The Nomades (James Russell Lowell Poems)
What Nature makes in any moodTo me is warranted for good,Though long before I learned to seeShe did not set ...
Wisdom & Knowledge Poems (4633 Poems)
America (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
(Written in her seventeenth year.)And this was once the realm of nature, whereWild as the wind, tho' exquisitely fair,She breath'd ...
Ode XI: On Love, To A Friend (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.No, foolish youth-To virtuous fameIf now thy early hopes be vow'd,If true ambition's nobler flameCommand thy footsteps from the croud,Lean ...
Judge Not Too Hastily (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Oh! judge not too hastily man and his mind, Nor deem ye can read him at once and for aye,There is ...
Yellow Clover (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
Must I, who walk alone,Come on it still,This Puck of plantsThe wise would do away with,The sunshine slantsTo play with,Our ...
Phases of Girlhood (Janet Hamilton Poems)
With fondest love and sweetest pleasureGaze I on my infant treasure—My sweetest rose, my purest pearl,Heaven's latest gift, my baby-girl.Opening ...
Education Gives Luster to Motherland (Jose Rizal Poems)
Wise education, vital breathInspires an enchanting virtue;She puts the Country in the lofty seatOf endless glory, of dazzling glow,And just ...
The Proverbs Of Threescore (Nathaniel Bloomfield Poems)
1 Have you seen the delightless abode, Where Penury nurses Despair; Where comfortless Life is a load, Age wishes no longer to bear. Ah! who, ...
Used Up (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Where shall be found the niche unfill'd,—A spot unclaim'd, a field untill'd?Who may secure a vacant spaceFairly to run and ...
Lucina: An Elegy (Janet Little Poems)
DIREFUL indeed are thy effects, O love!When Reason's voice deserts thy frantic shrine;Platonic lessons no asylum prove;His dictates must obsequious ...
The Shell (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
O little, whisp'ring, murm'ring shell, say cans't thou tell to meGood news of any stately ship that sails upon the ...
Loveliness (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. When I fare forth to kiss the eyes of Spring, On ways, which arch gold sunbeams and pearl buds Embraced, two whispers ...
Andrew Jackson (Julia A Moore Poems)
On the life of Andrew Jackson, Now dear people I will write,And in sketches, I will tell you His career with great ...
Humboldt’s Birthday (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, SEPTEMBER 14, 1869BONAPARTE, AUGUST 15, 1769.-HUMBOLDT, SEPTEMBER 14, 1769ERE yet the warning chimes of midnight sound,Set back the ...
The Spider And The Fly (Mary Botham Howitt Poems)
Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly,'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did ...
On The Death of The Rev’d Dr. Sewall (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
E'er yet the morning heav'd its Orient headBehold him praising with the happy dead.Hail! happy Saint, on the immortal Shore.We ...
The Helmsman (Henry Kendall Poems)
LIKE one who meets a staggering blow, The stout old ship doth reel,And waters vast go seething past-But will it last, ...
Summation Without Respect (Guy de Maupassant Poems)
I very little knew your husband, Madam;He was large and ugly, I did not know more.But we are not annoyed, ...
In Commendation Of The Right Worshipfull Sir Raufe Horsey Knight (Peter Colse Poems)
S Sweete Muse strike vp thy siluer string, I In shrill consort thy shake but straine, R Reflecting peales let Cosmos ring, R ...
A Love Secret (Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Poems)
Love has its secrets, joy has its revealings.How shall I speak of that which love has hid?If my beloved shall ...
To my dead friend Ben Johnson (Henry King Poems)
I see that wreath which doth the wearer arm'Gainst the quick strokes of thunder, is no charmTo keep off deaths ...
A Psalm Of Resignation (Joseph Furphy Poems)
In spite of his imposing plea,A freeman whom the truth makes freeIs often fairly up a tree,And marvels why it ...
Persephone (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
O Hades! O false gods! false to yourselves! O Hades, 'twas thy brother gave her thee Without a mother's sanction or her ...
Autumn: Thursday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
The orient is lighted with crimson glow, The night and its dreams are fled,And the glorious roll of nature now Is in ...
A Pastoral Between Thirsis And Corydon, Upon The Death Of Damon, By Whom Is Meant Mr. W. Riddell (James Thomson Poems)
Thir.Say, tell me true, what is the doleful causeThat Corydon is not the man he was?Your cheerful presence used to ...
An Old Vagabond (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
HE was old and alone, and he sat on a stone to rest for awhile from the road:His beard was ...
A Soliloquy (Henry Baker Poems)
My God! whence comes it, that the human Soul,Unsatisfy'd with all Things here below,From Wish to Wish must discontented roll,Nor ...
Rich And Poor (A Ballad For Union) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O ladies, lords, and gentlemen, Attend to what I say,For well I wot you'll like it when You listen to my lay;And ...
The Prayer Of Nature (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair?Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone ...
The Trials of Virtue (James Merrick Poems)
Plac'd on the verge of youth, my mindLife's op'ning scene survey'd:I view'd its ills of various kind,Afflicted and afraid.But chief ...