The Last Bullet (John Farrell Poems)
Since the first human eyes saw the first timidstars break through Heaven and shine,Surely never a man was bowed down ...
Night Poems (14651 Poems)
Malcolm’s Katie: A Love Story – Part V. (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
Said the high hill, in the morning: "Look on me--"Behold, sweet earth, sweet sister sky, behold"The red flames on my ...
To A Friend InThe City (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
FROM HER FRIEND IN THE COUNTRY.By especial request I take up my pen,To write a few lines to my dear ...
An Elegie, or Friends Passion, for His Astrophel (Matthew Roydon Poems)
As then, no winde at all there blew,No swelling cloude accloid the aire:The skie, like glasse of watchet hew,Reflected Phoebus' ...
Advice To The Drunkard (Rees Prichard Poems)
IF thou'rt a drunkard, fond of ale and wine,And smokest vile mundungus without end,Cry out with speed, unto th' Pow'r ...
Letter From Boston (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Dear M---- By way of saving time,I'll do this letter up in rhyme,Whose slim stream through four pages flowsEre one is ...
Visions for the Entertainmen (Nathaniel Cotton Poems)
Ye ductile youths, whose rising sunHath many circles still to run;Who wisely with the pilot's chart,To steer thro' life the ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XIII: Blessing The Cornfields (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Sing, O Song of Hiawatha,Of the happy days that followed,In the land of the Ojibways,In the pleasant land and peaceful!Sing ...
Another On The Same Occasion (Rees Prichard Poems)
Mourn Cambria, thoughtless Cambria mourn,Like Nineveh, repentent turn,Put sackcloth on — proclaim a fast —Cry out for Grace, and mend ...
Comala, A Dramatic Poem (James Macpherson Poems)
This poem. is valuable on account of the light it throws on the antiquity of Ossian's compositions. The Caracul mentioned ...
Tecumthe (Nora Pembroke Poems)
October's leaf was sere; The day was dark and drear.Wild war was loosed in rage o'er our quiet country then; When at ...
The Return Of Peace (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I HAD a vision at that mystic hour,When in the ebon garden of the Night,Blooms the Cimmerian flowerOf doubt and ...
The Hired Man And Floretty (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
The Hired Man's supper, which he sat before,In near reach of the wood-box, the stove-doorAnd one leaf of the kitchen-table, ...
The Lover (James Avis Bartley Poems)
SCENE I.--A WOODED MOUNTAIN IN BLOOM--TIMESUNRISE--ENTER LOVER SOLUS.This is my fair resort, the Summer SunIs rising there, the ocean gleams ...
The Mosque Of Cordoba (Muhammad Iqbal Poems)
The succession of day and nightIs the architect of events.The succession of day and nightIs the fountain-head of life and ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XXI: The White Man’s Foot (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
In his lodge beside a river,Close beside a frozen river,Sat an old man, sad and lonely.White his hair was as ...
“Little Jack Janitor” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
And there, in that ripe Summer-night, once moreA wintry coolness through the open doorAnd window seemed to touch each glowing ...
The Austral Months (Henry Kendall Poems)
JanuaryThe first fair month! In singing Summer's sphereShe glows, the eldest daughter of the year.All light, all warmth, all passion, ...
America (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
NOR War nor Peace, forever, old and young,But Strength my theme, whose song is yet unsung,The People's Strength, the deep ...
The Church Of Brou (Matthew Arnold Poems)
ITHE CASTLE Down the Savoy valleys sounding, Echoing round this castle old, 'Mid the distant mountain-chalets Hark! what bell for church is toll'd? In the ...
Brighten’s Sister-In-Law [or The Carrier’s Story] (Henry Lawson Poems)
AT A POINT where the old road crosses The river, and turns to the right,I'd camped with the team; and the ...
Old Donald (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Up in the Highlands of ScotlandThe fairies are very rude;I do not know if all are so-Some of them may ...
Croma (James Macpherson Poems)
Malvina, the daughter of Toscar, is overheard by Ossian lamenting the death of Oscar her lover. Ossian, to divert her ...
Haunted By Tigers (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
NATHAN BEANS and William Lambert were two wild New England boys,Known from infancy to revel only in forbidden joys.Many a ...
“Great Man of God, whom God doeth call, and choose” (John Adamson Poems)
Great Man of God, whom God doeth call, and chooseOn Earth his great Lieutenents place to use,Wee blesse the tyme, ...
The Spinning-Wheel (Henry Baker Poems)
This comes to let you knowI'm well, thank God, and hope you're so:In Truth, I'm very much perplext,For something fine ...
The Undying Splendour (John William Streets Poems)
I: ENGLANDThere lies an isle, a splendour of the seaHaunting as Babylon, illustrious as Rome:A race of Saxon freemen there ...
Lily (Henry Lawson Poems)
I SCORN the man-a fool at most, And ignorant and blind-Who loves to go about and boast "He understands mankind."I thought I ...
A Birthday In Scio (John Pierpont Poems)
I landed there on the day of my birth,—The day that the city was swept from the earth;Though thirteen years ...
When I Was King (Henry Lawson Poems)
The second time I lived on earth Was several hundred years ago;And-royal by my second birth- I know as much as most ...