The Voyage Of St. Brendan A.D. 545 – The Promised Land (Denis Florence MacCarthy Poems)
As on this world the young man turns his eyes,When forced to try the dark sea of the grave,Thus did ...
Winter Poems (2625 Poems)
The King’s Grief (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The king was lonely, the king was sad,Sad in his youth, when the world was glad:Sick at heart on his ...
The Cow Boy’s Dream (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
A cow boy and his trusty palWere camped one night by an old corral;They were keeping a line on the ...
Basil (Anne Bannerman Poems)
THE sobbings of the ocean wavesWere all the notes that Basil knew;He lov'd them since his ear could dwellWith gladness ...
A Child’s Battles (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Praise of the knights of oldMay sleep: their tale is told, And no man cares:The praise which fires ...
Grand Chorus Of Birds (Aristophanes Poems)
Come on then, ye dwellers by nature in darkness, and like to the leaves' generations, ...
In Answer To A Remark (Caroline Fry Poems)
I KNEW a stream,'twas yonder, where, Now bleak and bare,There was a covert once of ...
The Ballad Of The Little Black Hound (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Who knocks at the Geraldine's door to-night In the black storm and the rain? With the thunder crash and the ...
The Little Red Dog (C J Dennis Poems)
The Glugs still live in the land of Gosh,Under the rule of the great King Splosh. And they climb the ...
The Covenanter’s (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I am auld an' frail, an' I scarce can gang, Though whiles when I tak' a turn,It's only when the ...
The Ridge Farm (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"The ridge is open to all moody weather: The bruisings of the blizzard leave it numb; From the scorched south ...
Narcissus (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL The mind is a city like London, Smoky and populous: it is ...
Our Country (Frank Barbour Coffin Poems)
This star spangled banner country, Is styled as the "Land of Free;" And yet our race here suffers wrong, Mixed ...
Aspasia (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
At times thy image to my mind returns, Aspasia. In the crowded streets it gleams Upon me, for an instant, ...
An Alphabet Zoo (Carolyn Wells Poems)
A was an apt Alligator, Who wanted to be a head-waiter; He said, "I opine In that field ...
A Corymbus For Autumn (Francis Thompson Poems)
Hearken my chant, 'tisAs a Bacchante's,A grape-spurt, a vine-splash, a tossed tress, flown vaunt 'tis!Suffer my singing,Gipsy of Seasons, ere ...
Ovid To His Wife (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
MY aged head now stoops its honours low, Bow'd with the load of fifty winters' snow; And for the raven's ...
The Dying Covenanter (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Let me lie upon the heather Where the heath fowl have abode,In my hand the open Bible, On my lip ...
Breitmann About Town (Charles Godfrey Leland Poems)
DER SCHWACKENHAMMER coom to down, Pefore de Fall vas past, Und by der Breitmann drawed he in Ash dreimals honored ...
Burns (Fitz-Greene Halleck Poems)
WILD ROSE of Alloway! my thanks:Thou 'mindst me of that autumn noonWhen first we met upon "the banksAnd braes o'bonny ...
Song Of America (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
And now, when poets are singing Their songs of olden days, And now, when the land is ringing With sweet ...
Melancholy — To Laura (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Laura! a sunrise seems to break Where'er thy happy looks may glow.Joy sheds its roses o'er thy cheek,Thy tears themselves ...
Christmas Day (Charles Kingsley Poems)
How will it dawn, the coming Christmas Day?A northern Christmas, such as painters love,And kinsfolk, shaking hands but once a ...
Boadicea (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
While about the shore of Mona those Neronian legionariesBurnt and broke the grove and altar of the Druid and Druidess,Far ...
Pictura Poesis (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
GENOA, 1872Two sunny winter days I sped alongThe Riviera's winding mountain way;Scarcely I caught the blue sea's faint far song,By ...
The Shepheardes Calender: March (Edmund Spenser Poems)
March: ?gloga Tertia. Willye & Thomalin.Willye.THomalin, why sytten we soe, As weren ouerwent with woe, Vpon so fayre a morow? ...
The Lesson Of The Seasons (David John Scott Poems)
Written for a little girl on her eleventh birthday.Fleeting time is on the wing—Surely Winter, joyous Spring,Glowing Summer, Autumn sere,Mark ...
Nelson’s Appeal For Maisonneuve (Arthur Weir Poems)
Silent I have stood and borne it, hoping still from year to yearThat the pleading voice of justice you would ...
Helian (Georg Trakl Poems)
In the spirit's solitary hoursIt is lovely to walk in the sunAlong the yellow walls of summer.Quietly whisper the steps ...
Christmas Morning (Elizabeth Madox Roberts Poems)
If Bethlehem were here today, Or this were ...