The Hoosier Folk-Child (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
The Hoosier Folk-Child--all unsung-- Unlettered all of mind and tongue; Unmastered, unmolested--made Most wholly frank and unafraid: Untaught of any school--unvexed Of law or creed--all ...
Poverty Poems (485 Poems)
A Tale Of Society As It Is: From Facts, 1811 (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.She was an aged woman; and the yearsWhich she had numbered on her toilsome wayHad bowed her natural powers to ...
A Man Perishing in the Snow: From Whence Reflections are Raised on the Miseries of Life. (James Thomson Poems)
As thus the snows arise; and foul and fierce,All winter drives along the darken'd air;In his own loose-revolving fields, the ...
The Scots Apostasie (John Cleveland Poems)
Is't come to this? What shall the cheeks of fame Stretch'd with the breath of learned Loudon's name, Be flogg'd again? And ...
Fame (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
IOnce, in a dream, I saw a man With haggard face and tangled hair,And eyes that nursed as wild a care As ...
Eurydice (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Heaven's cup held down to me I drain,The sunshine mounts and spurs my brain;Bathing in grass, with thirsty eyeI suck ...
A Satire. A Humble Imitation (Nora Pembroke Poems)
The rage for writing has spread far and wide,Letters on letters now are multiplied,And every mortal, who can hold a ...
Drink (Lennox Amott Poems)
I.An English village, a summer scene,A homely cottage, a garden green,An opening vista, a cloudless sky,A bee that hums as ...
Stella’s Birthday, March 13, 1726 (Jonathan Swift Poems)
This day, whate'er the Fates decree,Shall still be kept with joy by me;This day, then, let us not be toldThat ...
Sheep Sheering. Written at Mr. John E—‘s, Gedney (Joseph Proud Poems)
From days unnumber'd hath the custom beenTo shear, in summer months, the loaded sheep,And keep the jocund feast: so still ...
The Testament of John Lydgate – Excerpt (John Lydgate Poems)
Beholde, o man! lyft up thyn eye and see What mortall peyne I suffre for thi trespace. With pietous voys I crye ...
A Voice From The Factory (John Critchley Prince Poems)
I HEAR men laud the coming Exhibition, I read its promise in the printed page,And thence I learn that its pacific ...
To Mrs. Strangeways Horner, With A Letter From My Son; (Mary Barber Poems)
O thou, with ev'ry Virtue grac'd,Adorn'd with Wit, and Sense, and Taste;Who, with a Goodness unconfin'd,Delight'st in blessing human Kind,Whose ...
Mrs. Harvey Seymour, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, Sunday, May 5th, 1861.She found a painless avenue to makeThe great transition from a world of careTo ...
The Simple Line (Laura Riding Jackson Poems)
The secrets of the mind convene splendidly,Though the mind is meek.To be aware inwardlyof brain and beautyIs dark too recognizable.Thought ...
Mrs. Merdle At Home (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
She Discourseth of Nothing to Eat and the Cost thereof. Why Merdle--why did you bring Dinewell to-day? So very, though welcome, so ...
Liadain to Curithir (Moireen A Fox Poems)
IIF I had known how narrow a prison is love,Never would I have given the width of the skiesIn return ...
To The Earl Of Carlisle, K. G. (Henry Kirke White Poems)
I. 1.Retired, remote from human noise,An humble Poet dwelt serene;His lot was lowly, yet his joysWere manifold, I ween.He laid ...
I Am An Atheist Who Says His Prayers (Karl Shapiro Poems)
I am an atheist who says his prayers.I am an anarchist, and a full professor at that. I take the ...
Christie’s Poor Old Gran (Gerald Massey Poems)
No green age, beautiful to see, Hath Poor Old Gran!No ripe life mellowed goldenly Hath Poor Old Gran!One by one we have ...
The Empty Glass (Henry Lawson Poems)
THERE ARE three lank bards in a borrowed room- Ah! The number is one too few-They have deemed their home and ...
To A Young Gentleman In Love. A Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
From publick Noise and factious Strife,From all the busie Ills of Life,Take me, My Celia, to Thy Breast;And lull my ...
The Law Of Death (John Hay Poems)
The song of Kilvani: fairest sheIn all the land of Savatthi.She had one child, as sweet and gayAnd dear to ...
Life’s Curtain Unrolled (Mary Alice Walton Poems)
Glad boyish voices with merriment ring,Two children with nought, as gayly they singOf burdensome care, their hearts as the birdTo ...
Awr Lad. (John Hartley Poems)
Beautiful babby! Beautiful lad! Pride o' thi mother and joy o' thi dad!Full ov sly tricks an sweet winnin ways;-- Two cherry ...
Christmas Eve (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Christmas-eve came to us darkly, Darkly to our cottage door,Not with brave and boisterous greeting, As it used to come of yore;Not ...
Untitled #4 (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
all the fears of childhoodall the dreams of terrornightmares, the loneliness of childrenthe sense of guilta face pale as the ...
English Eclogues III – The Funeral (Robert Southey Poems)
The coffin as I past across the laneCame sudden on my view. It was not here,A sight of every day, ...
Prologue : Written At The Request Of The Managers Of The Public Kitchen At Edinburgh, For The Benefi (Hector MacNeill Poems)
When discord first, with hate infuriate, hurl'dTheir baneful influence o'er a suffering world;Broke the firm bands of kindred joys asunder,And ...
The Song Of Food And Dwelling (Jetsun Milarepa Poems)
I bow down at the feet of the wish-fulfilling Guru.Pray vouchsafe me your grace in bestowing beneficial food,Pray make me ...