Elegy On Sophia Graham (Matilda Betham Poems)
WHO DIED JAN. 21, 1800. Sweet is the voice of Friendship to the ear, Sweet is Affection's mildly-beaming eye, Sweet the applause which ...
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An American Poem (Eileen Myles Poems)
I was born in Boston in1949. I never wantedthis fact to be known, infact I've spent the betterhalf of my ...
Elegy On The Death Of Dr. Channing (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I do not come to weep above thy pall, And mourn the dying-out of noble powers,The poet's clearer eye should see, ...
A Poetical Epistle To Lady Austen (William Cowper Poems)
Dear Anna, -- Between friend and friend,Prose answers every common end;Serves, in a plain and homely way,To express the occurrence ...
Recollections Of “Lalla Rookh” (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
WHEN we were farm boys, years ago,I dare not tell how many,When, strange to say, the fairest dayWas often dark ...
By The Grave Of Henry Timrod (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHEN last we parted--thy frail hand in mine--Above us smiled September's passionless sky,And touched by fragrant airs, the hillside pineThrilled ...
Baby Bell (Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poems)
IHave you not heard the poets tellHow came the dainty Baby BellInto this world of ours?The gates of heaven were ...
The First American Congress (Joel Barlow Poems)
Columbus looked; and still around them spread,From south to north, th' immeasurable shade;At last, the central shadows burst away,And rising ...
A Tale (Robert Browning Poems)
(_Epilogue to 'The Two Poets of Croisic.'_)What a pretty tale you told meOnce upon a time--Said you found it somewhere ...
Poslanie K Kulibinu (Nikolay Mikhailovich Yazykov Poems)
Ne chasto li poverhnost' moryaVolnuet groznyh bur' prihod,I s valom val uzhasnyj sporya,Kremnistye brega tryaset!Ne chasto l' den' prelestnyj, yasnyj Skryvaet ...
Fourth Sunday After Trinity (John Keble Poems)
It was not then a poet's dream, An idle vaunt of song,Such as beneath the moon's soft gleam On vacant fancies throng;Which ...
A Secret Gratitude (James Wright Poems)
1She cleaned house, and then lay down longOn the long stair.On one of those cold white wingsThat the strange fowl ...
On Clevedale (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.WHATE'ER Arcadian scenes in fancy's dreams,Delight the eye and rise before the view,Stupendous rocks, wild woods, meand'ring streams,And lakes adorn'd ...
Ode VIII: On Leaving Holland (Mark Akenside Poems)
I 1.Farewell to Leyden's lonely bound,The Belgian Muse's sober seat;Where dealing frugal gifts aroundTo all the favorites at her feet,She ...
The Way To Arcady (Henry Cuyler Bunner Poems)
OH, what's the way to Arcady, To Arcady, To Arcady;Oh, what's the way to Arcady, Where all the leaves are merry?Oh, what's ...
After A Lecture On Wordsworth (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
COME, spread your wings, as I spread mine,And leave the crowded hallFor where the eyes of twilight shineO'er evening's western ...
Ode To Time (Margaret Holford Poems)
Oh Thou! whose viewless form, slow-stealing Time!Has silent march'd o'er many a conquer'd year!Shall thy chill pow'r pervade the glowing ...
The Ballad Of The Solemn Ass (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
Recited at the Century Club, New York: Twelfth Night. 1906Come all ye good Centurions and wise men of the times,You've ...
Experience To The Poet (Margaret Holford Poems)
Why idly, shepherd, through the live-long day,In thriftless song thy youthful leisure waste?The busy world now beckons thee away;Oh! quit ...
Dungog (Henry Kendall Poems)
HERE, pent about by office walls And barren eyes all day,'Tis sweet to think of waterfalls Two hundred miles away!I would not ...
The Maid Of The Mill’s Repentance (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
YOUTH.AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee!Or else I needs must, in my wrath, Expel thee!What's ...
Hokku Poems in Four Seasons (Yosa Buson Poems)
SpringThe year's first poem done,with smug self confidencea haikai poet.Longer has become the daytime;a pheasant is flutteringdown onto the bridge.Yearning ...
Centenary Poem (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Recited at Burns' Centenary Festival, held at Mauchlin, January 25, 1859Oh Bard beloved! as pilgrims to thy shrine, With song and ...
To The Right Worshipfull Sir William Mohun Knight (John Sharrock Poems)
If Maroes Muse, if Homers sacred vaine, (VVhich auncient Poets, intombed lye in molde) Parnassus Nimphes had bett into my braine If that ...
Siren Song (Karl Heinrich Marx Poems)
A BalladThe wave, soft murmuring,With the wind frolicking,Leaps up into the air.You see it tremble, hover,Tumble and topple over,It is ...
The Leader and the Bad Girl (Henry Lawson Poems)
BECAUSE HE had sinned and suffered, because he loved the land,And because of his wonderful sympathy, he held men's hearts ...
Autobiograph (Nazim Hikmet Poems)
I was born in 1902I never once went back to my birthplaceI don't like to turn backat three I served ...
Lucifer’s Deputy (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A POET once, whose tuneful soul, perchance,Too fondly leaned toward sin, and sin's romance,On a long vanished eve, so calm ...
The Origin Of Didactic Poetry (James Russell Lowell Poems)
When wise Minerva still was young And just the least romantic,Soon after from Jove's head she flung That preternatural antic,'Tis said, to ...
The Tantanoola Tiger (Max Harris Poems)
There in the bracken was the ominous spoor mark,Huge, splayed, deadly, and quiet as breath,And all around lay bloodied and ...