Poems about regains (21 Poems)
Festus – II (Philip James Bailey Poems)
From heaven, soul–like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart’s state, empty and collapsed, the world’sVain pleasures leave us in, dissatisfied,Distraught, not penitent of them, in ourselves;Youth’s natural fitful unavailing struggleNote, ‘gainst temptation come unlooked for; power,Love, wisdom; who shall … Continue reading
Petrarch to Laura (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
“Ere such a soul regains its peaceful state,“How often must it love, how often hate,“How often hope, despair, resent, regret,“Conceal, disdain, do all things, but forget.” – POPE. YE silent haunts, ye dark embow’ring shades,Lone shaggy wilds and melancholy glades;Ye … Continue reading
Ocean: An Ode. Concluding with A wish.* (Edward Young Poems)
I.Sweet rural scene!Of flocks and green!At careless ease my limbs are spread;All nature stillBut yonder rill;And listening pines not o’er my head:IIIn prospect wide,The boundless tide!Waves cease to foam, and winds to roar;Without a breeze,The curling seasDance on, in measure, … Continue reading
Nature in Perfection (Richard Savage Poems)
Mater ait, tacta est dea Nomine Matris. Ovid — Utinam modo dicere PossemCarmina digna dea, certe est dea carmine digna. Virgil Let hireling Poets ply their venal Lays,The Great, the Pow’rful, and the Rich, to praise;Let Male-contents with Satire tickled … Continue reading
Rural Sports: A Georgic – Canto II. (John Gay Poems)
Now, sporting muse, draw in the flowing reins,Leave the clear streams a while for sunny plains.Should you the various arms and toils rehearse,And all the fisherman adorn thy verse;Should you the wide-encircling net display,And in its spacious arch enclose the … Continue reading
Epistle From Mrs. Yonge To Her Husband (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
Think not this paper comes with vain pretenseTo move your pity, or to mourn th’offense.Too well I know that hard obdurate heart;No softening mercy there will take my part,Nor can a woman’s arguments prevail,When even your patron’s wise example fails.But … Continue reading
To Charlotte (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
‘MIDST the noise of merriment and glee, ‘Midst full many a sorrow, many a care,Charlotte, I remember, we remember thee, How, at evening’s hour so fair,Thou a kindly hand didst reach us, When thou, in some happy place Where more … Continue reading
The Ransomed Drunkard’s Song (John Pierpont Poems)
Our days of noise and strife are past,We drink, we drink no more;We’re happy now, as kings at last,We drink, &c.Once guilt and shame enwrapp’d our frame,And scorn and laughter met our name;‘T is pleasant now, ‘t is pleasant now,We … Continue reading
The Shadow (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE pathway of his mortal life hath woundBeneath a shadow; just beyond it playThe genial breezes, and the cool brooks strayInto melodious gushings of sweet sound,Whilst ample floods of mellow sunshine fallLike a mute rain of rapture over all.Oft hath … Continue reading
Sunrise To The Slave (Hannah Flagg Gould Poems)
Sun, from thy bed in the sea,Each morning I see thee arise;But what is thy glory to me,Whose days are but measured by sighs?The fringe of thy robe I beholdSpread warm o’er the quivering wave,But feel all is cheerless and … Continue reading