Poems about lazar (18 Poems)
The Vision Of Piers Plowman – Part 18 (William Langland Poems)
Wolleward and weetshoed wente I forth afterAs a recchelees renk that [reccheth of no wo],And yede forth lik a lorel al my lif tyme,Til I weex wery of the world and wilned eft to slepe,And lened me to a Lenten … Continue reading
Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil: A Story From Boccaccio (John Keats Poems)
I.Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel!Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love’s eye!They could not in the self-same mansion dwellWithout some stir of heart, some malady;They could not sit at meals but feel how wellIt soothed each to be the other by;They … Continue reading
The Believer’s Soliloquy; Especially in Times of Desertion, Temptation, Affliction (Ralph Erskine Poems)
Sect. I.The deserted Believer longing for perfect freedom from sin. Ah mournful case! what can affordContentment, when an absent LordWill now his kindness neither proveBy smiles of grace, nor lines of love! What heart can joy, what soul can sing,While … Continue reading
The Life And Death Of Christ (Rees Prichard Poems)
LET ev’ry Christian who desires to know,What to his Saviour happen’d here below,Draw near — whilst I his Incarnation tell,And what, ’till death, unto our Lord befel. The word was God (e’er heav’n and earth were made,Or the foundations of … Continue reading
City Nightfall (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
SMOKE upon smoke; over the stone lipsOf chimneys bleeding, a darker fume descends.Night, the old nun, in voiceless pity bendsTo kiss corruption, so fabulous her pity.All drowns in night. Even the lazar drownsIn earth at last, and rises up afresh,Married … Continue reading
In The Carolina Woods (Padraic Colum Poems)
HERE you should lie, ye Kings of eld,Barbarossa, Boabdil,And Czar Lazar and Charlemagne,Arthur, Gaelic Finn-Here where themuffling Spanish mossesForests with forests fill! Not in a cavern where the windsTrample with battle-call,But in these woods where branch and branchFrom tree and … Continue reading
The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
TO David Garrick, Esq; ——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. Horace Preface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in this Essay he has retained some few of the old Words of Spenser, and adopted the Simplicity of … Continue reading
Pelleas And Ettarre (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gapLeft by the Holy Quest; and as he satIn hall at old Caerleon, the high doorsWere softly sundered, and through these a youth,Pelleas, and the sweet smell of the fieldsPast, and the … Continue reading
Sir Aldingar (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Our king he kept a false stewarde,Sir Aldingar they him call;A falser steward than he was one,Servde not in bower nor hall. He wolde have layne by our comelye queene,Her deere worshippe to betraye;Our queene she was a good woman,And … Continue reading
The Tramps Soliloquy (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Had I an envied name and purse of gold,My friends were more than all my wants twice told;Reduced to rags and born of title small,Vast tho’ my wants I have no friends at all.Anxiety consumes away my yearsAnd failure melts … Continue reading