On a Spanish Cathedral (Henry Kendall Poems)
DEEP under the spires of a hill, by the feet of the thunder-cloud trod,I pause in a luminous, still, magnificent ...
Religions & Spirituality Poems (660 Poems)
from Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, lines 695-768 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him.For ...
For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry (excerpt, Jubilate Agno) (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.For ...
To Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
MY cousin, I have never seen thee--yetFrom childhood's early years my dearest thoughtsHave been so full of thee, I almost ...
A Redeemer (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
The road had steepened and the sun sharpened on the highridges; the stream probably was dry,Certainly not to be come ...
Friendship And Single Life, Against Love And Marriage (John Denham Poems)
Love! in what poison is thy dart Dipp'd, when it makes a bleeding heart? None know but they who feel the smart.It ...
The Battle Of Ivry (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
Now glory to the Lord of hosts, from whom all glories are!And glory to our sovereign liege, King Henry of ...
To The Countess Of Bedford II (John Donne Poems)
TO have written then, when you writ, seem'd to meWorst of spiritual vices, simony ;And not to have written then ...
Another Chance (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
A DRAMATIC LYRICCome, give me back my life again, you heavy-handed Death!Uncrook your fingers from my throat, and let me ...
On Self – Abasement And Humility (Hakim Sanai Poems)
Lowliness befits thee, violence suits thee not; a, naked man frantic in a bee-house is out of place. Leave aside ...
Apostophe To The memory Of Byron (Peter John Allan Poems)
I.Thou glorious painter of the thoughts that dwellIn the hot brain of genius, it was thineTo live in the delusion ...
Congratulatory Lines on the Jubilee :Humbly addressed to His Majesty (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
HAPPY Britannia, favour'd Isle! Fate on thee delights to smile; Even amid the woes of war, Thund'ring dreadful from afar; Let no discordant voice ...
Hymn (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Who shall commemorate all Thy chosen namesThou who art Sire at once and Son of man?Servant, friend, brother, bridegroom, husband, ...
Suum Cuique (John Henry Dryden Poems)
When lawless men their neighbours dispossess,The tenants they extirpate or oppress,And make rude havoc in the fruitful soil,Which the right ...
Captain Von Esson of the “Sebastopol” (Henry Lawson Poems)
Of his beauty, or stature, or colour of hair I hadn't the slightest hint,But he comes to me as a little ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 02 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XIBut when the angry king discovered notWhat guilty hand this sacrilege had wrought,His ireful courage boiled in vengeance hotAgainst the ...
To Gaspar Visconti (James Crichton Poems)
I.When her fair land with grief o'erspread,Insubria mourn'd her primate dead;When Borromeo to the tombWas borne mid all-pervading gloom;When dimm'd ...
Ode VII: To The Right Reverend Benjamin Lord Bishop Of Winchester (Mark Akenside Poems)
I. 1.For toils which patriots have endur'd,For treason quell'd and laws secur'd,In every nation Time displaysThe palm of honourable praise.Envy ...
King Raedwald (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
Will you hear now the speech of King Raedwald,—heathen Raedwald, the simple yet wise?He, the ruler of North-folk and South-folk, a ...
A Rune Of The Rain (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
O many-toned rain!O myriad sweet voices of the rain!How welcome is its delicate overtureAt evening, when the moist and glowing ...
Verses – III (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
ANTARCTIC isle! thy mountains riseAll dimly o'er the western main;But gladly I regale my eyesWith the bless'd sight of land ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book II – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the windsRoll up its waste of waters, from the landTo watch another's labouring ...
Broken Barbiton-Withered Laurel-Wreath And Broken Heart (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
A SCENE FROM BULWER'S ZANONI.IT was the close of day upon the shoresOf beauteous Naples. The low murmuring wavesThat rose ...
Book II – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the windsRoll up its waste of waters, from the landTo watch another's labouring ...
Religion and Death (Nathaniel Cotton Poems)
Lo! a form divinely brightDescends, and bursts upon my sight;A seraph of illustrious birth!(Religion was her name on earth);Supremely sweet ...
Disenchantment Of Death (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Hush! She is dead! Tread gently as the light Foots dim the weary room. Thou shalt behold. Look:--In death's ermine pomp of ...
Jimmy’s Choice (John Hartley Poems)
One limpin Jimmy wed a lass;An this wor th' way it coom to pass--He'd saved a little bit o' brass, An ...
Thanksgiving (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
When first in ancient time, from Jubal's tongueThe tuneful anthem filled the morning air,To sacred hymnings and elysian songHis music-breathing ...
Young England (Horace Smith Poems)
The times still "grow to something strange"; We rap and turn the tables;We fire our guns at awful range; We lay Atlantic ...
A Gallery To The Temple. Prodigyes (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Wee heare of dire portents, and Prodigies, Sad meteours of bloud, and fire, The signes of heavenly ire, Forewarners of the Earths calamityes, Summons ...