The Eel Pie (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find,It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind:Brown bread as well as white must be for ...
Time Poems (10900 Poems)
A Dead Letter (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
I DREW it from its china tomb;- It came out feebly scented With some thin ghost of past perfume That ...
July (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The July house was an old, old house, With an old, old man inside, Who told them stories of other days, Stories of ...
Rover (Henry Kendall Poems)
NO classic warrior tempts my pen To fill with verse these pages-No lordly-hearted man of men My Muse's thought engages.Let others choose ...
The Loehrs And The Hammonds (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"Hey, Bud! O Bud!" rang out a gleeful call,--"_The Loehrs is come to your house!_" And a smallBut very much ...
Sonnets – Ad Innuptam (Patrick Moloney Poems)
II MAKE not my division of the hours By dials, clocks, or waking birds' acclaim, Nor measure seasons by the reigning flowers, The ...
‘Ostler Joe (George Robert Sims Poems)
I stood at eve, as the sun went down, by a grave where a woman lies,Who lured men's souls to ...
The Bechuana Boy (Thomas Pringle Poems)
I sat at noontide in my tent,And looked across the Desert dun,Beneath the cloudless firmamentFar gleaming in the sun,When from ...
Life (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE ministering spirits from aboveDescend with energy creative fraught,They breathe on nature with the breath of love,And lo! she wakens ...
In Capacity (Maurice Thompson Poems)
You ask me whyI long to flyOut from your palace to the dreamy woodsAnd the summer solitudes,Why I pineIn this ...
Seasonal Cycle – Chapter 04 – Pre Winter (Kalidasa Poems)
"Delightful are trees and fields with the outgrowth of new tender-leaves and crops, Lodhra trees are with their blossomy flowers, ...
In The Garret (Louisa May Alcott Poems)
Four little chests all in a row, Dim with dust, and worn by time, All fashioned and filled, long ago, By children now ...
The Six Burghers Of Calais (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
The burghers six of Calais,True were they and brave;To save their fellow-townsmenTheir lives they freely gave.Will ye hear their story?Come ...
The Grand Canyon (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
DAYBREAKWhat makes the lingering Night so cling to thee?Thou vast, profound, primeval hiding-placeOf ancient secrets,-gray and ghostly gulfCleft in the green ...
A Poem. Dedication of the Pittsfield Cemetery (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
ANGEL of Death! extend thy silent reign!Stretch thy dark sceptre o'er this new domainNo sable car along the winding roadHas ...
Seasonal Cycle – Chapter 05 – Winter (Kalidasa Poems)
"Oh, dear with best thighs, heart-stealing is this environ with abundantly grown stacks of rice and their cobs, or with ...
A Grammarian’s Funeral Shortly after the Revival of Learnin (Robert Browning Poems)
Let us begin and carry up this corpse,Singing together.Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpesEach in its tetherSleeping safe ...
Advice And Warning To The Adulterer (Rees Prichard Poems)
HEAR my advice, Adulterer obscene!And often in thy mind these precepts roll,E'er thou dost haste with appetite unclean,And headlong passion ...
The Author’s Farewell To Edinburgh.-1810. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
EDINA'S cloud-cap'd hills and spires,With castle-rocks, and cannon's roar,These fortresses which guard your coast,Encompass'd by the sea-girt shore.Your public domes ...
After the Golden Wedding (Three Soliloquies) (James Kenneth Stephen Poems)
I. The husband's. She's not a faultless woman; no! She's not an angel in disguise: She has her rivals here below: She's not an ...
Ode (Michael Massey Robinson Poems)
FOR THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY, 1816.When Spain's proud Genius saw Columbus braveThe Western Course of the Atlantic Wave;Saw his aspiring Mind, ...
Afternoon Tea (Robert W Service Poems)
As I was saying . . . (No, thank you; I never take cream with my tea;Cows weren't allowed in ...
A Legend Of Buckingham Village (Nora Pembroke Poems)
PART IAway up on the River aux Lievres, That is foaming and surging always,And from rock to rock leaping through rapids, Which ...
Another Invitation, Or Exhortation To Worship Christ Jesus (Rees Prichard Poems)
Come all fresh and gay, let us keep Holiday, With hymns let us Jesus adore;Let us him celebrate, both early and ...
The Old Man And The Boy (George W Sands Poems)
Father, I have dreamed a dream,When the rosy morning hourPoured its light on field and stream,Kindling nature with its pow'r;--O'er ...
For A Child (Harriet Monroe Poems)
E. H. M.Nov. 17th, 1890-Feb. 13th, 1904Still he lies,Pale, wan, and strangely wise.Under the white coverletHe lies here sleeping yet,Though ...
New Year Ode, 1863 (George Washington Cruikshank Poems)
Let the bier move onward.—Let no tear be shed.The midnight watch is ended: The grim old year is dead.His life ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book VI – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
'Twas Athens first, the glorious in name,That whilom gave to hapless sons of menThe sheaves of harvest, and re-ordered life,And ...
Colomen (Mary Webb Poems)
The doves that coo in ColomenAre never heard by mortal men,But when a human creature passesUnderneath the churchyard grasses,In deep ...
How Rifleman Brown came to Valhalla (Gilbert Frankau Poems)
To the lower Hall of Valhalla, to the heroes of no renown,Relieved from his spell at the listening-post, came Rifleman ...