The Duellist – Book III (Charles Churchill Poems)
Ah me! what mighty perils waitThe man who meddles with a state,Whether to strengthen, or oppose!False are his friends, and ...
Poems about contrives (21 Poems)
Tale XIV (George Crabbe Poems)
THE STRUGGLES OF CONSCIENCE.A serious Toyman in the city dwelt,Who much concern for his religion felt;Reading, he changed his tenets, ...
Tale VII (George Crabbe Poems)
THE WIDOW'S TALE.To Farmer Moss, in Langar Vale, came down,His only daughter, from her school in town;A tender, timid maid! ...
How Polly Paid For Her Keep (Barcroft Henry Boake Poems)
Do I know Polly Brown? Do I know her? Why, damme, You ...
To Count Carlo Pepoli (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
This wearisome and this distressing sleep That we call life, O how dost thou support, My Pepoli? With what hopes ...
Assurance (George Herbert Poems)
O Spitefull bitter thought!Bitterly spitefull thought! Couldst thou inventSo high a torture? Is ...
Nun Snow (Alfred Kreymborg Poems)
A Pantomime of BeadsEarth VoiceISsheThoughtless of life,A lover of imminent death,Nun SnowTouching her strings of white beads?Is it her unseen ...
Poem For A Christmas Broadcast (Anne Ridler Poems)
Woman s VoicePerhaps you find the angel most improbable?It spoke to men asleep, their minds ajarFor once to admit the ...
The Fine Fat Saucy Chinaman (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
I'll sing a little ditty, whichI trust you'll not think flat.Of a fine fat saucy ChinamanWho lives on Ballarat,Whose pigtail ...
Geelong (C J Dennis Poems)
The earliest lady in the land, Her pride of caste is high.Where blue Corio's gleaming strand Dream 'neath a peaceful ...
The Clyster (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
Belphegor Addressed To Miss De Chammelay (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
No Passenger was known to flee — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
No Passenger was known to flee -- That lodged a night in memory -- That wily -- subterranean Inn Contrives ...
The Task: Book I, The Sofa (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
The Nightingale’s Nest (John Clare Poems)
Up this green woodland-ride let's softly rove, And list the nightingale- she dwells just here. Hush ! let the wood-gate ...
Psalm 41 (Isaac Watts Poems)
v.1-8 L. M. Charity to the poor; or, Pity to the afflicted. Blest is the man whose bowels move, And ...
A Lover’s Complaint (William Shakespeare Poems)
FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale, My spirits to attend this ...
The Joyous Malingerer (Ogden Nash Poems)
Who is the happy husband? Why, indeed, 'Tis he who's useless in the time of need; Who, asked to unclasp ...
A Tribute to Henry M. Stanley (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of Dundee, The great African explorer Henry M Stanley, Who went out to Africa ...
The Symphony (Sidney Lanier Poems)
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...