Coquette And Her Lover (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A "PETITE COMEDIE" IN RHYME.LOVER.COQUETTE! coquette! now, is it fairTo weave for me your magic hair,Binding me thus, all unaware?Till, ...
Nature Poems (9896 Poems)
Swift’s Pastoral (Padraic Colum Poems)
A story that has for its background Saint Patrick's Purgatory.Characters:JONATHAN SWIFT and ESTHER VANHOMRIGHESTHERI know the answer: 'tis ingenious.I'm tired ...
Any Soldier To His Son (George Willis Poems)
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack ...
Sangar (John Reed Poems)
SOMEWHERE I read a strange, old, rusty taleSmelling of war; most curiously namedThe Mad Recreant Knight of the West.Once, you ...
Ambition And Content: A Fable (Mark Akenside Poems)
"Optat quietem." -Hor.While yet the world was young, and men were few,Nor lurking fraud, nor tyrant rapine knew,In virtue rude, ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 04 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XLVIThree times he strove to view Heaven's golden ray,And raised him on his feeble elbow thrice,And thrice he tumbled on ...
The First Sacrifice (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
PART I.A small dell, open on one side to the surrounding country. An altar-mound of green turf. Adam and Eve ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 04 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XLIGuelpho next them the land and place possest,Whose fortunes good with his great acts agree,By his Italian sire, fro the ...
Manasseh (Henry Kendall Poems)
Manasseh, lord of Judah, and the sonOf him who, favoured of Jehovah, sawAt midnight, when the skies were flushed with ...
The Rebel Scot (John Cleveland Poems)
How, Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?Then Madam Nature wears black patches too!What, shall our nation be in bondage thusUnto ...
Orpheus (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
A:Not far from hence. From yonder pointed hill,Crowned with a ring of oaks, you may beholdA dark and barren field, ...
The Snow-Messengers (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE pine-trees lift their dark bewildered eyes--Or so I deem--up to the clouded skies;No breeze, no faintest breeze, is heard ...
Lily’s Menagerie (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THERE'S no menagerie, I vow,Excels my Lily's at this minute;She keeps the strangest creatures in it,And catches them, she knows ...
Grannie’s Crack Aboot The Famine In Auld Scotlan’ In 1739-40 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Oh saw ye e'er sic witless bairns, Sic wasterie o' blessin's gien?Oh had they dree'd what we ha'e dree'd, Oh had they ...
Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 04 (Sa di Poems)
A band of Arab brigands having taken up their position on the top ofa mountain and closed the passage of ...
The Trimmin’s on the Rosary (John O Brien Poems)
Ah, the memories that find me now my hair is turning gray,Drifting in like painted butterflies from paddocks far away;Dripping ...
Kismet (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Into the rock the road is cut full deep, At its low ledges village children play,From its high rifts fountains of ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 03 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XXVI'Turks, Persians conquered, Antiochia won,Be glorious acts, and full of glorious praise,By Heaven's mere grace, not by our prowess done:Those ...
Who Cares? (John Hartley Poems)
Down in a cellar cottage In a dark and lonely street,Was sat a widow and her boy, With nothing left to eat.The ...
A Hymn (James Thomson Poems)
These, as they change, Almighty Father, theseAre but the varied God. The rolling yearIs full of thee. Forth in the ...
Brahm?, Vi??u, ?iva (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
I THE DARKIn a worldless timeless lightless great emptiness Four-faced Brahma broods.nasad asin, no sad asit tadanim;nasid raja no vioma paro yat.kim ...
The Hanging Of Black Kudjo (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WELL, Maussa! if you wants to heer, I'll tell you 'bout um 'true.Doh de berry taut ob dat bad time ...
Before Battle (Martin Armstrong Poems)
Here on the blind verge of infinityWe live ard move like moles. Our crumbling trenchGapes like a long wound in ...
Advice, To Guard Against The Temptations Of The Devil (Rees Prichard Poems)
SHOU'D Satan promise thee, or house or land,If thou wou'dst kneel and worship at his feet :Tell him, he has ...
He Called Her In (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
IHe called her in from me and shut the door.And she so loved the sunshine and the sky!--She loved them ...
September (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Very familiar September seemed: A flag-pole stood in the yard, And the little path that led from the road Was trampled bare and ...
Ogyges (Henry Kendall Poems)
Stand out, swift-footed leaders of the horns,And draw strong breath, and fill the hollowy cliffWith shocks of clamour, - let ...
The Wanderer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
WANDERER.YOUNG woman, may God bless thee,Thee, and the sucking infantUpon thy breast!Let me, 'gainst this rocky wall,Neath the elm-tree's shadow,Lay ...
A Portrait (Richard Brinsley Sheridan Poems)
Tell me, ye prim adepts in Scandal's school,Who rail by precept, and detract by rule,Lives there no character, so tried, ...
The New Year (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE wave is breaking on the shore,The echo fading from the chime;Again the shadow moveth o'erThe dial-plate of time!O seer-seen ...