The Revolution At Market-Hill (Jonathan Swift Poems)
From distant regions Fortune sendsAn odd triumvirate of friends;Where Phoebus pays a scanty stipend,Where never yet a codling ripen'd:Hither the ...
Possession Poems (155 Poems)
Evening Hexameters (Henry Alford Poems)
Darkly the minster--towers, against the glow of the sunset,Rise from the purple band of mist that beleaguers the city:Golden the ...
The Foolish Traveller; Or, A Good Inn Is A Bad Home (Hannah More Poems)
There was a Prince of high degree,As great and good as Prince could be;Much power and wealth were in his ...
Elegy on a Lady, whom Grief for the Death of her Betrothed Killed (Robert Seymour Bridges Poems)
Assemble, all ye maidens, at the door,And all ye loves, assemble; far and wideProclaim the bridal, that proclaimed beforeHas been ...
The Traveller And The Farm-Maiden (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
HE.CANST thou give, oh fair and matchless maiden,'Neath the shadow of the lindens yonder,—Where I'd fain one moment cease to ...
To My Wife (Robert Henry Forster Poems)
Helper and more than helper! In thissphereYou are supreme and I subordinate.Yours was the artist's eye with vision clearThat made ...
Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 06 (Sa di Poems)
It is narrated that one of the kings of Persia had stretched forthhis tyrannical hand to the possessions of his ...
“Town, a town …” (George Oppen Poems)
Town, a town,But locationOver which the sun as it comes to it;Which cools, houses and lamp-posts, during the night, with the ...
The Occasion of the Law Suit. chapter I (John Arbuthnot Poems)
I need not tell you of the great quarrels that have happened in ourneighbourhood since the death of the late ...
In The Public Library (Lesbia Harford Poems)
Standing on tiptoe, head back, eyes and armUpraised, Kate groped to reach the higher shelf.Her sleeve slid up like darkness ...
Unchained (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
1863O'er the land, a hush had fallen,Hearts Thrilled expectantly,Till from twice two million voices,Rang the glad cry, "We are free!"Then ...
Adoration (Laurence Hope Poems)
Who does not feel desire unending To solace through his daily strife,With some mysterious Mental Blending, The hungry loneliness of life?Until, by ...
Natural Perversities (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I am not prone to moralize In scientific doubtOn certain facts that Nature tries To puzzle us about,--For I am no philosopher Of ...
A Memory: Banks of Calder And Cousin Dora (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Straying, musing, singing, dreaming,'Neath the leafy banners streaming,Fleck'd with golden sunbeams gleaming Through the woodland's dun;On lone Calder's banks reclining,Where the ...
The Artemus Of Michigan (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Grand Haven is in Michigan, and in possession, too, Of as many rare attractions as our party ever knew:-- The fine hotel, ...
Black Mammies (John Wesley Holloway Poems)
If Ah evah git to glory, an' Ah hope to mek it thoo,Ah expec' to hyah a story, an' Ah ...
Songs with Preludes: Regret (Jean Ingelow Poems)
O that word REGRET!There have been nights and morns when we have sighed,“Let us alone, Regret! We are contentTo throw thee ...
Remonstrance (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"One murder makes a villain, millions a hero; and number sanctifies the crime."—YoungWith mournful eyes, and folded hands,And listening ear, ...
Meditations Upon An Egg (John Bunyan Poems)
1.The egg's no chick by falling from the hen;Nor man a Christian, till he's born again.The egg's at first contained ...
Nothing is Lost (Anne Barbara Ridler Poems)
Nothing is lost.We are too sad to know that, or too blind;Only in visited moments do we understand:It is not ...
The Two Hermits (Khalil Gibran Poems)
Upon a lonely mountain, there lived two hermits who worshipped Godand loved one another.Now these two hermits had one earthen ...
To My Friend – Ode III (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
BE void of feeling!A heart that soon is stirr'd,Is a possession sadUpon this changing earth.Behrisch, let spring's sweet smileNever gladden ...
Thick Orchards, All in White (Jean Ingelow Poems)
"The time of the singing of birds is come." Thick orchards, all in white, Stand 'neath blue voids of light,And birds among ...
A Apostacy Of One, And But One Lady (Richard Lovelace Poems)
I.That frantick errour I adore,And am confirm'd the earth turns round;Now satisfied o're and o're,As rowling waves, so flowes the ...
The Flaming Circle (Louis Untermeyer Poems)
Though for fifteen years you have chaffed me across the table, Slept in my arms and fingered my plunging heart, I scarcely ...
The Funeral (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
MARK you not yon sad procession;'Mid the ruin'd abbey's gloom,Hastening to the worm's possession,To the dark and silent tomb!See the ...
I Loved You Once (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
And did you think my heartCould keep its love unchanging,Fresh as the buds that startIn spring, nor know estranging?Listen! The ...
Legend of the Five Lords (John Lowe Poems)
Kings within their palace walls,Bright the golden horde they wrought,By their iron hands the nations fell,Terror and fear swept before,Children ...
LX. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Whoso acquireth wealth, spendeth it, and bestoweth it, a man is he:Whoso hath a sword in his possession, the lord ...
No Other (Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass Poems)
Swiftly we float upon time's tide Adown the stream of years. Sometimes past hills of joy we glide, Sometimes through vales of tears. Age ...