Nature in Perfection (Richard Savage Poems)
Mater ait, tacta est dea Nomine Matris.Ovid--- Utinam modo dicere PossemCarmina digna dea, certe est dea carmine digna.VirgilLet hireling Poets ...
Poems about bacchanalian (21 Poems)
Love: An Elegy (Mark Akenside Poems)
Too much my heart of Beauty's power hath known,Too long to Love hath reason left her throne;Too long my genius ...
Dionysos (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
"O Dionysos! Dionysos! the ivy-crowned! O let me sing thy triumph ere I die!" Within my sleep a Maenad came to me: A ...
The Pyres (Hermann Hagedorn Poems)
Pyres in the night, in the night! And the roaring yellow and red.Trooper, trooper, why so white? We are out to gather ...
The Foreign Drunk (Henry Lawson Poems)
When you get tight in foreign lands You never need go slinking,No female neighbours lift their hands And say "The brute!-he's drinking!"No ...
To Bacchus (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
IS it the purple grape that throwsA lustre on the sparkling eye ?Is it the nectar draught that flowsUpon the ...
Maypole A La Mode (Jewell Miller Poems)
Construction sets a mighty maypole upCloud-touching tip, base held in granite cup.Instead of romping girls and shouting boys,Damned drilling din ...
“Bring me the flowing cup, dear boy !” (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
Bring me the flowing cup, dear boy !And bring it full; for IMust taste the grateful liquid joy,And bid dull ...
The Vow Of The Reclaimed (John Pierpont Poems)
Let others quaff the ruby wine,I'll drink from gushing springs,Nor bow again at folly's shrine,For misery it brings.I'll seek no ...
The Spagnoletto. Act III (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Act III.SCENE I. The studio of the Spagnoletto. RIBERA before his canvas. LUCA in attendance.RIBERA (laying aside his brush).So! I ...
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 ...
Inebriety (George Crabbe Poems)
The mighty spirit, and its power, which stainsThe bloodless cheek, and vivifies the brains,I sing. Say, ye, its fiery vot'ries ...
The Lass Of Fair Wone (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
From the German of B?rger. BESIDE the parson's dusky bow'r Why strays a troubl'd sprite,That dimly shines in ...
A Reading Of Life–The Test Of Manhood (George Meredith Poems)
Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks,An army issues out of wilderness,With battle plucking round its ragged flanks;Obstruction in ...
Bacchus [Excerpt] (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I am the gift of tongues that flameInspired resolve above:I wither the weeds of paltry aimThat choke the growth of ...
October (Donald Marquis Poems)
CEASE to call him sad and sober, Merriest of months, October! Patron of the bursting bins, Reveler in wayside inns, ...
The Drunkard (Charles Harpur Poems)
Disease was lurking in the cup!Disastrous folly mantling there!For promised joys he quaffed it up-And his were ruin and despair!Yes-so ...
To Be Quite Frank (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
IN CHLORINHorace: Book III, Ode 15."_Uxor pauperis Ibyci_--"Your conduct, naughty Chloris, isNot just exactly Horace's Ideal of a lady At ...
THE APPARITION OF HIS, MISTRESS,CALLING HIM TO ELYSIUM (Robert Herrick Poem)
THE APPARITION OF HIS, MISTRESS, CALLING HIM TO ELYSIUM DESUNT NONNULLA-- Come then, and like two doves with silvery wings, ...
TWO LOVERS (Bhaskar Roy Barman Poem)
Bhaskar Roy Barman Once on an evening in a desolate place far from the madding crowds eternal strife I stood ...
The Ballad Of Touch-The-Button Nell (Robert William Service Poems)
Beyond the Rocking Bridge it lies, the burg of evil fame, The huts where hive and swarm and thrive the ...