The Stranger (John Clare Poems)
When trouble haunts me, need I sigh? No, rather smile away despair;For those have been more sad than I, With burthens more ...
Sleep Poems (5807 Poems)
Mere Accident (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
It was a shady nook that I had found Deep in the greenwood. A delicious stream Ran softly by it on a ...
Sea-Mews In Winter Time (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I walked beside a dark gray sea. And said, "O world, how cold thou art!Thou poor white world, I pity thee, For ...
Takin’ Boarders (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
_We'd_ never thought of takin' 'em,--'t was Mary Ann's idee,--Sence she got back from boardin'-school she's called herself "Maree"An' scattered ...
The Sleep of Death (Harley Matthews Poems)
We see no terror in your eyes.They say that sleeping you were found;Now we with bayonets guard you round.Night's shadow ...
First Songs (Hilda Conkling Poems)
IROSY plum-tree, think of meWhen Spring comes down the world!IIThere's dozens full of dandelionsDown in the field:Little gold plates,Little gold ...
Blank Lines to Kitty (James Hurdis Poems)
Elegant Fairy, whose engaging waysHave rais'd thee to a throne in my esteemHigh above all thy sex!-Unrivall'd maid,Who, ever to ...
Friends Departed (Henry Vaughan Poems)
They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit ling'ring here;Their very memory is fair and bright, And ...
To The River (Matilda Betham Poems)
WHICH SEPARATES ITSELF FROM THE DEE, AT BEDKELLERT. Let others hail the tranquil stream, Whose glassy waters smoothly flow, And, in the undulating ...
Youth And Manhood (Henry Timrod Poems)
Another year! a short one, if it flowLike that just past,And I shall stand — if years can make me ...
Ad Finem Fideles (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Far out, far out they lie. Like stricken women weeping, Eternal vigil keeping with slow and silent tread-Soft-shod as are the ...
The Song of the Camp (James Bayard Taylor Poems)
"GIVE us a song!" the soldiers cried, The outer trenches guarding,When the heated guns of the camps allied Grew weary of bombarding.The ...
Remembered (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Here in the dusk I see her face againAs then I knew it, ere she fell asleep;Renunciation glorifying pain Of her ...
Unspoken Words (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
Unspoken words may thrill the heart, Their meaning be more deeply feltThan all the glowing oratory Poured at the shrine where reason ...
Of Greatham (John Drinkwater Poems)
For peace, than knowledge more desireable, Into your Sussex quietness I came,When summer's green and gold and azure fell Over the world ...
Daniel Henry Deniehy (Henry Kendall Poems)
TAKE the harp, but very softly for our brother touch the strings:Wind and wood shall help to wail him, waves ...
The ‘Sad Ditty’ Born Of The Story Of Isabella (John Payne Poems)
Alack! ah who could the ill Christian beThat stole my pot away,My pot of basil of Salern, from me?'Twas thriv'n ...
Forms Of Prayer To Be Used At Sea (John Keble Poems)
The shower of moonlight falls as still and clear Upon this desert mainAs where sweet flowers some pastoral garden cheer With fragrance ...
The Morning-Watc (Henry Vaughan Poems)
. O joys! infinite sweetness! with what flow'rs And shoots of glory my soul breaks and buds! All the long hours Of night, ...
Sleep Is A Spirit (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Sleep is a spirit, who beside us sits, Or through our frames like some dim glamour flits; From out her form a ...
Dirge (John Anster Poems)
CHORUS.Like the oak of the vale was thy strength and thy height,Thy foot, like the erne of the mountain in ...
The Glass Jar (Gwen Harwood Poems)
To Vivian SmithA child one summer's evening soakeda glass jar in the reeling sunhoping to keep, when day was doneand ...
Dirge At The Edge Of Woods (Leonie Adams Poems)
Gold shed upon suckling gold,The time of the bole blackens,Of the dark mounted through dapple,While in the sealed appleThe seed ...
The Ballad of Hampstead Heath (James Elroy Flecker Poems)
From Heaven's Gate to Hampstead Heath Young Bacchus and his crewCame tumbling down, and o'er the town Their bursting trumpets blew.The silver ...
The Last Gift (Grace Greenwood Poems)
I LEAVE thee, love! In vain hast thouThe God of life implored;My clinging soul is torn from thine,My faithful, my ...
The Australian Emigrant (Henry Kendall Poems)
How dazzling the sunbeams awoke on the spray,When Australia first rose in the distance away,As welcome to us on the ...
Waking (John Freeman Poems)
Lying beneath a hundred seas of sleepWith all those heavy waves flowing over me,And I unconscious of the rolling nightUntil, ...
Description Of A Summer’s Eve (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Down the sultry arc of dayThe burning wheels have urged their way;And eve along the western skiesSheds her intermingling dyes.Down ...
What They Say (John Hartley Poems)
They say 'at its a waste o' brass--a nasty habit too,--A thing 'at noa reight-minded chap wod ivver think to ...
Monochromes (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I.The last rose falls, wrecked of the wind and rain;Where once it bloomed the thorns alone remain: Dead in the wet ...