Despair (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
And canst thou mock mine agony, thus calmIn cloudless radiance, Queen of silver night?Can you, ye flow'rets, spread your perfumed ...
Obedience Poems (836 Poems)
Luke XIX. 10. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.HE cometh not in earthly pomp ...
Koi Umiid (Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Khan Poems)
koii ummiid bar nahii.n aatiikoii suurat nazar nahii.n aatiimaut kaa ek din mu'ayyaa.N hainii.nd kyo.n raat bhar nahii.n aatiiaage aatii ...
Christmas (Julia A Moore Poems)
Hail the coming holiday, With a hearty joyous feast,And drive away sorrow, friends, For a day or two at least;Lay all business ...
Reflections On Absent Friends, Gone To America (John Castillo Poems)
The sun had gone down o'er yon lofty mountain,The last golden streamer had left the tall tree;The dwelling below seemed ...
Naked Girl And Mirror (Judith Wright Poems)
This is not I. I had no body once-only what served my need to laugh and runand stare at stars ...
Another Piece Of Advice Unto A Youth (Rees Prichard Poems)
To cram thy body, ne'er thy soul destroy —Nor anger God, to please th' infernal crew —To purchase earth, ne'er ...
For The S.S. Concert (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
IN THE WAYLAND ORTHODOX CHURCH.Feed my lambs! the Saviour said,Near two thousand years ago;If we truly love the Lord,By obedience, ...
To Mrs. Leonard on The Death of Her Husband (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
GRIM Monarch! see depriv'd of vital breath,A young Physician in the dust of death!Dost thou go on incessant to destroy:The ...
A salutation of his Majesties Ship the Soveraign (Henry King Poems)
Move on thou floating Trophee built to fame!And bid her trump spread thy Majestick name;That the blew Tritons, and those ...
Proverbs XVII. 3. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the Lord trieth the hearts.How shall we stand ...
Hymn IX: Sinners, Obey the Gospel-Word! (John Wesley Poems)
Sinners, obey the gospel-word!Haste to the supper of my Lord!Be wise to know your gracious day;All things are ready, come ...
The Harbor Bell (John Henry Yates Poems)
Our life is like a stormy seaSwept by the gales of sin and grief,While on the windward and the leeHang ...
Hymns and Odes for Charity Occasions XII (John Pierpont Poems)
Not with a conqueror's songThy courts, O God, we throng,For battles gained;No cannon's sulphurous throat,No trumpet, gives its note,No banners ...
Middle-Age (Laurence Hope Poems)
The sins of Youth are hardly sins, So frank they are and free.'T is but when Middle-age begins We need morality.Ah, pause ...
A Poetical Or Sound-Hearted Lover’s Farewell To His Mistress (Joanna Baillie Poems)
FAIR Nymph, who dost my fate controulAnd reignest Mistress of my soul,Where thou all bright in beauty's rayHast held a ...
The Philosopher To His Love (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
DEAREST, a look is but a rayReflected in a certain way;A word, whatever tone it wear,Is but a trembling wave ...
The Legion Dispossessed (John Newton Poems)
Legion was my name by nature,Satan raged within my breast;Never misery was greater,Never sinner more possessed:Mischievous to all around me,To ...
Ballade Of Tristram’s Last Harping (Gertrude Bartlett Poems)
THE end that Love doth seek, what bard can say, In that fair season when the tender greenOf opening leaves doth ...
An Apology Written For My Son To The Reverend Mr. Sampson, (Mary Barber Poems)
With Joy your Summons we obey,And come to celebrate this Day.Yet I, alas! despair to please;For you require exalted Lays:And, ...
Hymn IV: Ho! Everyone That Thirsts, Draw Nigh (John Wesley Poems)
Ho! every one that thirsts, draw nigh!('Tis God invites the fallen race)Mercy and free salvation buy;Buy wine, and milk, and ...
The Despairing Shepherd (Matthew Prior Poems)
Alexis shun'd his Fellow Swains,Their rural Sports, and jocund Strains:(Heav'n guard us all from Cupid's Bow!)He lost his Crook, He ...
The Dead Dog (Sandy: In Memoriam) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
My Sandy, — poor Sandy,— dear favourite of all, The family friend for these ten years and more,That basked in the ...
Peter Released From Prison (John Newton Poems)
Fervent persevering prayersAre faith's assured resource,Brazen gates, and iron bars,In vain withstand their force:Peter when in prison cast,Though by soldiers ...
Funeral Hymn. (George Pope Morris Poems)
"Man dieth and wasteth away, And where is he?"--Hark! from the skiesI hear a voice answer and say, "The spirit of man ...
The Poet Laberius (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
PART OF A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUSA ROMAN KNIGHT, WHOM CAESAR FORCED UPON THE STAGEPRESERVED BY ...
Hymn 117 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Election sovereign and free.Rom. 9:20-23.Behold the potter and the clay,He forms his vessels as he please:Such is our God, and ...
Gently on the Stream of Time (Julia A Moore Poems)
Gently on the stream of time, We are floating day by day,In life's native boats sublime We soon anchor in the bay.We'll ...
On The Author’s Husband Desiring Her To Write Some Verses (Mary Whateley Poems)
VERSES, my love! As soon could IWithout a wing or feather fly;My head, with other matters fraught,No more attempts poetic ...
Up, Sisters, Morn Is Breaking (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Up, sisters! morn is breaking Over the mountains grey,As, borne on silvered pinions, She ushers in the day.She comes, and at her ...