The Croton Ode. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Gushing from this living fountain,Music pours a falling strain,As the goddess of the mountainComes with all her sparkling train.From her ...
Posterity Poems (92 Poems)
Epithalamium. (Henry Baker Poems)
I.Hymen! the Bridal--bed prepare,Summon all the Loves together;Virgins! Undress the blushing Fair,Hoping, fearing, lead her thither.II.At length, forbear to rob ...
Old Government House, Windsor, N.S.W. (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
A HUNDRED years and more have run their courseSince settlers saw the River Hawkesbury,And came to till the lands its ...
Farewell to Love (John Donne Poems)
Whilst yet to prove,I thought there was some deity in loveSo did I reverence, and gaveWorship, as atheists at their ...
On Leaving Bath. (Mary Barber Poems)
The Britons, in their Nature shy,View Strangers with a distant Eye:We think them partial and severe;And judge their Manners by ...
A Worn-Out Pencil (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Welladay! Here I lay You at rest--all worn away, O my pencil, to the tip Of our old companionship! Memory Sighs to see What you are, and ...
Evolutionary Hymn (C. S. Lewis Poems)
Lead us, Evolution, lead usUp the future's endless stair;Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.For stagnation is despair:Groping, guessing, ...
A Carol [I] (Mildmay Fane Poems)
If nothing else, may not this season move,Or time become the true chronicle of love?And so allay the fury, stint ...
A Nocturne (John William Streets Poems)
Night broodeth o'er the solitude sereneAs some glad mother o'er her first-born child,Pouring her gladness on the shadowy sceneIn floods ...
To The Right Honourable The Earl Of Thomond, At Bath (Mary Barber Poems)
Obrian, were in Story told,Thy Ancestors wore Crowns of old:In fair Hibernia's Isle they reign'd;A Country, by their Sons disdain'd!Too ...
Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Secon (Raymond Clevie Carver Poems)
October. Here in this dank, unfamiliar kitchenI study my father's embarrassed young man's face.Sheepish grin, he holds in one hand ...
Epinikion. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
WE built thy walls, O Zion,In sorrow and in fear;And each builder kept his eye onHis battle-axe and spearAs he ...
if posterity should ask of me (Gilbert Frankau Poems)
Lord, if I had half your brains, I'd write a book:None of your sentimental platitudes,But something real, vital: that should ...
Lone Founts (Herman Melville Poems)
Though fast youth's glorious fable flies,View not the world with worldling's eyes;Nor turn with weather of the time.Foreclose the coming ...
On Napoleon’s Death (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
Cold hears thy soul the praise or cursing of posterity.Quit of the human race, thou man of destiny!They only could ...
Epitaph (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Posterity will ne'er surveyA nobler grave than this:Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:Stop, traveler-- (Lord George Gordon Byron)
Felitsa (Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin Poems)
God-like Tsarevna Of the Kirgiz-Kaisatskii horde! Whose wisdom matchless Opened the true path To young Prince Khlor To go up ...
Corsica (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
——— A manly race Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave; Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard To hold a ...
The Younger Brutus (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
When in the Thracian dust uprooted lay, In ruin vast, the strength of Italy, And Fate had doomed Hesperia's valleys ...
Judith (Eloise Alberta Bibb Poems)
IO, that the years had language! time would tell,Of one bright night the moon has loved so well, For oft ...
XXX. Of Power and Preferment (Ellis Walker Poems)
Let not these thoughts torment you: I alas!In low ignoble poverty shall passMy wretched days, and unregarded lieBuried alive, in ...
To The Memory Of Channing (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Those spirits God ordained,To stand the watchmen on the outer wall,Upon whose souls the beams of truth first fall; They ...
Julia (E W Bowling Poems)
When the Cambridge flower-show ended, And the flowers and guests were gone, And the evening shades descended, Roamed ...
A Regular Sort Of A Guy (Eugene O Neill Poems)
He fights where the fighting is thickest And keeps his high honor clean; From finish to ...
Bright (C J Dennis Poems)
Where Feathertop frowns thro' the winter scud, Where Buffalo broods on high,Dwells she, a lass of royal blood, And a ...
The Rose (Daniel Baker Poems)
Seest thou this Flow'r my Dear, how fair it shows Op'ning its balmy Bosom, to receive The lusty Morning--beams? A ...
Horace II, 13. (Eugene Field Poems)
O fountain of Blandusia, Whence crystal waters flow, With garlands gay and wine I'll pay The sacrifice I ...
Inscription On A Cenotaph Erected By Sir William Draper, K.B. In His Garden At Clifton Near Bristol (Christopher Anstey Poems)
This Cenotaph is sacred to the Memory Of those departed Warriors, of the seventy--ninth regiment, by whose deliberate Valour, steady ...
To The Fountain Of Bandusia (Eugene Field Poems)
O fountain of Bandusia! Whence crystal waters flow,With garlands gay and wine I'll pay The sacrifice I owe;A sportive kid ...
Horace III. 13 (Eugene Field Poems)
O fountain of Bandusia, Whence crystal waters flow,With garlands gay and wine I'll pay The sacrifice I owe;A sportive kid ...