New Year (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
IF verses, like the charms that wizards trace,Might promise all delight to ladies dear,What could I wish you for the ...
Purposes Poems (902 Poems)
“He looks in my heart and the image there” (Lesbia Harford Poems)
He looks in my heart and the image thereIs himself, himself, than himself more fair.And he thinks of my heart ...
Cartier: Dauntless Discoverer (John Daniel Logan Poems)
(Sailed Westward, 1534,1535,1541)HAIL, Master Mariner of Sainte Malo!Whose name hath been a star for centuries,Why ventured thou thrice o'er tempestuous ...
Sonnet XIV (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
Rise from your gory ashes stern and pale,Ye martyred thousands! and with dreadful ire,A voice of doom, a front of ...
Vita Nuova (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
DEAR, that I love you let me rather showBy striving to amend this life of mineSo marred from the ideal ...
Sonnet. To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown (John Keats Poems)
Fresh morning gusts have blown away all fearFrom my glad bosom, -- now from gloominessI mount for ever -- not ...
Sonnet VII. (John Moultrie Poems)
Yet didst thou tell me once that some chance word,From these unconscious lips at random sent,Reproof and warning to thy ...
Sonnet XXV. To Baptist Noel (John Moultrie Poems)
Noel, our paths, in academic days,Lay far apart, though by one Mother bred,And with her noblest sons together fedOn food ...
The Dancing Bear (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Far over Elf-land poets stretch their sway,And win their dearest crowns beyond the goalOf their own conscious purpose; they controlWith ...
To The Sun Door (Kate Greenaway Poems)
THEY saw it rise in the morning, They saw it set at night,And they longed to go and see it, Ah! if ...
With A Prayer-Book (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
In Common Prayer our hearts ascendTo that white throne where angels bend.Now grant, O Lord, that those who callThemselves by ...
The Faith That Moves The Mountains (Patience Strong Poems)
When you know not where to turn,stay still, just where you are.There is something yet to learn.Be careful lest you ...
Ave atque Vale (Gaius Valerius Catullus Poems)
Through many countries and over many seasI have come, Brother, to these melancholy rites,to show this final honour to the ...
Little Of Me (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Let only that little be left of mewhereby I may name thee my all.Let only that little be left of ...
Thy Will be done (John Bowring Poems)
Father, I bend before Thy sacred shrine,In grateful reverence to Thy will divine,And I, Thy child, rejoicing, make it mineBecause, ...
Prosepoem (Paul Colinet Poems)
Two ladies climb the lower street.One is dressed in black, the other in black, the third,undressed.These ladies are charged with ...
Epigram 56 (Henry Parrot Poems)
Quod mora tardat abest. See how Silenus walkes accomplished, With due performance of his fathers Page, Looks back of purpose to be honoured, And ...
Twilight (Hazel Hall Poems)
TIPTOEING twilight,Before you pass,Bathe light my spiritAs dew bathes grass.Quiet the longingOf my hands that yearn,As you fold the flowerAnd ...
from About the World (Pentti Saarikoski Poems)
I bought a horse from a madman.He'd sketched it himselfand otherwise it as a perfectly ordinary horsebut its eyes were ...
“The hollow chambers of the moon” (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
The hollow chambers of the moon,The purple barrens of the deep,Do not so cruel silence keepAs you who put your ...
A March Flaw (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
THE fickle wind, by ebb and flaw,Wavers uncertain as a girl:The fire delays and will not draw:The smoke creeps out ...
In Narrow Ways (John Oxenham Poems)
Some lives are set in narrow ways,By Love's wise tenderness.They seem to suffer all their daysLife's direst storm and stress.But ...
Purpose (Robert Herrick Poems)
No wrath of men, or rage of seas,Can shake a just man's purposes;No threats of tyrants, or the grimVisage of ...
A Strong Dose (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
If brevity be soul of wit,The Boston wag discovered itIn saying that my verse fulfilsFor him the purposes of pills. ...
Leander And Hero (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
COME , SESTOS and ABYDOS , aid my song;To you these elegiac strains belong.Your griefs with mine, ye wretched cities, ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Fourth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
But, when they were alone,--and now no more By that subduing presence overawed,-- With free tongue giving loose to wrath ...
The Prophecy Of Famine (Charles Churchill Poems)
A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, ESQ. Nos patriam fugimus.--VIRGIL.When Cupid first instructs his darts to flyFrom the sly ...
Book VII (Arthur Hall Poems)
Nowe warlike Hector doth depart with Paris out the towne,They willing both in armes to shewe some deede of great ...
The Apology (Charles Churchill Poems)
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
The Wynnes Of Wynhavod. Act III (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
Scene I.A Garden on the banks of the Thames, at Fulham, behind the Wynnes' lodgings. Time, evening. Moon and starlight. ...