Charles The Fifth’s Clocks (John Quincy Adams Poems)
With Charles the Fifth art thou acquainted, reader?Of Ferdinand and Isabel the grandson,In ages past of Europe's realms file leader,Among ...
Pride Poems (3589 Poems)
Plain Folk (John Buchan Poems)
Since flaming angels drove our sireFrom Eden's green to walk the mire,We are the folk who tilled the plotAnd ground ...
Thou Lovest Me No More (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
THOU lovest me no more. It needs not wordsTo tell me thou art altered now. Alas!I mark it well in ...
Lothario (Janet Little Poems)
JOIN now Apollo the harmonious strain,O Muses, Graces, all ye gentle train;Once more conspire to aid my humble lays,And wake ...
The Bush Fire (Henry Lawson Poems)
Ah, better the thud of the deadly gun, and the crash of the bursting shell,Than the terrible silence where drought ...
A Welcome From Liverpool (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
_To Her Majesty the Queen, May 11th, 1886_Beloved Queen of Britain's sea-girt Isles,And lands o'er which the grand Sun ever ...
The Orphan’s Dream Of fame (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
I LEARNED within myself to live. I saw,E'en in my childhood, that the heart's bright budsWithered and faded at the ...
Address, Spoken At The Opening Of Drury-Lane Theatre. Saturday, October 10, 1812 (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
In one dread night our city saw, and sigh'd,Bow'd to the dust, the Drama's tower of prideIn one short hour ...
A Word With The West (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
Once more ...
“We climbed that hill” (Lesbia Harford Poems)
We climbed that hill,The road flushed red in prideAt being beauty's boundary. Either sideStretched beauty, beauty ever, beauty still.For on ...
Contemplation (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
'They are all up--the innumerable stars-- And hold their place in heaven. My eyes have been Searching the pearly depths through which ...
The Faun (John Le Gay Brereton Poems)
When I was but a little boy Who hunted in the wood To scare or mangle or destroy A freakish elemental joy That tasted ...
A Fragment On Solitude (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
OH Solitude! thou visionary power,If e'er thou hadst a "local habitation,"This is the place, and here must be thy throne:The ...
Proem (Grace Greenwood Poems)
SOME poet dreams come to the soulIn mystic beauty clad,Unearthly in their loveliness,So exquisitely sad.Shadowy and dim and cloud-like thingsFloating ...
The First American Congress (Joel Barlow Poems)
Columbus looked; and still around them spread,From south to north, th' immeasurable shade;At last, the central shadows burst away,And rising ...
Friday, The Toilette (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
LYDIA.Now twenty springs had cloth'd the Park with green,Since Lydia knew the blossom of fifteen;No lovers now her morning hours ...
A Meeting Of The Birds (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
OF a thousand queer meetings, both great, sir, and smallThe bird-party I sing of seemed oddest of all!How they come ...
Wortermelon Time (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Old wortermelon time is a-comin' round again, And they ain't no man a-livin' any tickleder'n me,Fer the way I hanker after ...
The Fringilla Melodia (Henry Beck Hirst Poems)
HAPPY Song-sparrow, that on woodland side Or by the meadow sits, and ceaseless sings His mellow roundelay in russet pride, ...
The Distracted Puritan (Richard Corbet Poems)
Am I mad, O noble Festus,When zeal and godly knowledgeHave put me in hopeTo deal with the PopeAs well as ...
The Sister Of Charity (Gerald Joseph Griffen Poems)
She once was a lady of honor and wealth; Bright glowed in her features the roses of health; Her vesture was blended ...
Holiday Home. (Hattie Howard Poems)
Of all the sweet visions that come unto me Of happy refreshment by land or by sea, Like oases where in life's ...
The Rovers (Henry Lawson Poems)
Some born of homely parents For ages settled down-The steady generations Of village, farm, and town:And some of dusky fathers Who wandered since ...
Jessamine (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
Here stands the great tree still, with broad bent head;Its wide arms grown aweary, yet outspreadWith their old blessing. But ...
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 ...
On Board The ’76 (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Written For Mr. Bryant's Seventieth BirthdayOur ship lay tumbling in an angry sea, Her rudder gone, her mainmast o'er the side;Her ...
Ode (Henry Theodore Tuckerman Poems)
Shroud the banner! rear the cross! Consecrate a nation's loss; Gaze on that majestic sleep; Stand beside the bier to weep; Lay the gentle ...
The Gulf of All Human Possessions (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Come hither, and behold the fruits,Vain man! of all thy vain pursuits.Take wise advice, and look behind,Bring all past actions ...
The Christmas Sheaf (Phoebe Cary Poems)
"Now, good-wife, bring your precious hoard,"The Norland farmer cried,"And heap the hearth, and heap the board,For the blessed Christmas-tide."And bid ...
The Ballad of the Rousabout (Henry Lawson Poems)
A Rouseabout of rouseabouts, from any land-or none-I bear a nick-name of the bush, and I'm-a woman's son;I came from ...