An Hypothesis (Judith Sargent Murray Poems)
Last night unpleasing visions round my head,In horror clad, their baleful influence spread!Spectres most ghastly rose before my view,And every ...
Wisdom & Knowledge Poems (4633 Poems)
Probatur Aliter (Jonathan Swift Poems)
A long-ear'd beast, and a field-house for cattle,Among the coals doth often rattle.A long-ear'd beast, a bird that prates,The bridegrooms' ...
Crane (Padraic Colum Poems)
I KNOW you, Crane:I, too, have waited,Waited until my heartMelted to little pools around my feet!Comer in the morning ere ...
Winter: Friday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
True! Spring renews the faded year;And renovated fruits and flowersIn re-awaken'd charms appear:—They deck the plain—they crown the bowers—Their blush ...
Winter: Sunday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
God of the morning! Thou, the sabbath's God!Round whose bright footsteps thousand planets roll:A million beings at Thy mighty nodAre ...
Alcanzar (Janet Little Poems)
WHEN first Alcanzar to the town did come,The people all believ'd that he was dumb:In troops, with hasty steps to ...
The Candle and the Flame (George Sylvester Viereck Poems)
Thy hands are like cool herbs that bring Balm to men's hearts, upon them laid; Thy lovely-petalled lips are madeAs any blossom ...
The Oceanides III (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
THE BURDEN OF THE SEA.Isaiah, XXIII.THE sea hath spoken! Hear, O Earth! Where everlasting hills arise;And all the host of heaven, stand ...
The Postern Gate (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
I chose me a lovely garden,Beneath whose ivied wallA lake's blue wavelets murmurAs evening shadows fall,--A garden, whose leafy windowsFrame ...
Cupid And Ganymede (Matthew Prior Poems)
In Heav'n, one Holy-day, You readIn wise Anacreon, GanymedeDrew heedless Cupid in, to throwA Main, to pass an Hour, or ...
To The Virgin Mary (Mary Hannay Foott Poems)
Mother of Him we call the Christ, No halo round thy brows we paint,-Incense and prayer we offer not, Nor mind to ...
The Poet, And His Interpreters (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
FULL of songs he woke one morning,Every song a weighty wonderHolding universal beingNewly dressed in words of thunder."Men shall hear ...
A Student’s Evening Hymn (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
I.Now no more the slanting raysWith the mountain summits dally,Now no more in crimson blazeEvening's fleecy cloudless rally,Soon shall Night ...
On The Step (Margaret Louisa Woods Poems)
The little old ladyWas walking along the street.She carried her head high though of small stature,And although he ermine mantle ...
My Library (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Shrine of my mind, my Library!Each morn I greet thee with delight,When, soul-refreshed, I bring to theeThe benediction of the ...
Address For The Benefit Of James Sheridan Knowles. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Nay, Mr. Simpson!--'Tis not kind--polite--To shut me out, sir?--I'm in such a fright!--I can not speak the lines, I'm sure!--Oh, ...
“Thou That Know’st for Whom I Mourn” (Henry Vaughan Poems)
THOU that know'st for whom I mourn, And why these tears appear,That keep'st account till he return Of all his dust left ...
St. Bartholomew (John Keble Poems)
Hold up thy mirror to the sun, And thou shalt need an eagle's gaze,So perfectly the polished stone Gives back the glory ...
Place of Pilgrimage (Jaroslav Seifert Poems)
After a long journey we awokein the cathedral's cloisters, where men slepton the bare floor.There were no buses in those ...
Charity : A Paraphrase On 1 Cor. Chap. 13 (Matthew Prior Poems)
Did sweeter Sounds adorn my flowing Tongue,Than ever Man pronounc'd, or Angel sung:Had I all Knowledge, Human and Divine,That Thought ...
Song I (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Dear people, swelled in fool's wisdomAnd clinging to error so fanciful,To the skies, adorned in hosts of fair stars,Look up ...
An Elegy (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
SWEET Child of Sensibility!Haste thee from mirth and noise and folly,And o'er sad scenes of melancholy,Come, and muse, and mourn ...
Three Poems on Wine (Li Po Poems)
I. Among the flowers a drink of wine. I sit alone without a friend. So I invite the moon, Then see my shadow, make ...
The Hunting Of The Dragon (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
When we went hunting the Dragon In the days when we were young, We tossed the bright world over our shoulder As bugle ...
Winter: Thursday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The day is done;—the night comes calmly forth,Bringing sweet rest upon the wings of even:The golden wain rolls round the ...
“An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly (Jupiter Hammon Poems)
O, come you pious youth: adoreThe wisdom of thy God.In bringing thee from distant shore,To learn His holy word.Thou mightst ...
My Own Place (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Whoever I am, wherever my lot, Whatever I happen to be,Contentment and Duty shall hallow the spot That Providence orders for me;No ...
Spring: Thursday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
The heavens, O Lord! Thy power proclaim,And the earth echoes back Thy name;Ten thousand voices speak Thy might,And day to ...
Winter: Wednesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The hour of peace resumes againIts tranquil, silent, solemn reign;Sorrow a short cessation knowsOn the soft couch of calm repose,And ...
Seventeen (Robert Nichols Poems)
All the loud winds were in the garden wood,All shadows joyfuller than lissom houndsDoubled in chasing, all exultant cloudsThat ever ...