Hymn #1 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
FATHER and Lord! Almighty and all-wise!How ardently devout affections rise,When rushing thoughts, unsought for, swift and free,Crowd on th' expanding ...
Poverty Poems (485 Poems)
One Who Loved Nature (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IHe was not learned in any art;But Nature led him by the hand;And spoke her language to his heartSo he ...
The Centenary Of A Hero (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
George Stephenson, the heroic son of Britain's hardy race,The world this day holds festival, his grand career to trace;And proudly ...
The Epiphany (John Keble Poems)
Star of the East, how sweet art Thou, Seen in life's early morning sky,Ere yet a cloud has dimmed the brow, While ...
Anglicised Utopia (William Schwenck Gilbert Poems)
Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.(Divorce is nearly obsolete in England.)No ...
Willie’s and Nellie’s Wish (Julia A Moore Poems)
Willie and Nellie, one evening sat By their own little cottage door;They saw a man go staggering by — Says Willie, "that's ...
The Pilot In The Jungle (John Anthony Ciardi Poems)
IMachine stitched rivets ravel on a treeWhose name he does not know. Left in the sky,He dangles from a silken ...
Reflections On Visiting The Monument Of Miss Smith, Of Coinstone (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
A PHILOSOPHIC maid, with tranquil mind,Life's gayer scenes and youth's fond hopes resign'd,Left Piercefield's lov'd retreats, from childhood dear,And came ...
Moon Fairies (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
THE moon, a circle of gold,O'er the crowded housetops rolled,And peeped in an attic, where,'Mid sordid things and bare,A sick ...
The Vision Of Saint Francis (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Francis D' Assisi, gentlest Saint of Saint's,Within his garden where the roses grewThat knew no thorn, slept from a wearinessOf ...
It May Be Soa (John Hartley Poems)
This world's made up ov leet an shade, But some things strange aw mark;One class live all on th' sunny side, Wol ...
Why Life Is Sweet (Lucy Larcom Poems)
BECAUSE it cometh up, a heavenly flower,Out of the earth, divinely sown therein,To gather grace from shadow and from shower,And ...
New Year 1868 (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
Cradled in ice, and swathed in snows, And shining like a Christmas rose,Wreathed round with white chrysanthemums; Heaven in his innocent, brave ...
Love one Another (John Hartley Poems)
Let's love one another, it's better bi far;Mak peace wi yor Brother--it's better nor war!Life's rooad's rough enuff,--let's mak it ...
Farewell To England (A Ballad For The Emigrant) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
England, farewell! — not lightly, nor gladly, Now, at the last, do I bid thee farewell!Hope may be smiling, but Memory ...
A Description Of The Countreys Recreations (Sir Henry Wotton Poems)
Quivering fears, Heart-tearing cares,Anxious sighs, Untimely tears,Fly, fly to Courts,Fly to fond worldling's sports,Where strained Sardonic smiles are glossing still,And ...
In Praise of Angling (Sir Henry Wotton Poems)
Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares,Anxious sighs, untimely tears,Fly, fly to courts,Fly to fond worldling's sports,Where strained sardonic smiles are glossing still,And ...
Be Pitiful (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Be pitiful, be pitiful, Pity the weak and worn;Pity the outcast vile, Ever so lost and lorn.Pity the poor who groan beneath Poverty's ...
The Family Time-Piece (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
(Written in her fifteenth year.)Friend of my heart, thou monitor of youth,Well do I love thee, dearest child of truth;Though ...
The Gamester (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
1.OH ! What is he, whose haggard eyeScarce dares to meet the morning's ray;Who trembling would, but cannot, flyFrom MAN ...
To Robert Burns (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Sweet Singer that I loe the maistO' ony, sin' wi' eager hasteI smacket bairn-lips ower the tasteO' hinnied sang,I hail ...
Dick an Me (John Hartley Poems)
Two old fogies,--Dick an me,--Old, an grey as grey can be.A'a,-but monny a jolly spree We have had;--An tha ne'er went ...
Ode to Adversity (John Gay Poems)
Daughter of Heav'n, relentless pow'r,Thou tamer of the human breast,Whose iron scourge, and tort'ring hour,The bad affright, afflict the best!Bound ...
Maximilian Marvelous (J Corson Miller Poems)
"MAXIMILIAN MARVELOUS," we called him for a joke; He used to pass us every day, but rarely ever spoke. The shoes he ...
English, Scots, And Irishmen (John Mayne Poems)
ENGLISH, SCOTS, and IRISHMEN,All that are in VALOUR'S ken!Shield your KING: and flock agen Where his sacred Banners fly!Now's the day, ...
Sartor Resartus (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Ah, God be merciful to him who seesThro' ermined pomp and pageantry of kings,Thro' regal mien and beauty's witcheriesThe poor, ...
The Gentleman (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Not alone by generous birth (Greatly though it fashions men),Not by all the wealth of earth, Not by all the talents ten,Not ...
In A/C With Ghosts (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
You can shuffle and scuffle and scold, You can rattle the knockers and knobs,Or batter the doorsteps with buckets of gold Till ...
Ingratitude (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
WHAT wounds more deep than arrows keen,Piercing the heart subdu'd ?What renders life a dreary scene ?--Thy sting, INGRATITUDE !For ...
The Story-Book Boy (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
Oh, the story-book boy! he's a wonderful youth,A prodigy reeking with goodness and truth;As brave as a lion, as wise ...