An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. Burleigh, May 14, 1689 (Matthew Prior Poems)
Sir,As once a twelvemonth to the priest,Holy at Rome, here Antichrist,The Spanish king presents a jennetTo show his love, -- ...
Night Poems (14651 Poems)
The Black Knight (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I had not found the road too short,As once I had in days of youth,In that old forest of long ...
A Leak In The Dike (Phoebe Cary Poems)
A Story of HollandThe good dame looked from her cottage At the close of the pleasant day,And cheerily called to her ...
Ocean : Gratefully Inscribed to Mr. Linfitt of Burnham Academy (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Oh ! how I love to stand on some high rock, And gaze upon the foaming wild abyss Of Ocean — all ...
Marenghi (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.Let those who pine in pride or in revenge,Or think that ill for ill should be repaid,Who barter wrong for ...
Friar Philip’s Geese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR,The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware;Yet, why suppose the sex my ...
Mont Blanc (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
Monarch of mountains! in thy cloudy robe, Thou sit'st secure upon thy craggy throne, Seeming to lord it over half the globe, As ...
The Orange-Peel In The Gutter (Mathilde Blind Poems)
BEHOLD, unto myself I said,This place how dull and desolate,For lovely thoughts how all unmeet,This drear and darksome London street.Above, ...
Madhushala (The Tavern) (Harivansh Rai Bachchan Poems)
Seeking wine, the drinker leaves home for the tavern.Perplexed, he asks, "Which path will take me there?"People show him different ...
A Song of Honour (Ralph Hodgson Poems)
I climbed a hill as light fell short,And rooks came home in scramble sort,And filled the trees and flapped and ...
The Seasons: A Masque. As Represented By Father Christmas And His Attendants (Henry Alford Poems)
Part I.The Prologue was given by Father Christmas habited in a red robe, with a white beard and an icy ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 05 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XLVI'Sir King,' quoth she, 'my name Clorinda hight,My fame perchance has pierced your ears ere now,I come to try my ...
The Execution Of Montrose (William Edmondstoune Aytoun Poems)
COME hither, Evan Cameron!Come, stand beside my knee:I hear the river roaring downTowards the wintry sea.There 's shouting on the ...
Oswald, The Minnesinger (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
A Legend of Schloss Forst, near MeranPROLOGUEOswald von Wolkenstein, the Last of the Minnesingers, loved a beautifulwoman, named Sabina, who ...
The Lifeboat (George Robert Sims Poems)
Been out in the lifeboat often? Ay, ay, sir, oft enough.When it's rougher than this? Lor' bless you! this ain't ...
Protestant Popery: Or, The Convocation – Canto I (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
A Priestly--War I sing, and bloodless Field,And pious Chiefs, in Paper Warfare skill'd;Chiefs, that full oft have quarrell'd for their ...
The Bay Of Seven Islands (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
FROM the green Amesbury hill which bears the nameOf that half mythic ancestor of mineWho trod its slopes two hundred ...
Sable Island (Joseph Howe Poems)
Dark Isle of Mourning—aptly art thou named, For thou hast been the cause of many a tear; For deeds of treacherous strife ...
Crispus Attucks (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
Negro Patriot-Killed In Boston, March 5,!770.WHERE shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story?Our laurels ...
How John Quit The Farm (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Nobody on the old farm here but Mother, me and John, Except, of course, the extry he'p when harvest-time come on-- And ...
The Splendid Shilling (James Bramston Poems)
Happy the Man, who void of Care and Strife, In silken or in leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling He nor hears ...
To A Young Lady, With A Bottle Of Irish Usquebaugh (Hector MacNeill Poems)
"Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus."In spite of all that poets tell us(For poets are but lying fellows)Of Cupid's flames, ...
Parrhasius (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
There stood an unsold captive in the mart,a gray-haired and majestical old man,chained to a pillar. It was almost night,and ...
Evangeline: Part The First. III. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
BENT like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean,Bent, but not broken, by age was the ...
When Christie Comes Again (Gerald Massey Poems)
WHEN the merry spring-tide Floods all the land;Nature hath a Mother's heart, Gives with open hand;Flowers running up the lane Tell us May ...
Basil Moss (Henry Kendall Poems)
SING, mountain-wind, thy strong, superior song-Thy haughty alpine anthem, over tractsWhose passes and whose swift, rock-straitened streamsCatch mighty life and ...
Mistress Hale Of Beverly (Lucy Larcom Poems)
The roadside forests here and there were touched with tawny gold;The days were shortening, and at dusk the sea looked ...
Ghasta Or, The Avenging Demon!!! (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Hark! the owlet flaps her wing,In the pathless dell beneath,Hark! night ravens loudly sing,Tidings of despair and death.--Horror covers all ...
The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(1571.)The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;“Pull, if ye never pulled before; Good ringers, pull ...
Recollection (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
An Elegiac Poem to the Memory of MARIA CATHARINETEMPLE.Steal on dark silent hour ! I love thy sway,Let others hail ...