Lincoln (Henrietta Cordelia Ray Poems)
To-day, O martyred chief, beneath the sunWe would unveil thy form; to thee who wonTh' applause of nations for thy ...
Simplicity Poems (158 Poems)
The Fairies (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
IAs I lay sleeping yesternight,The fairies came to me ;The moon, full-orb'd, gave ample light,Enabling me to seeThe little, green-clad, ...
To The Author’s Brother. On the choice of a Wife in the Year 1789 (Maria Logan Poems)
O THOU, the best of brothers and of friends!Say, who but thee could wake the sleeping lyre?Fann'd by thy breath ...
Seventeen (Robert Nichols Poems)
All the loud winds were in the garden wood,All shadows joyfuller than lissom houndsDoubled in chasing, all exultant cloudsThat ever ...
Elegy I. He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country (William Shenstone Poems)
He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country, and Takes Occasion To Expatiate in Praise of Simplicity.To a FriendFor rural ...
Hymns to the Night : 6 : Longing for Death (Novalis Poems)
Longing for DeathInto the bosom of the earth,Out of the Light's dominion,Death's pains are but a bursting forth,Sign of glad ...
Communion (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
In the silence of my heart, I will spend an hour with thee, When my love shall rend apart All the veil of ...
Lies (Jared Barhite Poems)
If aught on earth my soul can fire, 'Tis the deception of a liar Who with soft smoothness of the tongue, Has promises ...
A May-Day Invitation (John Russell Hayes Poems)
Come, let us leave the busy town And to the country hasten down,--- We'll go this very day! The hills and dales are ...
A Southern Singer (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Written In Madison Caweln's "Lyrics and Idyls." Herein are blown from out the South Songs blithe as those of Pan's pursed mouth-- As ...
In Memory Of Mr. Agostino Isola, Of Cambridge, Who Died On The 5th Of June, 1797 (Matilda Betham Poems)
AWAKE, O Gratitude! nor let the tearsOf selfish Sorrow smother up thy voice,When it should speak of a departed friend.A ...
When My Dreams Come True (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I. When my dreams come true--when my dreams come true-- Shall I lean from out my casement, in the starlight and the ...
The House of Odes (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Writingtheseodesin thisyear nineteenhundred andfifty-five,readying and tuningmy demanding, murmuring lyre,I know who I amand where my song is going.I understandthat the ...
The Grassy Mound. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
WHAT means this little grassy mound,Rais'd in no consecrated ground,But in the forest dell profound,Where waves so sad and mournfullyThe ...
The Violet (John Hartley Poems)
Little simple violet,Glittering with dewy wet,Hidden by protecting grassAll unheeded we should passWere it not the rich perfume,Leads us on ...
To A Wind-Flower (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Teach me the secret of thy loveliness,That, being made wise, I may aspire to beAs beautiful in thought, and so ...
Sonnet To Simplicity (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
NYMPH of the desert! on this lonely shore,Simplicity, thy blessings still are mine,And all thou canst not give I pleas'd ...
“Thy Will be done” (John Bowring Poems)
Lord! to Thy holy will I bow me, In infantine simplicity;O lead me, Father! nor allow me To wander e'en a step ...
Praise (R S Thomas Poems)
I praise you becauseyou are artist and scientistin one. When I am somewhatfearful of your power,your ability to work miracleswith ...
Praise (Ronald Stuart Thomas Poems)
I praise you becauseyou are artist and scientistin one. When I am somewhatfearful of your power,your ability to work miracleswith ...
To Sir Walter Scott (Thomas Pringle Poems)
From deserts wild and many a pathless woodOf savage climes where I have wandered long,Whose hills and streams are yet ...
Epitaph: Being Part Of An Inscription For A Monument (James Beattie Poems)
Farewell, my best-beloved; whose heavenly mindGenius with virtue, strength with softness join'd;Devotion, undebased by pride or art,With meek simplicity, and ...
Against the Dispraisers of Poetry (Richard Barnfield Poems)
Chaucer is dead; and Gower lies in grave;The Earl of Surrey long ago is gone;Sir Philip Sidney's soul the heavens ...
Whittier (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
NOT o'er thy dust let there be spentThe gush of maudlin sentiment;Such drift as that is not for thee,Whose life ...
Sonnet. Written On A Blank Space At The End Of Chaucer’s Tale Of ‘The Floure And The Lefe’ (John Keats Poems)
This pleasant tale is like a little copse:The honied lines do freshly interlace,To keep the reader in so sweet a ...
Sonnet XV. (John Moultrie Poems)
Nor beautiful art thou, nor proudly gracedWith fashion's vain accomplishments; thy mindBy artificial culture unrefined,Not boasting pungent wit, or polish'd ...
To My Wife (James Vincent Cunningham Poems)
And does the heart grow old? You knowIn the indiscriminate greenOf summer or in earliest snowA landscape is another scene,Inchoate ...
We Have Created The Night (Paul Eluard Poems)
We have created the night I hold your hand I watchI sustain you with all my powersI engrave in rock ...
You Are Dying Of Purity and Simplicity (Miguel Hernandez Poems)
You are dying of purity and simplicity:I am guilty, love, I'm confessingthat I, intrepid snatcher of kisses,I sipped at the ...
Gently I Awaken To Thy Wisdom (Patience Worth Poems)
Gently, Oh Lord, I awaken to Thy wisdom,Reaching each day with a certain joy.Sorrow hath been mine---but a gentle sorrow;And ...