The Vision Of Piers Plowman – Part 19 (William Langland Poems)
Thus I awaked and wroot what I hadde ydremed,And dighte me derely, and dide me to chirche,To here holly the ...
Poems about forswore (20 Poems)
The Letter of Cupid (Thomas Hoccleve Poems)
Cupido, unto whos commandementThe gentil kinrede of goddes on hyAnd peple infernal been obedient,And the mortel folk seruen bisyly,Of goddesse ...
The Apollyonists – Canto 1 (Phineas Fletcher Poems)
IOf men, nay beasts; worse, monsters; worst of all,Incarnate fiends, English Italianate;Of priests, O no! mass-priests, priests-cannibal,Who make their Maker, ...
Hudibras – The Lady’s Answer to The Knight (Samuel Butler Poems)
That you're a beast, and turn'd to grass,Is no strange news, nor ever was;At least to me, who once you ...
An Heroic Epistle of Hudibras To His Lady (Samuel Butler Poems)
I who was once as great as Caesar,Am now reduc'd to Nebuchadnezzar;And from as fam'd a conquerorAs ever took degree ...
The Vision Of Piers Plowman – Part 09 (William Langland Poems)
'Sire Dowel dwelleth,' quod Wit, 'noght a day hennesIn a castel that Kynde made of foure kynnes thynges.Of erthe and ...
Ah! Would I Could Forget (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
The whispering water rocks the reeds,And, murmuring softly, laps the weeds;And nurses there the falsest bloomThat ever wrought a lover's ...
A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet V (Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Poems)
The physical world itself is a fair thingFor who has eyes to see or ears to hear.To--day I fled on ...
A Pilgrim (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
ACROSS the trodden continent of years To shrines of long ago,My heart, a hooded pilgrim, turns with tears-- For could I knowThat ...
Hero And Leander. The Fourth Sestiad (George Chapman Poems)
Now from Leander's place she rose, and found Her hair and rent robe scatter'd on the ground; Which ...
The Dance To Death. Act III (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT III. A cell in the Wartburg Monastery. Enter PRIOR PEPPERCORN with the casket.PRIOR.So! Glittering shell where doubtless shines concealedAn ...
Grand Chorus Of Birds (Aristophanes Poems)
Come on then, ye dwellers by nature in darkness, and like to the leaves' generations, ...
A Mediaeval Romance (Frank Sidgwick Poems)
Johannes, son of Gilbert, born At Warren Magna, com. Wigorn., Till one-and-twenty simple John, Cast his eyes on Alison ; ...
Ballade For The Funeral Of The Last Of The Joyous Poets (Edmund William Gosse Poems)
ONE ballade more before we say good-night, O dying Muse, one mournful ballade more! Then let the new men fall ...
The Kaiser And God (Barry Pain Poems)
Led by Wilhelm, as you tell,God has done extremely well;You with patronizing nodShow that you approve of God.Kaiser, face a ...
Recompense (Constance Naden Poems)
THE wine-flushed monarch slept--but in his ear An angel breathed--"Repent; or choose the flame Quenchless." In dread he woke, but ...
Hymn Before Action (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The earth is full of anger, The seas are dark with wrath, The Nations in their harness Go up against ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
230. The Fête Champêtre (Robert Burns Poems)
O WHA will to Saint Stephen's House, To do our errands there, man? O wha will to Saint Stephen's House ...