Poetry Books

The Poems of Felicia Hemans

Felicia Hemans

At about the age of eleven, she passed a winter in London with her father and mother; and a similar sojourn was repeated in the following year, after which she never visited the metropolis. The contra..

Poems

Isaac Rosenberg

Isaac Rosenberg was born at Bristol on the 25th of November, 1890. When he was seven he came to London with his parents. The family settled in the East End. The boy was sent to the Board School of St...

The Pacifist, and other poems

Howard Futhey Brinton

American poems collection by Howard Futhey Brinton.Elk CreekHow the Village Canard StartedThe Spring VioletSandy FlashThe New SuitThe LibertineThe Liberty Cornet BandThe PeriodicMrs. Murphy’s Pur..

Summer Morning - A poem

Thomas Miller

A cottage girl trips by with side-long look,Steadying the little basket on her head;And where a plank bridges the narrow brookShe stops, to see her fair form shadowèd.The stream reflects her cloak of ..

The Goblin Groom - a Tale of Dunse

R. O. Fenwick

Goblin first made his appearance. That the minds of his readers may be as perfectly prepared, as he could wish, for the manners of the age in which it is laid, he apprizes them, that the poem opens on..

Plet - A Christmas Tale of the Wasatch

Alfred Lambourne

The Christmas Eve! Ill time had chosen FateTo work her will and joy annihilate!Women and children lay beneath that snow,And many a bronzed cheek was touched with woe.Think not those men who toil amid ..

Plantation Echoes

Elliott Blaine Henderson

The music of the American negro, the fresh and spontaneous expression of a good and care-free heart, has long been one of the most pleasing features of American life. It is human nature in its first v..

A poem on the earthquake at Lisbon

Anonymous

Horror and Desolation you’d no more!And now that once fair Town with all her Store,And ev’ry Soul that hail’d the rising Day,Heaving in Death like one vast Body lay.The Fires, that glimm’ring still wi..