Golden Stars (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IIt was my lot of late to travel farThrough all America's domain,A willing, gray-haired servitorBearing the Fiery Cross of righteous ...
Sign & Symbol Poems (2284 Poems)
Summer By The Lakeside: Lake Winnipesaukee (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I. NOON.White clouds, whose shadows haunt the deep,Light mists, whose soft embraces keepThe sunshine on the hills asleep!O isles of ...
Eclogue X (Virgil Poems)
GALLUSThis now, the very latest of my toils,Vouchsafe me, Arethusa! needs must ISing a brief song to Gallus- brief, but ...
Fulfilment (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
We cried, " How long ! " We sighed, " Not yet; "And still with faces dawnward set" Prepare the ...
The Inn Of A Thousand Dreams (Gilbert Frankau Poems)
Where the road climbs free from the marsh and the seaTo the last rose sunset-gleams,Twixt a fold and a fold ...
Hunted Down (Henry Kendall Poems)
Two years had the tiger, whose shape was that of a sinister man,Been out since the night of escape — ...
A Sea Dream (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
We saw the slow tides go and come,The curving surf-lines lightly drawn,The gray rocks touched with tender bloomBeneath the fresh-blown ...
The Road To Dieppe (John Finley Poems)
Before I knew, the Dawn was on the road,Close at my side, so silently he cameNor gave a sign of ...
Chicomico – Part III (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
WHILE swift on his way young Rathmond sped,Death's horrors awaited those he fled.Already were the prisoners bound,One word, and every ...
Eclogue 9: Lycidas Moeris (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
LYCIDASSay whither, Moeris?- Make you for the town,Or on what errand bent?MOERIS O Lycidas,We have lived to see, what never yet ...
The Song Of Six Sisters (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
At a feast in the east of our central plains,Girt with the sheaths of ...
My Garden (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Sweet garden, wreathed in fruits and flowers,And domed by blue Tyrolean skies,Within thy rose-encircled bowers,Secluded from all curious eyes,I find ...
Invocation (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Goddess of Liberty! O thouWhose tearless eyes behold the chain,And look unmoved upon the slain,Eternal peace upon thy brow,-Before thy ...
Duffin Johnny. (A Rifleman’s Adventure.) (John Hartley Poems)
Th' mooin shone breet wi' silver leet, An th' wind wor softly sighin;Th' burds did sleep, an th' snails did creep, An ...
The Himalayas (Muhammad Iqbal Poems)
O Himalah! O rampart of the realm of India!Bowing down, the sky kisses your foreheadYour condition does not show any ...
Abraham Davenport (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
In the old days (a custom laid asideWith breeches and cocked hats) the people sentTheir wisest men to make the ...
Pigeon Toes (Henry Lawson Poems)
A dusty clearing in the scrubs Of barren, western lands-Where, out of sight, or sign of hope The wretched school-house stands;A roof ...
Brunton Stephens (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Dedicated by special permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.We cried, "How long!" We sighed, "Not yet;"And still with ...
The Everlasting Return (Lola Ridge Poems)
It is dark… so dark, I remember the sun on Chios…It is still… so still, I hear the beat of ...
Fit The Second – The Bellman’s Speech (Lewis Carroll Poems)
The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies—Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!Such solemnity, too! One could ...
Signals (Gilbert Frankau Poems)
The hot wax drips from the flares On the scrawled pink forms that litter The bench where he sits; the glitterOf stars ...
Norembega (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE winding way the serpent takesThe mystic water took,From where, to count its beaded lakes,The forest sped its brook.A narrow ...
The Statesman’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHO of all statesmen is his country's pride,Her councils' prompter and her leaders' guide?He speaks; the nation holds its breath ...
The Fishermen Of Wexford (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
THERE is an old tradition sacred held in Wexford town,That says: "Upon St. Martin's Eve no net shall be let ...
Ecologue IX (Virgil Poems)
LYCIDAS, MOERISLycidas.Say whither, Moeris?- Make you for the town,Or on what errand bent?Moeris. O Lycidas,We have lived to see, what ...
The Highland Girl’s Lament (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
Oh! set the bridal feast aside, And bear the harp away; The coronach must sound instead, From solemn kirk-yard gray. I heard last eve, ...
The Unhappy One (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
"HE is false to the heart!" she said, stern-lipped; "he is all untruth;He promises fair as a tree in blossom, ...
A Wedding In War-Time (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
Our God who made two lovers in a garden, And smote them separate and set them free, Their four eyes wild for ...
The Diary of Ana (Ana Poems)
'Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
The Natural History Of Elephants (Milton Acorn Poems)
In the elephant's five-pound brainThe whole world's both table and shithouseWhere he wanders seeking viandes, exchanging great fartsFor compliments. The ...