How A Person Ought To Rouse Up Both Body And Soul, In The Dead Of Night, To Praise His God (Rees Prichard Poems)
Awake, my sluggish soul! from sleep awake,And with a heart sincere attempt to sing(In the most daring flight thy thoughts ...
Sleep Poems (5807 Poems)
An Allegory (Maurice Thompson Poems)
I"Soulless," they said, but I was blindTo all things save the hazel deeps,Unruffled by a gust of wind,Wherein thy wondrous ...
“The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still” (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
The rank stench of those bodies haunts me stillAnd I remember things I'd best forget.For now we've marched to a ...
Autumn-Time (Hattie Howard Poems)
Like music heard in mellow chime, The charm of her transforming time Upon my senses steals As softly as from sunny walls, In day's ...
Walcheren Expedition (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poems)
Ye brave, enduring Englishmen, Who dash through fire and flood,And spend with equal thoughtlessness Your money and your blood,I sing of that ...
The Hermit (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
IT was a cold and bitter winter night.The keen winds howled around like beasts of preySeeking for victims. A white ...
Iris, Her Book (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I PRAY thee by the soul of her that bore thee,By thine own sister's spirit I implore thee,Deal gently with ...
The Pyres (Hermann Hagedorn Poems)
Pyres in the night, in the night! And the roaring yellow and red.Trooper, trooper, why so white? We are out to gather ...
Flowers in Winter: Painted Upon a Porte Livre. (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
How strange to greet, this frosty morn,In graceful counterfeit of flower,These children of the meadows, bornOf sunshine and of showers!How ...
Anhelli – Chapter 6 (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)
When the Shaman had calmed the weeping of Anhelli,he left the fishermen and set out into the wilderness.And the moon ...
Lyrics Of Love And Sorrow (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I Love is the light of the world, my dear, Heigho, but the world is gloomy; The light has failed and the lamp ...
The Dying Year (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
With dirge-like music, low, Sounds forth again the solemn harp of Time; Mass for the buried hours, a funeral chime O'er human joy ...
Winter Stars (Larry Levis Poems)
My father once broke a man's handOver the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man,Ruben Vasquez, wanted to kill ...
A Cry from South Africa (James Montgomery Poems)
Africa, from her remotest strand, Lifts to high heaven one fetter'd hand, And to the utmost of her chain Stretches the other o'er ...
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 ...
Be Faithful (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
At the gate of the dear old homestead,With hands clasped in lingering farewell,We stood together in silence,With feelings no language ...
Kitty’s Dream (Henry Baker Poems)
On her couch, one summer's day;Beauteous, youthful Kitty lay:Venus saw her from above,(Smiling Venus, queen of love)Amaz'd at each celestial ...
Lines Written October 23, 1836, A Few Hours After The Birth Of My First Child. (Henry Alford Poems)
Beautiful babe, I gaze upon thy face That bears no trace of earth: thy silk--soft cheek Gladdens me even to tears, and ...
In Memory Of My Father (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
DEAR father mine, thy grave is far away--Soft, sunny skies, bend warm and lovinglyAbove thy dreamless slumber, and the wavesOf ...
Deliah (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
The sun has gone down, spreading wide onThe sky-line one ray of red fire ;Prepare the soft cushions ...
Second Sunday After Easter (John Keble Poems)
O for a sculptor's hand, That thou might'st take thy stand,Thy wild hair floating on the eastern breeze, Thy tranced yet open ...
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 ...
Leda (Muriel Stuart Poems)
Do you remember, Leda?There are those who love, to whom Love bringsGreat gladness: such things have not I.Love looks and ...
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 ...
A Pastoral Ballad II: Hope (William Shenstone Poems)
My banks they are furnish'd with bees,Whose murmur invites one to sleep;My grottos are shaded with trees,And my hills are ...
May, 1918 (John Jay Chapman Poems)
THE moon at midnight quenched her vaporous light,Leaving the stars but faintly brightLike tapers that burn ill;And in the fragrant ...
April Showers (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
He said there was on earth no fairer sightThan April shadows from the tall green flagsWe taunted him with overflows ...
To The Memory Of Charles B. Storrs (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Thou hast fallen in thine armor,Thou martyr of the LordWith thy last breath crying "Onward!"And thy hand upon the sword.The ...
How Have I Caught At Fleeting Joys (Patience Worth Poems)
How have I caught at fleeting joys,And swifter fleeting sorrows, and days and nights,And morns and eves, and seasons too,Aslipping ...
The View From An Attic Window (Howard Nemerov Poems)
Among the high-branching, leafless boughsAbove the roof-peaks of the town,Snowflakes unnumberably come down.I watched out of the attic windowThe laced ...