The Mermaid (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
IWho would be A mermaid fair, Singing alone, Combing her hair Under the sea, In a golden curl With a ...
Singing Poems (1775 Poems)
The Convent (Alice Cary Poems)
Come, thou of the drooping eyelid,And cheek that is meekly pale,Give over thy pensive musingAnd list to a lonesome tale;For ...
Verses Written In An Alcove (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
NOW the moon-beam's trembling lustre Silvers o'er the dewy green,And in soft and shadowy colours Sweetly paints the ...
Wish for an Overcoat (Alfred Islay Walden Poems)
Oh! had I now an overcoat,For I am nearly freezing;My head and lungs are stopped with cold,And often I am ...
Leudeman’s-o (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Toward even when the day leans down, To kiss the upturned face of night, Out just beyond the ...
Kuno Kohn’s Five Songs To Mary (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
First Song:So many years I sought you, Mary--In gardens, rooms, cities and mountains,In dumps, whores, in acting schools,In sick beds ...
The Wanderer (Alan Seeger Poems)
To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves, Back of old-storied spires ...
Herod (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
The Virgin speaks Draw back the starry curtains of the night, O Cherubim, and Seraphim! Pull back the purple curtains ...
Any Soldier’s Wife (Dorothy Plowman Poems)
IListen: going up the streetThe echo of my soldier's feet.A sound already growing dimIs all I now can hold of ...
The Banker and the Cobbler (Alphonse Marie Lois de Lamartine Poems)
There was a cobbler once, who sang all day;'Twas wonderful to see the man, and thenTo hear him quavering away,Happier ...
The Dead Lark (Alexander Anderson Poems)
On the slope, half-hid in grass, and right beneath the sounding wire,Lay the lark, the sweetest singer in the Heavenly ...
Invitation To The Country (George Meredith Poems)
Now 'tis Spring on wood and wold, Early Spring that shivers with cold, But gladdens, and gathers, day by day, ...
Princeton, May, 1917 (Alfred Noyes Poems)
Here Freedom stood by slaughtered friend and foe, And, ere the wrath paled or that sunset died,Looked through ...
The Adopted Child (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Why wouldst thou leave me, oh! gentle child?Thy home on the mountain is bleak and wild,A straw-roof'd cabin, with lowly ...
The Wind (Eugene Field Poems)
(THE TALE)Cometh the Wind from the garden, fragrant and full of sweet singing—Under my tree where I sit cometh the ...
At Timrod’s Grave. 1877. (Carl McKinley Poems)
Harp of the South! no more, no more Thy silvery strings shall quiver, The one strong ...
Two Idylls From Bion The Smyrnean (Eugene Field Poems)
IOnce a fowler, young and artless, To the quiet greenwood came;Full of skill was he and heartless In pursuit of ...
The Senior Fellow (E W Bowling Poems)
When the shades of eve descending Throw o'er cloistered courts their gloom, Dimly with the twilight blending Memories ...
In Celebration Of My Uterus (Anne Sexton Poems)
Everyone in me is a bird. I am beating all my wings. They wanted to cut you out but they ...
Mabel’s Lesson (Ella Fraser Weller Poems)
Mabel stood by the garden gate Swinging her hat in a careless way; A frown on her face, a ...
The House Of The Singing Birds (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I sat in the house of the master, With the Pentland Hills in view,And in at the open window The ...
A Greater Than He (Arthur Weir Poems)
Baby sits upon the floor, Baby's scarce a twelvemonth old;Baby laughs, and _goo-goos_ o'erMemories how a babe of yore Humbled ...
Broken Melodies (Alexander Anderson Poems)
What lark remembers when he sings, From where the clouds are dim and grey,His brothers of the former springs, Who ...
The Roads’ End (C J Dennis Poems)
Old Ben, the pensioner, is going down to die.Huddled in the mail-car, he turns a wistful eyeOn this familiar forest ...
The Beggar Maid (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
All on a golden morning the beggar maid did go To gather branch and berry, the hazel-nut and sloe. And ...
A Cry In The World (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Kine, kine, in the meadows, why do you low so piteously? High is the grass to your knees and wet ...
An Invocation (Frances Anne Kemble Poems)
Spirit, bright spirit! from thy narrow cell Answer me! answer me! oh, let me hear Thy voice, and ...
Holly and Mistletoe on a Christmas Card from England (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
IN a weary land of exile there has come to me a token,A wreath of pearly mistletoe around a holly ...
The Poet’s Prayer To The Evening Wind (Ernest Jones Poems)
WILD rider of grey clouds, beneath whose breath The stars dissolve in mist, or rain, or sleet;Who chariotest the ...
To R. – at Anzac (Aubrey Herbert Poems)
You left your vineyards, dreaming of the vines in a dream landAnd dim Italian cities where high cathedrals stand.At Anzac ...