The Butterfly And The Fairies (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
A butterfly was grieved one dayBecause he could do nought but play;He envied bees and birds and ants,And senseless stones ...
Purposes Poems (902 Poems)
Mrs. Merdle Discourseth Of Pudding (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
A pudding! why yes, as I live, too, it's plum; So plain, Susan makes them on purpose for me I never refuse, ...
Hymn to Life: Hurdcott Camp (John William Streets Poems)
I hear thy voice in the lonely pinesWhen the winds arise in their unknown lair;In the rush of waves in ...
Hunting Of The Snark: Preface (Lewis Carroll Poems)
PREFACE If—-and the thing is wildly possible—-t he charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive ...
An Epistle To Lady Bowyer (Mary Jones Poems)
How much of paper's spoil d what floods of ink!And yet how few how very few can think!The knack of ...
The Portrait (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
In some quaint Nurnberg maler-atelierUprummaged. When and where was never clearNor yet how he obtained it. When, by whom'Twas painted—who ...
Wash Lowry’s Reminiscence (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
And you're the poet of this concern? I've seed your name in printA dozen times, but I'll be dern I'd 'a' never ...
Governor Joseph Trumbull, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, August 4th, 1861; and his wife, Mrs. ELIZA STORRSTRUMBULL, the night after his funeral.Death's shafts fly thick, ...
Protogenes And Apelles (Matthew Prior Poems)
When poets wrote and painters drewAs Nature pointed out the view,Ere Gothic forms were known in GreeceTo spoil the well-proportion'd ...
Albert Sidney Johnston (Kate Brownlee Sherwood Poems)
I hear again the tread of war go thundering through the land,And Puritan and Cavalier are clinching neck and hand,Round ...
An Epistle To The Earl Of Burlington (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
How happy you! who varied joys pursue;And every hour presents you something new!Plans, schemes, and models, all Palladio's art,For six ...
Prologue To The Argive Women (Maurice Hewlett Poems)
(Odysseus before the House of Paris.)OD. About this wicked house ten yearsThe strife 'twixt Troy and Greece has surgedSince rifling Paris, ...
A Tale (Robert Browning Poems)
(_Epilogue to 'The Two Poets of Croisic.'_)What a pretty tale you told meOnce upon a time--Said you found it somewhere ...
South Carolina To The States Of The North (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I LIFT these hands with iron fetters banded:Beneath the scornful sunlight and cold starsI rear my once imperial forehead brandedBy ...
Adelaide Ironside (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Knowest thou now, O Love! Oh pure from the death of thy summer of sweetness!Seest thou now, O new-born Delight ...
Address At Ashton-Under-Lyne Literary Institute (John Critchley Prince Poems)
There is no nobler labour for mankindThan to instruct and elevate the mind,To pour into the eager ears of youthThe ...
How The Babes In The Wood Showed They Couldn’t Be Beaten (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A man of kind and noble mind Was H. Gustavus Hyde. 'Twould be amiss to add to this At present, for he died, In ...
Stonewall Jackson (George Washington Cruikshank Poems)
An Impromptu On Hearing of His DeathBury the mighty dead—Long, long to live in story!Bury the mighty deadIn his own ...
Inauguration Of Ashton-Under-Lyne Infirmary (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Fair town of toil, whose enterprise and powerExpand and strengthen every day and hour,To thy brave sons all honour and ...
Unknown Country (Harold Monro Poems)
Here, in this other world, they come and go With easy dream-like movements to and fro. They stare through lovely eyes, yet ...
Riding Round the Lines (Henry Lawson Poems)
Dust and smoke against the sunrise out where grim disaster lurksAnd a broken sky-line looming like unfinished railway works,And a ...
To My Georgie (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
MY cousin, I am gazing on thee now,And well I mark, with soul of joy and pride,The changing beauty of ...
My Dream Of The New Year (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
Through the waning hours of moments Of the slowly dying year,I sat watching, watching, waiting For the New Dawn to appear.While the ...
The ‘Utopia’ (Lee Harwood Poems)
The table was filled with many objectsThe wild tribesmen in the hills,whose very robes were decorated with designsof a strangeness ...
The Tourist (Hattie Howard Poems)
Lo! carpet-bag and bagger occupy the land, And prove the touring season actively begun; His personnel and purpose can none misunderstand, For each ...
Life (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I PESSIMIST There is never a thing we dream or do But was dreamed and done in the ages gone; Everything's old; there is ...
Every Thing (Harold Monro Poems)
Since man has been articulate,Mechanical, improvidently wise,(Servant of Fate),He has not understood the little criesAnd foreign conversations of the smallDelightful ...
Winter: Sunday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
God of the morning! Thou, the sabbath's God!Round whose bright footsteps thousand planets roll:A million beings at Thy mighty nodAre ...
An Invitation into the country [in imitation of Horace] (Jane Turell Poems)
FROM the soft shades, and from the balmy sweetsOf Medford's flowery vales, and green retreats,Your absent Delia to her father ...
Lines On The Death Of William Sotheby, Esq (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LEARNING and fancy were combinedTo stimulate his manly mind;Open, generous and acute,Steady of purpose, in pursuitArdent and hopeful; all the ...