To an Old Grammar (Martha M Simpson Poems)
Oh, mighty conjuror, you raise The ghost of my lost youth —The happy, golden-tinted daysWhen earth her treasure-trove displays, And everything is ...
Sleep Poems (5807 Poems)
Said The West Wind (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
I love old earth! Why should I lift my wings, My misty wings, so high above her breast That flowers would shake ...
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 ...
The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Of A Virginia Slave Mother To Her Daughters Sold Into Southern BondageGone, gone, — sold and goneTo the rice-swamp dank ...
The Midnight Invocation (James Hurdis Poems)
Ye fairies who float on the breeze, And in blossoms delight to repose, Or regale with convenience and ease In the moss-cover'd bud ...
A Thing Of Beauty (John Keats Poems)
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:Its loveliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness; but still will keepA ...
The Holy Innocents (John Keble Poems)
Say, ye celestial guards, who waitIn Bethlehem, round the Saviour's palace gate, Say, who are these on golden wings,That hover o'er ...
On the Wings of the Morning (Jeffery Day Poems)
A sudden roar, a mighty rushing sound,A jolt or two, a smoothly sliding rise,A tumbled blur of disappearing ground,And then all ...
Within The Gate (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
L. M. C.We sat together, last May-day, and talkedOf the dear friends who walkedBeside us, sharers of the hopes and ...
Second Sunday After Epiphany (John Keble Poems)
The heart of childhood is all mirth: We frolic to and froAs free and blithe, as if on earth Were no such ...
Evening Thoughts on Death (John Bowring Poems)
The good man dies—it grieves us:Why should the good man die?He dies—but, dying, leaves usA lasting legacy.And this becomes our ...
Euterpe (Henry Kendall Poems)
CHILD of Light, the bright, the bird-like! wilt thou float and float to me,Facing winds and sleets and waters, flying ...
Late October (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Ah, haughty hills, sardonic solitudes, What wizard touch hath, crowning you with gold, Cast Tyrian purple o'er broad-shouldered woods, And to your pride ...
Ode V: Against Suspicion (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Oh fly! 'tis dire Suspicion's mien; And, meditating plagues unseen, The sorceress hither bends:Behold her torch in gall imbrued:Behold - her garment ...
Anzac (Oliver Hogue Poems)
Ah, well! We're gone! We're out of it now. We've got something else to do.But we all look back from ...
Philosophy (James B.V. Thomson Poems)
IHis eyes found nothing beautiful and bright,Nor wealth nor honour, glory nor delight,Which he could grasp and keep with might ...
Garden Statues (Maurice Thompson Poems)
I: EROSO naked baby Love among the roses,Watching with laughing gray-green eyes for me,Who says that thou art blind? Who ...
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 ...
Ownerless (John Shaw Neilson Poems)
He comes when the gullies are wrapped in the gloaming And limelights are trained on the tops of the gums,To stand ...
Summer: Friday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Hour after hour steals rapidly away,Bearing past pleasures on its airy wings,E'en like the sunny clouds, which evening's rayGilds with ...
A Canticle Of War (A. N. 1863) (Lucy Larcom Poems)
GLORY to Thee, Father of all the Immortal,Ever belongs:We bring Thee from our watch by the grave's portalNothing but songs.Though ...
The Empty Glass (Henry Lawson Poems)
THERE ARE three lank bards in a borrowed room- Ah! The number is one too few-They have deemed their home and ...
Charles Harpur (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where Harpur lies, the rainy streams, And wet hill-heads, and hollows weeping,Are swift with wind, and white with gleams, And hoarse with ...
The First Sabbath (James Grahame Poems)
Six days the heavenly host, in circle vast,Like that untouching cincture which enzonesThe globe of Saturn, compass'd wide this orb,And ...
On fidelity (Ovid Poems)
I don't ask you to be faithful - you're beautiful, after all -but just that I be spared the pain ...
Summer: Tuesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
To Thee, my God! to Thee I bringThe evening's grateful offering;From Thee, the source of joy above,Flow everlasting streams of ...
The Popular Song (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
I never was naturally vicious; My spirit was lamb-like and mild;I never was bad or malicious; I loved with the trust of ...
The Falmouth Bell (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
Never was there lovelier townThan our Falmouth by the sea.Tender curves of sky look downOn her grace of knoll and ...
In Memory of John Fairfax (Henry Kendall Poems)
Because this man fulfilled his days,Like one who walks with steadfast gazeAverted from forbidden ways With lures of fair, false flowerage ...
On The Persecution Of The Jews In Russia (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHAT murmurs are these that so wofully riseInto heart-storms of agony borne from afar?A tempest of passion, a tumult of ...