Poems about knowst (11 Poems)
Orlando Furioso Canto 21 (Ludovico Ariosto Poems)
ARGUMENTZerbino for Gabrina, who a heartOf asp appears to bear, contends. O’erthrown,The Fleming falls upon the other part,Through cause of that despised and odious crone,He wounded sore, and writhing with the smart,The beldam’s treason to the prince makes known,Whose scorn … Continue reading
The Progres Of The Soule (John Donne Poems)
Wherein,BY OCCASION OFThe Religious death of MistrisE L I Z A B E T H D R V R Y,the incommodities of the Soulein this life, and her exaltation inthe next, are Contemplated.The Second Anniversarie. NOthing could make me sooner to … Continue reading
An Anatomy Of The World… (John Donne Poems)
AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD Wherein, by occasion of the untimely death ofMistress Elizabeth Drury, the frailty and the decay of this whole world isrepresented THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY When that rich soule which to her heauen is gone,Whom all doe … Continue reading
Twenty-Fourt (John Keble Poems)
Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,Nor e’en the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh? Each in his hidden sphere of joy … Continue reading
To Mr. Thomas Knevet Of Ashwell Thorpe (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Thou, that dost know thy Starres, canst calculate Thy geniture, and see to what end fate Did lend thee to the earth; auspicious be Thy favours, like thy Starres to mine and me: Thou knowst thy Starres (I say) for good men know Wherefore th’ … Continue reading
Aeneas to Dido (F L Poems)
?neas read what Dido wrote, And sent her this replie;And sought to cure the curelesse wound,Which Dido made to die. When my deare Countrey once most stately Troy Of Asie Queene of gods the handy worke,Mine eyes beheld the furious … Continue reading
The Spanish Lady’s Love (Anonymous British Poems)
Will you hear a Spanish lady,How shee wooed an English man?Garments gay as rich as may be,Decked with jewels she had on;Of a comely countenance and grace was she,And by birth and parentage of high degree. As his prisoner there … Continue reading
Beowulf (Episode 20) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
HROTHGAR spake, helmet-of-Scyldings: —“Ask not of pleasure! Pain is renewedto Danish folk. Dead is Aeschere,of Yrmenlaf the elder brother,my sage adviser and stay in council,shoulder-comrade in stress of fightwhen warriors clashed and we warded our heads,hewed the helm-boars; hero famedshould … Continue reading
The Glimpse (George Herbert Poems)
Whither away, Delight?Thou cam’st but now; wilt thou so soon depart, And give me up to night?For many weeks of lingring pain and smartBut one half hour of comfort for my heart? … Continue reading
Sonnet CLXXXVII: “Climb glory’s ladder to the topmost height” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Climb glory’s ladder to the topmost height, Rifle the treasures of the jealous land, In gold and purple take thy lonely stand, As lord of those whose slavehood is delight; What hast thou won but terrors in the night?– The … Continue reading