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 ...
Passion Poems (1980 Poems)
In Memoriam: Frank M. Cruickshank, (George Washington Cruikshank Poems)
Frank is dead! The mournful messageComes gushing from the ocean's roar.Frank is dead! His mortal passageHas ended on the heavenly ...
Invocation (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. O Life! O Death! O God! Have I not striven? Have I not known thee, God, As thy stars know Heaven? Have I not ...
An Alarm to the Meal-mongers and Corn-sellers in Scotland (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
Ye mealy mouth'd mobbers, attend to my song,Whose plunder brings plenty of blessings along.No gospel or law starv'd people regard,For ...
The Little White Glove (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE early springtime faintly flushed the earth,And in the woods, and by their favorite streamThe fair, wild roses blossomed modestly,Above ...
Last Man, The (Thomas Campbell Poems)
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,The Sun himself must die,Before this mortal shall assumeIts Immortality!I saw a vision in ...
All Saint’s Day (John Keble Poems)
Why blow'st thou not, thou wintry wind, Now every leaf is brown and sere, And idly droops, to thee resigned, The fading chaplet ...
The White Comrade (Robert Haven Schauffler Poems)
Under our curtain of fire,Over the clotted clods,We charged, to be withered, to reelAnd despairingly wheelWhen the bugles bade us ...
The Grief Of A Girl’s Heart (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
O Donall og, if you go across the sea, bring myself with you and donot forget it; and you will have ...
Habeas Corpus (Helen Hunt Jackson Poems)
My body, eh? Friend Death, how now? Why all this tedious pomp of writ? Thou hast reclaimed it sure and slow For half ...
A Thing Of Beauty (John Keats Poems)
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:Its loveliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness; but still will keepA ...
A Feruent Supplication (Henry Arthington Poems)
A feruent supplication,Tending to mortification,And new regeneration,That leadeth to saluation.Most louing Lord, and Father deere,I humbly sue vnto thy grace,That ...
Love’s Servile Lot (Robert Southwell Poems)
LOVE, mistress is of many minds,Yet few know whom they serve;They reckon least how little LoveTheir service doth deserve.The will ...
A Fragment (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THOU darest not love me! - thou canst only seeThe great gulf set between us. Hadst thou love,'T would bear ...
Persephone (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
O Hades! O false gods! false to yourselves! O Hades, 'twas thy brother gave her thee Without a mother's sanction or her ...
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 ...
An Old Vagabond (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
HE was old and alone, and he sat on a stone to rest for awhile from the road:His beard was ...
The Old Burying-Ground (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
PLUMED ranks of tall wild-cherryAnd birch surroundThe half-hid, solitaryOld burying-ground.All the low wall is crumbledAnd overgrown,And in the turf lies ...
Charles Harpur (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where Harpur lies, the rainy streams, And wet hill-heads, and hollows weeping,Are swift with wind, and white with gleams, And hoarse with ...
On fidelity (Ovid Poems)
I don't ask you to be faithful - you're beautiful, after all -but just that I be spared the pain ...
Summons (Louis Untermeyer Poems)
THE eager night and the impetuous winds,The hints and whispers of a thousand lures,And all the swift persuasion of the ...
Sonnets of Twilight and Youth (John William Streets Poems)
I: VISIONCharmed with the ceaseless music of the brook-Babbling with hope and with Youth's deathless song;Full with the joys of ...
On The Persecution Of The Jews In Russia (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHAT murmurs are these that so wofully riseInto heart-storms of agony borne from afar?A tempest of passion, a tumult of ...
The Old Farm (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Dormered and verandaed, cool,Locust-girdled, on the hill;Stained with weather-wear, and dull-Streak'd with lichens; every sillThresholding the beautiful;I can see it ...
An Allegory (Maurice Thompson Poems)
I"Soulless," they said, but I was blindTo all things save the hazel deeps,Unruffled by a gust of wind,Wherein thy wondrous ...
The Unattainable (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Mark thou! a shadow crowned with fire of hell.Man holds her in his heart as night doth holdThe moonlight memories ...
A Little Mistake (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Tis a yarn I heard of a new-chum 'trap' On the edge of the Never-Never,Where the dead men lie and the ...
Stanzas On Music (Mary Ann Carter Poems)
I.There's not a passion that the bosom feelsOf mighty, gentle, or exalted kind,But captive may be led by music's charms--Subdued, ...
Beyond The Potomac (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THEY slept on the field which their valor had won,But arose with the first early blush of the sun,For they ...
Fair Rosamond (Marriott Edgar Poems)
You've heard of King Henry IIAnd the story of how he got fondOf one of his customer's daughters,A lass called ...