From Amorgos (Nikos Gatsos Poems)
IWith their country tied to their sails and their oars hung on the windThe shipwrecked slept tamely like dead beasts on ...
Marriage Poems (684 Poems)
The Old, Old Story and the New Order (Henry Lawson Poems)
They proved we could not think nor see, They proved we could not write,They proved we drank the day away And raved ...
Sunday Next Before Advent (John Keble Poems)
Will God indeed with fragments bear, Snatched late from the decaying year? Or can the Saviour's blood endear The dregs of a polluted ...
Lemoine (Marietta Holley Poems)
In the unquiet night,With all her beauty bright, She walketh my silent chamber to and fro;Not twice of the same mind,Sometimes ...
Friday, The Toilette (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
LYDIA.Now twenty springs had cloth'd the Park with green,Since Lydia knew the blossom of fifteen;No lovers now her morning hours ...
The Secret Whisky Cure (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Tis no tale of heroism, 'tis no tale of storm and strife,But of ordinary boozing, and of dull domestic life-Of ...
Looking Downwards (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
O the sacred generations That have lived, and failed, and died!And for our sakesoursthe freed ones, Found their liberties denied!Oh, the helpless ...
Farmer Downs Changes His Opinion Of Nature (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
"No," said old Farmer Downs to me, "I ain't the facts denyin',That all young folks in love must be, As birds must ...
The Millionaire. (George Pope Morris Poems)
In the upper circles Moves a famous manWho has had no equal Since the world began.He was once a broker Down by the ...
The Baptism Of Clovis (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Five hundred years have nearly passed away Since that glad morn, when o'er fair Bethl'hem's plainA light resplendent as the glow ...
An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester (John Milton Poems)
This rich Marble doth enterrThe honour'd Wife of Winchester,A Vicounts daughter, an Earls heir,Besides what her vertues fairAdded to her ...
Upon Parties (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Curst be that busy Wretch, that human Beast,(Some crafty Statesman or ambitious Priest)Who first his own pernicious Schemes to buildHis ...
A Town (Jane Taylor Poems)
A BUSY town mid Britain's isle, Behold in fancy's eye ;With tower, and spire, and civic pile, Beneath a summer sky :And ...
Maran-Milan (Death-Wedding) (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Why do you speak so softly, Death, Death,Creep upon me, watch me so stealthily?This is not how a lover should ...
The Hag Of Beare (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
It is of Corca Dubhne she was, and she had her youth seven times over,and every man that had lived ...
The Padlock (Voltaire Poems)
I triumphed, love's victorious powerPrevailed, and near approached the hourWhich should have crowned our mutual flame,Just then your tyrant husband ...
Fy, Let Us A’ To The Wedding (Joanna Baillie Poems)
(AN AULD SANG NEW BUSKIT.)FY , let us a' to the wedding,For they will be lilting there;For Jock's to be ...
Sexegesima Sunday (John Keble Poems)
Foe of mankind! too bold thy race: Thou runn'st at such a reckless pace,Thine own dire work thou surely wilt confound: 'Twas ...
Elegy on a Lady, whom Grief for the Death of her Betrothed Killed (Robert Seymour Bridges Poems)
Assemble, all ye maidens, at the door,And all ye loves, assemble; far and wideProclaim the bridal, that proclaimed beforeHas been ...
The Dream Ring Of The Desert (J Milton Hayes Poems)
THE MERCHANT Abu Khan shunned the customs of his race,And sought the cultured wisdom of the West.His daughter fair Leola ...
Fuscara; or, the Bee Errant (John Cleveland Poems)
Nature's confectioner, the bee(Whose suckets are moist alchemy,The still of his refining moldMinting the garden into gold),Having rifled all the ...
Contrasted Scenes From Real Life (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Scene I—Marriage of Sir R. Peel With Lady E. HaySee yonder gorgeous fane, its doors expand,Throng'd with the rank, wealth, ...
The Parrot and the Billy-Goat (Henry Clay Work Poems)
There were no romping children at Doctor Quibble's door;Long past the silver wedding, no toys lay on the floor,But to ...
The Squatter’s Daughter (Henry Lawson Poems)
OUT in the west, where runs are wide, And days than ours are hotter,Not very far from Lachlan Side There dwelt a ...
The Golden Wedding Of Longwood (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
With fifty years between you and your well-kept wedding vow,The Golden Age, old friends of mine, is not a fable ...
Early Love (Laurence Hope Poems)
Who says I wrong thee, my half-opened rose?Little he knows of thee or me, or love.--I am so tender of ...
A Young Lady’s Lamentation (Janet Little Poems)
FOR THELOSS OF HER SISTER BY MARRIAGE.WHAT tongue can half my woes express?What force of eloquence can tell?The causes of ...
Epithalamium (Hattie Howard Poems)
I. "Whom God hath joined"--ah, this sententious phrase A meaning deeper than the sea conveys, And of a sweet and solemn service tells With ...
To A Young Gentleman In Love. A Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
From publick Noise and factious Strife,From all the busie Ills of Life,Take me, My Celia, to Thy Breast;And lull my ...
The Wedding (Nikolai Zabolotsky Poems)
A long ray gushes through the windows,The mighty house stands in gloom.The fire stretches out, hotAnd sparkling in a stone ...