Poems about fettering (18 Poems)
Queen Mab: Part IX. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
‘O happy Earth, reality of Heaven! To which those restless souls that ceaselessly Throng through the human universe, aspire! Thou consummation of all mortal hope! Thou glorious prize of blindly working will, Whose rays, diffused throughout all space and time, Verge to one point and blend … Continue reading
Spring: Sunday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
How shall I praise Thee, Lord of light?How all thy generous love declare?Though earth is veil’d in shades of night,Thy heaven is open to my prayer;That heaven, so bright with stars and suns—That glorious heaven, which knows no bound;Where the … Continue reading
Winter: Thursday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
The day is done;—the night comes calmly forth,Bringing sweet rest upon the wings of even:The golden wain rolls round the silent north,And earth is slumbering ‘neath the smiles of heaven.Like yon celestial torches, let me pressForward—and heavenward—on my destined way;Clad, … Continue reading
Invocation To The spirit Of Poesy (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Queen of all harmonious things,Dancing words, and speaking strings.Cowley. SPIRIT, or Power, or Spell, or whatsoe’erOf name beseems thee best, Ethereal Thing,That hast, like sleep, dominion strong and fair,Sealing the senses, with thy poppied wing,To shows external; prompt instead to … Continue reading
Autumn: Tuesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Stillness reigns—the vapours stealSlowly down the mountain’s brow,And the evening shadows veilNature’s face of brightness now;Flowers put off their glorious dress,All the morning smiles are fled,Earth is wrapt in lonelinessAnd the silence of the dead. Thus beneath the hand of … Continue reading
Clerical Oppressors (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
JUST God! and these are theyWho minister at thine altar, God of Right!Men who their hands with prayer and blessing layOn Israel’s Ark of light!What! preach, and kidnap men?Give thanks, and rob thy own afflicted poor?Talk of thy glorious liberty, … Continue reading
Cold (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
A mist that froze beneath the moon and shookMinutest frosty fire in the air.All night the wind was still as lonely CareWho sighs before her shivering ingle-nook.The face of Winter wore a crueler lookThan when he shakes the icicles from … Continue reading
The Light of Asia: Book the Second (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Now, when our Lord was come to eighteen years,The King commanded that there should be builtThree stately houses, one of hewn square beamsWith cedar lining, warm for winter days;One of veined marbles, cool for summer heat;And one of burned bricks, … Continue reading
Israel In Egypt. Book Tenth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
In that same moment when at Kohath’s gate Paused the bright phantom–chariot,–to the eye Of Sethos, riding moodily alone, Appeared a vision. Through thin–foliaged bush,– Light screen to veil him, feared he,–it shone out, A living glory. Human could it … Continue reading
The Painter Of Florence (Ernest Jones Poems)
THERE’S a mansion old ‘mid the hills of the west,So old, that men know not by whom it was built;But its pinnacles grey thro’ the forest hoarHave glimmered a thousand years and more;And many a tale of sorrow and guiltWould … Continue reading