When The Hearse Comes Back (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A thing 'at's 'bout as tryin' as a healthy man kin meetIs some poor feller's funeral a-joggin' 'long the street:The ...
Mothers Poems (4314 Poems)
The Hartley Calamity (Joseph Skipsey Poems)
The Hartley men are noble, andYe'll hear a tale of woe;I'll tell the doom of the Hartley men -The year ...
A Ballad Of The Boston Tea-Party (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
Read at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society.No! never such a draught was pouredSince Hebe served with nectarThe bright ...
Some Characters I Can’t Admire (Jared Barhite Poems)
The seeming saint with long drawn face, Who thinks that he has so much grace He should be throned on highest place To ...
Elegy for Tibullus (Ovid Poems)
If Memnon's mother mourned, Achilles's mother mourned,and our sad fates can touch great goddesses,then weep, and loose your hair in ...
Shrine Of The Virgin – Part II (John Kenyon Poems)
She cometh to the seaward shrine, A mother, with her children three; And they have made the holy sign, And they have dropped ...
Bethlehem (Michael Fairless Poems)
The AngelsSoft and slow, soft and slow,With angels' wings of fire and snow,To rock Him gently to and fro.Fire to ...
The Wife Of Manoah To Her Husband (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Against the sunset's glowing wallThe city towers rise black and tall,Where Zorah, on its rocky height,Stands like an armed man ...
The Battle-Cry Of The South (James Ryder Randall Poems)
Arm yourselves and be valiant men, and see that ye be in readiness againstthe morning, that ye may fight with ...
Five Letters To My Mother (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
Good morning sweetheart.Good morning my Saint of a sweetheart.It has been two year mothersince the boy has sailedon his mythical ...
The Christmas Sheaf (Phoebe Cary Poems)
"Now, good-wife, bring your precious hoard,"The Norland farmer cried,"And heap the hearth, and heap the board,For the blessed Christmas-tide."And bid ...
The Ballad of the Rousabout (Henry Lawson Poems)
A Rouseabout of rouseabouts, from any land-or none-I bear a nick-name of the bush, and I'm-a woman's son;I came from ...
Honeymooning (John O Brien Poems)
To the rooms where I am dining in the glaring city's dayCome the happy honeymooners from the country far away,Two ...
My Father, Mother, Brothers, Sisters (John Pierpont Poems)
They are all gone, but one.—A daughter and a sonWere, from my parents, early taken away;And my own childhood's joyWas ...
Dialogues (Pietro Aretino Poems)
ANTONIA What did you see? Tell me, please!NANNA In the cell I saw four sisters, the General, and the three ...
What It Is To Be A Mother (John Hartley Poems)
A'a, dear! what a life has a mother! At leeast, if they're hamper'd like me,Thro' mornin' to neet ther's some bother, An' ...
A Sabbath Scene (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
SCARCE had the solemn Sabbath-bellCeased quivering in the steeple,Scarce had the parson to his deskWalked stately through his people,When down ...
When The Grain Is Golden and The Wind Is Chilly Then it is Time To Harvest (Nick Carbo Poems)
Leron-leron sinta, umakyat sa papayaDala-dala'y buslo', sisidlan ng bungaIn a dusty village in Cagayan Valley,Ramon and his father were planting ...
A Girl’s Day Dream And Its Fulfilment (Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon Poems)
"Child of my love, why wearest thouThat pensive look and thoughtful brow?Can'st gaze abroad on this world so fairAnd yet ...
The Mower in Ohio (John James Piatt Poems)
THE BEES in the clover are making honey, and I am making my hay:The air is fresh, I seem to ...
To My Mother In Heaven (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.THOU sainted Spirit! from the realms of lightLook down propitious on thy child below,Direct my thoughts, and guide my steps ...
The Maid Of The Mill’s Repentance (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
YOUTH.AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee!Or else I needs must, in my wrath, Expel thee!What's ...
An Address Of An Ex-Confedera (Maurice Thompson Poems)
II was a rebel, if you please,A reckless fighter to the last,Nor do I fall upon my kneesAnd ask forgiveness ...
The Fairy Thorn (Sir Samuel Ferguson Poems)
"GET up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning wheel'For your father's on the hill, and your mother is asleep;Come ...
St. Luke (John Keble Poems)
Two clouds before the summer gale In equal race fleet o'er the sky:Two flowers, when wintry blasts assail, Together pins, together die.But ...
In Memory Of Douglas Vernon Cow (Muriel Stuart Poems)
THIS POEM, DEDICATED TO HIS MOTHER.To twilight heads comes Death as comes a friend.As with the gentle fading of the ...
Poor Housekeeping (Hattie Howard Poems)
If there is one gift that I prize above others, That tinges with brightness whatever I do, And gives to the sombre ...
Elijah (Henry Kendall Poems)
INTO that good old Hebrew's soul sublimeThe spirit of the wilderness had passed;For where the thunders of imperial StormRolled over ...
To Sorrow (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. O tear-eyed goddess of the marble brow, Who showerest snows of tresses on the night Of anguished temples! lonely watcher, thou Who bendest ...
For My Friend Mrs. R. (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
When writing to you, friend, a subject I'd findIn which there's both pleasure and profit combined,And though what I've chosen ...