Morning And Night (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
FROM "THE TRIUMPH OF MUSIC." ... Fresh from bathing in orient fountains, In wells of rock water and snow, Comes the Dawn with ...
Music Poems (2918 Poems)
The Hand-Organ Ball (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
When Twilight her soft robe of shadow spreads down. And hushed is the roar and the din,When Evening is cooling the ...
A Negro In It (Lena Doolin Mason Poems)
In the last civil war,The white folks, they began it,But before it could close,The Negro had to be in it.At ...
To My Harp (John Hartley Poems)
Wake up my harp! thy strings begin to rust! Has the soul fled that once within thee dwelt?Idle so long, shake ...
Chimney Swallows (Horatio Nelson Powers Poems)
I slept in an old homestead by the sea:And in their chimney nest,At night the swallows told home-lore to me,As ...
An Hymn (James Avis Bartley Poems)
To him whose soul is locked and bolted fast, By lust and guilt against the entrance there,Of heavenly light; whose soul ...
The Burial of the Scout (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
O not with arms reversed, And the slow beating of the muffled drum, And funeral marches, bring our hero homeThese stormy woods ...
The Sea Fog (Josephine Jacobsen Poems)
It was sudden.That slightly heaving hotel, from a folder,was there one instant: through the glass a bloodorange balljust diving, a ...
Farewell To Florida (Wallace Stevens Poems)
IGo on, high ship, since now, upon the shore,The snake has left its skin upon the floor.Key West sank downward ...
Marriage Thoughts: By Morsellin Khan (Laurence Hope Poems)
_Bridegroom_I give you my house and my lands, all golden with harvest;My sword, my shield, and my jewels, the spoils ...
The World Within Us (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
PERCHANCE our inward world may partly beBut outward Nature's fine epitome;Now, o'er it floats some cloud of tender painToo frail ...
Remembered (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Here in the dusk I see her face againAs then I knew it, ere she fell asleep;Renunciation glorifying pain Of her ...
West by North Again (Harry Breaker Morant Poems)
We've drunk our wine, we've kissed our girls, and funds are sinking low,The horses must be thinking it's a fair ...
Two Roses (Hattie Howard Poems)
I've a friend beyond the ocean So regardful, so sincere, And he sends me in a letter Such a pretty souvenir. It is crushed ...
Cadland, Southampton River (William Lisle Bowles Poems)
If ever sea-maid, from her coral cave,Beneath the hum of the great surge, has lovedTo pass delighted from her green ...
Robin Redbreast (Jared Barhite Poems)
Low and soft and plaintive, Now distant and now near, Is the voice of Robin Redbreast, That in the tree I hear. Sometimes 'tis ...
On The Death Of President Garfield (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I SEE the Nation, as in antique ages,Crouched with rent robes, and ashes on her head:Her mournful eyes are deep ...
At sunset (Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Poems)
To-night the west o'er-brims with warmest dyes;Its chalice overflowsWith pools of purple colouring the skies,Aflood with gold and rose;And some ...
The Touch of the Master’s Hand (Myra Brooks Welch Poems)
'Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer Thought it scarcely worth his whileTo waste much time on the old violin, But held ...
The Croton Ode. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Gushing from this living fountain,Music pours a falling strain,As the goddess of the mountainComes with all her sparkling train.From her ...
“The Rock” In El Ghor (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Dead Petra in her hill-tomb sleeps,Her stones of emptiness remain;Around her sculptured mystery sweepsThe lonely waste of Edom's plain.From the ...
In Memory Of John And Robert Ware (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
No mystic charm, no mortal art,Can bid our loved companions stay;The bands that clasp them to our heartSnap in death's ...
Sapphics (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Cease, O my spirit, cease this endless yearning!Idly thou seekest; gone is it, past hoping,That golden treasure: thine own sweet ...
The Gardener LXVIII: None Lives For Ever, Brother (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
None lives for ever, brother, andnothing lasts for long. Keep that inmind and rejoice. Our life is not the one old ...
Deity (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
No personal; a God divinely crowned With gold and raised upon a golden throne Deep in a golden glory, whence he nods Man ...
A Lamantation For The Death Of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald (James Clarence Mangan Poems)
THERE was lifted up one voice of woe, One lament of more than mortal grief,Through the wide South to and fro, For ...
An Old-Year Song (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
As through the forest, disarrayedBy chill November, late I strayed,A lonely minstrel of the woodWas singing to the solitudeI loved ...
Beautiful-Bo (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IBeautiful-bosomed, O Night, in thy noonMove with majesty onward! soaring, as lightlyAs a singer may soar the notes of an ...
Burial Of A Fairy Queen (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
On a verdant summer isletI beheld a wondrous scene,In a trance of dreamy waking-Burial of a Fairy Queen!First I heard ...
Bonny Yorksher (John Hartley Poems)
Bonny Yorksher! how aw love thi! Hard an rugged tho' thi face is;Ther's an honest air abaat thi, Aw ne'er find i' ...