The Opossum-Hunt (Henry Kendall Poems)
Hear ye not the waters beating where the rapid rivers, meeting With the winds above them fleeting, hurry to the distant ...
Singing Poems (1775 Poems)
The Nightingale of Avarayr (Leo Alishan Poems)
Whence dost thou come, O moon, so calmly and softly,Spreading o'er mountain, valley, and plain thy light,And over me the ...
The Golden Wedding Of Longwood (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
With fifty years between you and your well-kept wedding vow,The Golden Age, old friends of mine, is not a fable ...
The Skylark–Cag (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Sweet minstrel of the summer dawn,Bard of the sky, o'er lea and lawnThy rapturous anthem, clear and loud,Rings from the ...
Invocation To The spirit Of Poesy (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Queen of all harmonious things,Dancing words, and speaking strings.Cowley.SPIRIT, or Power, or Spell, or whatsoe'erOf name beseems thee best, Ethereal ...
To- In Absence (Grace Greenwood Poems)
WHEN first we met, beloved, rememberest thouHow all my nature was athirst and faint?My soul's high powers lay wasting still ...
A Morning Exercise (William Wordsworth Poems)
FANCY, who leads the pastimes of the glad,Full oft is pleased a wayward dart to throw;Sending sad shadows after things ...
Come Quietly, Britain! (Lloyd Roberts Poems)
COME quietly, Britain, all together, come!It is time!We have waited, weighed, and wonderedWho had blundered;Stared askance at one anotherAs our ...
Nelly’s Shilling (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
O'er the soft green meadow-landsLittle Nelly trips along,With a basket in her handsAnd upon her lips a song,-Singing, "Buy my ...
Renewed (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WELCOME, rippling sunshine!Welcome, joyous air!Like a demon shadowFlies the gaunt despair!Heaven, through heights of happy calm,Its heart of hearts uncloses,To ...
Boys Bathing (Muriel Stuart Poems)
Round them a fierce, wide, crazy noonHeaves with crushed lips and glowing sidesAgainst the huge and drowsy sun.Beneath them turn ...
The Delights Of Rungsted. An Ode (Johannes Ewald Poems)
You shadows refreshing,You darkness from roses now stealing;Where busily nestingThe songstress her home is revealing -,Where streams whose carousingNow lulls, ...
Fragments (John Masefield Poems)
Troy Town is covered up with weeds,The rabbits and the pismires broodOn broken gold, and shards, and beadsWhere Priam's ancient ...
The Deserted Mansion (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Damp and drear the lonely halls,Faint the misty sunlight fallsThrough the casement, soil'd and dim,In the chambers, grey and grim.On ...
Fever! (Leon Gellert Poems)
Everything seems lost and gone.The world seems void; and I aloneTo mourn its emptiness, that am too weak tomourn:To mope ...
Atta’s Song (John Buchan Poems)
I will sing of thee, Great Sea-Mother,Whose white arms gatherThy sons in the ending:And draw them homewardFrom far sad marches—Wild ...
The Chosen City (Mary Alice Walton Poems)
On starlit height, distant 'gainst horizon, bright The Way of the Cross is outlined,By rocky steeps barren 'mid dangers unseen, A narrow ...
Arethusa (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.Arethusa aroseFrom her couch of snowsIn the Acroceraunian mountains,--From cloud and from crag,With many a jag,Shepherding her bright fountains.She leapt ...
The Drill (Harry Brown Poems)
I WATCH them on the drill field, the awkward and the grave,The slow to action and the easily incensed,The tall ...
The Peonage System (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
The religious wars of Europe have been numbered with the past,But a worse thing, bright America with clouds has overcast,'Tis ...
Poet’s Enchanted Life (James Avis Bartley Poems)
THE ANGEL-CHILD.A fairy land of grass and flowers, And of the greenest treesA land of singing brooks and springs, A land of ...
Ballad (Hakob Melik-Hakobian Poems)
DARK forests clothe the mountain-side, And o'er that mountain's lofty headThe heavens bend their arches wide, And, dome-like, round its summit spread.A ...
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 ...
Christmas Eve (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Christmas-eve came to us darkly, Darkly to our cottage door,Not with brave and boisterous greeting, As it used to come of yore;Not ...
You Of The Morning Hour (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
With deep Amen are closed the funeral rites:The wreathing incense lingers on the air,A mist of sorrow and a floating ...
The Coming Era (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THEY tell us that the Muse is soon to fly hence,Leaving the bowers of song that once were dear,Her robes ...
They Are Coming (Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard Poems)
They are coming, coming slowly -They are coming, surely, surely -In each avenue you hear the steady tread.From the depths ...
Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian (Laurence Hope Poems)
Softly the feathery Palm-trees fade in the violet Distance,Faintly the lingering light touches the edge of the sea,Sadly the Music ...
To a Caty-Did (Philip Morin Freneau Poems)
In a branch of willow hidSings the evening Caty-did:From the lofty-locust boughFeeding on a drop of dew,In her suit of ...
The Hour Of Account (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
In gloom and thunder,That day of wonderShall burst unlooked for in the midst of life,When bells are ringing,And maidens singing,And ...