Vanity of Vanities (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
A Song of EmptinessTo Fill up the Empty Pages FollowingVain, frail, short liv'd, and miserable Man,Learn what thou art when ...
Poems about immortalize (20 Poems)
Federic Douglass (Olivia Ward Bush-Banks Poems)
We would render fitting tribute,We would add to thy great fame,We would crown thee with due honorAnd immortalize thy name.Till ...
The Power of Art (George Santayana Poems)
Not human art, but living gods aloneCan fashion beauties that by changing live,—Her buds to spring, his fruits to autumn ...
Strange Captivity (Marya Zaturenska Poems)
Never will you departThough often cast away,Unburied in my heartWraithlike you stray.First, tenuous and thin,Then warmer, closer, deep,You pierce without, ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto II (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
Sentinel Songs (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
When falls the soldier brave, Dead at the feet of wrong,The poet sings and guards his grave With sentinels of ...
The Wounded Soldier (Christian Milne Poems)
A TALE. WHILE tyrants sit enthron'd in state,With trophies at their feet,And fawning courtiers round them wait,With adulation sweet!Informing them ...
Sir Stephen – Part II (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
NOW sad and slow with solemn paces,She wanders thro the castle's courts;Sighing as she the scene retraces,Where silence reigns, instead ...
The Cynic Of The Woods (Arthur Patchett Martin Poems)
Come I from busy haunts of men, With nature to commune, Which you, it seems, observe, and then Laugh out, ...
Enigma XXX. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
LET a Parisian prelate lead the vanOf worthies now advancing on the stage;Surely 'twas his own mind the pious manPourtray'd, ...
To A Thesaurus (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
O precious codex, volume, tome, Book, writing, compilation, workAttend the while I pen a pome, A jest, a jape, a ...
Sonnet XXXX (E C Esquire Poems)
Some bewties make a god of flatterie, And scorne Eliziums eternall types,Nathes, I abhorre such faithles prophesie, Least I be ...
Sonnet LXXXI: Memorial Thresholds (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
What place so strange,-though unreveal?d snowWith unimaginable fires ariseAt the earth's end,-what passion of surpriseLike frost-bound fire-girt scenes of long ...
Life (Edith Wharton Poems)
LIFE, like a marble block, is given to all,A blank, inchoate mass of years and days,Whence one with ardent chisel ...
On Receipt Of My Mother’s Picture (William Cowper Poems)
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
The Castaway (William Cowper Poem)
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
The Growth of Love (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Sonnet 75 (Edmund Spenser Poems)
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Agayne I wrote ...
Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote Her Name (Edmund Spenser Poems)
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...