Scenes Of Youth, Or The Days Of Other Years,- 1809.- In Two Parts. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
PART I.-Remembrance.THOSE days of youth I call to mind,Like dream by night away are fled,Or rose that's pluck'd, which soon ...
Parties Poems (383 Poems)
John Adams Monarchical Ideas (Mercy Warren Poems)
SIR:- You complain that I have asserted that a partiality for monarchy appeared in your conduct. This fact you deny, ...
Happy Birthday Tupac Shakur (Old Poetry Poems)
It is hard to get a balanced view of Tupac Amaru Shakur (or Lesane Parish Crooks as he was known as a ...
Epilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken For ‘She Stoops To Conquer’ (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
'Enter' MRS. BULKLEY,'who curtsies very low as beginning to speak.Then enter' MISS CATLEY,'who stands full before her, and curtsies to ...
De Leap Yeah Party (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
Was you at de hall las' night,To de Leap Yeah Party?I reckon dat I was,But didn't I eat hearty?I wouldn't ...
Jim Crow: The Sequel (June Jordan Poems)
An angry Black woman on the subject of the angry White man:We didn't always need affirmative actionWhen we broke this ...
Upon The Death Of, Mr. Addison; Inscrib’d To The Earl Of Warwick (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
If yet, my Lord, your Sorrows find relief,And a short Pause succeeds your weighty Grief;With Candour this unwelcome Verse peruse,The ...
Jim the Splitter (Henry Kendall Poems)
The bard who is singing of Wollombi JimIs hardly just now in the requisite trim To sit on his Pegasus fairly;Besides, ...
The Pious Editor’s Creed (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I du believe in Freedom's cause, Ez fur away ez Payris is;I love to see her stick her claws In them infarnal ...
Hunted Down (Henry Kendall Poems)
Two years had the tiger, whose shape was that of a sinister man,Been out since the night of escape — ...
Erin, Mavourneen (Nora Pembroke Poems)
A Prize Poem.I know Canada is fair to see, and pleasant; it is wellOn the banks of its broad river ...
Tom Bombadil’s Song (J. R. R. Tolkien Poems)
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom ...
The Spirits of Our Fathers (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE SPIRITS of our fathers rise not from every wave,They left the sea behind them long ago;It was many years ...
Bryant’s Seventieth Birthday (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
NOVEMBER 3, 1864O EVEN-HANDED Nature! we confessThis life that men so honor, love, and blessHas filled thine olden measure. Not ...
The Book Of Paradise – The Seven Sleepers (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
Six among the courtiers favour'dFly before the Caesar's fury,Who would as a god be worshipp'd,Though in truth no god appearing,For ...
The Candidate’s Creed (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I du believe in Freedom's cause,Ez fur away ez Paris is;I love to see her stick her clawsIn them infarnal ...
Rantoul (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
One day, along the electric wireHis manly word for Freedom sped;We came next morn: that tongue of fireSaid only, "He ...
Upon Parties (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Curst be that busy Wretch, that human Beast,(Some crafty Statesman or ambitious Priest)Who first his own pernicious Schemes to buildHis ...
A Fable (Jane Taylor Poems)
ONE day a sage knocked at a chemist's door,Bringing a curious compound to explore.--'Behold ! said he, as from his ...
More Bread And Cheese (Nathaniel Bloomfield Poems)
1 My Brothers of this world, of ev'ry Nation, Some maxims of prudence the Muse would inspire. Now restlessness reigns throughout every station; The ...
Festina Lente (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Once on a time there was a poolFringed all about with flag-leaves coolAnd spotted with cow-lilies garish,Of frogs and pouts ...
The English Padlock (Matthew Prior Poems)
Miss Danae, when Fair and Young(As Horace has divinely sung)Could not be kept from Jove's EmbraceBy Doors of Steel, and ...
Voice Of New England (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
UP the hillside, down the glen,Rouse the sleeping citizen;Summon out the might of men!Like a lion growling low,Like a night-storm ...
The Squatter’s Daughter (Henry Lawson Poems)
OUT in the west, where runs are wide, And days than ours are hotter,Not very far from Lachlan Side There dwelt a ...
Farewell To Lord And Lady Dufferin (Nora Pembroke Poems)
In leaving us, whom thou hast governed well Holding the helm of state through all these yearsThe land at large unites ...
The Hill-Top (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The burly driver at my side,We slowly climbed the hill,Whose summit, in the hot noontide,Seemed rising, rising still.At last, our ...
A Letter To Dr. Helsham (Jonathan Swift Poems)
SIR, Pray discruciate what follows.The dullest beast, and gentleman's liquor,When young is often due to the vicar,The dullest of beasts, and ...
Democracy (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
BEARER of Freedom's holy light,Breaker of Slavery's chain and rod,The foe of all which pains the sight,Or wounds the generous ...
The Voice (Jared Barhite Poems)
To me comes a voice that none other Hath power to hear or to know, Its cadence so sweet and consoling Is a ...
Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937 (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
For a month now, wandering over the Sierras,A poem had been gathering in my mind,Details of significance and rhythm,The way ...