Bibliolatres (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Bowing thyself in dust before a Book,And thinking the great God is thine alone,O rash iconoclast, thou wilt not brookWhat ...
Prophets & Prophecies Poems (1154 Poems)
The Croton Ode. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Gushing from this living fountain,Music pours a falling strain,As the goddess of the mountainComes with all her sparkling train.From her ...
The Newport Tower (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
THERE is a rude old monument,Half masonry, half ruin, bentWith sagging weight, as if it meantTo warn one of mischance;And ...
A Message Of Peace (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
THERE once was a pirate, greedy and bold,Who ravaged for gain, and saved the spoils;Till his coffers were bursting with ...
Eight Sunday After Trinity (John Keble Poems)
Prophet of God, arise and takeWith thee the words of wrath divine, The scourge of Heaven, to shake O'er yon apostate shrine.Where ...
Religion And Doctrine (John Hay Poems)
He stood before the Sanhedrim;The scowling rabbis gazed at him.He recked not of their praise or blame;There was no fear, ...
“God Is Departed From Me, And Answereth Me No More” (Janet Hamilton Poems)
A King has sought at midnight hour The sorceress in her cell,And bids invoke the Prophet's shade, His coming doom to tell.He ...
Wake Nicodemus! (Henry Clay Work Poems)
Nicodemus, the slave was of African birth, And was bought for a bagful of gold;He was reckon'd as part of the ...
Lines On The Portrait Of A Celebrated Publisher (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A MOONY breadth of virgin face,By thought unviolated;A patient mouth, to take from scornThe hook with bank-notes baited!Its self-complacent sleekness ...
Song Of The Devoted Slave (Laurence Hope Poems)
There is one God: Mahomed his Prophet. Had I his powerI would take the topmost peaks of the snow-clad Himalayas,And would ...
Night–A Phantasy (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
Night! the horrible wizard Night! The dumb and terrible NightHath drawn his circle of magic, roundOver the sky, and over the ...
Ezekiel’s Vision. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
ALL thoughtful at the close of day,As Judah's captive Prophet layBy Chebar's rapid tide;Transported to his native land,Jehovah's Angel seemed ...
To Alan Seeger: (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
SEEGER, whose soul, with animated lyre Wak'd the dull dreamer to a manlier fire; Whose martial voice, by martial deeds sustain'd, Denounc'd the ...
That Great Waiting Silence (Henry Lawson Poems)
WHERE shall we go for prophecy? Where shall we go for proof?The holiday street is crowded, pavement, window and roof;Band ...
Freedom In Brazil (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WITH clearer light, Cross of the South, shine forthIn blue Brazilian skies;And thou, O river, cleaving half the earthFrom sunset ...
A Prelude, And A Bird’s Song (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
The poet's song, and the bird's, And the waters' that chant as they runAnd the waves' that kiss the beach, And the ...
The Haschish (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Of all that Orient lands can vauntOf marvels with our own competing,The strangest is the Haschish plant,And what will follow ...
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 ...
Kept The Flag Floating (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
"Thank God, we have kept the flag floating."-- General White.Some men, like French, display much dash; They boldly rush upon the ...
The Palm-Tree (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Is it the palm, the cocoa-palm,On the Indian Sea, by the isles of balm?Or is it a ship in the ...
King Herod’s Oath (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Once on a charger there was laid,And brought before a royal maid,As price of attitude and grace,A guiltless head, a ...
Mount Tabor (John Hay Poems)
On Tabor's height a glory came,And, shrined in clouds of lambent flame,The awestruck, hushed disciples sawChrist and the prophets of ...
Songs of the Voices of Birds: The Nightingale Heard by the Unsatisfied Heart (Jean Ingelow Poems)
When in a May-day hushChanteth the Missel-thrushThe harp o’ the heart makes answer with murmurous stirs;When Robin-redbreast sings,We think on ...
The Hymn Of Man (Khalil Gibran Poems)
I was,And I am.So shall I be to the end of time,For I am without end.I have cleft the vast ...
Hymn of Apollo (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.The sleepless Hours who watch me as I lie,Curtained with star-inwoven tapestries,From the broad moonlight of the sky,Fanning the busy ...
The Bluebird (Maurice Thompson Poems)
When ice is thawed and snow is gone,And racy sweetness floods the trees;When snow-birds from the hedge have flown,And on ...
The Two Debtors (John Newton Poems)
Once a woman silent stoodWhile Jesus sat at meat;From her eyes she poured a floodTo wash his sacred feetShame and ...
The Robber (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
THE moon hangs lightly on yon western hill;And now it gives a parting look, like oneWho sadly leaves the guilty. ...
A Gallery To The Temple. Moderation (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Arts are th' Egyptian Handmaydes, to the Queene Of sciences: Moses the chiefe of Prophets, and of Men, Did these possesse: Our moderation must ...
Elijah Fed By Ravens (John Newton Poems)
Elijah's example declares,Whatever distress may betide;The saints may commit all their caresTo him who will surely provide:When rain long withheld ...