Aerophorion (Henry James Pye Poems)
When bold Ambition tempts the ingenuous mind To leave the beaten paths of life behind, Sublime on Glory's pinions to arise, Urg'd by ...
War & Peace Poems (9365 Poems)
The City Of Fear (Gilbert Frankau Poems)
This was a city once: women lived here;Their voices were low to their lovers, o'nights by the murmuring waters;Their hands ...
A Lament (Philip Bourke Marston Poems)
My friend has left me, he has gone away;Before his time-so long before-he went.Bright was the dawn of his unended ...
The Old Fisherman (Matilda Betham Poems)
'My bosom is chill'd with the cold, My limbs their lost vigour deplore! Alas! to the lonely and old, Hope warbles her promise ...
Lepanto (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun,And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;There is laughter ...
An Epistle To Sir John Blount City: London (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Wonder not Blount, whose magick HandLifts to the Clouds thy native Land,That in these busy, golden Times,Thy Ears are teaz'd ...
Uranne (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
In a far off hamlet near the seaWhere billows oft, in days of storm, andNights of darkness rush reckless to ...
Eight Echoes From The Poems Of August Angellier (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
ITHE IVORY CRADLEThe cradle I have made for theeIs carved of orient ivory,And curtained round with wavy silkMore white than ...
Epilogue To Lessing’s Laocooen (Matthew Arnold Poems)
One morn as through Hyde Park we walk'd,My friend and I, by chance we talk'dOf Lessing's famed Laocooen;And after we awhile ...
Rural Sports: A Georgic – Canto II. (John Gay Poems)
Now, sporting muse, draw in the flowing reins,Leave the clear streams a while for sunny plains.Should you the various arms ...
To Cuba (Juan Francisco Manzano Poems)
CUBA, of what avail that thou art fair! Pearl of the seas, the pride of the Antilles! If thy poor sons, have ...
Elegy On The Abrogation Of The Birth-Night Ball, And The Consequent Final Subversion Of The Minuet (Joanna Baillie Poems)
NOW cease the exulting strain! And bid the warbling lyre complain.Heave the soft sigh, and drop the tuneful tear,And mingle notes ...
The Ghost Of Fadon (Joanna Baillie Poems)
ON Gask's deserted ancient hallWas twilight closing fast,And, in its dismal shadows, allSeem'd lofty, void, and vast.All sounds of life, ...
The Imprisoned Innocents (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ONE morning I said to my wife,Near the time when the heavens are rifeWith the Equinoctial strife,"Arabella, the weather looks ...
Christ’s Triumph after Death (excerpts) (Giles Fletcher Jr Poems)
IBut now the second Morning, from her bow'r,Began to glister in her beams, and nowThe roses of the day began ...
The Heart Of The Bruce (William Edmondstoune Aytoun Poems)
It was upon an April morn,While yet the frost lay hoar,We heard Lord James's bugle-hornSound by the rocky shore.Then down ...
The Shepherds Calendar – January- Winters Day (John Clare Poems)
Withering and keen the winter comesWhile comfort flyes to close shut roomsAnd sees the snow in feathers passWinnowing by the ...
Mr. Hosea Biglow To The Editor Of The Atlantic Monthly (James Russell Lowell Poems)
DEAR SIR,--Your letter come to han' Requestin' me to please be funny;But I ain't made upon a plan Thet knows wut's comin', ...
The Death Of Olaf Tryggvision (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
IBLUE as blossom of the myrtleSmiled the steadfast eyes of OlafOn the host of ships that harriedHis enraged, gold-glittering Dragon,Snared ...
A Short Discourse on Eternity (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
What Mortal man can with his Span mete out Eternity?Or fathom it by depth of Wit, or strength of Memory?The ...
Tasso Dying (Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov Poems)
What festival is ancient Rome preparing? Where flow the crowds in noisy waves?Why these aromas, myrrh's sweet smoke And censers all around ...
Evangeline: Part The First. II. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
NOW had the season returned, when the nights grow colder and longer,And the retreating sun the sign of the Scorpion ...
Cadyow Castle (Sir Walter Scott Poems)
Addressed to the Right Hon. Lady Anne Hamilton.When princely Hamilton's abodeEnnobled Cadyow's Gothic towers,The song went round, the goblet flow'd,,And ...
In Memoriam A.H. (Maurice Baring Poems)
The wind had blown away the rainThat all day long had soaked the level plain.Against the horizon's fiery wrack,The sheds ...
The Christ upon the Hill (William Cosmo Monkhouse Poems)
Part I.A couple old sat o'er the fire,And they were bent and gray;They burned the charcoal for their Lord,Who lived ...
1946-47 (Jibanananda Das Poems)
There's a rather indistinct human anxiety all around in the day's light:on streets, in alleys, on tram line tracks and ...
The Thirteenth Olympic Ode Of Pindar (Henry James Pye Poems)
To Xenophon of Corinth, on his Victory in the Stadic Course, and Pentathlon, at Olympia. ARGUMENT. The Poet begins his ...
The Sundays Of Satin-Legs Smith (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
Inamoratas, with an approbation,Bestowed his title. Blessed his inclination.He wakes, unwinds, elaborately: a catTawny, reluctant, royal. He is fatAnd fine ...
The Monster Diamond (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
A TALE OF THE PENAL COLONY OF WEST AUSTRALIA."I'LL have it, I tell you! Curse you!-there!"The long knife glittered, was ...
The Passing Of The Sages (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Argument:Three wise men of GothamWent to sea in a bowl;If the bowl had been strongerMy story had been longer.Sir Valence, ...