Under The Old Elm (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Poem Read At Cambridge On The Hundredth Anniversary Of Washington's Taking Command Of The American ArmyIWords pass as wind, but ...
Self-control Poems (38 Poems)
Rachel (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
'Twas sunset in Jerusalem; the lightStill lingered on the city's walls, and crownedMount Olivet with splendor, while below,Among the trees ...
Oenone (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
There lies a vale in Ida, lovelierThan all the valleys of Ionian hills.The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen,Puts forth ...
Oswald, The Minnesinger (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
A Legend of Schloss Forst, near MeranPROLOGUEOswald von Wolkenstein, the Last of the Minnesingers, loved a beautifulwoman, named Sabina, who ...
Spirit Of The Everlasting Boy (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
ODE FOR THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLJune 11, 1910IThe British bard who looked on Eton's walls,Endeared by distance in ...
Love’s Likeness (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
A rose hedged with a briar.Drummond.Alas! what else is love but sorrow.Byron.THERE is softness in the dew;And in starlight trembling ...
Seventh Sunday After Trinity (John Keble Poems)
Go not away, thou weary soul: Heaven has in store a precious doleHere on Bethsaida's cold and darksome height, Where over rocks ...
America The Beautiful (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on ...
A Character (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
So noble that he cannot seeHe stands in aught above the rest,But does his greatness easily,And mounts his scaffold with ...
Solitude (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Had I but lived when music-loving PanStill played his flute amid the whispering reeds,When through Arcadian groves the dryads ran,And--symbolizing ...
Shivratri (the Night of Shiva) (While the procession passed at Ramesram) (Laurence Hope Poems)
Nearer and nearer cometh the car Where the Golden Goddess towers,Sweeter and sweeter grows the air From a thousand trampled flowers.We two ...
Autonomy (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Stand forth, my soul, and take thine own!Though all should blame thee, have no fear!Self-poised and steadfast, dare aloneThy self-elected ...
A Bard’s Epitaph (Robert Burns Poems)
Is there a whim-inspired fool,Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool,Let him ...
L. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Were thine heart a little compassionate, how good it would be!Were a little of thy love bestowed upon me" how ...
Virginia. A Sonnet (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
Grandly thou fillest the world's eye to-day, My proud Virginia! When the gage was thrown-- The deadly gage of battle--thou, alone, Strong in ...
Life’s Words (John William Inchbold Poems)
There is a book wherein we sometimes see A dim reflection of the face of God; Awful at times these writings seem ...
An American to France (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
O FRANCE, with what a shamed and sorry smileWe now recall that in a bygone dayWe sought of you art, ...
Growth (Peter McArthur Poems)
THE dumb earth yearns for the expressive seed,The fruit fulfilled gives ear to her desireAnd she but conscious of her ...
Aequanimitas (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Watchword sublime of Rome's imperial sage,Tersest of synonyms for self-control,Paramount precept of the Stoic's age,Noblest of mottoes for the lofty ...
Raiment (Lesbia Harford Poems)
I cannot be tricked out in lovely clothesAll times, all days.My mind has moods of hating pearl and roseAnd jewel-blaze.Nor ...
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 Lady Of La Garaye – Part II (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
A FIRST walk after sickness: the sweet breeze That murmurs welcome in the bending trees, When the cold shadowy foe ...
A Rhyme For The Time (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
What is to say, had best be said, So, Lilian, ...
The Fair Captive (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
The idle winds at dawn that strayedThro' wavy depths of joyous shade,The early chirp of breeze-swung boughs,The carol of the ...
In Memoriam A. H. H.: 131 (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
O living will that shalt endure When all that seems shall suffer shock, Rise ...
To Harriet H—-y (Charlotte Eliza Dixon Poems)
On her bed of protracted and lingering sickness. ONCE again, long silent lyre,Sound beneath this weary finger,Speak--but breathe with holy ...
In Memoriam 131: O Living Will That Shalt Endure (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
O living will that shalt endureWhen all that seems shall suffer shock,Rise in the spiritual rock,Flow thro' our deeds and ...
A Study in Pink (Frank Sidgwick Poems)
1"Drown had a studio, Chelsea-way, And painted there throughout the day, And lived on bacon and beef and bread, And ...
If Christ Came Questioning (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
If Christ came questioning His world to-day, (If Christ came questioning,) 'What hast thou done to glorify thy God, Since ...
Willelmus Van Nassau (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
Yes! we confess it! 'mong the sons of Fate, Earth's great ones, thou art great!As that tall peak which from ...