To A City Friend (Alexander Anderson Poems)
You prate about your busy town, And look upon myself with pity,As something too much overgrown To grace your cultivated ...
Will & Determination Poems (911 Poems)
The Figurehead (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In the days when every seaport had its figureheads to show —Queens, princesses, sea-nymphs, witches, girls of all sorts, row ...
The Evening Land (D H Lawrence Poems)
OH AmericaThe sun sets in you.Are you the grave of our day?Shall I come to you, the open tomb of ...
At The Making Of Man (Bliss William Carman Poems)
First all the host of RaphaelIn liveries of gold,Lifted the chorus on whose rhythmThe spinning spheres are rolled,-The Seraphs of ...
Mysterious Rappings (Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber Poems)
Late one evening I was sitting, gloomy shadows roundMe flitting,-- Mrs. Partington, a-knitting occupied the grate before;Suddenly I heard a ...
The Bobolinks (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
"WHEN Nature had made all her birds, With no more cares to think on, She gave a rippling laugh, ...
The Station-Master Of Lone Prairie (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
An empty bench, a sky of grayest etching,A bare, bleak shed in blackest silhouette,Twelve years of platform, and before them ...
Worthy The Name of Sir Knight (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
ISir Knight of the world's oldest order,Sir Knight of the Army of God,You have crossed the strange mystical border,The ground ...
Sir Stephen (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
A GOTHIC BALLAD. MOURNING muse, record a ditty,Of two tender lovers dear:A heart of marble sure must pity,The woes of ...
Carisima (Albert Pike Poems)
'Do YOU NOT KNOW I LOVE YOU? "-So you cried, And blessed my lips with kisses multiplied, Sweeter than those ...
The Hunters (Daniil Ivanovich Kharms Poems)
Six men went hunting, but only four returned. Two, in fact, hadn't returned. Oknov, Kozlov, Stryuchkov and Motylkov returned home ...
Dedication (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
DedicationThese to His Memory—since he held them dear,Perchance as finding there unconsciouslySome image of himself—I dedicate,I dedicate, I consecrate with ...
The Lute Of Afric’s Tribe (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
To the memory of Dr. J. McSimpson, a colored Author of Anti-Slavery Ballads. Written for the Zanesville, O., Courier.When Israel ...
The Midwinter Bath (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
I'm home plenty early, I reckon—It's too soon to start cookin' grub,So before I begin with my bakin'I'll take me ...
The Dedication Poem (Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Poems)
Dedication Poem on the reception of the annex tothe home for aged colored people, from the bequest ofMr. Edward T. ...
Humilitie (George Herbert Poems)
I saw the Vertues sitting hand in handIn sev'rall ranks upon an azure throne,Where all the beasts and fowls, by ...
The Irreparable (Charles Baudelaire Poems)
Can we stifle the old, long-lived Remorse,that lives, writhes, heaves,feeds on us, like a worm on a corpse,like oak-gall on ...
Poem For A Christmas Broadcast (Anne Ridler Poems)
Woman s VoicePerhaps you find the angel most improbable?It spoke to men asleep, their minds ajarFor once to admit the ...
The Spartan Boy (Charles Lamb Poems)
When I the memory repeatOf the heroic actions great,Which, in contempt of pain and death,Were done by men who drew ...
Endurance (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
YOU never hear a woman boastOf her endurance, yet I vowThe tiniest mite o' a woman hasMore courage than a ...
The Fine Fat Saucy Chinaman (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
I'll sing a little ditty, whichI trust you'll not think flat.Of a fine fat saucy ChinamanWho lives on Ballarat,Whose pigtail ...
The Order Of Pure Intuition (Edward Caswall Poems)
HAIL, sacred Order of eternal Truth! That deep within the soul, In axiomatic majesty sublime, One undivided whole,- ...
Shaemus (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)
We will go no more to Shaemus, at the Nip, for sly innuendo and an Oporto Flip, the rough but ...
Let Us Give Thanks (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
For the courage which comes when we call,While troubles like hailstones fall;For the help that is somehow nigh,In the deepest ...
The Prism (George MacDonald Poems)
I.A pool of broken sunbeams layUpon the passage-floor,Radiant and rich, profound and gayAs ever diamond bore.Small, flitting hands a handkerchiefSpread ...
The Steed And The Rider (Ernest Jones Poems)
In the morning's light advancing, Forward bounds a gallant steed,Deck'd with Beauty's goodly housing, Shod with Youth, Health, ...
For A Virgin And Child By Hans Memmelinck (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
(In the Academy of Bruges) MYSTERY: God, man's life, born into man ...
To A Sheet Of Paper (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
TAKE , O take this sweet impression, Bear it on thy snowy breast;Words are feeble in expression, Yet ...
Inscription On A Cenotaph Erected By Sir William Draper, K.B. In His Garden At Clifton Near Bristol (Christopher Anstey Poems)
This Cenotaph is sacred to the Memory Of those departed Warriors, of the seventy--ninth regiment, by whose deliberate Valour, steady ...
All Night I Lingered At The Beach (Eugene O Neill Poems)
ALL night I lingered at the Beach And trod the board walk up and down-- I vainly sought to cop ...