Pax Animae (Spanish and English) (Manuel Gutierrez Najera Poems)
Speak not a word of wild, blaspheming grief!Be proud, be brave, though fallen in the strife,And gaze, oh poet, with ...
Sleeping Poems (1139 Poems)
A Dream (Henry Alford Poems)
The night that is now past hath been to me A time of wakeful, sleepful fancies: oft Have I been whirled aloft ...
The Ohio Falls (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Here on this jutting headland, where the trees Spread a dusk carpet for the sun to cast And count his golden guineas ...
Proem to American Song (Paul Engle Poems)
BLOW, LONG TRADE WINDS of American speech,Over this land where we can rise, unfurlOur new and untried sails, and drive ...
August (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Oh, such a funny August house-- It really was like a zoo, For animals roamed in all the rooms (Even a kangaroo); Such sociable, ...
The Lovers’ Last Meeting (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
IT was a calm, still, Sabbath eve--no breezeWent o'er the sleeping flowers, no murmured sound,From Nature's harp of many voices, ...
The Iroquois Side Of The Story (Nora Pembroke Poems)
I, an Iroquois brave,Speak from my forest grave,Where by Utawa's wave I sleep in glory.Listen, pale faces, then,Let years roll back ...
The Flower Of Flame (Robert Nichols Poems)
IAS round the cliff I came aloneThe whole bay bared its blaze to me;Loud sang the wind, the wild sun ...
When Christie Comes Again (Gerald Massey Poems)
WHEN the merry spring-tide Floods all the land;Nature hath a Mother's heart, Gives with open hand;Flowers running up the lane Tell us May ...
Napoleon’s Dream (Mary Russell Mitford Poems)
I.Sweet is the English peasant's joy To watch her husband sleeping,And smile upon the blooming boy To his lov'd bosom creeping;Her finger ...
He Mourned His Master (Henry Lawson Poems)
INTRODUCTIONThe theme is ancient as the hills, With all their prehistoric glory;But yet of Corney and his friend, We've often longed to tell ...
A Ballad, Shewing How An Old Woman Rode Double, And Who Rode Before Her (Robert Southey Poems)
The Raven croak'd as she sate at her meal,And the Old Woman knew what he said,And she grew pale at ...
Daniel (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Down into the darkness at last, Daniel,--down into the darkness at last;Laid in ...
Grant’s Dirge (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
IAh, who shall sound the hero's funeral march?And what shall be the music of his dirge?No single voice may chant ...
The Jackaw of Rheims (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;Many a monk, and many a friar,Many a ...
Memory (Johan Andreas Der Mouw Poems)
As swift the horseman o'er Lake Constance flewHis steed, snow- scattering. The twilight came.His shadow, dark- blue giant, slowly greyed,E'en ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XIV: Picture-Writ (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
In those days said Hiawatha,"Lo! how all things fade and perish!From the memory of the old menPass away the great ...
Muscadines (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SOBER September, robed in gray and dun,Smiled from the forest in half-pensive wise;A misty sweetness shone in her mild eyes,And ...
Peter Rugg the Bostonian (Louise Imogen Guiney Poems)
IThe mare is pawing by the oak,The chaise is cool and wideFor Peter Rugg the BostonianWith his little son beside;The ...
The Mother’s Lesson (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
All night she wept the hours away,With burning cheek and throbbing head,Crying, "Alas!" and "Well-a-day!""Woe is me, for my sons ...
Anhelli – Chapter 11 (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)
And when they drew near to the burial ground Anhelli heard the hymn of the tombs,complaining, as it were a ...
The Mother’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
How sweet the sacred legend--if unblamedIn my slight verse such holy things are named--Of Mary's secret hours of hidden joy,Silent, ...
The Johnstown Disaster, 1889 (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Look down, ye Alleghenies, into the Conemaugh vale,And see the rising waters, and hear the bitter wail;The swollen streams now ...
Jackaw of Rheims, The (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;Many a monk, and many a friar,Many a ...
The Maid of Gerringong (Henry Kendall Poems)
Rolling through the gloomy gorges, comes the roaring southern blast,With a sound of torrents flying, like a routed army, past,And, ...
The Ballad Of The Battle Of Gibeon (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
Five kings rule o'er the Amorite,Mighty as fear and old as night;Swathed with unguent and gold and jewel,Waxed they merry ...
After the Golden Wedding (Three Soliloquies) (James Kenneth Stephen Poems)
I. The husband's. She's not a faultless woman; no! She's not an angel in disguise: She has her rivals here below: She's not an ...
Marianne’s Dream (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
1.A pale Dream came to a Lady fair,And said, A boon, a boon, I pray!I know the secrets of the ...
The Fairy West (Henry Lawson Poems)
I.We wrote and sang of a bush we never Had known in youth in the Western land;Of the dear old homes ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 02 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XIThus when the Lord discovered had, and seenThe hidden secrets of each worthy's breast,Out of the hierarchies of angels sheenThe ...