A Bear Family (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Wunst, 'way West in Illinoise, Wuz two Bears an' their two boys: An' the two boys' names, you know, Wuz--like _ours_ is,--Jim an' ...
Water Poems (4187 Poems)
Recollections Of A Dreamland (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
Rouse ye! torpid daylight-dreamers, cast your carking cares away!As calm air to troubled water, so my night is to your ...
The Mantle Of St. John De Matha. A Legend Of “The Red, White, And Blue,” A. D. 1154-1864 (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A STRONG and mighty Angel,Calm, terrible, and bright,The cross in blended red and blueUpon his mantle white!Two captives by him ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book II – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the windsRoll up its waste of waters, from the landTo watch another's labouring ...
By the Cliffs of the Sea (Henry Kendall Poems)
In a far-away glen of the hills, Where the bird of the night is at rest,Shut in from the thunder that ...
Holiday Home. (Hattie Howard Poems)
Of all the sweet visions that come unto me Of happy refreshment by land or by sea, Like oases where in life's ...
Memories (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Lonely musing, sadly thinking,Strength and spirits failing, sinking,Drooping, shivering, cow'ring, shrinking, In the wintry blast.Winds are howling, roaring, screaming,Thunder rolling, lightning ...
A Secret Gratitude (James Wright Poems)
1She cleaned house, and then lay down longOn the long stair.On one of those cold white wingsThat the strange fowl ...
Book1 Prologue (Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems)
Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains,Lamenting its banishment from its home:'Ever since they tore me from my osier bed,My ...
Book II – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the windsRoll up its waste of waters, from the landTo watch another's labouring ...
Elegy XII (John Donne Poems)
COME Fates ; I fear you not ! All whom I oweAre paid, but you ; then 'rest me ere ...
A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags (William Wordsworth Poems)
A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags,A rude and natural causeway, interposedBetween the water and a winding slopeOf copse ...
Invention Of Orpheus ( chant I, parts I, II, III ) (Jorge Mateus de Lima Poems)
Foundation of the IslandIAn illustrious Baron without heraldry, without perception and famemakes only his destiny:to love, to honour his lady,day and ...
The Moonmen (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I stood in the forest on HURON HILL When the night was old and the world was still. The Wind was a ...
The Fens (John Clare Poems)
Wandering by the river's edge,I love to rustle through the sedgeAnd through the woods of reed to tearAlmost as high ...
A Man Perishing in the Snow: From Whence Reflections are Raised on the Miseries of Life. (James Thomson Poems)
As thus the snows arise; and foul and fierce,All winter drives along the darken'd air;In his own loose-revolving fields, the ...
The Ruined Mill (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
There is the ruined water-mill With its rotten wheel, that stands as still As its image that sleeps in the glassy pool Where ...
The Pageant (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A sound as if from bells of silver,Or elfin cymbals smitten clear,Through the frost-pictured panes I hear.A brightness which outshines ...
Magic (Louis Untermeyer Poems)
We passed old farmer Boothby in the field.Rugged and straight he stood; his body steeledWith stubbornness and age. We met ...
Grannie’s Dream: A True Incident (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Beside the winter e'ening fire, A gleg wee lass o' towmonds ten,Sat nestlin' close to Grannie's knee, Upon the cozie clean fire-en'.The ...
Everyday Characters IV – My Partner (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
'There is, perhaps, no subject of more universal interest in the whole range of natural knowledge, than that of the ...
The Garden By The Bridge (Laurence Hope Poems)
The Desert sands are heated, parched and dreary, The tigers rend alive their quivering preyIn the near Jungle; here the kites ...
There Is No Breeze To Cool The Heat Of Love (Laurence Hope Poems)
The listless Palm-trees catch the breeze above The pile-built huts that edge the salt Lagoon,There is no Breeze to cool the ...
On The Shores Of The Sea Of Galilee (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
The twelve Apostles sought the Master's face,And told Him all that they had said and done :But people thronged Him ...
The Clare Election (John Banim Poems)
July the first, in Ennis town,There was a glorious battle,Though not a man did there go down,Nor ...
The Baptism Of Clovis (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
Five hundred years have nearly passed away Since that glad morn, when o'er fair Bethl'hem's plainA light resplendent as the glow ...
Cooranbean (Henry Kendall Poems)
Years fifty, and seven to boot, have smitten the children of menSince sound of a voice or a foot came ...
Rouen (May Wedderburn Cannan Poems)
Early morning over Rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning,And the laughter of adventure and the steepness of the stair,And the dawn ...
“Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones,” (Jetsun Milarepa Poems)
Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones,Once lived a Saint, known as the second Buddha;His fame was heard ...
PARADOX. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man (Henry King Poems)
Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?He may as useful, and more constant prove.Experience shews you that maturer ...