The Golden Legend: Prologue & 1. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
THE SPIRE OF STRASBURG CATHEDRAL.Night and storm. LUCIFER, with the Powers of theAir, trying to tear down the Cross. _Lucifer._ HASTEN! ...
Travelling Poems (102 Poems)
St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers,How many round attribute all their cares!In these howe'er I never can believe,And ...
The Fires Of God (John Drinkwater Poems)
I Time gathers to my name; Along the ways wheredown my feet have passed I see the years with little triumph crowned, Exulting not ...
Scholar And The Carpenter (Jean Ingelow Poems)
While ripening corn grew thick and deep,And here and there men stood to reap,One morn I put my heart to ...
The Adirondacs (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
A JOURNAL.DEDICATED TO MY FELLOW-TRAVELLERS IN AUGUST, 1858.Wise and polite,--and if I drewTheir several portraits, you would ownChaucer had no ...
A Story Of Doom: Book V. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
And when two days were over, Japhet said,"Mother, so please you, get a wife for me."The mother answered, "Dost thou ...
The Song of Hiawatha X: Hiawatha’s Wooing (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
"As unto the bow the cord is,So unto the man is woman,Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws ...
Leaves from Australian Forests (12 Sonnets) (Henry Kendall Poems)
IA Mountain SpringPeace hath an altar there. The sounding feet Of thunder and the 'wildering wings of rainAgainst fire-rifted summits flash ...
The Stone (Peter McArthur Poems)
A MAN! A man! There is a man loose in Canada,A man of heroic mould, a 'throwback' of earlier ages,Vigorous, ...
English Eclogues IV – The Sailor’s Mother (Robert Southey Poems)
WOMAN.Sir for the love of God some small reliefTo a poor woman!TRAVELLER.Whither are you bound?'Tis a late hour to travel ...
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 ...
October Journey (Margaret Walker Poems)
Traveller take heed for journeys undertaken in the dark ofthe year. Go in the bright blaze of Autumn's equinox.Carry protection ...
The Hero (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Mother, let us imagine we are travelling, and passing through astrange and dangerous country. You are riding in a palanquin and ...
Golden Gully (Henry Lawson Poems)
No one lives in Golden Gully, for its golden days are o'er,And its clay shall never sully blucher-boots of diggers ...
Spring: Monday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Thou, Lord! art all in all—and man is nought:For tho' in privileged hours his soaring thoughtWould seem to catch a ...
Dream-March (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"Wasn't it a funny dream!--perfectly bewild'rin'!-- Last night, and night before, and night before that, Seemed like I saw the march o' ...
In The Manner Of G.S. (Giorgos Seferis Poems)
Wherever I travel Greece wounds me.On Pelion among the chestnut trees the Centaur's shirtslipped through the leaves to fold around ...
The Vagrant (Mary Webb Poems)
Who came so close then?--Brushed the wet lilac into mellow laughter;Set the smooth blackbird at his golden weavingMaking no stir ...
Of Greatham (John Drinkwater Poems)
For peace, than knowledge more desireable, Into your Sussex quietness I came,When summer's green and gold and azure fell Over the world ...
Habitation (John Drinkwater Poems)
High up in the sky there, now, you know,In this May twilight, our cottage is asleep,Tenantless, and no creature there ...
Erskine (John Le Gay Brereton Poems)
A singing voice is in my dream The voice of Erskine, on his boulders, Babbling and shouting till he shoulders Stoutly against the ...
Palm Tree (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Palm-tree: single-legged giant, topping other trees, peering at the firmament -It longs to pierce the black cloud-ceiling and fly away, away, if only it had ...
By Hut, Homestead And Shearing Shed, (Henry Lawson Poems)
By hut, homestead and shearing shed,By railroad, coach and track-By lonely graves where rest the dead,Up-Country and Out-Back:To where beneath ...
Never, Never Land (Henry Lawson Poems)
By hut, homestead and shearing shed,By railroad, coach and track-By lonely graves where rest the dead,Up-Country and Out-Back:To where beneath ...
Late Snow (John Collings Squire Poems)
The heavy train through the dim country went rolling, rolling, Interminably passing misty snow-covered plough-land ridges That merged in the snowy sky; ...
The Grey Tide (John Le Gay Brereton Poems)
The cold green rocks and lapping waves Are all my world as here I sit With downcast eye and heart that craves The ...
The Short Road To Heaven (Katharine Tynan Poems)
There's a short road to Heaven, but you must take it young,And if you're for long living the road is ...
Beyond The Barn (John Freeman Poems)
I rose up with the sunAnd climbed the hill.I saw the white mists runAnd shadows runDown into hollow woods.I went ...
Glamour (Jan Struther Poems)
The linnet is here, and the lark, and the yellowhammer,And the thrush that sings so clear at the break of ...
Miserere Me (John Bowring Poems)
O Thou! whose smiling face of light Can make life's darkness day,Whose mercies, bountiful and bright,Can shed o'er sorrow's gloomy night A ...