Lavinia (James Thomson Poems)
The lovely young Lavinia once had friends;And fortune smiled deceitful on her birth:For, in her helpless years deprived of all,Of ...
Poverty Poems (485 Poems)
Market Day (Mary Webb Poems)
Who'll walk the fields with us to town,In an old coat and a faded gown?We take our roots and country ...
A Jewish Family In A Small Valley Opposite St. Goar, Upon The Rhine (William Wordsworth Poems)
GENIUS of Raphael! if thy wingsMight bear thee to this glen,With faithful memory left of thingsTo pencil dear and pen,Thou ...
The Treasure Digger (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
ALL my weary days I pass'dSick at heart and poor in purse.Poverty's the greatest curse, Riches are the highest good!And to ...
The Value Of Gold (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
There may be standard weight for precious metal,But deeper meaning it must ever hold;Thank God, there are some things no ...
Calling Him Back from Layoff (Bob Hicok Poems)
I called a man today. After he saidhello and I said hello came a pauseduring which it would have beenconfusing ...
Christmas Eve. South, 1865 (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
Poverty, remorseless spectre,Reigns throughout our once fair land,And he wields no fancy sceptre,In his iron-covered hand.Stifled sighs our hearts are ...
On Seeing An Officer’s Widow Distracted (Mary Barber Poems)
O wretch! hath Madness cur'd thy dire Despair?Yes--All thy Sorrows now are light as Air:No more you mourn your once ...
Contrasts (John Hartley Poems)
If yo've a fancy for a spree,Goa up to Lundun, same as me,Yo'll find ther's lots o' things to see, To ...
Must Be Freed (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
The ante-bellum Negro prayed,For God to intercede,And God in answer to him said,"Your children shall be freed."The hand was seen ...
Song Of The Sewing-Machine (George Pope Morris Poems)
I'm the Iron Needle-Woman! Wrought of sterner stuff than clay;And, unlike the drudges human, Never weary night or day;Never shedding tears of ...
The Crisis (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
A man of low degree was sore oppressed, Fate held him under iron-handed sway, And ever, those who saw him thus distressed Would ...
Morning (Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov Poems)
You're unhappy, sick at heart:Oh, I know it-here such sickness isn't rare.Nature can but mirrorThe surrounding poverty.All is ever drear ...
The Good Part That Shall Not Be Taken Away (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side, In valleys green and cool;And all her hope and all her pride Are in the village ...
Retirement (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Spirit of solitude, silence, and rest,Take me once more, like a child, to your breast!Weary of worldliness, turmoil, and hate,Welcome ...
Dark Blood (Margaret Walker Poems)
There were bizarre beginnings in old lands for the making of me. There were sugar sands and islands of fern and pearl, ...
Bide Thi Time (John Hartley Poems)
Bide thi time! it's sure to come, Tho' it may seem tardy,--Thine's a better fate nor some:If tha's but a humble ...
The Coming Woman (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Just look, 'tis a quarter past six, love—And not even the fires are caught;Well, you know I must be at ...
To Flora (Henry Baker Poems)
False one! You have oft profess'd,I alone could make you blest;Wherefore then am I despis'd?Wherefore is my Rival priz'd?Why, he's ...
Griefs Unspoken (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Life without love! -- Ah, what a wail goes up From this poor world of manifold distress,-- What thousands drink the dregs ...
Out Of Nazareth (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"He shall sleep unscathed of thievesWho loves Allah and believes."Thus heard one who shared the tent,In the far-off Orient,Of the ...
Old Letters (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
Last night some yellow letters fellFrom out a scrip I found by chance;Among them was the silent ghost,The spirit of ...
Apology Of Genius (Mina Loy Poems)
Ostracized as we are with GodThe watchers of the civilized wastesreverse their signals on our track Lepers of the moonall magically ...
To The Right Honble. The Lady Dowager Torrington, (Mary Barber Poems)
When you command, the Muse obeys,Proud to present her humble Lays.Of writing I'll no more repent,Nor think my Time unwisely ...
Autumn On Parade (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla Poems)
Autumn in nature and autumn in our faces.The sultry breeze enfeebles, the glowering sunOppresses the ailing spirit in our breasts,Shrivels ...
Autumn On Parade (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla Poems)
Autumn in nature and autumn in our faces.The sultry breeze enfeebles, the glowering sunOppresses the ailing spirit in our breasts,Shrivels ...
Psalm 138 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Restoring and preserving grace.[With all my powers of heart and tongueI'll praise my Maker in my song:Angels shall hear the ...
Revenge (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
Ah! I could curse them in my woe,E'en as the viper stings,And to the heel that strikes it clings,So I ...
Sometimes (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
Sometimes the days seem dark and dreary,We wonder what is life;Sometimes of work we soon grow weary,All pleasures seem but ...
Til Ungdommen (To The Youth) (Nordahl Grieg Poems)
Faced by your enemiesOn every handBattle is menacing,Now make your standFearful your question,Defenceless, openWhat shall I fight with?Where is my ...