The Peonage System (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
The religious wars of Europe have been numbered with the past,But a worse thing, bright America with clouds has overcast,'Tis ...
Thrift Poems (134 Poems)
The Gumsucker’s Dirge (Joseph Furphy Poems)
Sing the evil days we see, and the worse that are to be,In such doggerel as dejection will allow,We are ...
Winter (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Loud blaw the wild an' wintry win's, Wi' eerie howl an' angry thud,Wi' blatterin' rain, an' rattlin' hail, Loud roarin' thro' the ...
Robin And Harry (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Robin to beggars with a curse,Throws the last shilling in his purse;And when the coachman comes for pay,The rogue must ...
Matter For Gratitude (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people's thanksThat Thine avenging sword has spared our ranks-That Thou hast parted from ...
Lines On The Portrait Of A Celebrated Publisher (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A MOONY breadth of virgin face,By thought unviolated;A patient mouth, to take from scornThe hook with bank-notes baited!Its self-complacent sleekness ...
For Four Guilds: III. The Stone-Masons (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
We have graven the mountain of God with hands, As our hands were graven of God, they say, Where the seraphs burn ...
The Tidy Little Body (John O Brien Poems)
Faith, and little Miss McCroddie was the tidy little body, Just as trim and prim and handy as you'd ever wish ...
Waldeinsamkeit (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
I do not count the hours I spendIn wandering by the sea;The forest is my loyal friend,Like God it useth ...
Too Late (John Henry Kimble Poems)
A dear old friend of mine is very ill, I hear,I have not seen his face for many a weary ...
Wild Oats (Marietta Holley Poems)
Oh gay young husbandmen would you be sure of a crop Upspringing rankly, an abundant and bountiful yield? Go forth in the ...
The Farm Child’s Lullaby (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
OH, the little bird is rocking in the cradle of the wind,And it's bye, my little wee one, bye;The harvest ...
Here’s to the Maiden of Bashful Fifteen (Richard Brinsley Sheridan Poems)
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;Here's to the widow of fifty;Here's to the flaunting extravagant quean,And here's to the ...
Love’s Alchemy (John Donne Poems)
Some that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I,Say, where his centric happiness doth lie; I have lov'd, and got, and ...
Romance Of A Youngest Daughter (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
Who will wed the Dowager's youngest daughter,The Captain? filled with ale?He moored his expected boat to a stake in the ...
On Seeing Mr.—- Baking Cakes (Janet Little Poems)
AS Rab, who ever frugal was,Some oat-meal cakes was baking,In came a crazy scribbling lass,Which set his heart a-quaking."I fear," ...
A Short Song of Congratulation (Samuel Johnson Poems)
LONG-EXPECTED one and twentyLing'ring year at last has flown,Pomp and pleasure, pride and plentyGreat Sir John, are all your own.Loosen'd ...
Herbs (Lizette Woodworth Reese Poems)
A serviceable thingIs fennel, mint, or balm,Kept in the thrifty calmOf hollows, in the spring;Or by old houses pent.Dear is ...
Two Lives (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
TWO youths from a village set out togetherTo seek their fortune the wide world through;One cried, "Hurra for the autumn ...
Fortune’s Statue (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
She's mistress of all:Rule of this earthTo her is entrusted;Fortune she's called.But for her, Maia's son, whomShe grants gifts, be ...
Sonnet LIV. Stratford-Upon-Avon (Henry Alford Poems)
We stood upon the tomb of him whose praise Time, nor oblivious thrift, nor envy chill, Nor war, nor ocean with her ...
New England Mind (Robert Francis Poems)
My mind matches this understand land.Outdoors the pencilled tree, the wind-carved drift,Indoors the constant fire, the careful thriftAre facts that ...
Winter Song (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
OH, who would be sad tho' the sky be a-graying,And meadow and woodlands are empty and bare;For softly and merrily ...
Another Pair of Sleeves (Jessie Pope Poems)
TIME was, not very long ago,When Mabel's walking skirtTrailed half a yard behind to showHow well she swept the dirt.But ...
A Holiday (Lizette Woodworth Reese Poems)
Along the pastoral ways I go,To get the healing of the trees,The ghostly news the hedges know;To hive me honey ...
The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
New Morality (George Canning Poems)
From mental mists to purge a nation's eyes;To animate the weak, unite the wise;To trace the deep infection, that prevadesThe ...
Alsace-Lorraine (George Meredith Poems)
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
The Bush (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
A Faith On Trial (George Meredith Poems)
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...