The Authors: A Satire (Richard Savage Poems)
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
Poems about allegory (20 Poems)
Burns (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
ON RECEIVING A SPRIG OF HEATHER IN BLOSSOM.No more these simple flowers belongTo Scottish maid and lover;Sown in the common ...
Love, Joy, And Pleasure (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
AN ALLEGORY,(Written in her fifteenth year)The night was calm, the sky serene,The sea a mirror display'd,On its bosom the twinkling ...
Enigma (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
The noblest name in Allegory's page,The hand that traced inexorable rage;A pleasing moralist whose page refined,Displays the deepest knowledge of ...
The Golden Days Of Old Romance (John Russell Hayes Poems)
I love the golden days of old romanceThat live for us in legend and in story,The Age of Gold when ...
The Moral Of History (John Jay Chapman Poems)
ALL is one issue, every skirmish tells,And war is but the picture in the story;The plot's below: from time to ...
The Woods Of Westermain (George Meredith Poems)
IEnter these enchanted woods,You who dare.Nothing harms beneath the leavesMore than waves a swimmer cleaves.Toss your heart up with the ...
The Journey (Charles Churchill Poems)
Some of my friends (for friends I must suppose All, who, not daring to appear my foes, Feign great ...
Ode to Salvador Dali (Federico Garcia Lorca Poems)
A rose in the high garden you desire.A wheel in the pure syntax of steel.The mountain stripped bare of Impressionist ...
Hypocrite Auteur (Archibald MacLeish Poems)
mon semblable, mon fr?re(1) Our epoch takes a voluptuous satisfaction In that perspective of the action Which pictures us inhabiting ...
Imperial Adam (A D Hope Poems)
Imperial Adam, naked in the dew,Felt his brown flanks and found the rib was gonePuzzled he turned and saw where, ...
Myths (Edwin Exon Poems)
Always in Myth and Allegory, shine The Highest and the Holiest, at the dawn Of their appearing. Ever, the Divine ...
Pruning Time (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Seasons of life, of the church of nature, metaphor and allegory parable and tale, woven with wisdom with truth, for ...
Peter was Peter (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A name, oh what a name his name to carry, into the world into the sanctuary, to the pulpit Is ...
Dreams (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Slide, fall into the realm the inky stillness after restless days Wake, fitfully Scraps of memory or Technicolor show Prescience ...
The best days of my life (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
What is it about Bryan Adams and his song 'Summer of 69'? Why do the lyrics linger? Was it 90° ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Daffy Duck In Hollywood (John Ashbery Poem)
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about ...
Sonnet XXVIII: You That With Allegory’s Curious Frame (Sir Philip Sidney Poems)
You that with allegory's curious frame, Of others' children changelings use to make, With me those pains for God's sake ...
Ode To Meaning (Robert Pinsky Poems)
Dire one and desired one, Savior, sentencer-- In an old allegory you would carry A chained alphabet of tokens: Ankh ...