Abba Thule’s Lament For His Son Prince Le Boo (William Lisle Bowles Poems)
I climb the highest cliff; I hear the soundOf dashing waves; I gaze intent around;I mark the gray cope, and ...
Sleep Poems (5807 Poems)
Mercy To Animals (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O boys and men of British mould, With mother's milk within youA simple word for young and old, A word to warn ...
Eve (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
FOR the first time, a lovely sceneEarth saw, and smiled,--A gentle form with pallid mienBending o'er a newborn child:The pang, ...
Unknown Country (Harold Monro Poems)
Here, in this other world, they come and go With easy dream-like movements to and fro. They stare through lovely eyes, yet ...
The Lady And The Rooks (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Trust the grand and gentle trees,Never will their welcome fade;All that lives may lie at easeIn the haven of their ...
The Warning Wail (Janet Hamilton Poems)
A minstrel old, in feudal hall, When wassail bowls were brimm'd and flowing,Responsive to his chieftain's call, And joyous dame, young, bright, ...
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 ...
Fallen (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
My country! by our fathers rearedAs champion of the world's opprest;Whose moral force the tyrant feared;Whose flag all struggling freemen ...
Missin Yor Way (John Hartley Poems)
It wor dark an mi way wor across a wild mooar, An noa signs could aw find ov a track,'Twor a ...
Some Mother’s Boy (Mary Alice Walton Poems)
The battle-cry is sounding loud, a bugle calls to arm,The hills and dales are clouded o'er, troops gather in alarm;With ...
The Ballad Of Nat Turner (Robert Hayden Poems)
Then fled, O brethren, the wicked juba and wandered wandered farfrom curfew joys in the Dismal's night. Fool of St. Elmo's fireIn ...
The Dispute (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
Once 'mid group of native mountains Hot dispute arose,Elbrus, angry, did with Kasbek Argument propose."Now beware!" the hoary Elbrus, Warning did exclaim--"To enslave ...
Gloria The True (Marietta Holley Poems)
Gayly a knight set forth against the foe,For a fair face had shone on him in dreams;A voice had stirred ...
Dionysos (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
"O Dionysos! Dionysos! the ivy-crowned! O let me sing thy triumph ere I die!" Within my sleep a Maenad came to me: A ...
A Rocking Hymn (George Wither Poems)
Sweet baby, sleep! what ails my dear, What ails my darling thus to cry?Be still, my child, and lend thine ear To ...
Siste, Viator! (John Bowring Poems)
Look around thee—see decayOn her wing of darkness, sweepingEarth's proud monuments away—See the muse of history weepingO'er the ruins time ...
Dublin Roads (Padraic Colum Poems)
WHEN you were a lad that lacked a trade,Oh, many's the thing you'd see on the wayFrom Kill-o'-the-Grange to Ballybrack,And ...
Protest: By Zahir-u-Din (Laurence Hope Poems)
Alas! alas! this wasted NightWith all its Jasmin-scented air,Its thousand stars, serenely bright!I lie alone, and long for you,Long for ...
The Hag Of Beare (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
It is of Corca Dubhne she was, and she had her youth seven times over,and every man that had lived ...
A Loyal Woman’s No (Lucy Larcom Poems)
No! is my answer from this cold bleak ridgeDown to your valley: you may rest you there:The gulf is wide, ...
Introduction To A Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan Poems)
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den (the ...
Zira: In Captivity (Laurence Hope Poems)
Love me a little, Lord, or let me go,I am so weary walking to and froThrough all your lonely halls ...
Moon in the Armenian Cemetery (Leo Alishan Poems)
O moon, fair lamp divinely lit! God set you in the sky To lead night's hosts, for darkness blind And ...
The Virtues Of Sid Hamet The Magician’s Rod (Jonathan Swift Poems)
The rod was but a harmless wand, While Moses held it in his hand;But, soon as e'er he laid it down,Twas ...
Old Moorcock (John Hartley Poems)
Awm havin a smook bi misel, Net a soul here to spaik a word to,Awve noa gossip to hear nor to ...
Numa Pompilius (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
O well is thee! King Numa,Within thy secret cave,Where thy bones are ever moistenedBy sad Egeria's wave;None now have power ...
The Lost Lamb (H C Deakin Poems)
Morn rose upon the purple hills,In all his pomp display'd;Flash'd forth like stars a hundred rills,In valley, plain, and glade.The ...
Convict Once – Part Fourth. (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
I.1"I HAVE no heart and no time to go forth to the world, there to choose meOne who may be ...
Minnetonka (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
I sit once more on breezy shore, at sunset in this glorious June,I hear the dip of gleaming oar, I ...
The Swamp Fox (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
WE follow where the Swamp Fox guides,His friends and merry men are we;And when the troop of Tarleton rides,We burrow ...