Otherside (Henry Lawson Poems)
SOMEWHERE in the mystic future, on the road to Paradise,There's a very pleasant country that I've dreamed of once or ...
Literature Poems (4091 Poems)
The Incantation (Peter John Allan Poems)
Oh! silent lute, when will thy silver chordsGive the light wings of melody to words—Words sweet as are the lips ...
Shelley’s Obsequies (Nathan Covington Brooks Poems)
Ibi tu calentemDebita sparges lacryma favillamVatis amici.—HoraceBeneath the axle of departing dayThe weary waters on the horizon's vergeBlush'd like the ...
A Prophecy: To George Keats In America (John Keats Poems)
'Tis the witching hour of night,Orbed is the moon and bright,And the stars they glisten, glisten,Seeming with bright eyes to ...
Stanzas To April And Invitation To Garibaldi (Janet Hamilton Poems)
April's genial sun is shining,Vernal clouds with "silver lining,"Rich and balmy dews distilling,Flora's opening flower-cups filling With the pearly treasure;On her ...
To H. W. Longfellow (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE FOR EUROPE, MAY 27, 1868OUR Poet, who has taught the Western breezeTo waft his songs before him ...
The Female Genitals (Gwerful Mechain Poems)
Every foolish drunken poet,boorish vanity without ceasing,(never may I warrant it,I of great noble stock,)has always declaimed fruitless praisein song ...
The Creation Of Man (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
When the world was first createdBy th' all-wise Eternal One,Asked he none for help or counsel,--Simply spake, and it was ...
I Have No Power (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
"I have no power to change youor explain your waysNever believe a man can change a womanThose men are pretenderswho ...
Vojtina’s Ars Poetica (extract) (Janos Arany Poems)
Mendacem oporrer esse memorem.Poets should read that: it applies to them,It fits my metre, and it hits the mark.To act ...
To My Friend The Author Of The Tragedy Of Sir Walter Raleigh. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Whilst two great Bards our grateful Country mourns,And sheds the Debt of Sorrow o'er their Urns;Transfus'd in thee, revive their ...
Fortuna Et Cupidas (Irving Layton Poems)
Appetite and chance, luck and desiretogether make a man's fatenot the follish lines on his palm nor the conjugationof stars ...
Sacrifices (Richard Jones Poems)
All winter the fire devoured everything --tear-stained elegies, old letters, diaries, dead flowers.When April finally arrived,I opened the woodstove one ...
The Emulation (Sarah Fyge Poems)
Say, Tyrant Custom, why must we obeyThe impositions of thy haughty Sway;From the first dawn of Life, unto the Grave,Poor ...
From Snipe, A Favourite Dog, To His Master (Janet Little Poems)
O BEST of good masters, your mild dispositionPerhaps may induce you to read my petition:Believe me in earnest, though acting ...
On The Death Of Dermody The Poet (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Child of Misfortune! Offspring of the Muse!Mark like the meteor's gleam his mad career;With hollow cheeks and haggard eye,Behold he ...
The Gentlemen of Dickens (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE gentlemen of Dickens Were mostly very poor,And innocent of grammar, And of parentage obscure;But rich or poor or thriving, Of high or ...
The Dream Of Love. (George Pope Morris Poems)
I've had the heart-ache many times,At the mere mention of a nameI've never woven in my rhymes,Though from it inspiration ...
With My Fatherland (Hovhannes Toumanian Poems)
From early days I turned my gaze towards the vast unknown.In heart and mind I soar above the abyss, intent ...
Fancy And Philosophy (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
When science from creation's faceEnchantment's veil withdraws,What lovely visions yield their placeTo cold material laws!Campbell.FANCY, thou art a waking dream,For ...
For The Dedication Of The New City Library, Boston (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
PROUDLY, beneath her glittering dome,Our three-hilled city greets the morn;Here Freedom found her virgin home,--The Bethlehem where her babe was ...
Verses II (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Thou base repiner at another's joy,Whose eye turns green at merit not thine own,Oh, far away from generous Britons fly,And ...
A Prelude, And A Bird’s Song (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
The poet's song, and the bird's, And the waters' that chant as they runAnd the waves' that kiss the beach, And the ...
Genius (Mark Twain Poems)
Genius, like gold and precious stones,is chiefly prized because of its rarity.Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild,incomprehensible poems ...
Generations (For My Daughter) (Rachel Korn Poems)
Loving another, yet she married my father.That other portrait faded with the years.From her album paged in musty velvetShimmered forth ...
To The Painter Preparing To Draw M.M.H. (James Shirley Poems)
Be not too forward, painter; 'tisMore for thy fame, and art, to missAll other faces, than come nearThe Lady, that ...
William Bede Dalley (Henry Kendall Poems)
That love of letters which is as the light Of deathless verse, intense, ineffable,Hath made this scholar's nature like the white, Pure ...
From Flavia To Carlos (Janet Little Poems)
DEAR sir, accept this missive sentFrom one whose mind's sincerely bent,On ever acting so with you,As shall evince her friendship ...
A Persian Tale (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
That blessings lost, though hard to bear,Are light when weighed with carking care, —Some ill whose ever-goading spiteAffects us morning, ...
The Heralds Of The Gael (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
The topmost glory of a race is boundWithin the gleaming virtues of its sons.Not by its carven gold shall it ...