Democracy (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
BEARER of Freedom's holy light,Breaker of Slavery's chain and rod,The foe of all which pains the sight,Or wounds the generous ...
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To the Autumnal Equinox (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
NOW tranquil beauty is no more,The crowding billows seek the shore;And while against the rock they dash,See! the blue fire ...
Hope Triumphant in Death (Thomas Campbell Poems)
Unfading Hope! when life's last embers burn -When soul to soul, and dust to dust return,Heaven to thy charge resigns ...
Summer: Tuesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
To Thee, my God! to Thee I bringThe evening's grateful offering;From Thee, the source of joy above,Flow everlasting streams of ...
In Memory of John Fairfax (Henry Kendall Poems)
Because this man fulfilled his days,Like one who walks with steadfast gazeAverted from forbidden ways With lures of fair, false flowerage ...
The Dominion Of Australia {A Forecast} (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
SHE is not yet, but he whose ear Thrills to that finer atmosphere Where footfalls of appointed things, Reverberant of ...
To Rhea (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Thee, dear friend, a brother soothes,Not with flatteries, but truths,Which tarnish not, but purifyTo light which dims the morning's eye.I ...
On The Persecution Of The Jews In Russia (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHAT murmurs are these that so wofully riseInto heart-storms of agony borne from afar?A tempest of passion, a tumult of ...
Sixth Sunday After Trinity (John Keble Poems)
When bitter thoughts, of conscience born, With sinners wake at morn, When from our restless couch we start, With fevered lips and withered ...
Winter: Monday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The night has thrown its shadows o'er the land,And rest re-visits nature.—Evening's train,With day's extinguish'd torches in their hand,Have pass'd ...
Lucifer (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
The World sweeps by! It is the end of Time!Nay, not the end, for Time can have no end:A cycle ...
Ode II: To Sleep (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Thou silent power, whose welcome swayCharms every anxious thought away;In whose divine oblivion drown'd,Sore pain and weary toil grow mild,Love ...
Australian Hymn. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
For the Native Youth of the Colony.FATHER of all! a youthful raceUnknown to fortune and to fame,Presumes to celebrate thy ...
Gravity (Harold Monro Poems)
I Fit for perpetual worship is the powerThat holds our bodies safely to the earth.When people talk of their domestic ...
The Bride (Laurence Hope Poems)
Beat on the Tom-toms, and scatter the flowers, Jasmin, Hibiscus, vermillion and white,This is the day, and the Hour of Hours, Bring ...
Spring: Monday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Thou, Lord! art all in all—and man is nought:For tho' in privileged hours his soaring thoughtWould seem to catch a ...
Fragments (Joseph Rodman Drake Poems)
ITuscara! thou art lovely now,Thy woods, that frown'd in sullen strengthLike plumage on a giant's brow,Have bowed their massy pride ...
Tobacco (Ivor Gurney Poems)
When tobacco came, When Raleigh did first bring inThe unfabled herb, the plant of peace, the kingOf comfort bringers, then ...
We Have Been Believers (Margaret Walker Poems)
We Have Been BelieversWe have been believers believing in the black gods of an old land, believing in the secrets of ...
Their Life Is What They Make It (Jared Barhite Poems)
Let melancholy mortals grieve And tell their tale of sorrow, Their gloomy spirits to relieve, But all returns to-morrow; For all the while they ...
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 ...
The Unattainable (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Mark thou! a shadow crowned with fire of hell.Man holds her in his heart as night doth holdThe moonlight memories ...
Flowers in Winter: Painted Upon a Porte Livre. (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
How strange to greet, this frosty morn,In graceful counterfeit of flower,These children of the meadows, bornOf sunshine and of showers!How ...
Anhelli – Chapter 6 (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)
When the Shaman had calmed the weeping of Anhelli,he left the fishermen and set out into the wilderness.And the moon ...
The Wooing Of Gheezis (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
The red chief Gheezis, chief of the golden wampum, layAnd watched the west-wind blow adrift the clouds,With breath all flowery, ...
Moonlight (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
AS here I sit within my lonely room,A spirit seems abroad upon the air,That o'er me flings an influence mild ...
The Ghostly Brother (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
BROTHER, Brother calling meLike a distant surfy sea,Like a wind that moans and grievesAll night long about the eaves;Let me ...
A Tale For Th’ Childer, On Christmas Eve (John Hartley Poems)
Little childer,--little childer; Harken to an old man's ditty;Tho yo live ith' country village,-- Tho yo live ith' busy city.Aw've a little ...
Written April The 18th, 1796 (Matilda Betham Poems)
THE beauteous queen of social love,Descending from the realms above,Through the wide space of ether flew,With care this little world ...
A Cry from South Africa (James Montgomery Poems)
Africa, from her remotest strand, Lifts to high heaven one fetter'd hand, And to the utmost of her chain Stretches the other o'er ...