Poems about plung (21 Poems)
The Olympic Girl (John Betjeman Poem)
The sort of girl I like to see Smiles down from her great height at me. She stands in strong, athletic pose And wrinkles her retrouss? nose. Is it distaste that makes her frown, So furious and freckled, down On … Continue reading
Niobe in Distress (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Apollo’s wrath to man the dreadful spring Of ills innum’rous, tuneful goddess, sing! Thou who did’st first th’ ideal pencil give, And taught’st the painter in his works to live, Inspire with glowing energy of thought, What Wilson painted, and … Continue reading
Sappho – A Monodrama (Robert Southey Poems)
Argument. To leap from the promontory of LEUCADIA was believed by the Greeks to be a remedy for hopeless love, if the self-devoted victim escaped with life. Artemisia lost her life in the dangerous experiment: and Sappho is said thus … Continue reading
The Hermit of Mont-Blanc (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
High, on the Solitude of Alpine Hills, O’er-topping the grand imag’ry of Nature, Where one eternal winter seem’d to reign; An HERMIT’S threshold, carpetted with moss, Diversified the Scene. Above the flakes Of silv’ry snow, full many a modest flow’r … Continue reading
The Negro Girl (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
I. Dark was the dawn, and o’er the deep The boist’rous whirlwinds blew; The Sea-bird wheel’d its circling sweep, And all was drear to view– When on the beach that binds the western shore The love-lorn ZELMA stood, list’ning the … Continue reading
The Shepherd’s Dog (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
I. A Shepherd’s Dog there was; and he Was faithful to his master’s will, For well he lov’d his company, Along the plain or up the hill; All Seasons were, to him, the same Beneath the Sun’s meridian flame; Or, … Continue reading
Lines inscribed to P. de Loutherbourg, Esq. R. A. (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
WHERE on the bosom of the foamy RHINE, In curling waves the rapid waters shine; Where tow’ring cliffs in awful grandeur rise, And midst the blue expanse embrace the skies; The wond’ring eye beholds yon craggy height, Ting’d with the … Continue reading
The Haunted Beach (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Upon a lonely desart Beach Where the white foam was scatter’d, A little shed uprear’d its head Though lofty Barks were shatter’d. The Sea-weeds gath’ring near the door, A sombre path display’d; And, all around, the deaf’ning roar, Re-echo’d on … Continue reading
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am’rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing — This Verse to C—, Muse! is due; This, ev’n Belinda may vouchfafe to view: Slight is the Subject, but not so … Continue reading
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2 (Alexander Pope Poems)
Not with more glories, in th’ etherial plain, The sun first rises o’er the purpled main, Than, issuing forth, the rival of his beams Launch’d on the bosom of the silver Thames. Fair nymphs, and well-dress’d youths around her shone, … Continue reading