Wednesday Before Easter (John Keble Poems)
O Lord my God, do thou Thy holy will - I will lie still -I will not stir, lest I forsake ...
Smiling Poems (5687 Poems)
The Monks Of Basle (John Hay Poems)
I tore this weed from the rank, dark soilWhere it grew in the monkish time,I trimmed it close and set ...
Roses (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
I ENTERED dutiful, God knows, The room in which I was to sit With dreary unbelieving books. It was surprising, I suppose, To find ...
Memories (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A beautiful and happy girl,With step as light as summer air,Eyes glad with smiles, and brow of pearl,Shadowed by many ...
Alice (John Hartley Poems)
Dear little Alice lay dying;-- I see her as if 'twas to-day,And we stood round her snowy bed, crying, And watching her ...
Songs with Preludes: Lamentation (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I read upon that book,Which down the golden gulf doth let us lookOn the sweet days of pastoral majesty; I read ...
Farewell And Defiance To Love (John Clare Poems)
Love and thy vain employs, awayFrom this too oft deluded breast!No longer will I court thy stay,To be my bosom's ...
My Soul Is A Ray (Translated From The French) (Mary Ann Carter Poems)
I.'Tis little to believe in God,His goodness, splendour, pow'r!I search for Thee--aspire to Thee--And love Thee ev'ry hour!II.My soul's a ...
To Mignon (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
OVER vale and torrent farRolls along the sun's bright car.Ah! he wakens in his courseMine, as thy deep-seated smartIn the ...
My Ships Have Come From Sea (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
You are watching a ship, O, maiden fair,With parted lips and wistful air,The ship that out from the sheltered bayWith ...
With A Guitar, To Jane (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Ariel to Miranda:-- TakeThis slave of music, for the sakeOf him who is the slave of thee;And teach it all ...
A Pastoral Dialogue Between Two Shepherdesses (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade,Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid,Whilst the World dissolves in Heat,Take this cool, and ...
Job (Rachel Korn Poems)
As if heaven openedin a downpour of scabs and cursesthat washed my blessings offand made me stand before you naked.Loneliness ...
A Memorial (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Oh, thicker, deeper, darker growing,The solemn vista to the tombMust know henceforth another shadow,And give another cypress room.In love surpassing ...
A Churchyard Dream (John Wilson Poems)
Methought that in a Burial-groundOne still, sad vernal day,Upon a little daisied moundI in a slumber lay;While faintly through my ...
To Isabel (George W Sands Poems)
Come near me with thy lips, and, breathe o'er mineTheir breath, for I consume with love's desire,--Thine ivory arms about ...
My Annual (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
How long will this harp which you once loved to hearCheat your lips of a smile or your eyes of ...
“Lost Delight” (Laurence Hope Poems)
After the Hazara WarI lie alone beneath the Almond blossoms, Where we two lay together in the spring,And now, as then, ...
Hermes Trismegistus (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Still through Egypt's desert places Flows the lordly Nile,From its banks the great stone faces Gaze with patient smile.Still the pyramids imperious Pierce ...
Winter: Friday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
True! Spring renews the faded year;And renovated fruits and flowersIn re-awaken'd charms appear:—They deck the plain—they crown the bowers—Their blush ...
Summer Noontide (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The slender snail clings to the leaf, Gray on its silvered underside: And slowly, slowlier than the snail, with brief Bright steps, whose ...
Winter: Sunday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
God of the morning! Thou, the sabbath's God!Round whose bright footsteps thousand planets roll:A million beings at Thy mighty nodAre ...
Sing On! (Lydia Jane Wheeler Peirson Poems)
"Sing on!-You will win the wreath of Fame: if not in life, it will bloom gloriously over your tomb." -Friendly ...
The Candle and the Flame (George Sylvester Viereck Poems)
Thy hands are like cool herbs that bring Balm to men's hearts, upon them laid; Thy lovely-petalled lips are madeAs any blossom ...
Letter, The (Charlotte Bront Poems)
What is she writing? Watch her now,How fast her fingers move !How eagerly her youthful browIs bent in thought above ...
Contrasted Scenes From Real Life (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Scene I—Marriage of Sir R. Peel With Lady E. HaySee yonder gorgeous fane, its doors expand,Throng'd with the rank, wealth, ...
Song and Science: “The Twilight of the Poets” (Milicent Washburn Shinn Poems)
SPIRIT of song, whose shining wings have borneOur souls of old to many a clear blue height,Comes there the day ...
The Silver Herons (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Within a home for captive beastsWhose world had dwindled to a cage,I noted in their mournful eyesSuch resignation, fear, and ...
The Postern Gate (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I chose me a lovely garden,Beneath whose ivied wallA lake's blue wavelets murmurAs evening shadows fall,--A garden, whose leafy windowsFrame ...
Said Hanrahan (John O Brien Poems)
"We'll all be rooned," said HanrahanIn accents most forlornOutside the church ere Mass beganOne frosty Sunday morn.The congregation stood about,Coat-collars ...