The Merchant Ship (Henry Kendall Poems)
The Sun o'er the waters was throwing In the freshness of morning its beams;And the breast of the ocean seemed glowing With ...
Night Poems (14651 Poems)
Cathloda – Duan III (James Macpherson Poems)
Ossian, after some general reflections, describes the situation of Fingal, and the position of the army of Lochlin. - The ...
Unveiled (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I CANNOT tell when first I saw her face;Was it athwart a sunset on the sea,When the huge billows heaved ...
English Eclogues IV – The Sailor’s Mother (Robert Southey Poems)
WOMAN.Sir for the love of God some small reliefTo a poor woman!TRAVELLER.Whither are you bound?'Tis a late hour to travel ...
The Progress Of Marriage (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Aetatis suae fifty-two,A rich Divine began to wooA handsome young imperious girl,Nearly related to an Earl.Her parents and her friends ...
To Moliere (Nicholas Boileau Despreaux Poems)
Unequaled genius, whose warm fancy knows No rhyming labor, no poetic throes; To whom Apollo has unlocked his store; Whose coin is struck ...
March (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The March house, strangely, was built in a tree, With a fluttering roof of leaves, And strong, straight boughs for the walls ...
An Exhortation To Give God Thanks For Our Redemption Through Christ (Rees Prichard Poems)
O Let's applaud with one accord,And bless, from day to day, the Lord,Who gave for us his only Son,When we ...
The Progress Of Wit (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play,Which oft resumes its fascinating sway;Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or sour;By night ...
The Day Of Judgment (Goronwy Owen Poems)
Almighty God thy heavenly aid bestow,O'er my rapt soul bid inspiration flow;Let voice seraphic, mighty Lord, be mine,Whilst I unfold ...
Song I (George Wither Poems)
Lordly gallants! tell me this (Though my safe content you weigh not),In your greatness, what one bliss Have you gained, that I ...
The Lover’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHAT ailed young Lucius? Art had vainly triedTo guess his ill, and found herself defied.The Augur plied his legendary skill;Useless; ...
Death Of A Factory Child (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Hear me! ye firm and uncorrupted few,Followers of freedom! and of virtue too!Ye, who are pleading with a noble zealFor ...
Jackaw of Rheims, The (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;Many a monk, and many a friar,Many a ...
Four Points in a Life (James B.V. Thomson Poems)
ILOVE'S DAWNStill thine eyes haunt me; in the darkness now,The dreamtime, the hushed stillness of the night,I see them shining ...
My Soul And I (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Stand still, my soul, in the silent darkI would question thee,Alone in the shadow drear and starkWith God and me!What, ...
Sound (Junzaburo Nishiwaki Poems)
Let us gohumming a tune,putting on our sneakers.The gentle lady of Itabashi1-- the edge of her kimono-- clouds, golden-- green ...
TO TRAMPS, The Unemployed, The Disinherited, and Miserable (Lucy Parsons Poems)
A word to the 35,000 now trampingthe streets of this great city,with hands in pockets, gazing listlessly about youat the ...
To Charles Cowden Clarke (John Keats Poems)
Oft have you seen a swan superbly frowning,And with proud breast his own white shadow crowning;He slants his neck beneath ...
The Spellin’-Bee (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I NEVER shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin,An' all us youngsters clambered in an' down the road ...
On The Jellico Spur Of The Cumberlands (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
TO J. FOX, JR. You remember how the mist, When we climbed to Devil's Den, Pearly in the mountain glen, And above us, amethyst, Throbbed ...
The Wedding-Ring (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
PART IChildren should not leave aboutAnything that's small and bright,Lest the fairies spy it out,And fly off with it at ...
Hours With Nature (James Avis Bartley Poems)
When smiling spring, an angel fair! Walks o'er the verdant plain,And breathes a soft and balmy air, From isles beyond the main:When ...
Leaving the Matter Open: A Tale By Homer Wilbur, A.M. (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Two brothers once, an ill-matched pair,Together dwelt (no matter where),To whom an Uncle Sam, or some one,Had left a house ...
The Shepherds Calendar – April (John Clare Poems)
The infant april joins the springAnd views its watery skyeAs youngling linnet trys its wingAnd fears at first to flyeWith ...
The Maid of Gerringong (Henry Kendall Poems)
Rolling through the gloomy gorges, comes the roaring southern blast,With a sound of torrents flying, like a routed army, past,And, ...
May (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
A green-thatched cottage was May's sweet home With velvet moss for a floor, And a clambering vine in the gay sunshine, And a ...
Festus – XXXV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Our first, our last, by heavenly fates impelled;We again meet; warned by the Spirit progressive, learn,Not man's design, mere compromise ...
My Lady’s Lamantation And Complaint Against The Dean (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Sure never did man seeA wretch like poor Nancy,So teazed day and nightBy a Dean and a Knight.To punish my ...
Sonnets of the Empire (Archibald Thomas Strong Poems)
Gloriana's EnglandFORTH sped thy gallant sailors, blithe and free,Fearing nor foeman's hate, nor iron clime,Nor Lima's flame, nor Plata's fever-slime,So ...