The Summary of Wisedome (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
Dearly beloved Countrymen and Friends, Accept the verse an half--starv'd Poet sends: Who scant of paper in these needy times, ...
O ponder well, ye serving Maids, The doleful Tale I sing: Learn how disastrous 'tis to wear Too high your ...
To Churchill's Sermons. The manuscript of this unfinished poem was found among the few papers Churchill left behind ...
It was the fairest and the sweetest scene--The freshest, sunniest, smiling land that e'erHeld o'er the waves its arms of ...
Childhood, sweet and sunny childhood, With its careless, thoughtless air, Like the verdant, tangled ...
FOR HIS SAFE RETURN FROM THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SCOTS. Great is thy Charge, O North! be wise and ...
All through the sultry hours of June,From morning blithe to golden noon,And till the star of evening climbsThe gray-blue East, ...
If he whose bosom with no transport swellsIn vernal airs, and hours, commits the crimeOf sullenness to Nature; 'gainst the ...
WHen first Alexis did in Verse delight, His Muse in Low, but Graceful Numbers walk't, And now and then a ...
In Memory of Dennis Turner, 1946-1984 A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop, and ...
In Memory of Dennis Turner, 1946-1984 A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop, and ...
Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of Crime and Punishment." And ...
Something we never remember in that moment of anger when someone does us wrong no matter how slight or great ...
Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye That thou consumest thyself in single life? Ah! if thou issueless ...
Those petty wrongs that liberty commits, When I am sometime absent from thy heart, Thy beauty and thy years full ...
Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits When I am sometime absent from thy heart, Thy beauty and thy years full ...
Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye, That thou consum'st thy self in single life? Ah, if thou ...
If I weep, if I come with excuses, my beloved puts cotton wool in his ears. Every cruelty which he ...
I bade my Lady think what she might mean. Know I my meaning, I? Can I love one, And yet ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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