Orpheus (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
A:Not far from hence. From yonder pointed hill,Crowned with a ring of oaks, you may beholdA dark and barren field, ...
Sadness Poems (11034 Poems)
To The Town Clock (Joseph Howe Poems)
Thou grave old Time Piece, many a time and oft I've been your debtor for the time of day; And every time ...
Hans Carvel (Matthew Prior Poems)
Hans Carvel, impotent and old,Married a lass of London mould.Handsome? Enough; extremely gay;Loved music, company, and play:High flights she had, ...
Poetical Portraits (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
I.A dancing shape, an image gay,To haunt, to startle, and waylay.And yet a Woman, still and bright,With something of an ...
Advice, To Guard Against The Temptations Of The Devil (Rees Prichard Poems)
SHOU'D Satan promise thee, or house or land,If thou wou'dst kneel and worship at his feet :Tell him, he has ...
Dedication – The Poems Of Goeth (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scaredThe gentle sleep that round my senses clung,And I, awak'ning, from my cottage fared,And ...
Advice To The Sick (Rees Prichard Poems)
THY mortal part shou'd sickness chance to seize,Consider, whence the fi'ry dart was sent,Consider, who inflicted the disease,And to what ...
Japan,–Old And New (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The son of a Japanese lord am I,--A Prince of the olden time;My hair is white, though black as nightIn ...
Dorothy In The Garret (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
In the low-raftered garret, stooping Carefully over the creaking boards,Old Maid Dorothy goes a-groping Among its dusty and cobwebbed hoards;Seeking some bundle ...
The Reign Of Reason (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
The day of truth is dawning. I beholdO'er darksome hills the trailing robes of goldAnd silent footsteps of the gladsome ...
The New Year (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE wave is breaking on the shore,The echo fading from the chime;Again the shadow moveth o'erThe dial-plate of time!O seer-seen ...
Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank (Laurence Hope Poems)
The Desert is parched in the burning sunAnd the grass is scorched and white.But the sand is passed, and the ...
Allan Herbert (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SCENE I.[The hall of a country house in Westmoreland, surrounded with portraits of the M. . . . family. Allan ...
A Dream Of Bric-A-Brac (John Hay Poems)
I dreamed I was in fair Niphon.Amid tea-fields I journeyed on,Reclined in my jinrikishaw;Across the rolling plains I sawThe lordly ...
Preom (Giovanni Boccaccio Poems)
Beginneth here the book called Decameron, otherwise Prince Galeotto, wherein are contained one hundred novels told in ten days by ...
The Dying Girl (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
THROW open yonder window, sister dear,For all seems gloomy and oppressive here;I feel, alas! that I am dying now,But the ...
The Grave (excerpt) (Robert Blair Poems)
While some affect the sun, and some the shade.Some flee the city, some the hermitage;Their aims as various, as the ...
To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys (Henry King Poems)
It is, Sir, a confest intrusion hereThat I before your labours do appear,Which no loud Herald need, that may proclaimOr ...
The Song Of Hiawatha VII: Hiawatha’s Sailing (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
"Give me of your bark, O Birch-tree!Of your yellow bark, O Birch-tree!Growing by the rushing river,Tall and stately in the ...
The Bard (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
Where dwells the spirit of the Bard--what skyPersuades his daring wing,--Folded in soft carnation, or in snowStill sleeping, far o'er ...
The Vow Of Cortes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Word was brought where Cortes layOn the shores of Coronzel,That, pent from the blessed light of dayAnd the free breath ...
Address To The Muses (Joanna Baillie Poems)
YE tuneful sisters of the lyre,Who dreams and fantasies inspire,Who over poesy preside,And on a lofty hill abideAbove the ken ...
Descriptive Voyage From New York To Aspinwall (James Madison Bell Poems)
Farewell, for now my gallant bark, Loosed from her mooring, quits the shoreAmid a fog and mist as dark As that which ...
A Man Young And Old (William Butler Yeats Poems)
IFirst LoveTHOUGH nurtured like the sailing moonIn beauty's murderous brood,She walked awhile and blushed awhileAnd on my pathway stoodUntil I ...
A Little Boys Ideas (John Joy Bell Poems)
. 1 GRANDMAMAMy Grandmama was cross to-dayAnd really rather rude:She would not let me out to playUntil I took my food.'Twas horrid ...
Fragments (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Saw'st thou that light? exclaim'd the youth, and paused:Through yon dark firs it glanced, and on the streamThat skirts the ...
An Ode in Blessed Memory (Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov Poems)
1A sudden bliss has seized my mind,And to a mountain peak it carries meUp where the wind's forgotten how to ...
The Contract (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid,In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid;The fertile subject never will be dry:'Tis ...
Hymns From The French Of Lamartine (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I. "Encore un hymne, O ma lyre Un hymn pour le Seigneur, Un hymne dans mon delire, Un hymne dans mon bonheur." One hymn more, ...
Avenging The Maine (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
Sing, O Muse! the avenging of the Maine,The direful woes, the fate of Spain.A heinous deed t' our ship they ...