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 ...
Suffering Poems (700 Poems)
The Deserted (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
WHY didst thou leave me thus? Had memoryNo chain to bind thee to me, lone and wreckedIn spirit as I ...
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 ...
The Vision. Canto First. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
ON Kilda's rock a man of pensive mien,Sat thoughtful, gazing on the restless deep,And as he mark'd with what a ...
A New Year’s Address, 1870. (Nora Pembroke Poems)
With noiseless footstep, like the white-robed snow, The old year with closed record steals away;Record of gladness, suffering, joy, and woe, Of ...
The Dead (John William Streets Poems)
Let music vast, triumphal, fill the world's great nave,Voicing the peerless theme of noble youthWho rose to Life's sublimest greatness ...
Derne (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
NIGHT on the city of the Moor!On mosque and tomb, and white-walled shore,On sea-waves, to whose ceaseless knockThe narrow harbor ...
On The Bosom Of The Ocean (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
THE terrible wind, the dangerous storm, iswrestling with a ship on the ocean ; it is tryingto break her, but ...
Our Willie (Henry Timrod Poems)
'Twas merry Christmas when he came,Our little boy beneath the sod;And brighter burned the Christmas flame,And merrier sped the Christmas ...
The Royal Interview (Mrs. Walter Spencer Poems)
NOR guard nor pomp was there, nor regal state:Unseen the stranger pass'd the palace gate,Through lonely courts and gloomy antique ...
Listen, Beloved (Laurence Hope Poems)
Listen, Beloved, the Casurinas quiver, Each tassel prays the wind to set it free,Hark to the frantic sobbing of the river, Wild ...
The Revolution At Market-Hill (Jonathan Swift Poems)
From distant regions Fortune sendsAn odd triumvirate of friends;Where Phoebus pays a scanty stipend,Where never yet a codling ripen'd:Hither the ...
To The Christian Reader (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
Reader, I am a fool;And have adventuredTo play the fool this once for Christ,The more his fame to spread.If this ...
The Slave Ships (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"ALL ready?" cried the captain;"Ay, ay!" the seamen said;"Heave up the worthless lubbers, -The dying and the dead."Up from the ...
The Vision. Canto Third. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
Favour'd of heav'n, awhile my speech attend:On brighter visions now unclose thine eyes,Again shall Europe's realms before thee rise.Of this ...
The Shadow And The Light (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The fourteen centuries fall awayBetween us and the Afric saint,And at his side we urge, to-day,The immemorial quest and old ...
The Coming Of The King (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
As the sand of the desert is smitten By hoof-beats that strike out a light,A flash by which dumb things are ...
The Old Carrier (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
("Old Lucia", who for many years walked back and forth, every day and inall weathers, between Azzano and Menaggio, a ...
The Diary of Ana (Ana Poems)
'Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
Angels Of Sunderland. In Memoriam, June 16th, 1893. (John Hartley Poems)
On the sixteenth of June, eighteen eighty-three, The children of Sunderland hastened to see, Strange wonders performed by a mystic man, Believing,--as only ...
Accolon Of Gaul: Prelude (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Why, dreams from dreams in dreams remembered! naught Save this, alas! that once it seemed I thought I wandered dim with someone, ...
Elegy for Tibullus (Ovid Poems)
If Memnon's mother mourned, Achilles's mother mourned,and our sad fates can touch great goddesses,then weep, and loose your hair in ...
The Female Martyr (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"BRING out your dead!" The midnight streetHeard and gave back the hoarse, low call;Harsh fell the tread of hasty feet,Glanced ...
A Man Perishing in the Snow: From Whence Reflections are Raised on the Miseries of Life. (James Thomson Poems)
As thus the snows arise; and foul and fierce,All winter drives along the darken'd air;In his own loose-revolving fields, the ...
Elijah (Henry Kendall Poems)
INTO that good old Hebrew's soul sublimeThe spirit of the wilderness had passed;For where the thunders of imperial StormRolled over ...
Winter (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
His thundering carIs heard from afar,And his trumpet notes soundAll the country around;Stop your ears as you will,That loud blast ...
American Academy Centennial Celebration (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
MAY 26, 1880SIRE, son, and grandson; so the century glides;Three lives, three strides, three foot-prints in the sand;Silent as midnight's ...
For My Friend Mrs. R. (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
When writing to you, friend, a subject I'd findIn which there's both pleasure and profit combined,And though what I've chosen ...
The Paphian Venus (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
With anxious eyes and dry, expectant lips,Within the sculptured stoa by the sea,All day she waited while, like ghostly ships,Long ...
Inauguration Of Ashton-Under-Lyne Infirmary (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Fair town of toil, whose enterprise and powerExpand and strengthen every day and hour,To thy brave sons all honour and ...