Hints To Poets (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Paint your scenes in rainbow dyes,Gild with glories of the skies;Crown the fabric Fancy rearsWith diamonds from the starry spheres;With ...
Literature Poems (4091 Poems)
Prose Poem (Larry Levis Poems)
Toad, hog, assassin, mirror. Some of its favorite words, which are breath. Or handwriting: the long tail of the 'y' ...
To Mrs. Frances–Arabella Kelly. (Mary Barber Poems)
To Day, as at my Glass I stood,To set my Head--cloaths, and my Hood;I saw my grizzled Locks with Dread,And ...
Thanksgiving (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
The Autumn hills are golden at the top, And rounded as a poet's silver rhyme;The mellow days are ruby ripe, that ...
The Fame Of The City (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
A GREAT rich city of power and pride,With streets full of traders, and ships on the tide;With rich men and ...
To The Memory Of Hood (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Another star 'neath Time's horizon dropped, To gleam o'er unknown lands and seas;Another heart that beat for freedom stopped,-- What mournful words ...
Scene From ‘Tasso’ (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
MADDALO, A COURTIER.MALPIGLIO, A POET.PIGNA, A MINISTER.ALBANO, AN USHER.MADDALO:No access to the Duke! You have not saidThat the Count Maddalo ...
On The Day Of Gogol’s Death (Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov Poems)
How blessed's the good-natured poet,With little bile and much emotion:All lovers of the gentle artsSend him sincerest greetings;The admiration of ...
They Are Dead Now (John Roderigo Dos Passos Poems)
A EULOGY FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI in the NEW MASSES, October 1927This isn't a poemThis is two men in grey ...
Fact And Fancy (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
How dull the wretch, whose philosophic mindDisdains the pleasures of fantastic kind;Whose prosy thoughts the joys of life exclude,And wreck ...
On The Threshold (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
INTRODUCTION TO A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY DIFFERENT AUTHORSAN usher standing at the doorI show my white rosette;A smile of ...
Songs In Many Keys (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
1849-1861THE piping of our slender, peaceful reedsWhispers uncared for while the trumpets bray;Song is thin air; our hearts' exulting playBeats ...
Mixed Hockey (P G Wodehouse Poems)
You came down the field like a shaft from a bow;The vision remains with me yet.I hastened to check you: ...
Lord Lundy, Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Lord Lundy from his earliest yearsWas far too freely moved to Tears.For instance if his Mother said,"Lundy! It's time to ...
Lurline (Inscribed to Madame Lucy Escott.) (Henry Kendall Poems)
As you glided and glided before us that time, A mystical, magical maiden,We fancied we looked on a face from the ...
The March Of The Iron Brigade (John Bryson Poems)
See, where the morning's beamPurples the Cedar stream,Long lines of bayonets gleam, Fiercely and bright arrayed.Tramp, tramp, with step so true,As ...
“Philip My King.” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
"PHILIP my king", ay, still thou art a king,Though storms of sorrow on thy suffering headHave flashed and thundered through ...
To a Swallow (Juan Clemente Zenea y Fornaris Poems)
Thou messenger, far wandering,Who 'neath my cell art flutteringAnd round and round me gayly fly,Whence comest thou, on restless wing?And ...
Mary. (George Pope Morris Poems)
One balmy summer night, Mary, Just as the risen moonHad thrown aside her fleecy veil, We left the gay saloon;And in a ...
The Ballade of the Incompetent Ballade-Monger (James Kenneth Stephen Poems)
I am not ambitious at all: I am not a poet, I know (Though I do love to see a mere scrawl To ...
A Welcome From The “Johnson Club” (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
To William John Courthope, _March 12, 1903_When Pope came back from Trojan wars once more,He found a Bard, to meet ...
Lines On Reading The Poems Of Wharton (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Oh, Warton! to thy soothing shell,Stretch'd remote in hermit cell,Where the brook runs babbling by,For ever I could listening lie;And ...
P.S. (Aaron Fogel Poems)
P:The statistician and the poet need each other,But not yet.S:You need us now.Without a theory of probabilityTo guide you -P:Not ...
A New England Mountain (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
WESTMORELAND and the hills of Cumberland,Though Alps may overpeer them, have a nameUnperishing while the earth still bears in manThe ...
To J.M.B. (Louisa May Alcott Poems)
'Oh, were I a heliotrope, I would play poet, And blow a breeze of fragrance To you; and none should know it. 'Your form ...
A Little Scraping (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
True, the time, to one who does not love farce,And if misery must be prefers it nobler, shows apparent vices;At ...
About Troy (Zbigniew Herbert Poems)
1Troy O Troyan archeologistwill sift your ashes through his fingersyet a fire occurred greater than that of the Iliadfor seven ...
The Dennis Omlette (Hal Gye Poems)
At the foot of Mt. St. Leonard where in spring the wattles glow,Where the mountain-ash and messmate 'midst the densest ...
A Footnote to a Famous Lyric (Louise Imogen Guiney Poems)
TRUE love's own talisman, which hereShakespeare and Sidney failed to teach,A steel-and-velvet CavalierGave to our Saxon speech:Chief miracle of theme ...
A Noontide Lyric (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THE dinner-bell, the dinner-bellIs ringing loud and clear;Through hill and plain, through street and lane,It echoes far and near;From curtained ...