The Sisters (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
ANNIE and Rhoda, sisters twain,Woke in the night to the sound of rain,The rush of wind, the ramp and roarOf ...
Youth Poems (7963 Poems)
The Sangamon River (Hattie Howard Poems)
O sunny Sangamon! thy name to me, Soft-syllabled like some sweet melody, Familiar is since adolescent years As household phrases ringing in my ...
An Excellent New Song Being The Intended Speech Of A Famous Orator Against Peace (Jonathan Swift Poems)
An orator dismal of Nottinghamshire,Who has forty years let out his conscience to hire,Out of zeal for his country, and ...
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 ...
Lines To Spring (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
LIFE-GLOWING Season !--odor-breathing SPRING ,Deck'd in cerulean splendors,--vivid, warm,Shedding soft lustre on the rosy hours,And calling forth their beauties ! ...
Imagination (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Now fir'd imagination soars on high, and showsMagnific scenes. The first--a summer's dawn--A sky of purest blue--a golden seaBeneath--earth bright ...
The Liberty Bell (John Pierpont Poems)
The Liberty Bell—the Liberty Bell—The Tocsin of Freedom and Slavery's knell,That a whole long year has idle hung,Again is wagging ...
John Robinson (Julia A Moore Poems)
AIR — "The Drunkard"Come listen, friends, and hear a song, It is a doleful one,About a young man, dead and gone ...
Knitting (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
My muse is in the sulks to-day,I've tried in vain to findA subject fit for rhyme and song,Just suited to ...
A Letter To Dr. Helsham (Jonathan Swift Poems)
SIR, Pray discruciate what follows.The dullest beast, and gentleman's liquor,When young is often due to the vicar,The dullest of beasts, and ...
The Lover: A Ballad (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
At length, by so much importunity press'd, Take, C{-}{-}, at once, the inside of my breast; This stupid indiff'rence so often you ...
Jack Frenchman’s Lamentation (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Ye Commons and Peers, Pray lend me your ears,I'll sing you a song, (if I can,) How Lewis le Grand Was put to ...
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 ...
Ghost Glen (Henry Kendall Poems)
"Shut your ears, stranger, or turn from Ghost Glen now,For the paths are grown over, untrodden by men now;Shut your ...
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 ...
Charles Harpur (Henry Kendall Poems)
Where Harpur lies, the rainy streams, And wet hill-heads, and hollows weeping,Are swift with wind, and white with gleams, And hoarse with ...
The Linnet And The Cat (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
WHEN fading Autumn's latest hoursStrip the brown wood, and chill the flowers,--When evening, wint'ry, short, and pale,Expires in many a ...
Democracy (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
BEARER of Freedom's holy light,Breaker of Slavery's chain and rod,The foe of all which pains the sight,Or wounds the generous ...
Her Offering (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
Lay aside your pen for a moment,And listen, my dear to me,While I tell you a strange, sweet story,The sweetest ...
Summons (Louis Untermeyer Poems)
THE eager night and the impetuous winds,The hints and whispers of a thousand lures,And all the swift persuasion of the ...
To A Young Gentleman In Love. A Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
From publick Noise and factious Strife,From all the busie Ills of Life,Take me, My Celia, to Thy Breast;And lull my ...
Mysie, An Aul’ Warl’, But Ower True Story (Janet Hamilton Poems)
She wrocht her wark an' never lintit,Her wrangs to nane she ever mintit;An' tho' they war baith grit an' sair,O' ...
Sonnets of Twilight and Youth (John William Streets Poems)
I: VISIONCharmed with the ceaseless music of the brook-Babbling with hope and with Youth's deathless song;Full with the joys of ...
Wanted – A Theme (Grace Greenwood Poems)
THE spring is here again, mother! she bursts upon our sight,Like a young girl in her bridal dress, all bloom, ...
April (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
April deliciousYoung, sunny maiden,Arch, gusty, capricious,With fresh flowers laden,After dead winter longThrill us with sweet bird-song,After dry March's drought,Blow from ...
Boys Bathing (Muriel Stuart Poems)
Round them a fierce, wide, crazy noonHeaves with crushed lips and glowing sidesAgainst the huge and drowsy sun.Beneath them turn ...
The Witch Of Wokey (Henry Harington Poems)
In aunciente days, tradition showes,A base and wicked elfe arose,The Witch of Wokey hight:Oft have I heard the fearfull tale,From ...
On Halloween (Janet Little Poems)
SOME folk in courts for pleasure sue,An' some ransack the theatre:The airy nymph is won by few;She's of so coy ...
How The Robin Came (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
AN ALGONQUIN LEGEND.HAPPY young friends, sit by me,Under May's blown apple-tree,While these home-birds in and outThrough the blossoms flit about.Hear ...
Australian Hymn. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
For the Native Youth of the Colony.FATHER of all! a youthful raceUnknown to fortune and to fame,Presumes to celebrate thy ...