Prothalamion (Horace Smith Poems)
Nothing so true as what you once let fall,--"To growl at something is the lot of all;Contentment is a gem ...
Obedience Poems (836 Poems)
To Sleep (Maria Logan Poems)
HASTE! gentle Sleep! in pity shedThy blessings on my weary head:Come! but do not come alone,Bring the partners of thy ...
Hymn (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Who shall commemorate all Thy chosen namesThou who art Sire at once and Son of man?Servant, friend, brother, bridegroom, husband, ...
The Catechism (Rees Prichard Poems)
Q. MY lively, lovely, little child! declare, What is thy Christian name? and then in brief, With serious heart, and an assured ...
Concerning The Divine Providence (Rees Prichard Poems)
God ne'er any good from thoseWith-holds, who fear Him here below :On them He grace and fame bestows,Nor loss, nor ...
The Statesman’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHO of all statesmen is his country's pride,Her councils' prompter and her leaders' guide?He speaks; the nation holds its breath ...
Aw’m Havin’ A Smook Bi Misel’, (John Hartley Poems)
'Aw'm havin' a smook bi misel', Net a soul here to spaik a word to, Aw've noa gossip to hear nor to ...
The Church-Scuffle (John Durant Breval Poems)
A BALLAD. Have you not heard of a pious Fray, Which happen'd in this Town, Between a stubborn Heretick, And Champion of the Gown? To ...
Presented To The King, At His Arrival In Holland, After The Discovery Of The Conspiracy. 1696 (Matthew Prior Poems)
Ye careful Angels, whom eternal FateOrdains, on Earth and human Acts to wait;Who turn with secret Pow'r this restless Ball,And ...
Deirdre’s Lament For The Sons Of Usnach (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
As for Deirdre, she cried pitifully, wearily, and tore her fair hair,and she was talking of the sons of Usnach, ...
Keenan’s Charge (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
The sun had set;The leaves with dew were wet:Down fell a bloody duskOn the woods, that second day of May,Where ...
The Pupil In Magic (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
I AM now,—what joy to hear it!—Of the old magician rid;And henceforth shall ev'ry spiritDo whate'er by me is bid; I ...
The First Walpurgis-Ni (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
A DRUID. SWEET smiles the May! The forest gayFrom frost and ice is freed; No snow is found, Glad songs resoundAcross the verdant mead. Upon ...
Alleluia Height (Michael Earls Poems)
Obedience to the seasons' marshall-rod,That is a law of God,Here beauty passes with her gorgeous train,On paths that range from ...
On Board The ’76 (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Written For Mr. Bryant's Seventieth BirthdayOur ship lay tumbling in an angry sea, Her rudder gone, her mainmast o'er the side;Her ...
Lamentin’ An Repentin’ (John Hartley Poems)
Awst be better when spring comes, aw think, But aw feel varry sickly an waik,Awve noa relish for mait nor for ...
Disobedience (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Says he, "I'll take my father's gun,Obedience is absurd;And would not it be awful funIf I could shoot a bird!"Says ...
Vignette – XXI (Matilda Betham Poems)
LINES._Written for a Young Gentleman to speak at the Audit at St. Saviour'sSchool, Southwark, after the Battle of Trafalgar_. --------While others, ...
There Is No Breeze To Cool The Heat Of Love (Laurence Hope Poems)
The listless Palm-trees catch the breeze above The pile-built huts that edge the salt Lagoon,There is no Breeze to cool the ...
Advice, How To Govern Our Words, According To God’s Will (Rees Prichard Poems)
LET all thy words a Christian import bear,Let them, with grace, at all times season'd be,That they may knowledge give ...
Faith And Works. A Tale. (Hannah More Poems)
Good Dan and Jane were man and wife,And lived a loving kind of life.One point, however, they disputedAnd each by ...
The Pen And The Sword (Mary Russell Mitford Poems)
And dar'st thou then with me compare,Frail fleeting passenger of air!Say, am not I my country's rock,The lion in the ...
The Caliph And Satan (James Freeman Clarke Poems)
In heavy sleep the Caliph lay, When some one called, "Arise, and pray!" The angry Caliph cried, "Who dare Rebuke his king for ...
Canada (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Dear Canada, our native land, Our love for thee grows day by day;Our fathers left the olden strand, O'er sea and rapids ...
Babylon (John Buchan Poems)
(The Song of NEHEMIAH'S WorkmenHow many miles to Babylon?'Three score and ten.Can I get there by candle-light?Yes, and back again.We ...
Salaam! (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
Serene, complacent, satisfied, Content with things that be; The paragon of paltriness Upraised for all to see; With loving pride he cherishes His mediocrity! The smirking, ...
The Teacher’s Soliloquy (Jared Barhite Poems)
And so another week has gone, And I once more am left alone Within my silent room; My mind is worn by fervent ...
Monday In Whitsun-Week (John Keble Poems)
Since all that is not Heaven must fade,Light be the hand of Ruin laid Upon the home I love:With lulling spell ...
The Voices (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"WHY urge the long, unequal fight,Since Truth has fallen in the street,Or lift anew the trampled light,Quenched by the heedless ...
Old Moorcock (John Hartley Poems)
Awm havin a smook bi misel, Net a soul here to spaik a word to,Awve noa gossip to hear nor to ...