The Third Booke Of Qvodlibets (Robert Hayman Poems)
Iustice Epigram.Kings doe correct those that Rebellious are,And their good Subjects worthily preferre:Iust Epigrams reproue those that offend,And those that ...
Poems about aesop (21 Poems)
The Little Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold.Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold.To this the god of love ...
The Believer’s Principles : Chap. IV. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
The Believer's Principles concerning Faith and Sense.1. Of Faith and Sense natural.2. Of Faith and Sense spiritual.3. The harmony and ...
The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale,In which (though true, decorum must prevail),The subject from a picture shall arise,That by ...
Epilogue For Mr. Lee Lewes (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
HOLD! Prompter, hold! a word before your nonsense;I'd speak a word or two, to ease my conscience.My pride forbids it ever should ...
Rise, Britannia! (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Rise! ye gallant youth of Britain, Gather to your country's call,On your hearts her name is written, Rise to help her, one ...
The Future of the Classics (Henry Cuyler Bunner Poems)
No longer, 0 scholars, shall PlautusBe taught us.No more shall professors be partialTo Martial.No ninnyWill stop playing "shinney"For Pliny.Not even ...
Epigram 38 (Henry Parrot Poems)
Senibus voluisse satis. AEsop must yeeld when Rodope will ryde, And take no knowledge where, nor who's her guide, Yet could the wizard ...
Sotweed redivivus (Benjamin Colman Poems)
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
Hero And Leander: The Second Sestiad (Christopher Marlowe Poems)
By this, sad Hero, with love unacquainted,Viewing Leander's face, fell down and fainted.He kissed her and breathed life into her ...
The Peacock “At Home” (Catherine Ann Turner Dorset Poems)
The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feasts Excited the spleen of the Birds and the Beasts: For their mirth ...
Young Democracy (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
HARK! Young Democracy from sleep Our careless sentries raps: A backwash from the Future's deep Our Evil's foreland laps. Unknown, ...
The Supreme Test (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
Now it was clear to every ShadeThat some great wonder was before them,As Tom upon the palisadeEmptied, as fast as ...
Over Sir John’s Hill (Dylan Thomas Poems)
Over Sir John's hill,The hawk on fire hangs still;In a hoisted cloud, at drop of dusk, he pulls to his ...
The Pendulum (Dame Mary Gilmore DBE Poems)
IIn flight eternally, the pendulumMakes answer to a rhythm that no man knows,As backward, forward, calling "Rise and come",Scythe-like in ...
The Fabulists (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When all the world would keep a matter hid, Since Truth is seldom Friend to any crowd, Men write in ...
A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret’s (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poems)
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
The Iron Gate (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
WHERE is this patriarch you are kindly greeting? Not unfamiliar to my ear his name, Nor yet unknown to many ...
The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
The Beasts’ Confession (Jonathan Swift Poems)
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own Talents When beasts could speak (the learned say, They ...