Names Upon a Stone: (Inscribed to G. L. Fagan, Esq.) (Henry Kendall Poems)
ACROSS bleak widths of broken sea A fierce north-easter breaks,And makes a thunder on the lea- A whiteness of the lakes.Here, while ...
Past Poems (4909 Poems)
To Mrs. Siddons (Joanna Baillie Poems)
GIFTED of Heaven! who hast, in days gone by,Moved every heart, delighted every eye,While age and youth, of high and ...
The Captive Of The White City (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
FLOWER of the foam of the wavesOf the beautiful inland sea, -White as the foam that lavesThe ships of the ...
To The Past (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Wondrous and awful are thy silent halls, O kingdom of the past!There lie the bygone ages in their palls, Guarded by shadows ...
Luther’s Hymn, In Eight Practical Rules (Martin Luther Poems)
I.'Tis not too arduous an essay,To tread resolved the gospel-way;The sensual instinct to control,And warm with purer fire the soul.Nature ...
The Magi To The Star (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
I. THANKSGIVING.Star, on thy Heaven-returning way, Our message of thanksgiving bear;To Him who answered with thy ray The priestless Gentiles' trembling prayer.When ...
Ode to a Man of Letters (John Logan Poems)
Lo, winter's hoar dominion past!Arrested in his eastern blastThe fiend of nature flies;Breathing the spring, the zephyrs play,And re-enthroned the ...
Winter: Wednesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The hour of peace resumes againIts tranquil, silent, solemn reign;Sorrow a short cessation knowsOn the soft couch of calm repose,And ...
Verses, on the Death of the Princess Amelia (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
DREARY November! now thy gloom,In heighten'd gloom is darker roll'd, Thy wintry wing, The tidings bring,Which fair Amelia's fate unfold.Each varied object, ...
Dolce Far Niente (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IOver the bay as our boat went sailing Under the skies of Augustine,Far to the East lay the ocean paling Under the ...
The Pioneer (James Russell Lowell Poems)
What man would live coffined with brick and stone, Imprisoned from the healing touch of air, And cramped with selfish landmarks everywhere,When ...
The Summer Pool (William Cosmo Monkhouse Poems)
THERE is a singing in the summer air,The blue and brown moths flutter o'er the grass,The stubble bird is creaking ...
Go Down Death (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
(A Funeral Sermon)Weep not, weep not,She is not dead;She's resting in the bosom of Jesus.Heart-broken husband--weep no more;Grief-stricken son--weep no ...
To Thyrza: And Thou Art Dead, As Young And Fair (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
And thou art dead, as young and fair As aught of mortal birth;And form so soft, and charms so rare, Too soon ...
Before A Statue Of Buddha (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
O Buddha, of the mystic smileAnd downcast, dreamful eyes,To whom unnumbered sacred shrinesAnd gilded statues rise,Whose fanes are filled with ...
The Thunderbolt (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
Loud pealed the thunder From arsenal high, Bright flashed the lightning Athwart the broad sky; Fast o'er the prairie, Through torrent and shade, Sought the red ...
Erin (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
"Come, sing a new song to her here while we listen!"They cry to her sons who sing;And one sings: " ...
Constellations, The (William Cullen Bryant Poems)
O constellations of the early night,That sparkled brighter as the twilight died,And made the darkness glorious! I have seenYour rays ...
A Woman’s Mood (Grace Jennings Carmichael Poems)
I THINK to-night I could bear it all, Even the arrow that cleft the core,-Could I wait again for your swift ...
Mon-Daw-Min (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
OR, THE ORIGIN OF THE INDIAN-CORN.Cherry bloom and green buds bursting Fleck the azure skies;In the spring wood, hungering, thirsting, Faint an ...
Stuart (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A CUP of your potent "mountain dew,"By the camp-fire's ruddy light;Let us drink to a spirit as leal and trueAs ...
The Little Irish Mother (John O Brien Poems)
Have you seen the tidy cottage in the straggling, dusty street,Where the roses swing their censers by the door?Have you ...
The Fairest Land (Marietta Holley Poems)
'Twas a bleak dull moor that stretched beforeThe low stone porch of the cottage door,And standing there was youth and ...
Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Four (Henry Kendall Poems)
I HEAR no footfall beating through the dark, A lonely gust is loitering at the pane;There is no sound within these ...
A Bill for the Better Promotion of Oppression on the Sabbath Day (Thomas Love Peacock Poems)
Forasmuch as the Canter's and Fanatic's LordSayeth peace and joy are by me abhorred;And would fill each Sunday with gloom ...
Return (George Oppen Poems)
This Earth the king saidLooking at the ground;This England. But we driveA Sunday paradiseOf parkway, trees flow into trees and ...
The Golden Wedding Of Longwood (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
With fifty years between you and your well-kept wedding vow,The Golden Age, old friends of mine, is not a fable ...
The Foredawn Hour (John Payne Poems)
IBETWEEN the night-end and the break of dayAn hour there is that from the thither shoreOf the dark river its ...
In The Twilight (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
In the twilight gray and shadowy, Deepening o'er the sunset's glow,Softly through the mystic dimness Flitting shadows come and go.As my thoughts ...
Reincarnation (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I know not how, I know not where,But from my own heart's mystic loreI feel that I have breathed this ...