Advice To Authors (Nicholas Boileau Despreaux Poems)
There is a kind of writer pleased with sound, Whose fustian head with clouds is compassed round-- No reason can disperse them ...
Poems about confute (21 Poems)
The Metaphysical Sectarian (Samuel Butler Poems)
HE was in Logick a great Critick,Profoundly skill'd in Analytick.He could distinguish, and divideA Hair 'twixt South and South-West side:On ...
Suum Cuique (John Henry Dryden Poems)
When lawless men their neighbours dispossess,The tenants they extirpate or oppress,And make rude havoc in the fruitful soil,Which the right ...
Nox Nocti Indicat Scientiam (William Habington Poems)
WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere;So rich with jewels hung, that Night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear: My soul her wings ...
Antipus (Luke Shepherd Poems)
As verily as Adam created firste his God So verily he tasted not, the fruite that was forbo As verily as Abell, ...
On Ink (Jonathan Swift Poems)
I am jet black, as you may see, The son of pitch and gloomy night:Yet all that know me will agree, I'm ...
To A Lady Who Was Libell’d. (Mary Barber Poems)
When Cynthia, Regent of the Tides,Pale in meridian Pride presides;A Sov'reign Pow'r the Goddess claimsO'er Seas, and Sea--supplying Streams;The River ...
Morning (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
THE skies were jaded, while the famous sun Slack of his office to confute the fogs Lay sick abed; but I, inured ...
A Mock Song (Richard Lovelace Poems)
I.Now Whitehall's in the grave,And our head is our slave,The bright pearl in his close shell of oyster;Now the miter ...
A Reading Of Life–With The Persuader (George Meredith Poems)
Who murmurs, hither, hither: whoWhere nought is audible so fills the ear?Where nought is visible can make appearA veil with ...
A Modern Apostle IV (Constance Naden Poems)
AT last they met, once, twice, and many times, Until she knew the secret of his being, That essence which ...
Puella Mea (E. E. Cummings Poems)
Harun Omar and Master Hafiz keep your dead beautiful ladies. Mine is a little lovelier than any of your ladies ...
After Thomas Kempis (George MacDonald Poems)
I.Who follows Jesus shall not walkIn darksome road with danger rife;But in his heart the Truth will talk,And on his ...
Introduction To The True-Born Englishman (Daniel Defoe Poems)
Speak, satire; for there's none can tell like thee Whether 'tis folly, pride, or knavery That makes this discontented ...
LXVIII. The difference between a Philosopher and another Man (Ellis Walker Poems)
When men of shallow heads themselves advanceAbove their usual pitch of ignorance,To talk of maxims and of rules; forbearTo interpose ...
Sonnet CCLXXIX: “Again I touch thee, vexing instrument” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Again I touch thee, vexing instrument, My hard and rarely-mastered Tuscan lute! Though faulty poets of thy worth are mute, ...
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Omar Khayyam Poem)
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
62. Epistle to William Simson (Robert Burns Poems)
I GAT your letter, winsome Willie; Wi' gratefu' heart I thank you brawlie; Tho' I maun say't, I wad be ...
M’Fingal – Canto II (John Trumbull Poems)
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...