Poppy And Mandragora (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Let us go far from here!Here there is sadness in the early year:Here sorrow waits where joy went laughing late:The ...
Sleep Poems (5807 Poems)
Fourth Sunday After Epiphany (John Keble Poems)
They know the Almighty's power, Who, wakened by the rushing midnight shower, Watch for the fitful breeze To howl and chafe amid the ...
Written A Few Days After The Insurrection In Barbados (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.WIDE o'er th' Atlantic wave the veil of night,Had spread its ample shade on Ocean's breast;The tropic moon, with full-orb'd ...
The Sweet Little Man (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
DEDICATED TO THE STAY-AT-HOME RANGERSNow, while our soldiers are fighting our battles,Each at his post to do all that he ...
Moonlight (John Jay Chapman Poems)
ITHE evening air exhales a spicy scent,The robin warbles, and the thrush replies;And on the terrace a tall regimentOf lillies ...
Ugolino (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
INFERNO 33, 22-75.Now had the loophole of that dungeon, stillWhich bears the name of Famine's Tower from me,And where 'tis ...
The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one (June Jordan Poems)
well I wanted to braid my hairbathe and bedeck myself so fineso fully aforethought foryour pleasuresee:I wanted to travel and ...
Under The Pine (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
To the memory of Henry TimrodThe same majestic pine is lifted highAgainst the twilight sky,The same low, melancholy music grievesAmid ...
Sing On! (Lydia Jane Wheeler Peirson Poems)
"Sing on!-You will win the wreath of Fame: if not in life, it will bloom gloriously over your tomb." -Friendly ...
Ode to Fear (William Taylor Collins Poems)
Thou, to whom the world unknownWith all its shadowy shapes, is shown;Who seest, appalled, the unreal scene,While fancy lifts the ...
A Lesson To My Ghost (John Drinkwater Poems)
Shall it be said that the wind's gone overThe hill this night, and no ghost there?Not the shape of an ...
The Postern Gate (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I chose me a lovely garden,Beneath whose ivied wallA lake's blue wavelets murmurAs evening shadows fall,--A garden, whose leafy windowsFrame ...
An Invitation into the country [in imitation of Horace] (Jane Turell Poems)
FROM the soft shades, and from the balmy sweetsOf Medford's flowery vales, and green retreats,Your absent Delia to her father ...
Strife and Peace (Jean Ingelow Poems)
The yellow poplar-leaves came down And like a carpet lay,No waftings were in the sunny air To flutter them away;And he stepped ...
Juliet After The Masquerade. By Thompson (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
SHE left the festival, for it seem'd dimNow that her eye no longer dwelt on him,And sought her chamber,--gazed, (then ...
On Hearing Of The Death Of A Beloved And Lamented Aunt (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
Mrs. Anne Whitaker in Barbados.ON wings of Angels borne unto her God,This blessed Saint has gained the bright abode:Serene thro' ...
The Match Girl (John Hartley Poems)
Merrily rang out the midnight bells, Glad tidings of joy for all;As crouched a little shiv'ring child, Close by the churchyard wall.The ...
The Spectre-Caravan (Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath Poems)
'Twas at midnight, in the Desert, where we rested on the ground; There my Bedouins were sleeping, and their steeds were ...
A Student’s Evening Hymn (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
I.Now no more the slanting raysWith the mountain summits dally,Now no more in crimson blazeEvening's fleecy cloudless rally,Soon shall Night ...
Ares, God of War (Herbert Ashley Asquith Poems)
UNDER the stars the armies lie asleep:Between the lines a quiet river flowsThrough brakes of honeysuckle, and of rose,And fields ...
Three Little Nest Birds (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
We meant to be very kind,But if ever we findAnother soft, grey-green, moss-coated, feather-lined nest in a hedge,We have taken ...
Edith (Janetta Philipps Poems)
Oh ! heard ye not the sighing gale,That fans the twilight grove!And heard ye not the plaintive wail,That tells of ...
On Repairing of the Abbey-kirk of Holy-rood House (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
Have I been sleeping, in a trance, or dead?Sure now I live, and rear my antient head;Then tell me, Calton-hill ...
Little Minnie (Julia A Moore Poems)
Air — "In the Cottage by the Sea"Come listen to a painful story A mother is going to tell,For her heart ...
In Memoriam: Frank M. Cruickshank, (George Washington Cruikshank Poems)
Frank is dead! The mournful messageComes gushing from the ocean's roar.Frank is dead! His mortal passageHas ended on the heavenly ...
Fragment XII (James Macpherson Poems)
RYNO, ALPIN.RYNOThe wind and the rain are over:calm is the noon of day. Theclouds are divided in heaven. Overthe green ...
Voice Of New England (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
UP the hillside, down the glen,Rouse the sleeping citizen;Summon out the might of men!Like a lion growling low,Like a night-storm ...
Scene In Gethsemane (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
The moon was shining yet. The Orient's brow, Set with the morning star, was not yet dim; And the deep silence which ...
Seventh Sunday After Trinity (John Keble Poems)
Go not away, thou weary soul: Heaven has in store a precious doleHere on Bethsaida's cold and darksome height, Where over rocks ...
His Room (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"I'm home again, my dear old Room, I'm home again, and happy, too,As, peering through the brightening gloom, I find myself alone ...