Mother Bombie (John Lyly Poems)
Sil.O Cupid ! Monarch ouer Kings,Wherefore hast thou feete and wings?It is to shew how swift thou art,When thou wound'st ...
Poems about prating (21 Poems)
By A Person Of Quality. (Mary Barber Poems)
Remote from Strife, from urban Throngs, and Noise.Here dwells my Soul amidst domestic Joys:No ratling Coaches serious Thoughts annoy;Nor busy ...
Life And I Are Fellows (Patience Worth Poems)
Life and I are fellows;To me life is no stern companion,I cannot see his frown,I rub elbows with him.I know ...
Faith (Patience Worth Poems)
Faith be the shadow of love,Cleaved unto love's side for aye.Love be born with nay whyUpon its lips and likewise ...
The Parish Register – Part II: Marriages (George Crabbe Poems)
DISPOSED to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay;There's great advantage in a small delay:Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise ...
The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
The Wish (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
Our English Homer in his Rhimes,Asserts our Notions change with Times;This Maxim granted, makes me doubt,When some few Years are ...
Sister Songs-An Offering To Two Sisters – Part The First (Francis Thompson Poems)
The leaves dance, the leaves sing,The leaves dance in the breath of the Spring.I bid them dance,I bid them sing,For ...
Rose of Aberlone (Brainerd Currie Poems)
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
To An Old Schoolfellow (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Der Schulfreund wird nie vergessen."—Jean PaulYour Edinburgh is well enough— Stone picture of the past and present;But we have in ...
The Old Year (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
O good old Year! this night's your last.And must you go? With you I've passedSome days that bear revision.For these ...
Written On The Day Of My Aunt’s Funeral (Charles Lamb Poems)
Thou too art dead, ———! very kindHast thou been to me in my childish days,Thou best good creature. I have ...
The Truth About Horace (Eugene Field Poems)
It is very aggravating To hear the solemn pratingOf the fossils who are statingThat old Horace was a prude; When ...
In Imitation of E. of Dorset : Artemisia (Alexander Pope Poems)
Tho' Artemisia talks, by fits, Of councils, classics, fathers, wits;Reads Malbranche, Boyle, and Locke;Yet in some things methinks she fails,'Twere ...
WILDFLOWERS AND HOTHOUSE-PLANTS (Henrik Ibsen Poem)
"GOOD Heavens, man, what a freak of taste! What blindness to form and feature! The girl's no beauty, and might ...
The Truth About hHorace (Eugene Field Poem)
It is very aggravating To hear the solemn prating Of the fossils who are stating That old Horace was a ...
Your Hay It Is Mow’d, And Your Corn Is Reap’d (John Dryden Poems)
(Comus.) Your hay it is mow'd, and your corn is reap'd; Your barns will be full, and your hovels heap'd: ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
The Country Clown (John Trumbull Poems)
Bred in distant woods, the clown Brings all his country airs to town; The odd address, with awkward grace, That ...
The Clinging Vine (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"Be calm? And was I frantic? You'll have me laughing soon. I'm calm as this Atlantic, And quiet as the ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...