Sonnet Cycle For Lady Magdalen (John Donne Poems)
Her of your name, whose fair inheritanceBethina was, and jointure Magdalo:An active faith so highly did advance,That she once knew, ...
Success Poems (5537 Poems)
Beyond Kerguelen (Henry Kendall Poems)
DOWN in the South, by the waste without sail on it- Far from the zone of the blossom and tree- ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 06 – Origins And Savage Period Of Mankind (Lucretius Poems)
But mortal manWas then far hardier in the old champaign,As well he should be, since a hardier earthHad him begotten; ...
Subh-I-Kazib (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
I.SEE where the man wakes late from his dreaming,Late in the night from the sleep that has been;See where regret ...
Book III – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
O thou who first uplifted in such darkSo clear a torch aloft, who first shed lightUpon the profitable ends of ...
A Poetical Version Of A Letter From Facob Behmen (John Byrom Poems)
'TIS Man's own Nature, which in its own Life, Or Centre, stands in Enmity and Strife, And anxious, selfish, doing what it ...
Ballad of The Monkland Cottar (Janet Hamilton Poems)
It's no a tale o' luve I sing, Nor ane o' war an' glory:It's juist a lay o' Scottish life— A guid ...
The Goodnesse Of God Towards All Mankind, Manifold Wayes. (Henry Arthington Poems)
The First Point.In Creating all thinges for our vse, and vs for his glory.O Glorious God, how much is Man,For ...
Oh, Unforgotten And Only Lover (Laurence Hope Poems)
Oh, unforgotten and only lover, Many years have swept us apart,But none of the long dividing seasons Slay your memory in my ...
Eclogue V (Virgil Poems)
MENALCAS, MOPSUSMenalcas.Why, Mopsus, being both together met,You skilled to breathe upon the slender reeds,I to sing ditties, do we not ...
How Prince Arthur Was Welcomed To Pembroke (Nora Pembroke Poems)
Do you know the town Pembroke so loyal and longAnd so worthy the praise of a poet in song?Nestled down ...
Two Stanzas (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
There was once a town, the inhabitants of which were so passionately fondof poetry,that if some weeks passed by without ...
Daniel Wheeler (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
O Dearly loved!And worthy of our love! No moreThy aged form shall rise beforeThe bushed and waiting worshiper,In meek obedience ...
How McDougal Topped The Score (Thomas E Spencer Poems)
A peaceful spot is Piper's Flat. The folk that live around -They keep themselves by keeping sheep and turning up ...
Colin’s Mistakes. Written In Imitation Of Spenser’s Style (Matthew Prior Poems)
Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred,(Ye Nymphs, for every guard that sacred stream)To Wimple's woody shade his ...
Our Canal (Harriet Monroe Poems)
To Colonel Goethals and the Other Laborers in the Canal ZoneIn lazy laughing Panama-O flutter of ribbon 'twixt the seas!-The ...
The Tragedy Queen (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
HER triumphs are over, the crownHas passed from her brow;And she smiles, "To whom now does the townMy poor laurels ...
A Dream Of Other Days (John Russell Hayes Poems)
I fell asleep upon a summer's dayAs on a shady woodland bank I lay,And as I slept there came to ...
The Child And The Dew-Drops (in memory of a lost son). (John Critchley Prince Poems)
"O dearest mother! tell me, pray, Why are the dew-drops gone so soon?Could they not stay till close of day,To sparkle ...
Loch Uisk, Isle Of Mull (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
Yon vale among the mountains, So sheltered from the sea,That lake which lies so lonely, Shall tell their tale to thee.Here stood ...
The Metamorphosi (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold unionShown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd;any a name ...
Vanity of Vanities (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
A Song of EmptinessTo Fill up the Empty Pages FollowingVain, frail, short liv'd, and miserable Man,Learn what thou art when ...
The Wayside Cross (John William Streets Poems)
Beneath a hawthorn bush, dying, he layUpon an orchard slope, a gentle hill;The silvery moonlight thro' the night did playUpon ...
The Fight Of The General Armstrong (James Jeffrey Roche Poems)
Tell the story to your sonsOf the gallant days of yoreWhen the brig of seven gunsFought the fleet of seven ...
Spring: Friday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Sing thy Creator's praise, and ownHim greatest—wisest—God alone;He wraps himself in robes of light,And, clothed in garments pure and bright,Of ...
A Cottage In A Chine (Jean Ingelow Poems)
We reached the place by night, And heard the waves breaking:They came to meet us with candles alight To show the path ...
Prometheus-Christ (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
LASHED to the planet, glaring at the sky,An eagle at his heart-the Pagan Christ!Why is it, Mystery? O, dumb Darkness, ...
The Beauteous Terrorist (Sir Henry Parkes Poems)
Soft as the morning's pearly light,Where yet may rise the thunder-cloud,Her gentle face was ever brightWith noble thought and purpose ...
Hannah Thomburn (Henry Lawson Poems)
They lifted her out of a story Too sordid and selfish by far,They left me the innocent glory Of love that was pure ...
Stonewall Jackson’s Grave (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
A simple, sodded mound of earth, Without a line above it; With only daily votive flowers To prove that any love it: The token ...