The House Delirious (Leon Gellert Poems)
Come in and tread thou quietlyWithin the duskiness.This twilight thou dost seeIs but the moment passing. Make no guessUpon these ...
Singing Poems (1775 Poems)
Epilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken For ‘She Stoops To Conquer’ (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
'Enter' MRS. BULKLEY,'who curtsies very low as beginning to speak.Then enter' MISS CATLEY,'who stands full before her, and curtsies to ...
The Hasteners (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
The last walls of shame fell,And we rejoiced…And we danced…And we were blessed with the signing of the peace of ...
Oreithyia (Maurice Hewlett Poems)
Oreithyia, by the North Wind carried To stormy Thrace from Athens where you tarried Down by Ilissus all a blowy day Among the ...
The Water Witch (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
See! the milk-white doe is wounded. He will follow as it bounds Through the woods. His horn has sounded. Echoing, for his men ...
Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds (John Keats Poems)
Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed,There came before my eyes that wonted threadOf shapes, and shadows, and ...
Eclogue 6: To Varus (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
First my Thalia stooped in sportive moodTo Syracusan strains, nor blushed withinThe woods to house her. When I sought to ...
Eclogue VI (Virgil Poems)
TO VARUSFirst my Thalia stooped in sportive moodTo Syracusan strains, nor blushed withinThe woods to house her. When I sought ...
Ondas Muertas (Dead Waves) (Manuel Gutierrez Najera Poems)
In the deep darkness underneath the groundThat never has been reached by mortal sight,There silent currents of black water glideIn ...
Said The Wind (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
"Come with me," said the Wind To the ship within the dock "Or dost thou fear the shock Of the ocean-hidden rock,When tempests ...
The River Of Dreams (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
The river of dreams runs quietly down From its hidden home in the forest of sleep, With a measureless motion calm and ...
Tripoli (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Hear the singing on the boats,As they halt beside the pier!Ah, those fresh Italian throats, How they cheer!Yet the words they ...
The Singing Leaves (James Russell Lowell Poems)
A BALLADI'What fairings will ye that I bring?' Said the King to his daughters three;'For I to Vanity Fair am bound,Now ...
The Song Of The Forest (John Freeman Poems)
ITo Thee, Most Holy, Most Obscure, light-hidden,Shedding light in the darkness of the mindAs gold beams wake the air to ...
The Sprits Of Light And Darkness (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
FIRST CHORUS. Ere the birth of Death and of Time, Ere the birth of Hell and its torments, Ere the orbs of ...
Dead Waves (Ondas Muertas) (Manuel Gutierrez Najera Poems)
In the deep darkness underneath the groundThat never has been reached by mortal sight,There silent currents of black water glideIn ...
Broken Song (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Kasinath the new young singer fills the hall with sound:The seven notes dance in his throat like seven tame birds.His ...
The Brown Dwarf of Rugen (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The pleasant isle of Rugen looks the Baltic water o'er,To the silver-sanded beaches of the Pomeranian shore;And in the town ...
The Cottager (John Clare Poems)
True as the church clock hand the hour pursuesHe plods about his toils and reads the news,And at the blacksmith's ...
Nature: (John William Inchbold Poems)
STRATFORD-ON-AVON. I. I feel the precious balm of Nature's joy! I rest as in a dream of quiet bliss! Time's scroll unfolded lies: again ...
Jotunheim (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IBeyond the Northern Lights, in regions hauntedOf twilight, where the world is glacier planted,And pale as Loki in his cavern ...
A Letter (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
'TIS over, Moses! All is lost!I hear the bells a-ringing;Of Pharaoh and his Red Sea hostI hear the Free-Wills singing.*We're ...
Nathalocus (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
I.Bleak was the pathway and barren the mountain,As the traveller passed on his wearisome way,Sealed by the frost was each ...
A Christmas Carol (George Wither Poems)
So now is come our joyful'st feast, Let every man be jolly. Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with ...
The Growth Of A Legend (James Russell Lowell Poems)
A FRAGMENTA legend that grew in the forest's hushSlowly as tear-drops gather and gush,When a word some poet chanced to ...
The Black Preacher: A Breton Legend (James Russell Lowell Poems)
At Carnac in Brittany, close on the bay,They show you a church, or rather the grayRibs of a dead one, ...
The Epitaph Of Bion. (Henry Alford Poems)
Dolefully sound, ye groves and Dorian waters,Lament, ye rivers, our beloved Bion;Mourn, all ye plants, and whisper low, ye forests;Ye ...
A Ballad Of Sin (George Sylvester Viereck Poems)
In dreams on a far-off shore I lay(Dreams that were full of dread),Where the purple clouds of a dying dayShadowed ...
Epicedia (Henry Alford Poems)
I.Ye must not die--your cheek is red,Ye have not lost your bloom;We shall be loth when ye are deadTo lay ...
From “Odi Barbare” (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
XXIVWhat is far hence led to the den of making:Moves unlike wildfire; not so simple-happyPloughman hammers ploughshare his durum dentemDigging ...