The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Second. (Henry Alford Poems)
My sweet companion, who hast ever been Beside me in all toils, refreshing oft My weary spirit with low whisperings Of hope that ...
Questioning Poems (80 Poems)
Vera (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IA silent world,-yet full of vital joyUttered in rhythmic movements manifold,And sunbeams flashing on the face of thingsLike sudden smilings ...
A Poet Of Provence (Jewell Miller Poems)
THE ARRIVALThe sunlight of a waning winter daySent one long ray, aflame, across the gloomWhere Ludovico, Count of Ventimiglia,Bowed his ...
The Celt’s Paradise. Fourth Duan (John Banim Poems)
And yet beneath that happy sky,Was heard one ever--during sigh,One heart of sadness there was known,One voice of sorrow wept ...
Queen Mab: Part VII. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
SPIRIT 'I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met ...
The Toiling Of Felix (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IPRELUDE Hear a word that Jesus spake Nineteen hundred years ago, Where the crimson lilies blow Round the blue Tiberian lake: There the bread of ...
Lacrymae Paterae (Henry Alford Poems)
I. This tranquil Sabbath morn hath hushed the earth Into unwonted calm. The clear pale hills Lie beneath level lines of sunny clouds, Walling ...
Policeman X (John Oxenham Poems)
IF HE WOULD BUT DAREI stood, unseen, within a sumptous room,Where one clothed all in white sat silently.So sweet his ...
Beechenbrook – I (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
There is sorrow in Beechenbrook Cottage; the day Has been bright with the earliest glory of May; The blue of the sky ...
The Decree Of Odin (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
"'I loosened the bonds which bindThe Pestilence, my slave;I sent him forth as the wind,I bade him stand in the ...
To My Old Schoolmaster (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
AN EPISTLE NOT AFTER THE MANNER OF HORACEOld friend, kind friend! lightly downDrop time's snow-flakes on thy crown!Never be thy ...
The Progress Of Wit (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play,Which oft resumes its fascinating sway;Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or sour;By night ...
Tenebrae (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
He was so tired that he was scarcely able to hear a note of the songs: he felt imprisoned in ...
The First Canzone Of The Convito (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE.I.Ye who intelligent the Third Heaven move,Hear the discourse which is within my heart,Which cannot be ...
My Dream (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
In my dream, methought I trod,Yesternight, a mountain road;Narrow as Al Sirat's span,High as eagle's flight, it ran.Overhead, a roof ...
Iris, Her Book (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I PRAY thee by the soul of her that bore thee,By thine own sister's spirit I implore thee,Deal gently with ...
The City Storm (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
I stood at attention to see there was an angry thunderclap!A natural manifestation of the ugly clouds above!Proud man was ...
Family Romance (Larry Levis Poems)
Sister once of weeds & a dark water that held stillIn ditches reflecting the odd,Abstaining clouds that passed, & keptTheir ...
Redemption (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Most fair is Earth!This side sweet Heaven, I think, no thing more fairThan the still faceShe turns to her white ...
Estuary (Gwen Harwood Poems)
To Rex HobcroftWind crosshatches shallow water.Paddocks rest in the sea's arm.Swamphens race through spiky grass.A wire fence leans, a crazy ...
What Went Ye Out For To See? (Nora Pembroke Poems)
On Jordan's banks gathered an eager crowd, The Royal city poured its dwellers out;The vintage was untouched in Ephraim; No fisher's boat ...
Goods Train At Night (Kenneth Herbert Ashley Poems)
The station is empty and desolate;A sick lamp wanly glows;Slowly puffs a goods engine,Slow yet alive with great energy;Drawing rumbling ...
The Nursery At Night (R S Ward Poems)
Alone to the nursery crept I one night-The fire rose and fell with a flickering light;Outside the wind thundered and ...
Fate (Louis James Block Poems)
THREE steps and I reach the door, But a whole month rolls betweenSince last I stood before My shut room's simple scene.I ...
Trust (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The same old baffling questions! O my friend,I cannot answer them. In vain I sendMy soul into the dark, where ...
The Voice Of The Void (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
I warn, like the one drop of rainOn your face, ere the storm;Or tremble in whispered refrainWith your blood, beating ...
The Unsolvable (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
What use the questioning? This thing we are:A breath called life, housed for a little spaceIn how infinitesimal a star; ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twenty-Fifth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Far otherwise, within the Median camp, Had passed the changeful night. In dreamless sleep, Three portions had gone by: but, ...
A Voice From The Factories (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
WHEN fallen man from Paradise was driven, Forth to a world of labour, death, and care; Still, of his native ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Eigth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
''Not with you to take counsel, Powers of heaven,-- For still that title ours,--in so great haste Hither have I ...