Congratulatory Lines on the Jubilee :Humbly addressed to His Majesty (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
HAPPY Britannia, favour'd Isle! Fate on thee delights to smile; Even amid the woes of war, Thund'ring dreadful from afar; Let no discordant voice ...
Thought & Thinking Poems (6162 Poems)
Pigeon Toes (Henry Lawson Poems)
A dusty clearing in the scrubs Of barren, western lands-Where, out of sight, or sign of hope The wretched school-house stands;A roof ...
Brunton Stephens (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Dedicated by special permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.We cried, "How long!" We sighed, "Not yet;"And still with ...
The End Of The World (Gordon Bottomley Poems)
The snow had fallen many nights and days; The sky was come upon the earth at last, Sifting thinly down as endlessly As ...
The Three Sons (John Moultrie Poems)
I have a son, a little son, a boy just five years old,With eyes of thoughtful earnestness, and mind of ...
How The Fatuous Wish Of A Peasant Came True (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
An excellent peasant, Of character pleasant, Once lived in a hut with his wife. He was cheerful and docile, But such an old fossil You ...
Philemon (Matilda Betham Poems)
YE blooming youth, possest of every grace,Which can delight the eye, or please the ear,Who boast a polish'd mind and ...
Address ToThe Devil (Robert Burns Poems)
O thou! whatever title suit thee,-Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie!Wha in yon cavern, grim an' sootie,Clos'd under hatches,Spairges about ...
HERE I sit with my paper. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
HERE I sit with my paper, my pen my ink,First of this thing, and that thing,and t'other thing think ;I ...
My Lost Youth. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Often I think of the beautiful town That is seated by the sea;Often in thought go up and downThe pleasant streets ...
Stella’s Birthday, March 13, 1727 (Jonathan Swift Poems)
This day, whate'er the Fates decree, Shall still be kept with joy by me: This day then let us not be told, That ...
Sensation (Bodh) (Jibanananda Das Poems)
Into the half light and shadow I go. Within my headNot a dream, but some sensation is at work.Not a ...
Gnothi Seauton (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
IIf thou canst bearStrong meat of simple truthIf thou durst my words compareWith what thou thinkest in my soul's free ...
Stanzas From The Fledgling Bard And The Poetry Societry (George Reginald Margetson Poems)
_Part I_I'm out to find the new, the modern school,Where Science trains the fledgling bard to fly,Where critics teach the ...
Evening Hexameters (Henry Alford Poems)
Darkly the minster--towers, against the glow of the sunset,Rise from the purple band of mist that beleaguers the city:Golden the ...
On The Progress Of The Soul… (John Donne Poems)
Forget this rotten world, and unto thee Let thine own times as an old story be. Be not concern'd; study not why, ...
Dithyrambics (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
ITEMPESTWrapped round of the night, as a monster is wrapped of the ocean,Down, down through vast storeys of darkness, behold, ...
Safi (Henry Kendall Poems)
Strong pinions bore Safi, the dreamer, Through the dazzle and whirl of a race,And the earth, raying up in confusion, Like a ...
On Reading Mr. Clarkson’s History Of The Abolition Of The Slave Trade (John Wilson Poems)
'MID the august and never-dying lightOf constellated spirits, who have gain'dA throne in heaven, by power of heavenly acts,And leave ...
The Two Rabbins (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE Rabbi Nathan two-score years and tenWalked blameless through the evil world, and then,Just as the almond blossomed in his ...
Of Being Numerous (George Oppen Poems)
'Whether, as the intensity of seeing increases, one's distance from Them, the people, does not also increase'I know, of course ...
At The Last Watch (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Pity, in place of love, That pettiest of gifts,Is but a sugar-coating over neglect. Any passerby can make a gift of it To ...
The Statesman’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHO of all statesmen is his country's pride,Her councils' prompter and her leaders' guide?He speaks; the nation holds its breath ...
The Vote of Thanks Debate (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
To The Heavenly Power (John Freeman Poems)
When this burning fleshBurns down in Time's slow fire to a glowing ash;When these lips have utteredThe last word, and ...
Tempura Mutantur (James Russell Lowell Poems)
The world turns mild; democracy, they say,Rounds the sharp knobs of character away,And no great harm, unless at grave expenseOf ...
The Problem (Henry Timrod Poems)
Not to win thy favor, maiden, not to steal away thy heart,Have I ever sought thy presence, ever stooped to ...
Fancy (John Keats Poems)
Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home: At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth, Like to bubbles when rain pelteth; Then let ...
The Highland Girl’s Lament (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
Oh! set the bridal feast aside, And bear the harp away; The coronach must sound instead, From solemn kirk-yard gray. I heard last eve, ...
A Letter (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
After W. M. P.Dear Kitty,At length the term's ending;I 'm in for my Schools in a week;And the time that ...