Some Mother’s Boy (Mary Alice Walton Poems)
The battle-cry is sounding loud, a bugle calls to arm,The hills and dales are clouded o'er, troops gather in alarm;With ...
Smiling Poems (5687 Poems)
Ode Written in Spring (John Logan Poems)
No longer hoary winter reigns,No longer binds the streams in chains,Or heaps with snow the meads;Array'd with robe of rainbow-dye,At ...
To My Father’s Business (Kenneth Koch Poems)
Leo bends over his desk Gazing at a memorandum While Stuart stands beside him With a smile, saying, "Leo, the order for those desks Came ...
Said The Skylark (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
"O soft, small cloud, the dim, sweet dawn adorning,Swan-like a-sailing on its tender grey; Why dost thou, dost thou float, So high, ...
By Flood and Field 2 (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
They have saddled a hundred milk-white steeds,They have bridled a hundred black.-Old Ballad.'He turned in his saddle, now follow who ...
Siste, Viator! (John Bowring Poems)
Look around thee—see decayOn her wing of darkness, sweepingEarth's proud monuments away—See the muse of history weepingO'er the ruins time ...
Sheep Sheering. Written at Mr. John E—‘s, Gedney (Joseph Proud Poems)
From days unnumber'd hath the custom beenTo shear, in summer months, the loaded sheep,And keep the jocund feast: so still ...
The Child’s Appeal (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
AN INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND REIGN OF ROBESPIERRE. Day dawned above a city's mart, Yet not 'mid peace and prayer: The ...
The Student (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
ALONE he sat. His broad and lofty browWas bent upon his thin, pale hand; his locksOf jet hung o'er it ...
Colonial Nomenclature. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
'Twas said of Greece two thousand years ago,That every stone i' the land had got a name.Of New South Wales ...
Centennial (John Hay Poems)
A hundred times the bells of Brown Have rung to sleep the idle summers,And still to-day clangs clamoring down A greeting to ...
Written Early in Spring (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
HAIL lovely light of this material world!Bright orb of day! from thy pavilion darkOf wintry clouds now breaking forth again;Once ...
On Happiness (Janet Little Poems)
O HAPPINESS! where art thou to be found?What bow'r is blest with thy perpetual gleam?From court, from cot, ev'n while ...
Last Words (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
"DEAR Charlie," breathed a soldier, "O comrade true and tried,Who in the heat of battle Pressed closely to my side;I feel that ...
A Legend Of Tintagel Castle (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
ALONE in the forest, Sir Lancelot rodeO'er the neck of his courser the reins lightly flowedAnd beside hung his helmet, ...
Elegy II (Henry James Pye Poems)
Now the brown woods their leafy load resign And rage the tempests with resistless force? Mantled with snow the silver mountains shine, And ...
Waivin Mewsic (John Hartley Poems)
Ther's mewsic ith' shuttle, ith' loom, an ith frame,Ther's melody mingled ith' noise;For th' active ther's praises, for th' idle ...
To The Commodore Of The Russian Squadron (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Bound For Kamtschatka, Now Lying In The Harbour Of PortJackson.HAIL! Chieftain, from the distant landsThat own the Czar's imperial reign;With ...
May-Day ; Or, The Discovery. A Pastoral. In The Manner of Cunningham (Hector MacNeill Poems)
See! rob'd in new beauties, young May cheers the lawn! Ye virgins! how charming her air!Haste! cull her fresh flow'rets dew-dropping ...
Country Life (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I. Against.Think not thou that fields and flowers,Copses and Arcadian bowers, Grow the crop of Peace :—In this model life of ...
My Own Green Land (Nora Pembroke Poems)
It was in the early morning Of life, and of hope to me,I sat on a grassy hillside Of the Isle beyond ...
Hymn To The Sun (Matthew Prior Poems)
Light of the World, and Ruler of the Year,With happy Speed begin Thy great Career;And, as Thou dost thy radiant ...
A Character (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A.HE is a man whose complex characterFew can decipher rightly; but for meI have found the key at last!B.What make ...
Fameless Graves (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I WALKED the ancient graveyard's ample round,Yet found therein not one illustrious nameWedded by Death to Fame.The sea-winds moaned by ...
The Old Burying-Ground (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Our vales are sweet with fern and rose,Our hills are maple-crowned;But not from them our fathers choseThe village burying-ground.The dreariest ...
Elegy — Written in Spring (Michael Bruce Poems)
'Tis past: the iron North has spent his rage;Stern Winter now resigns the length'ning day;The stormy howlings of the winds ...
Breaking The Charm (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Caught Susanner whistlin'; well, It's most nigh too good to tell. 'Twould 'a' b'en too good to see Ef it had n't b'en ...
Ode XII: To Sir Francis Henry Drake, Baronet (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Behold; the Balance in the skySwift on the wintry scale inclines:To earthy caves the Dryads fly,And the bare pastures Pan ...
To ******** (John Beveridge Poems)
Dear Sir, methinks I see you smile,To find the muse does you beguile.Stealing upon you by a wile,And in a ...
Ode for a Master Mariner Ashore (Louise Imogen Guiney Poems)
THERE in his room, whene'er the moon looks in,And silvers now a shell, and now a fin,And o'er his chart ...