Extracts From Verses Written For The New-Year,1823 (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
WHERE streams of light, in golden showers,First fell on long lost Eden's bowers,And music, from the shouting skies,Wandered to Eve's ...
Music Poems (2918 Poems)
Shepherd Singing Ragtime (Louis Golding Poems)
The shepherd sings:-- "_Way down in Dixie, Way down in Dixie,Where the hens are dog-gone glad to lay_ ..."With shaded eyes he ...
Summer: Friday Morning: To The Incomprehens (John Bowring Poems)
First, Mightiest Deity! Eternal Mind!Revealed—but hidden One!Thou in a vale of fadeless glory shrin'd,Yet to all seen and known!Holy Jehovah! ...
Ode II: On The Winter-Solstice (Mark Akenside Poems)
IThe radiant ruler of the yearAt length his wintry goal attains;Soon to reverse the long career,And northward bend his steady ...
A Spring Song (Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis Poems)
The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat;Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul;An' all them joys o' ...
The Pewee (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
The listening Dryads hushed the woods;The boughs were thick, and thin and fewThe golden ribbons fluttering through;Their sun-embroidered, leafy hoodsThe ...
Two Altars. (Harriet Annie Wilkins Poems)
"And Cain talked with Abel, his brother."The sun was rising on earth, sin-tainted, yet beautiful,Delicate gold-colored cloudlets in all their ...
The Diary of Ana (Ana Poems)
'Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
To Isabel, A Beautiful Little Girl. (George W Sands Poems)
Fair as some sea-child, in her coral bower,Decked with the rare, rich treasures of the deep;Mild as the spirit of ...
The Zucca (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.Summer was dead and Autumn was expiring,And infant Winter laughed upon the landAll cloudlessly and cold;--when I, desiringMore in this ...
Spring: Sunday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
How shall I praise Thee, Lord of light?How all thy generous love declare?Though earth is veil'd in shades of night,Thy ...
Sweet England (John Freeman Poems)
I heard a boy that climbed up Dover's HillSinging _Sweet England_, sweeter for his song.The notes crept muffled through the ...
The Singer (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Years since (but names to me before),Two sisters sought at eve my door;Two song-birds wandering from their nest,A gray old ...
Nature The Consoler (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
GLADLY I hail these solitudes, and breatheThe inspiring breath of the fresh woodland air,Most gladly to the past alone bequeathDoubt, ...
Ode To Peace (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IIN EXCELSISTwo dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height,Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the realm of shadows,-fine,And far, and ...
A Summer Sabbath Walk (James Grahame Poems)
Delightful is this loneliness; it calmsMy heart: pleasant the cool beneath these elms,That throw across the stream a moveless shade.Here ...
The Meeting Of Spirits (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
From out the dark of death, before the gatesFlung wide, that open into paradise--More radiant than the white gates of ...
Contemplation (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
'They are all up--the innumerable stars-- And hold their place in heaven. My eyes have been Searching the pearly depths through which ...
Third Sunday After Epiphany (John Keble Poems)
I marked a rainbow in the north, What time the wild autumnal sun From his dark veil at noon looked forth, As glorying ...
A Tale (Robert Browning Poems)
(_Epilogue to 'The Two Poets of Croisic.'_)What a pretty tale you told meOnce upon a time--Said you found it somewhere ...
Serenade (Oscar Wilde Poems)
(FOR MUSIC.) THE western wind is blowing fair Across the dark (Oscar Wilde)
Verses – III (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
ANTARCTIC isle! thy mountains riseAll dimly o'er the western main;But gladly I regale my eyesWith the bless'd sight of land ...
The Sister Of Charity (Gerald Joseph Griffen Poems)
She once was a lady of honor and wealth; Bright glowed in her features the roses of health; Her vesture was blended ...
Fourth Sunday After Trinity (John Keble Poems)
It was not then a poet's dream, An idle vaunt of song,Such as beneath the moon's soft gleam On vacant fancies throng;Which ...
On Clevedale (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.WHATE'ER Arcadian scenes in fancy's dreams,Delight the eye and rise before the view,Stupendous rocks, wild woods, meand'ring streams,And lakes adorn'd ...
Broken Barbiton-Withered Laurel-Wreath And Broken Heart (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
A SCENE FROM BULWER'S ZANONI.IT was the close of day upon the shoresOf beauteous Naples. The low murmuring wavesThat rose ...
The Jolly Dead March (Henry Lawson Poems)
If I ever be worthy or famous- Which I'm sadly beginning to doubt-When the angel whose place 'tis to name us Shall ...
A Song Of Paradise (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
One who rejoiced that many served the Lord,Beheld, amongst the simple and the grand,In homes and churches, schools, and bed-filled ...
The Fever-Cloud (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The fever-cloud hung owre the toun, Dark drippin' wi' the dews o' death,That fell on mony a lowly hame Wi' silent, stealin,' ...
‘Bound for the Lord-Knows-Where’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Where are you going with your horse and bike, And the townsfolk still at rest?Where are you going, with your swag ...