Upon The Disobedient Child (John Bunyan Poems)
Children become, while little, our delights!When they grow bigger, they begin to fright's.Their sinful nature prompts them to rebel,And to ...
Sleep Poems (5807 Poems)
The Sleep Of Spring (John Clare Poems)
O for that sweet, untroubled rest That poets oft have sung!--The babe upon its mother's breast, The bird upon its young,The heart ...
Gascoigne’s Lullaby (George Gascoigne Poems)
1 Sing lullaby, as women do,2 Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;3 And lullaby can I sing to,4 As ...
The Brook-Song (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Little brook! Little brook! You have such a happy look--Such a very merry manner, as you swerve and curve and crook-- And your ...
Fragments – Lines 0467 – 0496 (Theognis Poems)
Of those now here with us, do not detain anyone who is unwilling to remain,Nor show the door to anyone ...
Immortality (Patience Worth Poems)
Upon yesterday's lotus the dew pearledAnd vanished with the sun.On a certain morning e'er the winter ceased,Lo, did the songsters ...
The Soldier Boy’s Dream (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
A soldier boy lay dreamingIn his lonely prison cell,While the stars above were gleaming,And their lustre on him fell.His dreams ...
The Snow-Dog (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
She has not a morsel to eat!Just fancy a child in that state,Creeping along all alone in the street,A sweet ...
The Saxon Legend Of Language (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
The earth was young, the world was fair,And balmy breezes filled the air,Nature reposed in solitude,When God pronounced it "very ...
The Dawn Patrol (Paul Bewsher Poems)
Sometimes I fly at dawn above the sea, Where, underneath, the restless waters flow- Silver, and cold, and slow. Dim ...
The Observers (Gilbert Frankau Poems)
Ere the last light that leaps the night has hung and shone and died,While yet the breast-high fog of dawn ...
Duke (Bob Hicok Poems)
He was hit back of the head for a haul of $15,a Diner's Club Card and picture of his daughter ...
Biography (Max Harris Poems)
I am deciphered by the black waters,union, and terrorist surge avid in my fields,sun my god, the purpose love,and the ...
Dirge For A Soldier (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
In the east the morning comes, Hear the rollin' of the drums On the hill. But the heart that beat as they beat In ...
Pax Vobiscum (Thomas Bracken Poems)
IN a forest, far away,One small creeklet, day by day,Murmurs only this sad lay:'Peace be with thee, Lilian.'One old box-tree ...
Sleep-Steale (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Who stole sleep from baby's eyes? I must know. Clasping her pitcher to her waist mother went to fetch waterfrom the ...
Spring: Thursday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Peace 'neath the stars may fix her seat,And bliss look smiling from on high,When spirits hold communion sweetWith brighter spirits ...
The Star To Its Light (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
"Go," said the star to its light:"Follow your fathomless flight!Into the dreams of spaceCarry the joy of my face.Go," said ...
Peter Nelson’s Fiddle (John O Brien Poems)
Do you ever dream you hear it, you who went the lonely track?Do you ever hear its simple melodiesTossing round ...
The Nizam’s Daughter (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
SHE is yet a child in years,Twelve springs are on her face,Yet in her slender form appearsThe woman's perfect grace.Her ...
Unforgotten (Laurence Hope Poems)
Do you ever think of me? you who died Ere our Youth's first fervour chilled,With your soft eyes and your pulses ...
Kooroora (Henry Kendall Poems)
The gums in the gully stand gloomy and stark,A torrent beneath them is leaping,And the wind goes about like a ...
At a Life’s End (Muriel Stuart Poems)
COME here, rekindle the old fire,This last night leave no lamp unlit!In later days we twain shall sit,Remembering the joys ...
On Seeing The Following Epitaph At Selworthy, West Somerset (Henry Alford Poems)
This grave's a cradle where an infant lies,Rockt fast asleepe with Death's sad lullabyes.Sad lullabyes, dear child--in this sweet spot,The ...
The Firing-Line (Henry Lawson Poems)
They are creeping on through the cornfields yet, and they clamber amongst the rocks,Ere they rush to stab with the ...
Man’s Cruelty To His Brother (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.Man's inhumanity to Man! Oh hideous tale to tell,—What cheek unblanch'd can calmly scan Those characters of hell?What pen, what poet, dares ...
My Little Dog Bobb! An Elegy (for the Year Book) (Prometheus Percival Pipps Poems)
My friends they are cutting me, one and all,With a changed and a cloudy brow;But my little dog always would ...
Hartley Field (Connie Wanek Poems)
<i>And place is always and only placeAnd what is actual is actual only for one timeAnd only for one place ...
The Song my Paddle Sings (E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Poems)
1 West wind, blow from your prairie nest,2 Blow from the mountains, blow from the west3 The sail is idle, ...
Critics Nightwatch (Gwen Harwood Poems)
Once more he tried, before he slept,to rule his ranks of words. They brokefrom his planned choir, lolled, slouched and ...