Elegy (John Anster Poems)
Oh breathe not--breathe not--sure 'twas something holy--Earth hath no sounds like these--again it passesWith a wild, low voice, that slowly ...
Night Poems (14651 Poems)
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 ...
July (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The July house was an old, old house, With an old, old man inside, Who told them stories of other days, Stories of ...
Rover (Henry Kendall Poems)
NO classic warrior tempts my pen To fill with verse these pages-No lordly-hearted man of men My Muse's thought engages.Let others choose ...
Satire III (John Donne Poems)
Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids Those tears to issue which swell my eyelids; I must not laugh, nor weep ...
Sonnets – Ad Innuptam (Patrick Moloney Poems)
II MAKE not my division of the hours By dials, clocks, or waking birds' acclaim, Nor measure seasons by the reigning flowers, The ...
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle (Wallace Stevens Poems)
"Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds,O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon,There is not nothing, no, no, ...
The Vesper Chime (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
She dwelt within a convent wall Beside the "blue Moselle," And pure and simple was her life As is the tale I tell. She ...
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters In Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
From the first it had been like aBallad. It had the beat inevitable. It had the blood.A wildness cut up, ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Agriculture – Alps) (Henry Baker Poems)
Agriculture.--The Sire of Gods himselfWill'd not that Tillage should be free from Toil.He first sollicited the restive MoldBy Art: and ...
Yusuf and Zuleikha (Excerpt 2) (Jami2 Poems)
O joy too great!—-O hour too blest!He comes—-they hail him—-now, more near,His eager courser's feet I hear.Oh heart! be hushed ...
Presage To Victory (John Freeman Poems)
IThen first I knew, seeing that bent grey head,How England honours all her thousand dead.Then first I knew how faith ...
In Capacity (Maurice Thompson Poems)
You ask me whyI long to flyOut from your palace to the dreamy woodsAnd the summer solitudes,Why I pineIn this ...
Seasonal Cycle – Chapter 04 – Pre Winter (Kalidasa Poems)
"Delightful are trees and fields with the outgrowth of new tender-leaves and crops, Lodhra trees are with their blossomy flowers, ...
Marriage (Gregory Corso Poems)
Should I get married? Should I be Good?Astound the girl next door with my velvet suit and faustaus hood?Don't take ...
The Dead To The Living (Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath Poems)
The bullet in the marble breast, the gash upon the brow, You raised us on the bloody planks with wild and ...
Elegy On The Death Of Mr. Phillips (Thomas Chatterton Poems)
No more I hail the morning's golden gleam,No more the wonders of the view I sing;Friendship requires a melancholy theme,At ...
Inverawe (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
Does death cleanse the stains of the spirit When sundered at last from the clay,Or keep we thereafter till judgment, Desires that ...
‘Ostler Joe (George Robert Sims Poems)
I stood at eve, as the sun went down, by a grave where a woman lies,Who lured men's souls to ...
Night In State Street (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Art thou he?-The seer and sage, the hero and lover-yea,The man of men, then away from the haughtydayCome with me!Ho-ho! ...
A Rehearsal Of Christ’s Love Towards The World (Rees Prichard Poems)
COME, hear me relate our Redeemer's vast love,When to purchase our souls he first came from above;That love bear in ...
The Bechuana Boy (Thomas Pringle Poems)
I sat at noontide in my tent,And looked across the Desert dun,Beneath the cloudless firmamentFar gleaming in the sun,When from ...
The Patient Countess. – extracted from Albion’s England (William Warner Poems)
Impatience chaungeth smoke to flame, but jealousie is hell;Some wives by patience have reduc'd ill husbands to live well:As did ...
Advice And Warning To The Adulterer (Rees Prichard Poems)
HEAR my advice, Adulterer obscene!And often in thy mind these precepts roll,E'er thou dost haste with appetite unclean,And headlong passion ...
Geraldine (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Ah, Geraldine, lost Geraldine, That night of love, when first we met, You have forgotten, Geraldine-- I never dreamed you would forget. Ah, Geraldine, ...
The Vagabonds (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
WE are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger 's my dog.-Come here, you scamp!Jump for the gentlemen,-mind your eye! Over the table,-look ...
The Double Transformati (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
Secluded from domestic strife,Jack Book-worm led a college life;A fellowship at twenty-fiveMade him the happiest man alive;He drank his glass ...
Douglas Of The Bleeding Heart (Moritz von Strachwitz Poems)
Earl Douglas, don thy helm so bright, And buckle thy sword with speed, Bind on thy sharpest spurs to-night And saddle thy swiftest ...
Mooni (Henry Kendall Poems)
AH, to be by Mooni now! Where the great dark hills of wonder, Scarred with storm and cleft asunder By ...
Alfred the Harper (John Sterling Poems)
Dark fell the night, the watch was set,The host was idly spread,The Danes around their watchfires met,Caroused, and fiercely fed.The ...