A Humble Heroine (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the Peninsular War, That a Mrs Reston for courage outshone any man there ...
Service Poems (1252 Poems)
Jack Honest, or the Widow and Her Son (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Jack Honest was only eight years of age when his father died, And by the death of his father, Mrs ...
The Battle of El-Teb (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye sons of Great Britain, I think no shame To write in praise of brave General Graham! Whose name will ...
The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! Lord and Lady Dalhousie are dead, and buried at last, Which causes many people to feel a little downcast; ...
The Death of the Rev. Dr. Wilson (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1888 and on the 17th of January That the late Rev. Dr. Wilson's soul fled ...
The Funeral of the German Emperor (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead. Who oft great armies to battle hath led; He ...
The Funeral of the Late Prince Henry of Battenberg (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! Prince Henry of Battenberg is dead! And, I hope, has gone to heaven, its streets to tread, And to ...
The Nithsdale Widow and Her Son (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1746, on a fine summer afternoon, When trees and flowers were in full bloom, That ...
Granville Calhoun (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I wanted to be County Judge One more term, so as to round out a service Of thirty years. But ...
The Character Of Holland (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land, As but th'Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand; And so much Earth as ...
Paradise Regained: The First Book (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Il Penseroso (John Milton Poems)
Hence, vain deluding Joys, ............The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested ............Or fill the fixed mind ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Incantation (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
Clover (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats. Dear uplands, Chester's favorable fields, My large unjealous Loves, many yet one -- ...
Monologue of a Mother (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
This is the last of all, this is the last! I must hold my hands, and turn my face to ...
I Sing The Body Electric (Philip Levine Poems)
People sit numbly at the counter waiting for breakfast or service. Today it's Hartford, Connecticut more than twenty-five years after ...
Green Thumb (Philip Levine Poems)
Shake out my pockets! Harken to the call Of that calm voice that makes no sound at all! Take of ...
The Eagle That is Forgotten (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Sleep softly ... eagle forgotten ... under the stone. Time has its way with you there, and the clay has ...
Sweethearts of the Year (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Sweetheart Spring Our Sweetheart, Spring, came softly, Her gliding hands were fire, Her lilac breath upon our cheeks Consumed us ...
Marriage Bells (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Music and silver chimes and sunlit air, Freighted with the scent of honeyed orange-flower; Glad, friendly festal faces everywhere. She, ...