The Way To Heaven (John Hay Poems)
One day the Sultan, grand and grim,Ordered the Mufti brought to him."Now let thy wisdom solve for meThe question I ...
Obedience Poems (836 Poems)
The Better Part (Matthew Arnold Poems)
Long fed on boundless hopes, O race of man, How angrily thou spurn'st all simpler fare! "Christ," some one says, "was human ...
We Are Coming, Sister Mary (Henry Clay Work Poems)
On a stormy night in winter,When the winds blew cold and wet,I heard some strains of musicThat I never can ...
Faith. (Henry Alford Poems)
I thought, if I could go and stand Beside our dear one's grave in Faith, And lift the voice, and stretch the ...
The Old Road (Jones Very Poems)
THE ROAD is left that once was trodBy man and heavy-laden beast;And new ways opened, iron-shod,That bind the land from ...
To The King’s Majesty (Matthew Coppinger Poems)
If that this Book, without Command,May chance (Great Sir) to kiss your Hand,Vouchsafe one smile, my bashful MuseWill then grow ...
Supplication (Raymond Garfield Dandridge Poems)
(Dedicated to Cincinnati Branch, N. A. A. C. P., and sung to the air, "America")Dear Lord we come to Thee,In ...
Lisette. (George Pope Morris Poems)
When Love in myrtle shades reposed,His bow and darts behind him slung;As dewey twilight round him closed,Lisette these numbers sung:"O ...
O God of hosts, the mighty Lord, (Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady Poems)
O God of hosts, the mighty Lord,How lovely is the placeWhere Thou, enthroned in glory, show'st,The brightness of Thy face.O ...
God, the Source of all Good (John Bowring Poems)
'Tis God the Creator whose mercy hath givenThe beauty of earth and the glory of heaven,The freshness of ocean, the ...
No Hope (Mirza Ghalib Poems)
I am left with no hope at all,No possibility to reach my goal,The Day of my death is fixed,I am ...
Liv. _love lifts to god._ (Michelangelo Buonarroti Poems)
Veggio nel tuo bel viso.From thy fair face I learn, O my loved lord, That which no mortal tongue can rightly ...
God of Mercy, God of Grace (Henry Francis Lyte Poems)
God of mercy, God of grace, Show the brightness of Thy face: Shine upon us, Saviour, shine, Fill Thy church with light Divine; And ...
O Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness (John Samuel Bewley Monsell Poems)
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,Bow down before Him, His glory proclaim;Gold of obedience and incense of lowliness,Bring ...
A Translation out of French (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
O Heauenly God, all beastes that doe remayne,And nourisht are with foode that thou doest send,Within the wooddes, the mountaynes, ...
To A Poet’s Wife (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Thou art indeed a happy one, And hast a charmed life,A noble triumph thou hast won, A bright-eyed Poet's wife.His fancy plucks ...
Thoughts Taken from The 93rd Psalm (Joanna Baillie Poems)
CLOTHED in majesty sublime,And girt with strength th' Almighty reigns;And, through the wreckful course of time,His hand the stedfast world ...
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune (Thomas Campion Poems)
OF Neptune's empire let us sing,At whose command the waves obey;To whom the rivers tribute pay,Down the high mountains sliding:To ...
“Thy Will be done” (John Bowring Poems)
Lord! to Thy holy will I bow me, In infantine simplicity;O lead me, Father! nor allow me To wander e'en a step ...
Vignette – IX (Matilda Betham Poems)
SONNET. I am unskill'd in speech: my tongue is slowThe graceful courtesies of life to pay;To deck kind meanings up in ...
Under The October Maples (James Russell Lowell Poems)
What mean these banners spread,These paths with royal redSo gaily carpeted?Comes there a prince to-day?Such footing were too fineFor feet ...
Iesus teaching the People (John Bowring Poems)
How sweetly flowed the Gospel's sound From lips of gentleness and grace,When listening thousands gathered round, And joy and reverence filled the ...
To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, 1768 (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Your subjects hope, dread Sire—The crown upon your brows may flourish long,And that your arm may in your God be ...
Necessitas–Vis–Libertas! (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
A tall, bony old woman, with iron face and dull, fixed look, moves withlong strides, and, with an arm dry ...
Sonnet III (Mary Wroth Poems)
HIs flames are ioyes, his bandes true Lovers might,No stain is there, but pure, as purest white,Where no cloud can ...
Licia Sonnets 30 (Giles Fletcher Sr Poems)
Whenas my Licia sailed in the seas,Viewing with pride god Neptune's stately crown,A calm she made, and brought the merchant ...
The Clay (Jones Very Poems)
Thou shalt do what Thou wilt with thine own hand,Thou form'st the spirit like the moulded clay;For those who love ...
The Rail Road (Jones Very Poems)
Thou great proclaimer to the outward eyeOf what the spirit too would seek to tell,Onward thou go'st, appointed from on ...
An Attempt At The Manner Of Waller (William Cowper Poems)
Did not thy reason, and thy sense,With most persuasive eloquence,Convince me that obedience dueNone may so justly claim as you,By ...
The Convivial Book – Ye’ve Often, For Our Drunkenness, (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
Blamed us in ev'ry way,And, in abuse of drunkenness,Enough can never say.Men, overcome by drunkenness,Are wont to lie till day;And ...