...
Elfindale (James Avis Bartley Poems)
PART FIRST.Sweet Frankie lives in Elfindale;Where all the flowers are fair, and frail(Like her fair self,) a slender fairy,And like ...
Beechenbrook – I (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
There is sorrow in Beechenbrook Cottage; the day Has been bright with the earliest glory of May; The blue of the sky ...
The Ballad of the Elder Son (Henry Lawson Poems)
A son of elder sons I am, Whose boyhood days were cramped and scant,Through ages of domestic sham And family lies and ...
The Meeting (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The elder folks shook hands at last,Down seat by seat the signal passed.To simple ways like ours unused,Half solemnized and ...
The Last Bullet (John Farrell Poems)
Since the first human eyes saw the first timidstars break through Heaven and shine,Surely never a man was bowed down ...
Malcolm’s Katie: A Love Story – Part V. (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
Said the high hill, in the morning: "Look on me--"Behold, sweet earth, sweet sister sky, behold"The red flames on my ...
Amir Khan – Part II (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
THERE's silence in the princely halls,And brightly blaze the lighted walls,While clouds of musk and incense riseFrom vases of a ...
Chaunt Of The Cholera (John Banim Poems)
From my proper clime and subjects,In my hot and swarthy East,North and Westward I am comingFor a conquest and a ...
The Story Of Gladys (Marietta Holley Poems)
"I leave my child to Heaven." And with these wordsUpon her lips, the Lady Mildred passedUnto the rest prepared for her ...
Ode (Maria Gowen Brooks Poems)
Thou who wert born of Psyche and of LoveAnd fondly nurst on Poesy's warm breast Painting, oh, power adored! My country's sons ...
Two Portraits (Henry Timrod Poems)
You say, as one who shapes a life,That you will never be a wife,And, laughing lightly, ask my aidTo paint ...
Visions for the Entertainmen (Nathaniel Cotton Poems)
Ye ductile youths, whose rising sunHath many circles still to run;Who wisely with the pilot's chart,To steer thro' life the ...
To A Friend InThe City (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
FROM HER FRIEND IN THE COUNTRY.By especial request I take up my pen,To write a few lines to my dear ...