Rural Sunday (Michael Barsley Poems)
With vacant stare in the market square,Tricked out in a lilac suit,The villager stands with great handsAnd chaffs with a ...
People Poems (3870 Poems)
Late March (Edward Hirsch Poems)
Saturday morning in late March.I was alone and took a long walk,though I also carried a bookof the Alone, which ...
In The Manner Of G.S. (Giorgos Seferis Poems)
Wherever I travel Greece wounds me.On Pelion among the chestnut trees the Centaur's shirtslipped through the leaves to fold around ...
The Crum Appointment (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
You, no doubt, have heard the story told of Charleston by the sea,How they persecute a Negro when a man ...
The Truth Suppressed (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
Why do people sit in darkness as regards the Negro race?Why so ignorant are nations of conditions in the case?'Tis ...
Anywhere Out of the World (Charles Baudelaire Poems)
This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like ...
To The Right Honourable Earl Stanhope (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
O Stanhope! great in Council, and in Fight,Whom the first Scenes of publick Life delight,In Fields of Death to meet ...
Angelina (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
When de fiddle gits to singin' out a ol' Vahginny reel, An' you 'mence to feel a ticklin' in yo' toe ...
When The Great Gray Ships Come In (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
To eastward ringing, to westward winging, o'er mapless miles of sea,On winds and tides the gospel rides that the furthermost ...
Caroline Chisholm (Henry Kendall Poems)
THE PRIESTS and the Levites went forth, to feast at the courts of the Kings;They were vain of their greatness ...
The Death Of Antoninus Pius (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Through the marble gates of Ostia,Where the Tiber meets the sea,And a hundred Roman galleysStrain their leashes to be free,Streams ...
Scott of the Queensland Mounted (Lex McLennan Poems)
As straight as a mountain sapling, resolute, tall and brown,was Scott of the Queensland Mounted, the Sergeant of Sunrise town;and ...
Little Pat And The Parson (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
He stands at the door of the church peeping in,No troublesome beadle is near him;The preacher is talking of sinners ...
Mahomet’s Song (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
SEE the rock-born stream!Like the gleamOf a star so brightKindly spiritsHigh above the cloudsNourished him while youthfulIn the copse between ...
Magnolia (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Magnolia! "Pale city of the dead,"Adown thy gravelled walks I tread,Thy marble pillars looming high,Thy polished shafts around me lie.With ...
The Land Where I Was Born (John Shaw Neilson Poems)
HAVE you ever been down to my countree Where the trees are green and tall? The days are long and the heavens ...
Rev. Dr. James W. Alexander, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church, New York, died at the VirginiaSprings, July, 1859.The great and good. How startling is ...
Exit From Egyptian Bondage (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
(Written in her thirteenth year.)When Israel's sons, from cruel bondage freed,Fled to the land by righteous Heaven decreed;Insulting Pharaoh quick ...
The Gargoyle And The Griffin (Laura Elizabeth Richards Poems)
Once a Gargoyle and a GriffinThought they'd go and take their tiffinWith the eminent Confucius, just outside the temple wall;So ...
To The Union (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Giant aggregate of nations, Glorious Whole of glorious Parts,Unto endless generations Live United, hands and hearts!Be it storm or summer-weather, Peaceful calm, or ...
The Dead Singer (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
"SHE is dead!" they say; "she is robed for the grave; O there are lilies upon her breast;Her mother has ...
Mr. William Crowe’s Address To Her Majesty, Turned Into Metre (Jonathan Swift Poems)
From a town that consists of a church and a steeple,With three or four houses, and as many people,There went ...
Gettysburg Ode (James Bayard Taylor Poems)
After the eyes that looked, the lips that spake Here, from the shadows of impending death, Those words of solemn breath, What voice ...
Writ On The Eve Of My 32nd Birthday (Gregory Corso Poems)
a slow thoughtful spontaneous poemI am 32 years oldand finally I look my age, if not more.Is it a good ...
Hai bas ki har ik unke ishaare (Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Khan Poems)
hai bas_ki har ik uNke ishaare meN nishaaN aurkarte haiN mohabbat to guzarta hai gumaaN aurYaa_Rab!, na vo samjheN haiN ...
Ashtabula Disaster (Julia A Moore Poems)
Air — "Gently Down the Stream of Time"Have you heard of the dreadful fate Of Mr. P. P. Bliss and wife?Of ...
Invocation (Mathilde Blind Poems)
JUNE, 1866.BREATHE thro' me in music, Spirit of the time!Pregnant with the future, Spirit of the time!As the west wind sougheth, Through the ...
Death Of Samson (Nathan Covington Brooks Poems)
Within Philistia's princely hallIs held a glorious festival,And on the fluctuant ether floatsThe music of the timbrel's notes,While living waves ...
Cosmopolitan poetry (Janos Arany Poems)
I have no shame, no regretThat born Hungarian, I writeAs one, that I can never letMy words beyond this soil ...
Rise Ye! Rise Ye! (Henry Lawson Poems)
Rise Ye! rise ye! noble toilers! claim your rights with fire and steel!Rise ye! for the cursed tyrants crush ye ...