Vicissitude a Blessing (John Bowring Poems)
There's good in all the various changes That man's mortality befall;And wheresoe'er the spirit ranges, Death, great reformer! levels all:The pomp that ...
Poems about borrows (21 Poems)
The Apology (Charles Churchill Poems)
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
The Dunciad: Book IV (Alexander Pope Poems)
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
The History Of Job, A Sacred Poem. The First Book. (Daniel Baker Poems)
You that at ev'ry trifling Cross repine, And tax the Ways of Providence Divine; You that to ev'ry soft Temptation ...
A Book of Dreams: Part II (George MacDonald Poems)
1.Lord of the world's undying youth, What joys are in thy might!What beauties of the inner truth, And of the ...
The Borough. Letter XIV: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Life Of Blaney (George Crabbe Poems)
OBSERVE that tall pale Veteran! what a lookOf shame and guilt!--who cannot read that book?Misery and mirth are blended in ...
Aneurin’s Harp (George Meredith Poems)
IPrince of Bards was old Aneurin;He the grand Gododin sang;All his numbers threw such fire in,Struck his harp so wild ...
The Coal-Fire (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
1.COME, we 'll light the parlor fire;Winter sets in sharp and rough.Wood is dear, but coal's provided,For three months, I ...
A Carrier Song (Francis Thompson Poems)
I.Since you have waned from us,Fairest of women!I am a darkened cageSong cannot hymn in.My songs have followed you,Like birds ...
After-Strain (Francis Thompson Poems)
Now with wan ray that other sun of Song Sets in the bleakening waters of my soul:One step, and lo! ...
Vanity Fair (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
In Vanity Fair, as we bow and smile,As we talk of the opera after the weather,As we chat of fashion ...
Clinging To Earth (Emily Chubbuck Judson Poems)
O Do not let me die! the earth is bright,And I am earthly, so I love it well;Though heaven is ...
Vlamertinghe (Edmund Blunden Poems)
'And all her silken flanks with garlands drest' - But we are coming to the sacrifice. Must those flowers who ...
Song (George Etherege Poems)
LADIES, though to your conquering eyes Love owes his chiefest victories, And borrows those bright arms from you With which ...
One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One need not be a Chamber -- to be Haunted -- One need not be a House -- The Brain ...
The Light and Glory of the Word (William Cowper Poem)
The Spirit breathes upon the word, And brings the truth to sight; Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. A ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Girl (Lisa Zaran Poems)
She said she collects pieces of sky, cuts holes out of it with silver scissors, bits of heaven she calls ...
Praise for Creation and Providence (Isaac Watts Poems)
I sing the mighty power of God, that made the mountains rise, That spread the flowing seas abroad, and built ...
Psalm 37 part 2 (Isaac Watts Poems)
v.16,21,26-31 C. M. Charity to the poor. Why do the wealthy wicked boast, And grow profanely bold? The meanest portion ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle, (Alexander Pope Poems)
Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, neu se Impediat verbis lassas onerantibus aures: Et sermone opus est modo tristi, saepe ...