Knowledge (Philip James Bailey Poems)
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD is the wisdom of man- This is the end of Being, wisdom; this Of wisdom, action; and of ...
Obedience Poems (836 Poems)
Two Brothers (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHO presses on my knee this kindly pat,And with a merry archness in my faceLooks up?--a youngling of my own ...
Fragment IX (James Macpherson Poems)
Thou askest, fair daughter of theisles! whose memory is preservedin these tombs? The memory of Ronnanthe bold, and Connan the ...
Dedication. To my Mother (Margaret Holford Poems)
My Mother, thou hast not forgot the hour,Tho' Time since then is far upon his way,When youth and beauty crown'd ...
Man the Monarch (Mary Leapor Poems)
Amaz'd we read of Nature's early ThroesHow the fair Heav'ns and pond'rous Earth arose:How blooming Trees unplanted first began;And Beasts ...
A Relative and an Absolute (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
It has been cool so far for December, but of course the colddoesn't last long down here. The Bible is ...
The Dance Of Death (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
He is the despots' Despot. All must bide,Later or soon, the message of his might;Princes and potentates their heads must ...
Ode To Genius (Margaret Holford Poems)
Whence is that pow'r, whose awful magic call,Imperious bids the astonish'd world attend,Before whose shrine adoring myriads fall,To whom the ...
Charity : A Paraphrase On 1 Cor. Chap. 13 (Matthew Prior Poems)
Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue,Than ever Man pronounc'd, or Angel sung:Had I all Knowledge, Human and Divine,That Thought ...
Epitaph On Miss Stanley, In Holyrood Church, Southampton (James Thomson Poems)
E. S.Once a lively image of human nature, Such as God made itWhen he pronounced every work of his to be ...
An American To Mother England (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
England! My England! can the surging seaThat lies between us tear my heart from thee?Can distant birth and distant dwelling ...
All Creatures Called On to Praise God (John Ogilvie Poems)
Begin, my soul, th' exalted lay!Let each enraptur'd thought obey,And praise th' Almighty's name:Lo! heaven and earth, and seas and ...
To Romance (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious Queen of childish joys,Who lead'st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of girls and boys;At ...
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Spanish Jew’s Tale; The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Rabbi Ben Levi, on the Sabbath, readA volume of the Law, in which it said,"No man shall look upon my ...
A Prayer For A Sick Person Before He Takes Physic (Rees Prichard Poems)
Author of health, who all the plants that growHast form'd! who hast the tyrant Death subdu'd!Thy blessing on this medicine ...
Love’s Progress. (Henry Baker Poems)
Love wander'd out, one Summer's Day,'Till He, benighted, lost his Way:Then whither knowing not to go,Or where to lie, or ...
Epithalamium (Hattie Howard Poems)
I. "Whom God hath joined"--ah, this sententious phrase A meaning deeper than the sea conveys, And of a sweet and solemn service tells With ...
A Song For St. Cecilia’s Day, 1687 (John Dryden Poems)
Stanza 1From harmony, from Heav'nly harmonyThis universal frame began.When Nature underneath a heapOf jarring atoms lay,And could not heave her ...
A Soliloquy (Henry Baker Poems)
My God! whence comes it, that the human Soul,Unsatisfy'd with all Things here below,From Wish to Wish must discontented roll,Nor ...
How A Person Ought To Rouse Up Both Body And Soul, In The Dead Of Night, To Praise His God (Rees Prichard Poems)
Awake, my sluggish soul! from sleep awake,And with a heart sincere attempt to sing(In the most daring flight thy thoughts ...
A Holy Messenger (James Madison Bell Poems)
Dedicated to Rev. Thomas M. D. Ward.The voice of Macedonia's gone From California o'er the seas,And yet, to help her, there ...
A Poetic Description Of South-Stack Lighthouse. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
WHERE Holyhead's small isle, by Mona's side,Rears its rude mountains, 'midst the foaming tide,South-Stack's bleak rock emerges from the deep,Round ...
The African Prince (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
IT was a king in Africa,He had an only son;And none of Europe's crowned kingsCould have a dearer one.With good ...
Written for my Son … at his First Putting on Breeches (Mary Barber Poems)
WHAT is it our mamma's bewitches, To plague us little boys with breeches ? To tyrant Custom we must yield, Whilst vanquish'd Reason ...
Henry The Hermit (Robert Southey Poems)
It was a little island where he dwelt,Or rather a lone rock, barren and bleak,Short scanty herbage spotting with dark ...
To my Friend Mr. Motteux, on His Tragedy Called Beauty in Distress, Published in 1698 (John Henry Dryden Poems)
'Tis hard, my friend, to write in such an age,As damns not only poets, but the stage.That sacred art, by ...
`Sez You’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
When the heavy sand is yielding backward from your blistered feet,And across the distant timber you can SEE the flowing ...
Ring The Bells (Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass Poems)
Ring out the bells of heaven! Obey the great command, That all may hear their melody On mountain, sea, and land, The chimes of ...
Hymn #1 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
FATHER and Lord! Almighty and all-wise!How ardently devout affections rise,When rushing thoughts, unsought for, swift and free,Crowd on th' expanding ...
Dear Christians, One and All Rejoice (Martin Luther Poems)
Dear Christians, one and all rejoice,With exultation springing,And with united heart and voiceAnd holy rapture singing,Proclaim the wonders God hath ...