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 ...
Past Poems (4909 Poems)
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 ...
Rizpah (Henry Kendall Poems)
SAID one who led the spears of swarthy Gad,To Jesse's mighty son: "My Lord, O King,I, halting hard by Gibeon's ...
The Helmsman (Henry Kendall Poems)
LIKE one who meets a staggering blow, The stout old ship doth reel,And waters vast go seething past-But will it last, ...
Fragment VIII (James Macpherson Poems)
By the side of a rock on the hill, beneaththe aged trees, old Osciansat on the moss; the last of ...
Filioae Dulcissimae. An Easter Offering (Henry Alford Poems)
Say wilt thou think of me when I'm away,Borne from the threshold and laid in the clay,Past and forgotten for ...
Monday In Easter Week (John Keble Poems)
Go up and watch the new-born rill Just trickling from its mossy bed, Streaking the heath-clad hill With a bright emerald thread.Canst thou ...
The Prime of Life (Henry Lawson Poems)
OH, the strength of the toil of those twenty years, with father, and master, and men!And the clearer brain of ...
The Old Swimmin’ Hole (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Oh! the old swimmin'-hole! whare the crick so still and deep Looked like a baby-river that was laying half asleep, And the ...
Retrospective Reflections (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.WHEN soften'd sadness steals upon the mind,And Memory's hand has touched each finer chord,What joy so pure, what rapture so ...
Trinitas (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
At morn I prayed, "I fain would seeHow Three are One, and One is Three;Read the dark riddle unto me."I ...
The Complaint of Nature (John Logan Poems)
Job xiv.Few are thy days and full of woe,O man of woman born!Thy doom is written, "Dust thou art,And shalt ...
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 ...
Retirement (James Beattie Poems)
When in the crimson cloud of Even,The lingering light decays,And Hesper on the front of HeavenHis glittering gem displays!Deep in ...
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 ...
The Smoke Traveller (Irving Browne Poems)
When I puff my cigarette,Straight I see a Spanish girl,-Mantilla, fan, coquettish curl,Languid airs and dimpled face,Calculating, fatal grace;Hear a ...
Struggle With The Angel (Jaroslav Seifert Poems)
God knows who first thought upthat gloomy imageand spoke of the deadas living shadesstraying about amongst us.And yet those shades ...
Our Banker (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
OLD TIME, in whose bank we deposit our notes,Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;He keeps all his ...
The Living Water (Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass Poems)
She left her home that morn In fair Samaria's land, All heedless of her state forlorn, Sin-bound, both heart and hand. With prejudicial pride She ...
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 ...
Knitting (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
My muse is in the sulks to-day,I've tried in vain to findA subject fit for rhyme and song,Just suited to ...
Summer: Sunday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Thou art my glory—Thou my song, whose throneIs built upon the highest heavens—and thenceRollest the spheres by Thine omnipotence—Thou art ...
The Lover: A Ballad (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
At length, by so much importunity press'd, Take, C{-}{-}, at once, the inside of my breast; This stupid indiff'rence so often you ...
The Prayer Of Nature (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair?Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone ...
The Aspen Leaf (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
I would some instruction draw,And raise pleasure to the height,Through the meanest object's sight.By the murmur of a spring,Or the ...
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 ...
Prologue (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
A moment's pause before we play our parts,To speak the thought that reigns within your hearts.--Now from the Future's hours, ...
Caf (Thomas Blackburn Poems)
'Of course,' I said, 'we cannot hope to findWhat we are looking for in anyone;They glitter, maybe, but are not ...
Lake George, N. Y. (Jared Barhite Poems)
Beautiful, beautiful Horicon! Over thy waters so blue, Sunshine and shadow in silence flit on, Painting fresh scenes on the ecstatic view. Blue are ...
Death Of Henry Clay, Jr. (John Marchborn Cooley Poems)
Killed In One Of The Battles of the Mexican WarFierce as the sword upon his thigh,Doth gleam the panting soldier's ...