Pompeii (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
A Poem Which Obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July 1819.Oh! land to Memory and to Freedom dear,Land ...
Morality Poems (491 Poems)
Queen Mab: Part IX. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
'O happy Earth, reality of Heaven! To which those restless souls that ceaselessly Throng through the human universe, aspire! Thou consummation of all ...
The Art Of War. Book III. (Henry James Pye Poems)
Your footsteps now the arsenals have trodWhere lie the treasures of the warrior God;Yet 'midst his ranks to serve is ...
Uncle Ned’s Tales: How The Flag Was Saved (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
'TWAS a dismal winter's evening, fast without came down the snow,But within, the cheerful fire cast a ruddy, genial glowO'er ...
Poetry And Reality (Jane Taylor Poems)
THE worldly minded, cast in common mould,With all his might pursuing fame or gold,And towards that goal too vehemently hurledTo ...
Fragments Of An Unfinished Poem (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I am a man of forty, sirs, a native of East Haddam,And have some reason to surmise that I descend ...
The Grave By The Lake (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Where the Great Lake's sunny smilesDimple round its hundred isles,And the mountain's granite ledgeCleaves the water like a wedge,Ringed about ...
The Banker’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THE Banker's dinner is the stateliest feastThe town has heard of for a year, at least;The sparry lustres shed their ...
An After-Dinner Poem (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
(TERPSICHORE)Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, atCambridge, August 24, 1843.IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse,In ...
The Island: Canto I. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.The morning watch was come; the vessel layHer course, and gently made her liquid way;The cloven billow flashed from off ...
An Ode On The Peace (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
I.As wand'ring late on Albion's shoreThat chains the rude tempestuous deep,I heard the hollow surges roarAnd vainly beat her guardian ...
Poem At The Centennial Anniversary Dinner Of The Massachusetts Medical Society (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
JUNE 8, 1881THREE paths there be where Learning's favored sons,Trained in the schools which hold her favored ones,Follow their several ...
A Christmas Colloquy (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
THE country farmer has his joys Of little city girls and boys When brother Thomas brings his brood Of motherless brats in Christmas ...
The Enthusiast, or the Lover of Nature (Joseph Warton Poems)
Ye green-rob'd Dryads, oft' at dusky EveBy wondering Shepherds seen, to Forests brown,To unfrequented Meads, and pathless Wilds,Lead me from ...
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower (William Carlos Williams Poems)
Of asphodel, that greeny flower,like a buttercupupon its branching stem-save that it's green and wooden-I come, my sweet,to sing to ...
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 ...
The Misanthrope Reclaimed – Act III (George W Sands Poems)
Scene I. Near the place of the damned. Enter Werner and Spirit.Werner.What piercing, stunning sounds assail my ear!Wild shrieks and ...
An Octopus (Marianne Moore Poems)
of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,it lies "in grandeur and in mass"beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;dots of cyclamen-red and ...
How Long (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery's gloomy ...
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 ...
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 ...
Festus – XXVII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Count not the ripples upon life's stream, our days;Nor eddying errors as a change misdeemOf current; mark thou wiselier, the ...
The Hermitage (John Wilson Poems)
Stranger! this lonely glen in ancient timesWas named the glen of blood; nor Christian feetBy night or day, from these ...
A Moral Balade (Henry Scogan Poems)
Here foloweth next a Moral Balade, to my lord the Prince, to my lord of Clarence, to my lord of ...
The Imprisoned Innocents (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ONE morning I said to my wife,Near the time when the heavens are rifeWith the Equinoctial strife,"Arabella, the weather looks ...
How The Old Horse Won The Bet (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
DEDICATED BY A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE COLLEGIAN,1830, TO THE EDITORS OF THE HARVARD ADVOCATE, 1876.'T WAS on the famous trotting-ground,The ...
Gold Egg: A Dream-Fantasy (James Russell Lowell Poems)
How A Student In Search Of The Beautiful Fell Asleep In Dresden Over Herr Professor Doctor Vischer's Wissenschaft Des Schoenen, ...
Crispus Attucks (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
Negro Patriot-Killed In Boston, March 5,!770.WHERE shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story?Our laurels ...
To Ladies Of A Certain Age (John Trumbull Poems)
Ye ancient Maids, who ne'er must proveThe early joys of youth and love,Whose names grim Fate (to whom 'twas given,When ...
Vignette – XXVI (Matilda Betham Poems)
ELEGY ON EDWARD BETHAM,_Lost in the Duchess of Gordon East Indiaman, off the Cape of Good Hope_. --------Lovely as are the ...