De La Charite Pour Les Pauvres Prisonniers, Dieppe (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YES , 'tis a year since last that plaintive cry,"Pity the prisoners," touch'd my wand'ring ear:And now again their hat ...
Pride Poems (3589 Poems)
A Son of the Soil (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Said the Preacher "All is Vanity!"-appending as a reasonThat the things we find our pleasure in are bound to pass ...
Dreams (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THERE was a season when I lovedThe calm and holy night, -When, like yon silvery evening star,Just trembling on our ...
To The South (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
ON ITS NEW SLAVERY Heart of the Southland, heed me pleading now, Who bearest, unashamed, upon my brow The long kiss of the ...
Expostulation (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
OUR fellow-countrymen in chains!Slaves, in a land of light and law!Slaves, crouching on the very plainsWhere rolled the storm of ...
A Lamentation (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHERE ancient broken wall encloses round,From tread of lawless feet, the hallowed ground,And sombre yews their dewy branches wave,O'er many ...
The Church Rally (James Edwin Campbell Poems)
Hi! yi! Now ain' I s'prise 'em — you Mistah Mule, git up!Prince ob de Tribe of Zeb'lon, an' win ...
A Letter to the Front (Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis Poems)
I 'ave written Mick a letter in reply to one uv 'is,Where 'e arsts 'ow things is goin' where the ...
The Royal Interview (Mrs. Walter Spencer Poems)
NOR guard nor pomp was there, nor regal state:Unseen the stranger pass'd the palace gate,Through lonely courts and gloomy antique ...
The Needle, Pen, And Sword (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
What hast thou seen, with thy shining eye, Thou Needle, so subtle and keen?--"I have been in Paradise, stainless and fair.And ...
Fulfilment (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
We cried, " How long ! " We sighed, " Not yet; "And still with faces dawnward set" Prepare the ...
Polonius and the Ballad Singers (Padraic Colum Poems)
A gaunt built woman and her son-in-law-A broad-faced fellow, with such flesh as showsNothing but easy nature-and his wife,The woman's ...
The Dance Of The Seven Deadly Sins (William Dunbar Poems)
I.Of Februar the fiftene nichtFull lang before the dayis lichtI lay intill a tranceAnd then I saw baith Heaven and ...
To a Friend, on the Death of a Relative. (Mather Byles Poems)
While Death his awful Triumphs spreads around,And crowded Nations fill the vaulted Ground;While ev'ry Rank, and State, and Sex, and ...
The Jewish Cemetery At Newport. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
How strange it seems! These Hebrews in their graves, Close by the street of this fair seaport town, Silent beside the never-silent ...
Meditation on the Inconstancy and Vanity of the World (Mary Stuart Poems)
When it is meet for rest to be our guideAnd for a while set every care aside,A memory of my ...
To Miss Jean And Miss Isabella Monro, With Two Bottles Of The Otta Of Roses (Hector MacNeill Poems)
Tost rudely round this whirling sphere,Estrang'd from all he valued dear;Shut out from beauty's bright'ning ray;The social night, the tranquil ...
Nottingham Castle (Philip James Bailey Poems)
On the Opening of the Castle as a Permanent Art Museum.Throw back the gates of time!See, on this rock sublime,The ...
Another Chance (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
A DRAMATIC LYRICCome, give me back my life again, you heavy-handed Death!Uncrook your fingers from my throat, and let me ...
On The Death Of A Fair Infant, Dying Of A Cough (John Milton Poems)
I.O fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken Primrose fading timeless lie,Summers chief honour if thou hadst outlastedBleak winters ...
Silchester (John Kenyon Poems)
My travels' dream and talk for many a year, At length I view thee, hoary Silchester! Pilgrim long vowed; now only hither ...
A Disappointme (Joanna Baillie Poems)
On village green, whose smooth and well worn sod,Cross-path'd with every gossip's foot is trod;By cottage door where playful children ...
Sixth Sunday After Epiphany (John Keble Poems)
There are, who darkling and alone, Would wish the weary night were gone, Though dawning morn should only show The secret of their ...
The Deacon And His Daughter (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
He saved his soul and saved his pork, With old time preservation;He did not hold with creosote, Or new plans of salvation;He ...
Eclogue the Second Hassan (William Taylor Collins Poems)
SCENE, the Desert TIME, Mid-day10 In silent horror o'er the desert-wasteThe driver Hassan with his camels passed.One cruse of water ...
My Garden (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Sweet garden, wreathed in fruits and flowers,And domed by blue Tyrolean skies,Within thy rose-encircled bowers,Secluded from all curious eyes,I find ...
War (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurledDeath, fate, and ruin, on a bleeding world.See! on yon heath what countless victims ...
The Spirits of Our Fathers (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE SPIRITS of our fathers rise not from every wave,They left the sea behind them long ago;It was many years ...
Oxford (Lionel Pigot Johnson Poems)
To Arthur Galton OVER, the four long years! And now there rings One voice of freedom and regret: Farewell! Now old remembrance sorrows, ...
Lines Written in a Burial-Ground on the Northern Coast of the Highlands (John Wilson Poems)
How mournfully this burial-groundSleeps 'mid old Ocean's solemn sound,Who rolls his bright and sunny wavesAll round these deaf and silent ...