The Portrait (John Pierpont Poems)
Why does the eye, with greater pleasure, restOn the proud oak, in vernal honors drest,When sultry gales, that to his ...
Product Poems (63 Poems)
Men (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million ...
The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter III. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
The Fruits of the Believer's Marriage with Christ, particularly gospel-holiness and obedience to the Law as a rule.Sect. I.The sweet ...
Queen Mab: Part IX. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
'O happy Earth, reality of Heaven! To which those restless souls that ceaselessly Throng through the human universe, aspire! Thou consummation of all ...
British Georgics. March (James Grahame Poems)
Raised by the coming plough, the merry larkUpsprings, and, soaring, joins the high-poised choirsThat carol far and near, in spiral ...
Our Profession (Jared Barhite Poems)
There's an art in our profession, Which cannot be wholly learned From all books in our possession, Though their leaves be deftly turned Till ...
The Undying Splendour (John William Streets Poems)
I: ENGLANDThere lies an isle, a splendour of the seaHaunting as Babylon, illustrious as Rome:A race of Saxon freemen there ...
Rural Sports: A Georgic – Canto II. (John Gay Poems)
Now, sporting muse, draw in the flowing reins,Leave the clear streams a while for sunny plains.Should you the various arms ...
Brahm (Joseph Furphy Poems)
A spectral film that came and went,In its elusive way gave ventIn some unreal words which meant;"I think therefore I ...
To Mrs. Pleydell, With A Pot Of Honey, During The Ferment Occasioned By The Popish Bill Of Toleratio (Hector MacNeill Poems)
Remov'd thank God! from fierce contentions;Unknown to parties or Conventions;Alike averse to rage and folly,And foe to gloomy melancholy;Amid confusion, war, ...
TO TRAMPS, The Unemployed, The Disinherited, and Miserable (Lucy Parsons Poems)
A word to the 35,000 now trampingthe streets of this great city,with hands in pockets, gazing listlessly about youat the ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Agriculture – Alps) (Henry Baker Poems)
Agriculture.--The Sire of Gods himselfWill'd not that Tillage should be free from Toil.He first sollicited the restive MoldBy Art: and ...
Psalm CIV. Paraphrased (James Thomson Poems)
To praise thy Author, Soul, do not forget;Canst thou, in gratitude, deny the debt?Lord, thou art great, how great we ...
Ode To Peace (John Duncombe Poems)
O'er desolated fields, where moveTo War's dread notes th' embattled host,O Peace! display thy olive-wreath,And bid the gentle voice of ...
The Sad-Faced Moon (Raphael Patkanian Poems)
MOON, fair moon, how long wilt thou appearSo pale, so mournful, in the heavens' height ?Have the dark storm-clouds filled ...
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 ...
Thoughts On Friendship. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
FAME, and honour, wealth, and friendship,All are objects of desire,Frequent sought with ceaseless trouble,All can ardent hopes inspire.Fame is but ...
Indulgence (Jared Barhite Poems)
An alarm is sounding through the land That tells of a stronger foe Than that which marched on Lexington, To strike a fatal ...
The Summer House (Hattie Howard Poems)
Midway upon the lawn it stands, So picturesque and pretty; Upreared by patient artist hands, Admired of all the city; The very arbor of ...
The Red Winds Come! (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
TOO long mere words have thralled us. Let us think!Oh ponder, are we "free and equal" yet?That July bombast, writ ...
Hallelujah: A Sestina (Robert Francis Poems)
A wind's word, the Hebrew Hallelujah.I wonder they never gave it to a boy(Hal for short) boy with wind-wild hair.It ...
Alone (Jared Barhite Poems)
Alone! God saw His creature man, Deprived of great felicity, And changed the order of His plan That earth in harmony might be With ...
The Visit (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Askest "How long thou shall stay?"Devastator of the day!Know, each substance and relationThorough nature's operation,Hath its unit, bound, and metre,And ...
Sonnet XIV “Are These Wild Thoughts, Thus Fettered in My Rhymes” (Henry Timrod Poems)
Are these wild thoughts, thus fettered in my rhymes,Indeed the product of my heart and brain?How strange that on my ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 9 (Mary Stuart Poems)
And now at last she starts to comprehendHow poor her judgement was and to discoverShe should not undervalue such a ...
June (In California) (Palmer Cox Poems)
Oh June! thou comest once againWith bales of hay and sheaves of grain,That make the farmer's heart rejoice,And anxious herds ...
Perfect Work (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
An artist skilled beyond the sons of men With pleasure scanned the pictures on the wall,Rare works of art, each one ...
The Tall Figures of Giacometti (May Swenson Poems)
We move by means of our mud bumps.We bubble as do the dead but more slowly.The products of excruciating purgeswe ...
The Poor Man’s Lamb (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
A Pagan Reverie (Frances Fuller Victor Poems)
Tell me, mother Nature! tender yet stern mother! In what nomenclature (fitlier than another) Can I laud and ...