The Ghost Of Fadon (Joanna Baillie Poems)
ON Gask's deserted ancient hallWas twilight closing fast,And, in its dismal shadows, allSeem'd lofty, void, and vast.All sounds of life, ...
Sadness Poems (11034 Poems)
To Cuba (Juan Francisco Manzano Poems)
CUBA, of what avail that thou art fair! Pearl of the seas, the pride of the Antilles! If thy poor sons, have ...
Proem to American Song (Paul Engle Poems)
BLOW, LONG TRADE WINDS of American speech,Over this land where we can rise, unfurlOur new and untried sails, and drive ...
Fire Pictures (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
O! THE rolling, rushing fire!O! the fire!How it rages, wilder, higher,Like a hot heart's fierce desire,Thrilled with passion that appalls ...
Christ’s Triumph after Death (excerpts) (Giles Fletcher Jr Poems)
IBut now the second Morning, from her bow'r,Began to glister in her beams, and nowThe roses of the day began ...
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 ...
Nature in Perfection (Richard Savage Poems)
Mater ait, tacta est dea Nomine Matris.Ovid--- Utinam modo dicere PossemCarmina digna dea, certe est dea carmine digna.VirgilLet hireling Poets ...
The Sundays Of Satin-Legs Smith (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
Inamoratas, with an approbation,Bestowed his title. Blessed his inclination.He wakes, unwinds, elaborately: a catTawny, reluctant, royal. He is fatAnd fine ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XV: Hiawatha’s Lamentation (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
In those days the Evil Spirits,All the Manitos of mischief,Fearing Hiawatha's wisdom,And his love for Chibiabos,Jealous of their faithful friendship,And ...
The Haunch Of Venison (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARETHANKS, my Lord, for your venison, for finer or fatterNever rang'd in a forest, or ...
Threnodia Augustalis: Overture – Pastorale (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
MAN SPEAKER.FAST by that shore where Thames' translucent streamReflects new glories on his breast,Where, splendid as the youthful poet's dream,He ...
Mr. Hosea Biglow To The Editor Of The Atlantic Monthly (James Russell Lowell Poems)
DEAR SIR,--Your letter come to han' Requestin' me to please be funny;But I ain't made upon a plan Thet knows wut's comin', ...
A Short Discourse on Eternity (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
What Mortal man can with his Span mete out Eternity?Or fathom it by depth of Wit, or strength of Memory?The ...
Tasso Dying (Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov Poems)
What festival is ancient Rome preparing? Where flow the crowds in noisy waves?Why these aromas, myrrh's sweet smoke And censers all around ...
The Christ upon the Hill (William Cosmo Monkhouse Poems)
Part I.A couple old sat o'er the fire,And they were bent and gray;They burned the charcoal for their Lord,Who lived ...
The Vision Of Sir Lamoracke (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Argument:As I was going to Saint IvesI met seven wives.Every wife had seven sacks;Every sack had seven cats;Every cat had ...
1946-47 (Jibanananda Das Poems)
There's a rather indistinct human anxiety all around in the day's light:on streets, in alleys, on tram line tracks and ...
The Shepherd’s Week : Friday; or, The Dirge (John Gay Poems)
Bumkinet, GrubbinolBumkinet.Why, Grubbinol, dost thou so wistful seem?There's sorrow in thy look, if right I deem.'Tis true, yon oaks with ...
Festus – XII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
All man's acts,Serious or trivial, all man's thoughts perchancePass not unmarked of angel eye, or God's.We know in daytime there ...
Chatterton’s Will (Thomas Chatterton Poems)
Burgum, I thank thee, thou hast let me seeThat Bristol has impress'd her stamp on thee,Thy generous spirit emulates the ...
A Pastorall Aeglogue – Upon The Death Of Sir Phillip Sidney, Knight, etc. (Lodowick Bryskett Poems)
Lycon. — Colin.Lycon.Colin, well fits thy sad cheare this sad stownd,This wofull stownd, wherein all things complaineThis greate mishap, this ...
Paraphrases From Scriptures. (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
The day is thine, the night also is thine; thou hast prepared thelight and the sun.Thou hast set all the ...
Vestigia Quinque Retrorsum (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AN ACADEMIC POEM1829-1879Read at the Commencement Dinner of the Alumni of HarvardUniversity, June 25, 1879.WHILE fond, sad memories all around ...
The Lovers’ Last Meeting (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
IT was a calm, still, Sabbath eve--no breezeWent o'er the sleeping flowers, no murmured sound,From Nature's harp of many voices, ...
The Monster Diamond (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
A TALE OF THE PENAL COLONY OF WEST AUSTRALIA."I'LL have it, I tell you! Curse you!-there!"The long knife glittered, was ...
Malcolm’s Heir (Joanna Baillie Poems)
O, go not by Dunorloch's wallsWhen the moon is in the wane,And cross not o'er Dunorloch's bridge,The farther bank to ...
The Ballad of Lost Souls (John Oxenham Poems)
With the thirty pieces of silver,They bought the Potter's Field;For none would have the blood-moneyAnd the interest it might yield.The ...
The Seasons: A Masque. As Represented By Father Christmas And His Attendants (Henry Alford Poems)
Part I.The Prologue was given by Father Christmas habited in a red robe, with a white beard and an icy ...
The Flying Dutchman (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
LONG time ago, from Amsterdam a vessel sailed away,-As fair a ship as ever flung aside the laughing spray.Upon the ...
The Execution Of Montrose (William Edmondstoune Aytoun Poems)
COME hither, Evan Cameron!Come, stand beside my knee:I hear the river roaring downTowards the wintry sea.There 's shouting on the ...