My Irish Love (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
Beside the saffron of a curtain, litWith broidered flowers, below a golden fringeThat on her silver shoulder made a glow,Like ...
Youth Poems (7963 Poems)
O’Hara, J.P. (Henry Lawson Poems)
James Patrick O'Hara the Justice of Peace,He bossed the P.M. and he bossed the police;A parent, a deacon, a landlord ...
Adelaide Ironside (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Knowest thou now, O Love! Oh pure from the death of thy summer of sweetness!Seest thou now, O new-born Delight ...
His Dowter Gate Wed (John Hartley Poems)
He'd had his share ov ups an daans, His sprees an troubles too;Ov country joys an life i' taans, He'd run th' ...
The Archbishop And Gil Blas (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
A MODERNIZED VERSIONI DON'T think I feel much older; I'm aware I'm rather gray,But so are many young folks; I ...
The Maid Of The Mill’s Repentance (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
YOUTH.AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee!Or else I needs must, in my wrath, Expel thee!What's ...
Poor Housekeeping (Hattie Howard Poems)
If there is one gift that I prize above others, That tinges with brightness whatever I do, And gives to the sombre ...
Siren Song (Karl Heinrich Marx Poems)
A BalladThe wave, soft murmuring,With the wind frolicking,Leaps up into the air.You see it tremble, hover,Tumble and topple over,It is ...
Elijah (Henry Kendall Poems)
INTO that good old Hebrew's soul sublimeThe spirit of the wilderness had passed;For where the thunders of imperial StormRolled over ...
Farmer Downs Changes His Opinion Of Nature (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
"No," said old Farmer Downs to me, "I ain't the facts denyin',That all young folks in love must be, As birds must ...
Vignette – XXI (Matilda Betham Poems)
LINES._Written for a Young Gentleman to speak at the Audit at St. Saviour'sSchool, Southwark, after the Battle of Trafalgar_. --------While others, ...
Addressed To Miss Macartney, Afterwards Mrs. Greville, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference (William Cowper Poems)
And dwells there in a female heart,By bounteous heaven design'dThe choicest raptures to impact,To feel the most refined;Dwells there a ...
The Landmarks (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I.THROUGH the streets of MarbleheadFast the red-winged terror sped;Blasting, withering, on it came,With its hundred tongues of flame,Where St. Michael's ...
Eclogue the First Selim (William Taylor Collins Poems)
SCENE, a Valley near Bagdat TIME, the Morning`Ye Persian maids, attend your poet's lays,And hear how shepherds pass their golden ...
Unser Gott (Karle Wilson Baker Poems)
They held a great prayer-service in Berlin,And augured German triumph from some wordsSaid to be spoken by the Jewish GodTo ...
Yorktown Centennial Lyric (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HARK, hark! down the century's long reaching slopeTo those transports of triumph, those raptures of hope,The voices of main and ...
An Eastern Legend (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
Who in Bagdad knows not Jaffar, the Sun of the Universe?One day, many years ago (he was yet a youth), ...
American Academy Centennial Celebration (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
MAY 26, 1880SIRE, son, and grandson; so the century glides;Three lives, three strides, three foot-prints in the sand;Silent as midnight's ...
Fable XLII. The Juggler (John Gay Poems)
A juggler long through all the town Had raised his fortune and renown; You'd think (so far his art transcends) ...
Address At Ashton-Under-Lyne Literary Institute (John Critchley Prince Poems)
There is no nobler labour for mankindThan to instruct and elevate the mind,To pour into the eager ears of youthThe ...
For My Friend Mrs. R. (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
When writing to you, friend, a subject I'd findIn which there's both pleasure and profit combined,And though what I've chosen ...
The Huntsman’s Story (Patrick R Chalmers Poems)
I heard the Huntsman calling as he drew three-acre spinney;He found a fox and hunted him and handled him ere ...
To Sorrow (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. O tear-eyed goddess of the marble brow, Who showerest snows of tresses on the night Of anguished temples! lonely watcher, thou Who bendest ...
Ione (Marietta Holley Poems)
I might strive as well to melt to softness the soulless breast Of some fair and saintly image, carven out of ...
Eclogue (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
JANE SNEED BEGAN IT: My poor John, alas,Ten years ago, pretty it was in a ringTo run as boys and ...
The Cloak Model (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
"My son," the stranger thus began, And drew me to the window side, "Now here are beauties better than You ever have dreamed, ...
Autobiograph (Nazim Hikmet Poems)
I was born in 1902I never once went back to my birthplaceI don't like to turn backat three I served ...
Ode On Lord Hay’s BirthDay (James Beattie Poems)
A Muse, unskill'd in venal praise,Unstain'd with flattery's art;Who loves simplicity of laysBreathed ardent from the heart;While gratitude and joy ...
Dreams Of The Morning (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
Ye mantling hues that paint the changeful sky,Ye opening flow'rs, of bright and varied die,Thou wak'ning breeze whose light and ...
Star Drift (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The glaring sun hath ceased to shine;The solemn stars invade the sky;Again the welcome night is mine,Wherein to view the ...