403. The Soldier’s Return: A Ballad (Robert Burns Poems)
WHEN wild war's deadly blast was blawn, And gentle peace returning, Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless, And mony a ...
Mourning Poems (394 Poems)
141. Tam Samson’s Elegy (Robert Burns Poems)
HAS auld Kilmarnock seen the deil? Or great Mackinlay 1 thrawn his heel? Or Robertson 2 again grown weel, To ...
The Book of Urizen: Chapter V (William Blake Poems)
1. In terrors Los shrunk from his task: His great hammer fell from his hand: His fires beheld, and sickening, ...
I Saw a Chapel (William Blake Poems)
I saw a chapel all of gold That none did dare to enter in, And many weeping stood without, Weeping, ...
Colonus’ Praise (William Butler Yeats Poems)
(From Oedipus at Colonus) Chorus. Come praise Colonus' horses, and come praise The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies, The nightingale ...
Liberty (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
New Castle, July 4, 1878 or a hundred years the pulse of time Has throbbed for Liberty; For a hundred ...
Ravenna (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
HUMANITAD (Oscar Wilde Poems)
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
Panthea (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Nay, let us walk from fire unto fire, From passionate pain to deadlier delight, - I am too young to ...
Hymn 87 (Isaac Watts Poems)
God dwells with the humble and penitent. Isa. 47:15,16. Thus saith the high and lofty One: "I sit upon my ...
Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 YET, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also; Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling at my ...
In Faith (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
When the soft sweet wind o' the south went by, I dwelt in the light of a dark brown eye; ...
THE PHILOSOPHERS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Lavender musk rose from the volume I was reading through, The college crest impressed in gold, tooled gold lettering on ...
The News (Sukasah Syahdan Poems)
1) eleven forty-five a.m. someone sent me news through the rain: "good mourning!" 2) I hastened to you, father though ...
A Funeral Fantasie (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Pale, at its ghastly noon, Pauses above the death-still wood--the moon; The night-sprite, sighing, through the dim air stirs; The ...
The Gods Of Greece (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Ye in the age gone by, Who ruled the world--a world how lovely then!-- And guided still the steps of ...
The Deserted Garden (Alan Seeger Poems)
I know a village in a far-off land Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain With tinted walls a space on ...
In Harbour (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I. Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us As mourners clothed with regret for the life gone ...
Four Songs Of Four Seasons (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND OUTSIDE the garden The wet skies harden; The gates are barred on The summer side: "Shut ...
Ave atque Vale (In memory of Charles Baudelaire) (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
SHALL I strew on thee rose or rue or laurel, Brother, on this that was the veil of thee? Or ...
The Death Of Richard Wagner (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend, Wide-winged with plagues, from heaven; when hope and mirth Wane, and no ...
Armand Barbes (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Fire out of heaven, a flower of perfect fire, That where the roots of life are had its root And ...
Monotones (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Because there is but one truth; Because there is but one banner; Because there is but one light; Because we ...
Sonnet I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
THE partial Muse, has from my earliest hours, Smil'd on the rugged path I'm doom'd to tread, And still with ...
Cocotte (Robert William Service Poems)
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty, And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home, ...
Hymn To The Penates (Robert Southey Poems)
Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain Ere PAEAN! on thy temple's ruined wall I hang the silent ...
The Maid of Neidpath (Sir Walter Scott Poems)
O lovers' eyes are sharp to see, And lovers' ears in hearing; And love, in life's extremity, Can lend an ...
The Tombstone-Maker (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
He primmed his loose red mouth and leaned his head Against a sorrowing angel's breast, and said: 'You'd think so ...
Adonais (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I weep for Adonais -he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds ...
Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...