On The Death Of Pushkin (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
He fell, a slave of tinsel-honour,A sacrifice to slander's lust;The haughty Poet's head, the noblest,Bowed on his wounded breast in ...
Truth Poems (4458 Poems)
The Helmsman (Henry Kendall Poems)
LIKE one who meets a staggering blow, The stout old ship doth reel,And waters vast go seething past-But will it last, ...
On The Death of The Rev’d Dr. Sewall (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
E'er yet the morning heav'd its Orient headBehold him praising with the happy dead.Hail! happy Saint, on the immortal Shore.We ...
Some Incidents In The Latter Days of John Whitelaw (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The bridge was won, the foe had crossedThe Clyde; the Covenanted hostHad lost the day, and vanquished fled.Mixed with the ...
Christmas Day (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Yet once more, and once more, awake, my Harp,From silence and neglect—one lofty strain;Lofty, yet wilder than the winds of ...
From ‘Samson Agonistes’ i (John Milton Poems)
OH how comely it is and how revivingTo the Spirits of just men long opprest!When God into the hands of ...
Early Love (Laurence Hope Poems)
Who says I wrong thee, my half-opened rose?Little he knows of thee or me, or love.--I am so tender of ...
To an Old Grammar (Martha M Simpson Poems)
Oh, mighty conjuror, you raise The ghost of my lost youth —The happy, golden-tinted daysWhen earth her treasure-trove displays, And everything is ...
A Letter Sent To Mrs. Barber (Mary Barber Poems)
Thou glorious Ruler of the beauteous Day!Have sev'nteen Years so swiftly roll'd away?Hast thou so oft the heav'nly Circle run,When ...
To my dead friend Ben Johnson (Henry King Poems)
I see that wreath which doth the wearer arm'Gainst the quick strokes of thunder, is no charmTo keep off deaths ...
A Psalm Of Resignation (Joseph Furphy Poems)
In spite of his imposing plea,A freeman whom the truth makes freeIs often fairly up a tree,And marvels why it ...
On The Capture Of Fugitive Slaves Near Washington (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Look on who will in apathy, and stifle they who can,The sympathies, the hopes, the words, that make man truly ...
At A Meeting Of Friends (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AUGUST 29, 1859I REMEMBER--why, yes! God bless me! and was it so long ago?I fear I'm growing forgetful, as old ...
Within The Gate (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
L. M. C.We sat together, last May-day, and talkedOf the dear friends who walkedBeside us, sharers of the hopes and ...
Luke XVIII. 42. (Mary Anne Browne Poems)
And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight, thy faith hath saved thee.HE sate by the way side, an aged ...
A Song Of Impossibilities (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
LADY, I loved you all last year,How honestly and well --Alas! would weary you to hear,And torture me to tell;I ...
Garden Statues (Maurice Thompson Poems)
I: EROSO naked baby Love among the roses,Watching with laughing gray-green eyes for me,Who says that thou art blind? Who ...
To Pius IX (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE cannon's brazen lips are cold;No red shell blazes down the air;And street and tower, and temple old,Are silent as ...
Come Quietly, Britain! (Lloyd Roberts Poems)
COME quietly, Britain, all together, come!It is time!We have waited, weighed, and wonderedWho had blundered;Stared askance at one anotherAs our ...
A Canticle Of War (A. N. 1863) (Lucy Larcom Poems)
GLORY to Thee, Father of all the Immortal,Ever belongs:We bring Thee from our watch by the grave's portalNothing but songs.Though ...
How Fair Cinderella Disposed Of Her Shoe (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
The vainest girls in forty statesWere Gwendolyn and Gladys Gates;They warbled slightly off the air,Romantic German songs,And each of them ...
Charles Harpur (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where Harpur lies, the rainy streams, And wet hill-heads, and hollows weeping,Are swift with wind, and white with gleams, And hoarse with ...
The Prayer Of Nature (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair?Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone ...
Democracy (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
BEARER of Freedom's holy light,Breaker of Slavery's chain and rod,The foe of all which pains the sight,Or wounds the generous ...
King Solomon And The Bees (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
A Tale of the TalmudWhen Solomon was reigning in his glory, Unto his throne the Queen of Sheba came,(So in the ...
To A Young Gentleman In Love. A Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
From publick Noise and factious Strife,From all the busie Ills of Life,Take me, My Celia, to Thy Breast;And lull my ...
He Had So Much Work To Do (Henry Lawson Poems)
Tell a simple little story of a settler in the West,Where the soldier birds and farmers, and selectors never restWhile ...
How The Robin Came (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
AN ALGONQUIN LEGEND.HAPPY young friends, sit by me,Under May's blown apple-tree,While these home-birds in and outThrough the blossoms flit about.Hear ...
The Deacon’s Daughter (Marietta Holley Poems)
The spare-room windows wide were raised, And you could look that summer dayOn pastures green, and sunny hills, And low rills wandering ...
An Incident In New York (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
In a church in New York City,On the weekly day of rest,There were young, and old, and pretty -Plainly some, ...