A Remembrance (Henry Alford Poems)
Methinks I can remember, when a shadeAll soft and flowery was my couch, and IA little naked child with fair ...
Sleep Poems (5807 Poems)
Another Generation (John Collings Squire Poems)
THERE is a woman like a seed,There is a man in embryo,Whose spirits, faces, sex indeedTheir very mothers do not ...
To My Georgie (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
MY cousin, I am gazing on thee now,And well I mark, with soul of joy and pride,The changing beauty of ...
Elegy III (Henry James Pye Poems)
The dewy morn her saffron mantle spreads High o'er the brow of yonder eastern hill; Each blooming shrub a roseate fragrance sheds, And ...
Mary Rivers (Henry Kendall Poems)
Path beside the silver waters, flashing in October's sun-Walk, by green and golden margins where the sister streamlets run-Twenty shining ...
Love And Fancy (George W Sands Poems)
"Whenever, amid bow'rs of myrtle,Love, summer-tressed and vernal-eyed,At morn or eve is seen to wander,A dark-haired girl is at his ...
To a Bull-Dog (John Collings Squire Poems)
We shan't see Willy any more, Mamie,He won't be coming any more:He came back once and again and again,But he ...
Aftermath (John Frederic Herbin Poems)
August is hot from the touch of an ardent sun,Lolling and still in fields and windless places;Idle all day like ...
Yorktown (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
YORKTOWN.FROM Yorktown's ruins, ranked and still,Two lines stretch far o'er vale and hill:Who curbs his steed at head of one?Hark! ...
For My People (Margaret Walker Poems)
For my people everywhere singing their slave songsrepeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their bluesand jubilees, praying their prayers ...
The English Padlock (Matthew Prior Poems)
Miss Danae, when Fair and Young(As Horace has divinely sung)Could not be kept from Jove's EmbraceBy Doors of Steel, and ...
Elegy — Written in Spring (Michael Bruce Poems)
'Tis past: the iron North has spent his rage;Stern Winter now resigns the length'ning day;The stormy howlings of the winds ...
To A Pansy-Violet (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Found Solitary Among the Hills. I. O pansy-violet, With early April wet, How frail and pure you look Lost in this glow-worm nook Of heaven-holding hills: Down ...
The City Of The Dead (Henry Webster Parker Poems)
Go forth and breathe the purer air with me, And leave the city's sounding streets;There is another city, sweet to see, Whose ...
Songs with Preludes: Lamentation (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I read upon that book,Which down the golden gulf doth let us lookOn the sweet days of pastoral majesty; I read ...
Nightfall (John Freeman Poems)
I Eve goes slowly Dancing lightlyClad with shadow up the hills; Birds their singing Cease at last, and silenceFalling like fine rain the valley ...
The Song of Tigilau (Marcus Clarke Poems)
The song of Tigilau the brave, Sina's wild lover, Who across the heaving wave From Samoa came over:Came over, Sina, at the setting ...
A Jacobite’s Exile (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
The weary day runs down and dies,The weary night wears through:And never an hour is fair wi' flower,And never a ...
Samadhi (Paramahansa Yogananda Poems)
Vanished are the veils of light and shade,Lifted the vapors of sorrow,Sailed away the dawn of fleeting joy,Gone the mirage ...
With A Guitar, To Jane (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Ariel to Miranda:-- TakeThis slave of music, for the sakeOf him who is the slave of thee;And teach it all ...
Amalfi. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Sweet the memory is to meOf a land beyond the sea,Where the waves and mountains meet,Where amid her mulberry-treesSits Amalfi ...
Things, To Be Consider’d, And Made Use Of, When Night Comes (Rees Prichard Poems)
Think, how thy life does steal away!'Tis daily shorten'd by a day ;And thou art now to death more nearBy ...
O Tell Me How For To Woo (Hector MacNeill Poems)
Oh! tell me, bonie young lassie!Oh tell me how for to woo!Oh tell me, bonie sweet lassie!Oh tell me how ...
The Dream Ring Of The Desert (J Milton Hayes Poems)
THE MERCHANT Abu Khan shunned the customs of his race,And sought the cultured wisdom of the West.His daughter fair Leola ...
Monday Before Easter (John Keble Poems)
"Father to me thou art and mother dear, And brother too, kind husband of my heart -So speaks Andromache in boding ...
The Ideal (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Thee have I seen in some waste Arden old, A white-browed maiden by a foaming stream, With eyes profound and looks like ...
The Rancho In The Rain (Henry Herbert Knibbs Poems)
The rabbit's ears are flattened and he's squattin' scared and still,Ag'inst the dripping cedar; and the quail below the hillAre ...
Flower-De-Luce: Palingenesis (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
I lay upon the headland-height, and listenedTo the incessant sobbing of the sea In caverns under me,And watched the waves, that ...
The Complaint Of Fancy (Matilda Betham Poems)
To A. R. C.AS, musing, late I sat reclin'd,And waking dreams absorb'd my mind,A damsel came, of various dyes,Like painted ...
Mrs. Harvey Seymour, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, Sunday, May 5th, 1861.She found a painless avenue to makeThe great transition from a world of careTo ...