Ode To Connecticut River (Josias Lyndon Arnold Poems)
On thy lov'd banks, sweet river, freeFrom wordly care and vanity,I could my every hour confine,And think true happiness was ...
Poems about mistresses (20 Poems)
Duke Nicholas Radvila The Black, Duke Nicholas Radvila The Red (Judita Vaiciunaite Poems)
We used you like the queen in chess or the queen in cards.On a velvet pillow we presented you with ...
The Saturday Night Song (Julian Tuwim Poems)
Hooray, the echo will resound throughout the wide square,When a sincere drunkard's song emanates from my throat;Tonight I'll be lapping ...
Verlaine (Norman MacLeod Poems)
Write a poem, dunderhead, That we may have new dresses(Is it not disgraceful how The old man takes caresses?)Take them to the ...
Phantasy (George Meredith Poems)
I Within a Temple of the Toes, Where twirled the passionate Wili, I saw full many a market rose, And ...
For: Kenneth Slessor (Douglas Alexander Stewart Poems)
Hang it all, Slessor, as Pound once said to Browning,Why have you sailed so untimely out on the waterTo vanish ...
LXI. Women affect vain and empty ways to please Men; Their true Ornament (Ellis Walker Poems)
When women once their dear Fourteen attain,They first our love and admiration gain;They mistresses are call'd, and now they find,That ...
The Shadow (Amy Lowell Poem)
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
The School In August (Philip Larkin Poem)
The cloakroom pegs are empty now, And locked the classroom door, The hollow desks are lined with dust, And slow ...
The Pleasure of Princes (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
What pleasures have great princes? These: to know Themselves reputed mad with pride or power; To speak few words -- ...
TO BACCHUS: A CANTICLE (Robert Herrick Poem)
Whither dost thou hurry me, Bacchus, being full of thee? This way, that way, that way, this,-- Here and there ...
THE BAD SEASON MAKES THE POET SAD (Robert Herrick Poem)
Dull to myself, and almost dead to these, My many fresh and fragrant mistresses; Lost to all music now, since ...
UPON THE LOSS OF HIS MISTRESSES (Robert Herrick Poem)
I have lost, and lately, these Many dainty mistresses:-- Stately Julia, prime of all; Sapho next, a principal: Smooth Anthea, ...
The Magnificent (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
A Hymn To Christ At The Author’s Last Going Into Germany (John Donne Poems)
In what torn ship soever I embark, That ship shall be my emblem of thy Ark; What sea soever swallow ...
Holy Sonnet XIII: What If This Present Were The World’s Last Night? (John Donne Poems)
What if this present were the world's last night? Mark in my heart, O soul, where thou dost dwell, The ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
BALCONY (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
MOTHER of memories, mistress of mistresses, O thou, my pleasure, thou, all my desire, Thou shalt recall the beauty of ...
The Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxed’s Church (Robert Browning Poems)
Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews -- sons mine -- ah God, ...