Motives (Marietta Holley Poems)
I said that I would see Her once, to curse her fair, deceitful grace,To curse her for my life-long agony; But when ...
Worship Poems (1192 Poems)
Mr. Prichard’s Advice To His Son Samuel (Rees Prichard Poems)
For heaven's sake, my Sammy dear!In mind, till death, those precepts bear :Christ on thy bended knees adore,When in my ...
The Legend of the New Year (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
I dreamed, and lo, I saw in my dream a beautiful gateway, Arched at the top, and crowned with turrets lance-windowed ...
Two Altars. (Harriet Annie Wilkins Poems)
"And Cain talked with Abel, his brother."The sun was rising on earth, sin-tainted, yet beautiful,Delicate gold-colored cloudlets in all their ...
To a Mountain (Henry Kendall Poems)
To thee, O father of the stately peaks,Above me in the loftier light — to thee,Imperial brother of those awful ...
King Raedwald (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
Will you hear now the speech of King Raedwald,—heathen Raedwald, the simple yet wise?He, the ruler of North-folk and South-folk, a ...
The Daughter Of Jephthah Among The Mountains (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
Night bent o'er the mountains With aspect serene; The deep waters slept 'Neath the moon's pallid sheen, And the stars in their courses Moved noiseless ...
Anti-Apis (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Praisest Law, friend? We, too, love it much as they that love it best;'Tis the deep, august foundation, whereon Peace ...
A Summer Pilgrimage (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
To kneel before some saintly shrine,To breathe the health of airs divine,Or bathe where sacred rivers flow,The cowled and turbaned ...
Christmas (Henry Timrod Poems)
How grace this hallowed day?Shall happy bells, from yonder ancient spire,Send their glad greetings to each Christmas fire Round which the ...
Jerusalem (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
Four lamps were burning o'er two mighty graves -Godfrey's and Baldwin's - Salem's Christian kings;And holy light glanced from Helena's ...
In Memory Of Douglas Vernon Cow (Muriel Stuart Poems)
THIS POEM, DEDICATED TO HIS MOTHER.To twilight heads comes Death as comes a friend.As with the gentle fading of the ...
Ritner (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THANK God for the token! one lip is still free,One spirit untrammelled, unbending one knee!Like the oak of the mountain, ...
Dedicated To Dr. W. H. Sheppard (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
On, on to the darkest continent,As the Adriatic sailed,In Eighteen Hundred and ...
The Feast Of The Gael (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
St. Patrick's DayI.WHAT a onion of hearts is the love of a motherWhen races of men in her name unite!For ...
Thanksgiving (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
When first in ancient time, from Jubal's tongueThe tuneful anthem filled the morning air,To sacred hymnings and elysian songHis music-breathing ...
To ————— (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
I DO not love thee, yet why does thy calmSweet smile forever haunt my dreams, and whyDo thy dark eyes ...
Centennial (John Hay Poems)
A hundred times the bells of Brown Have rung to sleep the idle summers,And still to-day clangs clamoring down A greeting to ...
The God Of Abraham. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
Written on Board the Medway, in the South Seas, in Very StormyWeather."WHERE is the God whom I adore?"Abram of old ...
On The Centenary Of The Presidency College (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
A hundred years! The very phraseUnsepultures the million'd dead;Three generations in that space,Ghosts of the past, have breathed and fled.Time ...
Mrs. Harvey Seymour, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, Sunday, May 5th, 1861.She found a painless avenue to makeThe great transition from a world of careTo ...
To Isabel (George W Sands Poems)
Come near me with thy lips, and, breathe o'er mineTheir breath, for I consume with love's desire,--Thine ivory arms about ...
My Annual (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
How long will this harp which you once loved to hearCheat your lips of a smile or your eyes of ...
The Poet’s Haunt (John Anster Poems)
'Tis beautiful indeed--thro' parted boughsTo see the moving clouds darken the sky,To mark their many--shifting forms, and tints,As slow they ...
At The Banquet To the Japanese Embassy (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AUGUST 2, 1872WE welcome you, Lords of the Land of the Sun!The voice of the many sounds feebly through one;Ah! ...
Israel (John Hay Poems)
When by Jabbok the patriarch waited To learn on the morrow his doom,And his dubious spirit debated In darkness and silence and ...
Lines On General Robert Edward Lee (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Si veris magna paraturFama bonis, et se successu nuda remotoInspicitur virtus, quicquid laudamus in ulloMajorum, ortuna fuit.- LucanWhilst martial echoes ...
To John Milton (John Clare Poems)
_"From his honoured friend, William Davenant"_Poet of mighty power, I fainWould court the muse that honoured thee,And, like Elisha's spirit, ...
Dumb-Bells (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
DUMB-BELLS left, dumb-bells right, Swing them hard, grip them tight! Thirty fat men of the town Must sweat their filthy paunches down. Dripping sweat ...
Canada To England (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
GONE are the days, old Warrior of the Seas,When thine armed head, bent low to catch my voice,Caught but the ...