On The Death Of Commodore Oliver H. Perry (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
"By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned."How sad the note of that funereal drum,That's muffled by indifference to the dead!And ...
Silence Poems (3554 Poems)
Lyrics Of Love And Sorrow (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I Love is the light of the world, my dear, Heigho, but the world is gloomy; The light has failed and the lamp ...
A Slight Misunderstan (Henry Lawson Poems)
Oh, do you hear the argument, far up above the skies?The voice of old Saint Peter, in expostulation rise?Growing shrill, ...
Be Faithful (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
At the gate of the dear old homestead,With hands clasped in lingering farewell,We stood together in silence,With feelings no language ...
A Slight Misunderstanding at the Jasper Gate (Henry Lawson Poems)
Oh, do you hear the argument, far up above the skies?The voice of old Saint Peter, in expostulation rise?Growing shrill, ...
Song Of A Ship (John Joy Bell Poems)
The love and the hate of the sea, The kiss and the curse of the wind For years have been murmured and ...
What The Voice Said (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
MADDENED by Earth's wrong and evil,"Lord!" I cried in sudden ire,"From Thy right hand, clothed with thunder,Shake the bolted fire!"Love ...
Upon the death of my ever desired friend Doctor Donne Dean of Pauls (Henry King Poems)
To have liv'd eminent in a degreeeBeyond our lofty'st flights, that is like thee;Or t'have had too much merit is ...
Doubting (Henry Kendall Poems)
A Brother wandered forth with me, Beside a barren beach:He harped on things beyond the sea, And out of reach.He hinted once ...
A Pastoral Ballad II: Hope (William Shenstone Poems)
My banks they are furnish'd with bees,Whose murmur invites one to sleep;My grottos are shaded with trees,And my hills are ...
Could I hear the Kookaburras once again (John O Brien Poems)
May a fading fancy hover round a gladness that is over?May a dreamer in the silence rake the ashes of ...
May, 1918 (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE moon at midnight quenched her vaporous light,Leaving the stars but faintly brightLike tapers that burn ill;And in the fragrant ...
Fourth Sunday In Lent (John Keble Poems)
When Nature tries her finest touch, Weaving her vernal wreath,Mark ye, how close she veils her round,Not to be traced by ...
And Thou Art Dead, As Young and Fair (George Gordon Byron Poems)
And thou art dead, as young and fairAs aught of mortal birth;And form so soft, and charms so rare,Too soon ...
Trinity Sunday (John Keble Poems)
Creator, Saviour, strengthening Guide,Now on Thy mercy's ocean wideFar out of sight we seem to glide.Help us, each hour, with ...
English Eclogues III – The Funeral (Robert Southey Poems)
The coffin as I past across the laneCame sudden on my view. It was not here,A sight of every day, ...
A Tale (Rebekah Carmichael Poems)
Think how welcome dawns AURORAOn the weary trav'ller's eyes;Think how lovely PHOEBUS rises,And adorns the eastern skies:Full as welcome, and ...
Rain In The Woods (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
When on the leaves the rain persists, And every gust brings showers down; When all the woodland smokes with mists, I take the ...
In The Tents Of Akbar (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
In the tents of Akbar Are dole and grief to-day, For the flower of all the Indies Has gone the silent way. In the ...
The Gathering of the Brown-Eyed (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE BROWN EYES came from Asia, where all mystery is true,Ere the masters of Soul Secrets dreamed of hazel, grey, ...
Lines Supposed To Be Spoken By A Lover At The Grave Of His Mistress (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Mary, the moon is sleeping on thy grave,And on the turf thy lover sad is kneeling,The big tear in his ...
Ode to the end of Summer (Phyllis McGinley Poems)
Summer, adieu Adieu gregarious season.Goodbye, 'revoir, farewell.Now day comes late; now chillier blows the breeze onForsaken beach and boarded-up hotel.Now wild ...
Evening On The Farm (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
From out the hills where twilight stands,Above the shadowy pasture lands,With strained and strident cry,Beneath pale skies that sunset bands,The ...
Autumn: Monday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
O God! Thy kingdom is a mansion bright,Where peace and joy and truth and love and lightMingle harmoniously; while like ...
Palm Branches (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
In the hush of the Sabbath evening,The people were wending their way,To worship in God's own temple,Where so often, they ...
Second Sunday After Christmas (John Keble Poems)
And wilt thou hear the fevered heart To Thee in silence cry?And as th' inconstant wildfires dart Out of the restless eye,Wilt ...
Prejudice (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
How strangely blind is prejudice, the Negro's greatest foe!It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can ...
Faithful Eckart (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
"OH, would we were further! Oh, would we were home,The phantoms of night tow'rd us hastily come,The band of the ...
Grant (Henry Cuyler Bunner Poems)
Smile on, thou new-come Spring-if on thy breeze The breath of a great man go wavering up And out of this world's ...
The Long Night (Harry Bache Smith Poems)
WHO will watch thee, little mound, When a few more years are done, And I go with them to rest In the silence ...