Nature At Ease (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I FEEL the kisses of this lingering breeze,Warm, close, and ardent as the lips of love,I quaff the sunshine streaming ...
Religions & Spirituality Poems (660 Poems)
The Might Have Been (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ONCE in the twilight hour there stole on meA strange, sweet spirit! In her tender eyesShone a far beauty, like ...
Sonnet X. To The Same (John Moultrie Poems)
Sound teachers are there of religion pureAnd unimpeach'd morality; grave men,Who wield a cautious and deliberate pen,And preach and publish ...
Rest of the Righteous (John Bowring Poems)
O sweet and sacred is the restRound the departed Christian's breast;Serene the pillow of his head,And sanctified his funeral bed.Upon ...
In Secret We Thirst (Hermann Hesse Poems)
Graceful, spiritual,with the gentleness of arabesquesour life is similarto the existence of fairiesthat spin in soft cadencearound nothingnessto which we sacrificethe ...
On the Effects of Machinery (Henry Ellison Poems)
Were all these means and rich appliancesMeant merely to enable Man to makeMore money, not for the diviner sakeOf his ...
Pure Religion and Undefiled (John Bowring Poems)
Pure and undefiled religion, In our God and Father's sight,Is, to pour on helpless orphans Balm of healing and delight:'Tis to visit ...
“I am gentle with you” (Halina Poswiatowska Poems)
I am gentle with youas with beesthe sharp smell of flowersI am kind to youas to the bird's tired wingsa ...
Epitaph on Henry Martyn (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
Here Martyn lies. In Manhood's early bloomThe Christian Hero finds a Pagan tomb.Religion, sorrowing o'er her favourite son,Points to the ...
Lines (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Within the world of every man's desireThree things have power to lift his soul above,Through dreams, religion, and ecstatic fire,The ...
The Wicked Dies (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
There's a plot for you and one for me,Out in God's acre, that's lying by;You needn't think I cannot also ...
Great Serenity: Questions and Answers (Yehuda Amichai Poems)
People in a hall that's lit so brightlyIt hurtsSpoke of religionIn the lives of contemporary peopleAnd on the place of ...
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 ...
The Ghost – Book I (Charles Churchill Poems)
With eager search to dart the soul,Curiously vain, from pole to pole,And from the planets' wandering spheresTo extort the number ...
The Borough. Letter IV: Sects And Professions In Religion (George Crabbe Poems)
SECTS in Religion?--Yes of every raceWe nurse some portion in our favour'd place;Not one warm preacher of one growing sectCan ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Third. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
While morning yet was young, within his hall Of justice Pharaoh sat: his princes, priests, Judges, and ministers, in costly ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Twelfth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
While thus the gentle Aziel, at the sight Of holiness, to thoughts of Heaven recalled, Stood contrite, watchful,--by far different ...
Alsace-Lorraine (George Meredith Poems)
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
The Artists (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime,With unlocked senses, ...
Gotham – Book I (Charles Churchill Poems)
Far off (no matter whether east or west,A real country, or one made in jest,Nor yet by modern Mandevilles disgraced,Nor ...
Fragments from ‘Genius Lost’ (Charles Harpur Poems)
Prelude I SEE the boy-bard neath life's morning skies, While hope's bright cohorts guess ...
The Ancient Banner (Anonymous Americas Poems)
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto II (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
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 ...
Tale II (George Crabbe Poems)
THE PARTING HOUR.Minutely trace man's life; year after year,Through all his days let all his deeds appear,And then though some ...
Hero And Leander. The Third Sestiad (George Chapman Poems)
New light gives new directions, fortunes new, To fashion our endeavours that ensue. More harsh, at least more ...
Selene (Anna Hempstead Branch Poems)
But when Endymion, wandering alone,With youth and love of loveliness forlorn,Being greatly sorrowful with beauty, cameUpon the silence of a ...
Israel In Egypt. Book First. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Tombed in the solid night of starless space; From nearest living orb so far removed, That light, of all material ...
Tale I (George Crabbe Poems)
THE DUMB ORATORS; OR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY.That all men would be cowards if they dare,Some men we know have ...
Balin and Balan (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
Pellam the King, who held and lost with LotIn that first war, and had his realm restoredBut rendered tributary, failed ...