The Hearts (Robert Pinsky Poems)
The legendary muscle that wants and grieves,The organ of attachment, the pump of thrillsAnd troubles, clinging in stubborn coloniesLike pulpy ...
Singing Poems (1775 Poems)
When Sheridan Hurled The Discus (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
"Pinch me; ay, punch me, for fear I m not sitting here reading the paper.Sure as the sun in the ...
The Oceanides IV (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
THE SUNKEN ROCK.A gentle ship was sailing Upon the Indian seas,O lovely looked she sailing, So fair were wave and breeze:Yet sunken ...
Burns (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
ON RECEIVING A SPRIG OF HEATHER IN BLOSSOM.No more these simple flowers belongTo Scottish maid and lover;Sown in the common ...
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 Hiawatha: Introduction And Vocabulary (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Should you ask me, whence these stories?Whence these legends and traditions,With the odors of the forestWith the dew and damp ...
Tom Bombadil’s Song (J. R. R. Tolkien Poems)
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom ...
At Dawn (Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Poems)
I. THE CAVEMANI live! And the scarlet sunrise is climbing the mountain steep,I live . . . And below, in the ...
An Idyll of the May (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
In the beautiful May weather, Lapsing soon into June; On a golden, golden day Of the green and golden May, When our hearts were ...
Narrara Creek (Henry Kendall Poems)
From the rainy hill-heads, where, in starts and in spasms,Leaps wild the white torrent from chasms to chasms-From the home ...
The End Of The World (Gordon Bottomley Poems)
The snow had fallen many nights and days; The sky was come upon the earth at last, Sifting thinly down as endlessly As ...
On a Street (Henry Kendall Poems)
I dread that street — its haggard faceI have not seen for eight long years;A mother's curse is on the ...
Fore-Song Of Malmorda (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
I.To me by early mornCame memories of Old Ireland by the sea,The tenderest and sweetest that there be,Wherein the songs ...
Evening Hexameters (Henry Alford Poems)
Darkly the minster--towers, against the glow of the sunset,Rise from the purple band of mist that beleaguers the city:Golden the ...
Science, the Iconoclast (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
"Oh! spare dual idols of the past, Whose lips are dumb, whose eyes are dim; Truth's diadem is not for himWho comes, ...
The Fisher’s Wife (Marietta Holley Poems)
A long, low waste of yellow sandLay shining northward far as eye could reach,Southward a rocky bluff rose highBroken in ...
Leichhardt (Henry Kendall Poems)
LORDLY harp, by lordly master wakened from majestic sleep,Yet shall speak and yet shall sing the words which make the ...
Autumn (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
As a harvester, at dusk, Faring down some woody trail Leading homeward through the musk Of may-apple and pawpaw, Hazel-bush, and spice and haw,-- So ...
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 ...
Blessings On Children (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
Blessings on the blessing children, sweetest gifts of Heaven to earth,Filling all the heart with gladness, filling all the house ...
Merrill’s Garden (John Freeman Poems)
There is a garden where the seeded stems of thin long grass are bowedBeneath July's slow rains and heat and ...
Shepherd Singing Ragtime (Louis Golding Poems)
The shepherd sings:-- "_Way down in Dixie, Way down in Dixie,Where the hens are dog-gone glad to lay_ ..."With shaded eyes he ...
The Coming Of The King (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
As the sand of the desert is smitten By hoof-beats that strike out a light,A flash by which dumb things are ...
In The Harbour: Elegiac Verse (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
I.Peradventure of old, some bard in Ionian Islands, Walking alone by the sea, hearing the wash of the waves,Learned the secret ...
Two Altars. (Harriet Annie Wilkins Poems)
"And Cain talked with Abel, his brother."The sun was rising on earth, sin-tainted, yet beautiful,Delicate gold-colored cloudlets in all their ...
To a Mountain (Henry Kendall Poems)
To thee, O father of the stately peaks,Above me in the loftier light — to thee,Imperial brother of those awful ...
On The Pulse Of Morning (Maya Angelou Poems)
A Rock, A River, A TreeHosts to species long since departed,Mark the mastodon.The dinosaur, who left dry tokensOf their sojourn ...
Sweet England (John Freeman Poems)
I heard a boy that climbed up Dover's HillSinging _Sweet England_, sweeter for his song.The notes crept muffled through the ...
The Singer (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Years since (but names to me before),Two sisters sought at eve my door;Two song-birds wandering from their nest,A gray old ...
God’s Answering Silence (Patience Worth Poems)
When I would seek my God and know Him;When I would feel my God and see Him; when IWould list ...