The Burgomeister’s Well (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
A peaceful spot, a little street, So still between the double roarOf sea and city that it seemed A rest in music, ...
Music Poems (2918 Poems)
Anna (Victor James Daley Poems)
The pale discrowned stacks of maize, Like spectres in the sun,Stand shivering nigh Avonaise, Where all is dead and gone.The sere leaves ...
The Cherokee (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
'Twas a cloudless morn and the sun shone bright,And dewdrops sparkled clear;And the hills and the vales of this Western ...
To H.W.L. (James Russell Lowell Poems)
ON HIS BIRTHDAYI need not praise the sweetness of his song, Where limpid verse to limpid verse succeedsSmooth as our Charles, ...
Midwinter (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
The speckled sky is dim with snow,The light flakes falter and fall slow;Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale,Silently drops a ...
A Prelude, And A Bird’s Song (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
The poet's song, and the bird's, And the waters' that chant as they runAnd the waves' that kiss the beach, And the ...
The Syren World (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
The curtain's drawn look there and you shall spyThe faded god of your idolatry.Davenant.WORLD thou art old and grey!World thou ...
My Youth (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
Come, beneath yon verdant branches,Come, my own, with me!Come, and there my soul will openSecret doors to thee.Yonder shalt thou ...
The Sleigh-Bells (Susanna Strickland Moodie Poems)
'Tis merry to hear, at evening time,By the blazing hearth the sleigh-bells chime;To know the bounding steeds bring nearThe loved ...
Dialogue With.. (Karl Heinrich Marx Poems)
A Singer stands in festive attire,Clasps to his bosom warm a lyre,And plucks the strings, enraptured."How play you my tunes, ...
Hymn For The Opening Of Thomas Starr King’s House Of Worship, 1864 (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Amidst these glorious works of Thine,The solemn minarets of the pine,And awful Shasta's icy shrine,--Where swell Thy hymns from wave ...
Oisin After The Fenians (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
Now my strength is gone from me, I that was adviser to the Fenians,my whole body is tired to-night, my ...
Malaria (Laurence Hope Poems)
He lurks among the reeds, beside the marsh, Red oleanders twisted in His hair,His eyes are haggard and His lips are ...
William Bede Dalley (Henry Kendall Poems)
That love of letters which is as the light Of deathless verse, intense, ineffable,Hath made this scholar's nature like the white, Pure ...
The Old Flute (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
The time will come when I no more can playThis polished flute: the stops will not obeyMy gnarled fingers; and ...
Earth And Heaven (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
A light, a darkness, mingling, each with each,Rogers.SUN, ever guidingWhat never knows rest,Vast giant stridingFrom east unto west;Eye piercing and ...
The Flight To Flanders (Lessel Hutcheon Poems)
Does he know the road to Flanders, does he know the criss-cross tracksWith the row of sturdy hangars at the ...
Aethra (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
It is a sweet tradition, with a soulOf tenderest pathos! Hearken, love!—for allThe sacred undercurrents of the heartThrill to its ...
Reply To Pet?fi (Janos Arany Poems)
My soul is clanging like a cimbalom gone mad;My heart indeed is joyful, but by its pangs unnerved,Tossed on waves ...
Accomplishment (Jane Taylor Poems)
HOW is it that masters, and science, and art,One spark of intelligence fail to impart,Unless in that chemical union combined,Of ...
Orpheus (Osbert Sitwell Poems)
WHEN Orpheus with his wind-swift fingersRipples the strings that gleam like rain,The wheeling birds fly up and sing,Hither, thither echoing;There ...
The Musician’s Grave (Lennox Amott Poems)
Thou'rt gone like the meteor that blazed in the sky, And the spot thou hast smiled upon knows thee no more,Is ...
The War After The War (John Le Gay Brereton Poems)
I. Yonder, with eyes that tears, not distance, dim, With ears the wide world's thickness cannot daunt, We see tumultuous miseries that haunt The ...
The Happy Shepherd (Phineas Fletcher Poems)
Thrice, oh, thrice happy, shepherd's life and state!When courts are happiness' unhappy pawns!His cottage low and safely humble gateShuts out ...
Song (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
"Sleep, like a lover, woo thee, Isabel! And golden dreams come to thee, Like a spell By some sweet angel drawn! Noiseless hands shall seal ...
What The Traveller Said At Sunset (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The shadows grow and deepen round me,I feel the deffall in the air;The muezzin of the darkening thicket,I hear the ...
Psalm CXLVIII (George Wither Poems)
Come, oh! come, with sacred lays,Let us sound th' Almighty's praise;Hither bring in true concent,Heart, and voice, and instrument.Let the ...
Australians to the Front (John Sandes Poems)
From the Scheldt to the Niemen, Hark, the music of the drums!Not unthrilled the souls of freemen When that instant message comes.Rolling ...
Spring Time Is Coming (Julia A Moore Poems)
Beautiful Spring is coming, Ah, yes, will soon be here,For the clear bright sun is shining All human hearts to cheer.One the ...
The Friendly Trees (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
I will sing of the bounty of the big trees,They are the green tents of the Almighty,He hath set them ...