Black Lizzie (Henry Kendall Poems)
THE GLOVED and jewelled bards who sing Of Pippa, Maud, and Dorothea,Have hardly done the handsome thing For you, my inky Cytherea.Flower ...
Poets Poems (2283 Poems)
Oglethorpe (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
An Ode to be read on the laying of the foundationstone of the new Oglethorpe University,January, 1915, at Atlanta,GeorgiaIAS when ...
Hawaii (Padraic Colum Poems)
NOT in a grove where each tree loses its presence, not singly, do Lehua trees grow; they are Lehua trees ...
A Friend Of Mine (James Barron Hope Poems)
We sat beneath tall waving trees that flung Their heavy shadows o'er the dewy grass. Over the waters, breaking at our feet, Quivered ...
The Demon Of The Study (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The Brownie sits in the Scotchman's room,And eats his meat and drinks his ale,And beats the maid with her unused ...
To The Moon (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
THOU loveliest far of all the Heavenly Train!Thou bright attendant on Night's solemn reign!In whom created Beauty's charms combine,With excellence ...
Butterfly And Honey-Bee (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
Who painted thy wings for a vision, a pageant of summer,Butterfly gay?Who made thee, thou hovering silence for ever at ...
Ode I: The Remonstrance (Mark Akenside Poems)
If, yet regardful of your native land,Old Shakespeare's tongue you deign to understand,Lo, from the blissful bowers where heaven rewardsInstructive ...
On Mr. Abraham Cowley, His Death, And Burial Amongst The Ancient Poets (John Denham Poems)
Old Chaucer, like the morning star,To us discovers day from far;His light those mists and clouds dissolved,Which our dark nation ...
Bill the Bullock-Driv (Henry Kendall Poems)
The Leaders of millions, the lords of the lands, Who sway the wide world with their willAnd shake the great globe ...
Nature: (John William Inchbold Poems)
STRATFORD-ON-AVON. I. I feel the precious balm of Nature's joy! I rest as in a dream of quiet bliss! Time's scroll unfolded lies: again ...
The Pacification. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Nick Dapper, and the great De---l------ne,Against whom Nick so oft has drawnHis hostile Pen, one Night last WeekMet at the ...
Antony Villa (Henry Lawson Poems)
Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens,With a tennis ground and terrace, and a flagstaff in ...
Bacchanalia or The New Age (Matthew Arnold Poems)
IThe evening comes, the fields are still.The tinkle of the thirsty rill,Unheard all day, ascends again;Deserted is the half-mown plain,Silent ...
The Prodigy. (Mary Barber Poems)
Tho' Rhyme serves the Thoughts of great Poets to fetter,It sets off the Sense of small Poets the better.When I've ...
Everyday Characters V – Portrait Of A Lady (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
IN THE EXHIBITION OP THE ROYALACADEMYWhat are you, Lady ? - nought is hereTo tell us of your name or ...
Sonnets (Mary Ashley Townsend Poems)
THE DEAD SINGERA POET'S soul has sung its way to God;Has loosed its luminous wings from earthly thongs,And soared to ...
The Alleys (Henry Lawson Poems)
I was welcome in a palace when the ball was at my feet,I was petted in a garden and my ...
A Dream (Robert Burns Poems)
Guid-Mornin' to our Majesty!May Heaven augment your blissesOn ev'ry new birth-day ye see,A humble poet wishes.My bardship here, at your ...
Friendship And Single Life, Against Love And Marriage (John Denham Poems)
Love! in what poison is thy dart Dipp'd, when it makes a bleeding heart? None know but they who feel the smart.It ...
The Growth Of A Legend (James Russell Lowell Poems)
A FRAGMENTA legend that grew in the forest's hushSlowly as tear-drops gather and gush,When a word some poet chanced to ...
Anadyomene (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
GIVE o'er the strife! The poet criesThe maiden mercy, in whose eyesHe sees the light of paradise.Beyond the coppice, at ...
The Epitaph Of Bion. (Henry Alford Poems)
Dolefully sound, ye groves and Dorian waters,Lament, ye rivers, our beloved Bion;Mourn, all ye plants, and whisper low, ye forests;Ye ...
Eclogue 10: Gallus (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
This now, the very latest of my toils,Vouchsafe me, Arethusa! needs must ISing a brief song to Gallus- brief, but ...
To The Future (James Russell Lowell Poems)
O Land of Promise! from what Pisgah's height Can I behold thy stretch of peaceful bowers,Thy golden harvests flowing out of ...
To George Felton Mathew (John Keats Poems)
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song;Nor can remembrance, Mathew! bring to viewA ...
Eclogue X (Virgil Poems)
GALLUSThis now, the very latest of my toils,Vouchsafe me, Arethusa! needs must ISing a brief song to Gallus- brief, but ...
How A Cat Was Annoyed And A Poet Was Booted (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A poet had a cat. There is nothing odd in that- (I might make a little pun about the Mews!) But what is ...
Eclogue 7: Meliboeus Corydon Thrysis (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
Daphnis beneath a rustling ilex-treeHad sat him down; Thyrsis and CorydonHad gathered in the flock, Thyrsis the sheep,And Corydon the ...
Eclogue VII (Virgil Poems)
MELIBOEUS, CORYDON, THYRSISDaphnis beneath a rustling ilex-treeHad sat him down; Thyrsis and CorydonHad gathered in the flock, Thyrsis the sheep,And ...