Sensation (Bodh) (Jibanananda Das Poems)
Into the half light and shadow I go. Within my headNot a dream, but some sensation is at work.Not a ...
Work & Career Poems (4082 Poems)
To The Christian Reader (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
Reader, I am a fool;And have adventuredTo play the fool this once for Christ,The more his fame to spread.If this ...
Gnothi Seauton (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
IIf thou canst bearStrong meat of simple truthIf thou durst my words compareWith what thou thinkest in my soul's free ...
The Portrait (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
In some quaint Nurnberg maler-atelierUprummaged. When and where was never clearNor yet how he obtained it. When, by whom'Twas painted—who ...
In Remembrance Of Joseph Sturge (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
In the fair land o'erwatched by Ischia's mountains,Across the charmed bayWhose blue waves keep with Capri's silver fountainsPerpetual holiday,A king ...
On Reading Mr. Clarkson’s History Of The Abolition Of The Slave Trade (John Wilson Poems)
'MID the august and never-dying lightOf constellated spirits, who have gain'dA throne in heaven, by power of heavenly acts,And leave ...
Wash Lowry’s Reminiscence (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
And you're the poet of this concern? I've seed your name in printA dozen times, but I'll be dern I'd 'a' never ...
Dalkeith, On The Happy Days I Have Enjoyed WithIn Its Bonny Bounds. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
In Scotia's isle much lov'd Dalkeith,How have I wish'd to seeIts ancient spire, each lowly cot,As it was wont to ...
What Sayest Thou, Traveller (Paul Verlaine Poems)
What sayst thou, traveller, of all thou saw'st afar? On every tree hangs boredom, ripening to its fall,Didst gather it, thou ...
Th’ Little Black Hand (John Hartley Poems)
Ther's a spark just o'th tip o' mi pen,An' it may be poetical fire;An' suppoase 'at it is'nt--what then?Wod yo ...
The Vote of Thanks Debate (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
Ecologue IX (Virgil Poems)
LYCIDAS, MOERISLycidas.Say whither, Moeris?- Make you for the town,Or on what errand bent?Moeris. O Lycidas,We have lived to see, what ...
Protogenes And Apelles (Matthew Prior Poems)
When poets wrote and painters drewAs Nature pointed out the view,Ere Gothic forms were known in GreeceTo spoil the well-proportion'd ...
A Short Worke That Beareth The Name Of George Ripley (George Ripley Poems)
Take Heavy, Soft, Cold, and Drye;Clense him, and to Calx grind him subtily:Dissolve him in Water of the Wood;If thou ...
Reflections (Jean Ingelow Poems)
'LOOKING OVER A GATE AT A POOL IN A FIELD'What change has made the pastures sweetAnd reached the daisies at ...
Bereavement (Nora Pembroke Poems)
It was not that I lived a life of ease, Quiet, secure, apart from every care;For on the darkest of my ...
An Urban Convalescence (James Merrill Poems)
Out for a walk, after a week in bed,I find them tearing up part of my blockAnd, chilled through, dazed ...
Advice To A Raven In Russia (1812) (Joel Barlow Poems)
Black fool, why winter here? These frozen skies,Worn by your wings and deafen'd by your cries,Should warn you hence, where ...
The Old Carrier (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
("Old Lucia", who for many years walked back and forth, every day and inall weathers, between Azzano and Menaggio, a ...
Ode II: On The Winter-Solstice (Mark Akenside Poems)
IThe radiant ruler of the yearAt length his wintry goal attains;Soon to reverse the long career,And northward bend his steady ...
My Chinee Cook. (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
THEY who say the bush is dull are not so very far astray,For this eucalyptic cloisterdom is anything but gay;But ...
The Drummer’s Death-Roll (John Critchley Prince Poems)
To a region of song and of sunnier day,The battle-host wended its wearisome way,Through the terrible Splugen's tenebrious gloom,That seemed ...
One of the Bo’sun’s Yarns (John Masefield Poems)
Loafin' around in Sailor Town, a-bluin' o' my advance,I met a derelict donkyman who led me a merry dance,Till he ...
Heroes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Children, when you sat wishing,Down last night on the sands,Beckoning moments of glory,With little helpless hands,I heard you saying and ...
Life From 1835 to 1851 (William Gay Poems)
And, now, a vacancy occurs,For very nearly sixteen years,In which I'd not the least desire,To strike the harp or tune ...
A Poetical Epistle To Lady Austen (William Cowper Poems)
Dear Anna, -- Between friend and friend,Prose answers every common end;Serves, in a plain and homely way,To express the occurrence ...
Helen At The Loom (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
Helen, in her silent room,Weaves upon the upright loom;Weaves a mantle rich and dark,Purpled over, deep. But markHow she scatters ...
The Hermit Of Gibraltar (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
(A TRUE STORY)He died among the flowers, when dawn was leapingLike a freed lion through the sever'd east;'Twere but a ...
Black Bonnets (Henry Lawson Poems)
A day of seeming innocence,A glorious sun and sky,And, just above my picket fence,Black Bonnet passing by.In knitted gloves and ...
Naboth (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Great honour hath Boston, the city, won of late in a glorious frayWith a handful of Portuguese fishers on that ...