The Distressed Poet (Pantoum) (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
O where is the rhyme that I need?I have cudgeled my brains for a word,Without it I ne'er can proceed,And ...
Poets Poems (2283 Poems)
“Pet Marjorie” (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Sweet Pet! such pets are far and few—A flow'ret balmed with spirit dew—With beauteous tints of heavenly hue—A lovely soul, ...
To a Cabbage Rose (Henry Lea Twisleton Poems)
Thy clustering leaves are steeped in splendour; No evening red, no morning dun,Can show a hue as rich and tender As thine ...
June, 1864 (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Why darkly veiled, like mourning bride,Com'st thou, sweet June?—Why dost thou hideThy glowing charms and lustrous eyesBeneath a cloudy, cold ...
The Country Retreat (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
OH lone and lovely solitude,Washed by the sounding sea;Nature was in a poet's mood,When she created thee.How pleasant in the ...
The Bluebird (Maurice Thompson Poems)
When ice is thawed and snow is gone,And racy sweetness floods the trees;When snow-birds from the hedge have flown,And on ...
Stanzas II (Mary Ann Carter Poems)
"I love to gaze at even-tide."I.I love to gaze at even-tideUpon the still and mighty deep,And see the sun's reflecting ...
A Stranger in the Church (John O Brien Poems)
'Twas Callagan who jerked the thumb-A mute, interrogating thumb- That set the people staringAt Casey's lot arriving late.They had in tow ...
Louisa To Strephon (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Ah! Strephon, how can you despiseHer, who without thy pity dies!To Strephon I have still been true,And of as noble ...
Ars Victrix (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
YES; when the ways oppose- When the hard means rebel, Fairer the work out-grows,- More potent far the spell. O ...
The Peace Autumn (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THANK God for rest, where none molest,And none can make afraid;For Peace that sits as Plenty's guestBeneath the homestead shade!Bring ...
Dum Vivimus (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Now with the marriage of the lip and beaker Let Joy be born! and in the rosy shine, The slanting starlight of ...
A Country Incident (May Sarton Poems)
Absorbed in planting bulbs, that work of hope,I was startled by a loud human voice,"Do go on working while I ...
The Voice Of Beauty Drowned (Robert Graves Poems)
'Cry from the thicket my heart's bird!'The other birds woke all around;Rising with toot and howl they stirredTheir plumage, broke ...
Oblivion (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
BEYOND the flight of hours,Beneath the rooted flowers,Where winter rain, nor showersOf April, fall;Where days that say "Alas!"Forget to come, ...
Written In A Copy Of “The Revolt Of Islam.” (Henry Alford Poems)
Beloved, to whose wedded hand I trust This treasure of sweet song, it is but meet That thou shouldst know its value; ...
Castro Alves From Brazil (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Castro Alves from Brazil, for whom did you sing?Did you sing for the flower? For the waterwhose beauty whispered words ...
After My Death (Hayyim Nahman Bialik Poems)
After my death mourn me this way: "There was a man—and see: he is no more; before his time this man died and ...
Proclamation Without Pretension (Tristan Tzara Poems)
Art is going to sleep for a new world to be born'ART'-parrot word-replaced by DADA,PLESIOSAURUS, or handkerchiefThe talent THAT CAN ...
It is Night, in My Study (Miguel de Unamuno Poems)
It is night, in my study.The deepest solitude; I hear the steadyshudder in my breast—for it feels all alone,and blanched ...
The Music of The Stream (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Is it a spirit voice—an angel's song—That pours its liquid melody amongThe mossy stones that break the rippling sheen,Lone Calder! ...
Vaishnava janatho (With English Translation) (Narsimha Mehta Poems)
Vaishnav jan to tene kahiye je PeeD paraayi jaaNe re Par-dukhkhe upkaar kare toye Man abhimaan na aaNe re (Vaishnava)SakaL lok maan sahune ...
To Louise (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
OH, the poets may sing of their Lady Irenes,And may rave in their rhymes about wonderful queens;But I throw my ...
St. Michael The Weigher (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Stood the tall Archangel weighingAll man's dreaming, doing, saying,All the failure and the pain,All the triumph and the gain,In the ...
Poet Of Our Race (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
Oh, Poet of our Race,We reverence thy nameAs thy hist'ry we retrace,Which enfolds ...
To S.M. a Young African Painter (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
To show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent,And thought in living characters to paint,When first thy pencil did those beauties give,And ...
Love’s Sacrifice (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
LOVE'S Herald flew o'er all the fields of Greece,Crying: "Love's altar waits for sacrifice!"And all folk answered, like a wave ...
The Love-Sick Girl And The Nightingale (Peter John Allan Poems)
Oh! gentlest nightingale,Once more thy plaintive tale Repeat—repeat to me;It will be passing sweetMy own sad thoughts to greet, In thy soft ...
Charming May (John Hartley Poems)
"O! charming May!"That's what they say.The saying is not new,--The saying is not true;-- O! May!Bare fields and icebound streams,Sunshine in ...
A Footnote to a Famous Lyric (Louise Imogen Guiney Poems)
TRUE love's own talisman, which hereShakespeare and Sidney failed to teach,A steel-and-velvet CavalierGave to our Saxon speech:Chief miracle of theme ...