St Patricks Day (John O Brien Poems)
'Tis the greatest splash of sunshine right through all my retrospection On the days when fairies brought me golden dreams without ...
Purposes Poems (902 Poems)
Abraham Lincoln (Phoebe Cary Poems)
Our sun hath gone down at the noonday, The heavens are black; And over the morning the shadows Of night-time are back. Stop the ...
The Spellin’-Bee (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I NEVER shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin,An' all us youngsters clambered in an' down the road ...
The Maid of Gerringong (Henry Kendall Poems)
Rolling through the gloomy gorges, comes the roaring southern blast,With a sound of torrents flying, like a routed army, past,And, ...
Damon And Philander (Janet Little Poems)
DAMON.THE sun with keenness darts his sultry ray;To some cool shade Philander haste away,Nigh yon smooth riv'let, where the southern ...
From “To a Writer of the Day” (Langdon Elwyn Mitchell Poems)
TECHNIQUE Could but this be broughtInto your ken,-that the technique is thought!Escape from "Style," the notion men can useWords without thoughts,-so ...
The Shepherds Calendar – July (2nd version) (John Clare Poems)
July the month of summers primeAgain resumes her busy timeScythes tinkle in each grassy dellWhere solitude was wont to dwellAnd ...
Concluding Tale, In The Style Of Alphonso The Brave And Fair Imogene. (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
WHEN evening's pale light had retired from the plain,And night had the valley o'erspread;When the dew was converted to big ...
The First Hymn Of Callimachus. To Jupiter (Matthew Prior Poems)
While we to Jove select the holy victimWhom apter shall we sing than Jove himself,The god for ever great, for ...
Advice To The Sick (Rees Prichard Poems)
THY mortal part shou'd sickness chance to seize,Consider, whence the fi'ry dart was sent,Consider, who inflicted the disease,And to what ...
Allan Herbert (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SCENE I.[The hall of a country house in Westmoreland, surrounded with portraits of the M. . . . family. Allan ...
From The Conspirator (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SCENE..CATHARINE.Art thou prepared to risk ...
The Burning Of Conrad’s Choir, A.D. 1174 (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Gervase, a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, speaks:Ninety long years have I dwelt here, and much have I seen in ...
The Contract (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid,In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid;The fertile subject never will be dry:'Tis ...
At Washington (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WITH a cold and wintry noon-light.On its roofs and steeples shed,Shadows weaving with t e sunlightFrom the gray sky overhead,Broadly, ...
John Adams Monarchical Ideas (Mercy Warren Poems)
SIR:- You complain that I have asserted that a partiality for monarchy appeared in your conduct. This fact you deny, ...
Two Stanzas (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
There was once a town, the inhabitants of which were so passionately fondof poetry,that if some weeks passed by without ...
The Wayside Cross (John William Streets Poems)
Beneath a hawthorn bush, dying, he layUpon an orchard slope, a gentle hill;The silvery moonlight thro' the night did playUpon ...
Spring: Friday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Sing thy Creator's praise, and ownHim greatest—wisest—God alone;He wraps himself in robes of light,And, clothed in garments pure and bright,Of ...
Unspoken Language (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
LANGUAGE is slow. The mastery of wantsDoth teach it to the infant, drop by drop,As brooklets gather.Years of studious toilUnfold ...
The Sick Abbess (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
EXAMPLE often proves of sov'reign use;At other times it cherishes abuse;'Tis not my purpose, howsoe'er, to tellWhich of the two ...
The Strength Of Fields (James Dickey Poems)
... a separation from the world, a penetration to some source of power and a life-enhancing return ... Van Gennep: Rites ...
The Dead (John William Streets Poems)
Let music vast, triumphal, fill the world's great nave,Voicing the peerless theme of noble youthWho rose to Life's sublimest greatness ...
Ode I: The Remonstrance (Mark Akenside Poems)
If, yet regardful of your native land,Old Shakespeare's tongue you deign to understand,Lo, from the blissful bowers where heaven rewardsInstructive ...
The Doll’s Wash (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
Sally is the laundress, and every SaturdayShe sends our clean clothes up from the wash, and Nurse puts them away.Sometimes ...
Hymn To Satan (Giosue Carducci Poems)
To you, creation'smighty principle,matter and spiritreason and senseWhilst the winesparkles in cupslike the soulin the eyeWhilst earth andsun exchangetheir smiles ...
The Priests Of Ireland (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
YOU have waited, Priests of Ireland, until the hour was late:You have stood with folded arms until 'twas asked-Why do ...
The God-Forgotte (Henry Lawson Poems)
PAT M'DURMER brought the tidings to the town of God-Forgotten : 'There are lively days before ye-commin Parlymint's dissolved!'And the boys ...
Nathalocus (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
I.Bleak was the pathway and barren the mountain,As the traveller passed on his wearisome way,Sealed by the frost was each ...
The Metaphysical Sectarian (Samuel Butler Poems)
HE was in Logick a great Critick,Profoundly skill'd in Analytick.He could distinguish, and divideA Hair 'twixt South and South-West side:On ...