A Rune Of The Rain (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
O many-toned rain!O myriad sweet voices of the rain!How welcome is its delicate overtureAt evening, when the moist and glowing ...
Passion Poems (1980 Poems)
Thou Lovest Me No More (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
THOU lovest me no more. It needs not wordsTo tell me thou art altered now. Alas!I mark it well in ...
Nineveh (George Sylvester Viereck Poems)
IO NINEVEH, thy realm is setUpon a base of rock and steelFrom where the under-rivers fretHigh up to where the ...
Perle Des Jardins (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
What am I, and what is he Who can cull and tear a heart, As one might a rose for sport In its ...
Foreshadowings (Henry Kendall Poems)
FIFTEEN miles and then the harbour! Here we cannot choose but stand,Faces thrust towards the day-break, listening for our native ...
Ode To Peace (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IIN EXCELSISTwo dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height,Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the realm of shadows,-fine,And far, and ...
Monday, Roxana, or the Drawing-Room (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
Roxana from the court retiring late, Sigh'd her soft sorrows at St. JAMES's gate: Such heavy thoughts lay brooding in her breast, Not ...
All the Rage (Hattie Howard Poems)
A common wayside flower it grew, Unhandsome and unnoticed too, Except in deprecation That such an herb unreared by toil, Prolific cumberer of the ...
Valerie’s Confession. To A Friend. (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THEY declare that I'm gracefully pretty,The very best waltzer that whirls;They say I am sparkling and witty,The pearl, the queen ...
Under Sentence (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
PLACE--Scotland. TIME--Thirteenth Century.OFF! off! no treacherous priest for me!What's Heaven? what's Hell? Eternity!It hath no meaning to mine ear.Unless--Stay, father! ...
The Wanderer’s Return (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
Now died the Night-breeze on the winding shore,And Folly's babbling voice was heard no more ;Calm was the hour, all ...
Kiama Revisited (Henry Kendall Poems)
WE STOOD by the window and hearkenedTo the voice of the runnels sea-driven,While, northward, the mountain-heads darkened,Girt round with the ...
Five Letters To My Mother (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
Good morning sweetheart.Good morning my Saint of a sweetheart.It has been two year mothersince the boy has sailedon his mythical ...
His Rubies: Told By Valgovind (Laurence Hope Poems)
Along the hot and endless road, Calm and erect, with haggard eyes,The prisoner bore his fetters' load Beneath the scorching, azure skies.Serene ...
Reward Of Fickleness (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ALTON.YOU see that man with the quick eyes and brow,Too ponderous almost for his slender frame,His dark locks tinged with ...
A Man Perishing in the Snow: From Whence Reflections are Raised on the Miseries of Life. (James Thomson Poems)
As thus the snows arise; and foul and fierce,All winter drives along the darken'd air;In his own loose-revolving fields, the ...
Disenchantment Of Death (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Hush! She is dead! Tread gently as the light Foots dim the weary room. Thou shalt behold. Look:--In death's ermine pomp of ...
Bloody Fate (Miguel Hernandez Poems)
I come, blood on blood,like the sea, wave on wave.I have a soul the colour of poppies.The luckless poppy is ...
The Garden By The Bridge (Laurence Hope Poems)
The Desert sands are heated, parched and dreary, The tigers rend alive their quivering preyIn the near Jungle; here the kites ...
To Sorrow (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. O tear-eyed goddess of the marble brow, Who showerest snows of tresses on the night Of anguished temples! lonely watcher, thou Who bendest ...
The Paphian Venus (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
With anxious eyes and dry, expectant lips,Within the sculptured stoa by the sea,All day she waited while, like ghostly ships,Long ...
The Abandoned (Mathilde Blind Poems)
SHE sat by the wayside and wept, where roses, red roses and white,Lay wasted and withered and sere, like her ...
“Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones,” (Jetsun Milarepa Poems)
Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones,Once lived a Saint, known as the second Buddha;His fame was heard ...
Liberty Lighting The World (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
MAJESTIC warder by the Nation's gate,Spike-crowned, flame-armed like Agony or Glory,Holding the tablets of some unknown law,With gesture eloquent and ...
War (Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen Poems)
The thunder has its lull from riot,The morning storm its evening quiet;The raving and rebellious oceanIts crystal calm, its rest ...
Oh, Life, I Have Taken You For My Lover! (Laurence Hope Poems)
Oh, Life, I have taken you for my Lover, I rent your veils and I found you fair ;If a fault ...
“Mary At The Cross” (Harriet Beecher Stowe Poems)
"Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother."O wondrous mother! since the dawn of timeWas ever love, was ...
Merope (Henry Kendall Poems)
FAR in the ways of the hyaline wastes-in the face of the splendidSix of the sisters-the star-dowered sisters ineffably bright,Merope ...
To My — (Jose Rizal Poems)
No more is the muse invoked;the lyre is out of fashion;no poet cares to use it;by other things are the ...
The Feast Of The Gael (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
St. Patrick's DayI.WHAT a onion of hearts is the love of a motherWhen races of men in her name unite!For ...