Poems about abash (21 Poems)
Grocyn At Oxford (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
_THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE_ 1491 As she who in some village-child unknown, With rustic grace and fantasy bedeck’d And in her simple loveliness alone, A sister finds;–and the long years’ neglect Effaces with warm love and nursing care, … Continue reading
A Summer Evening’s Meditation (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
‘TIS past! The sultry tyrant of the southHas spent his short-liv’d rage; more grateful hoursMove silent on; the skies no more repel The dazzled sight, but with mild maiden beamsOf temper’d light, invite the cherish’d eyeTo wander o’er their sphere; … Continue reading
The Origin Of Song Writing (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
WHEN Cupid, wanton boy, was young,His wings unfledg’d, and rude his tongue, He loiter’d in Arcadian bowers,And hid his bow in wreaths of flowers;Or pierc’d some fond unguarded heart,With now and then a random dart;But heroes scorned the idle boy,And … Continue reading
A Preaching From A Spanish Ballad (George Meredith Poems)
I Ladies who in chains of wedlockChafe at an unequal yoke,Not to nightingales give hearing;Better this, the raven’s croak. II Down the Prado strolled my seigneur,Arm at lordly bow on hip,Fingers trimming his moustachios,Eyes for pirate fellowship. III Home sat … Continue reading
The Virtues. An Ode. (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
WHAT angel forms, attired in robes of light,Pour their effulgence on my raptur’d sight?Th’ ethereal VIRTUES! lo! the radiant band!Appal’d, from Gallia’s guilt-stain’d land,Precipitate they fly,To seek retreat beneath a purer sky:Banish’d from that devoted shore,By yon false phantom’s ghastly … Continue reading
The Pilgrimage (George Herbert Poems)
I travell’d on, seeing the hill, where lay My expectation. A long it was and weary way: The gloomy cave of DesperationI left on th’ one, and … Continue reading
Milton–December 9, 1608: December 9, 1908 (George Meredith Poems)
What splendour of imperial station man,The Tree of Life, may reach when, rooted fast,His branching stem points way to upper airAnd skyward still aspires, we see in himWho sang for us the Archangelical host,Made Morning, by old Darkness urged to … Continue reading
Suffer Little Children, And Forbid Them Not, To Come Unto Me (Charles Lamb Poems)
To Jesus our Saviour some parents presented Their children—what fears and what hopes they must feel!When this the disciples would fain have prevented, Our Saviour reproved their unseasonable zeal. Not only free leave to come to him was given But … Continue reading
The Teaching Of Cornelius (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
WHO holds us heart to heart it mattereth not, If Thou, who holdest all within thy hand, Wilt say, “Well done!” upon our outward lot Thy blessing oft is burnt with fiery brand. If we, thus humbly reading, clasp it … Continue reading
The Crucifixion (Elizabeth Beverley Poems)
“Hark? what mean those piercing cries? Say? what means that dreadful groan?- ‘Tis the GOD of Nature dies? To make a fall’n world his own. See the great Almighty LORD Suff’ring on the tree-expire? JESU, GOD?-incarnate WORD? Dies to free … Continue reading