Poems about ripest (21 Poems)
Lines (John Keats Poems)
1.Unfelt unheard, unseen, I’ve left my little queen,Her languid arms in silver slumber lying: Ah! through their nestling touch, Who — who could tell how muchThere is for madness — cruel, or complying? 2. Those faery lids how sleek! Those lips how moist! — they … Continue reading
Sonnet XXXIII. “Before the day the gleaming dawn doth flee:–” (Henry Alford Poems)
Before the day the gleaming dawn doth flee:– All yesternight I had a dreary dream: Methought I walked in desert Academe Among fallen pillars; and there came to me All in a dim half–twilight silently A very sad old man: his eyes were red With over–weeping: … Continue reading
Sonnet XI (Mary Wroth Poems)
Unprofitably pleasing, and unsound.When Heaven gave liberty to fraile dull earth,To bringe foorth plenty that in ills abound,Which ripest, yet doe bring a certaine dearth.A timelesse, and unseasonable birth,Planted in ill, in worse time springing found,Which Hemlocke like might feed … Continue reading
Loyalty (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
THY fortunes are too full. The gods do not. Sanction in mortals such felicity.Let all be broken off ‘twixt thee and me,Our antique friendship be, indeed, forgot,Lest I, partaking of thy happy lot,Should also share the certain miseryThe gods have … Continue reading
The Artists (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood’s prime,With unlocked senses, with a spirit freed,Of firmness mild,—though silent, rich in deed, The ripest son of Time,Through meekness great, through precepts strong,Through … Continue reading
A Lost Eden (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
[AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME.] You, dear, have heard me vaunt a memory The which by trodden paths will carry me Back into Eden, and you bid me tell How from its first blind innocence I fell; Give me … Continue reading
The Lay of Prince Marvan (Anonymous Irish Poems)
THERE is a sheeling hidden in the wood Unknown to all save God; An ancient ash-tree and a hazel-bush Their sheltering shade afford. Around the doorway’s heather-laden porch Wild honeysuckles twine; Prolific oaks, within the forest’s gloom, Shed mast … Continue reading
A Plea (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
I. O YE in all the world who love true Song, Be gentle to the singers who uplift In innocent delight a cradle gift- So often found to work them fatal wrong. Judge them not wholly as the tuneless throng, … Continue reading
The Master Mariner’s Song (Charles Harpur Poems)
(Outward Bound)AWAY, away she plunges With her white sails o’er her spread,Like the summer clouds that gather On some hill’s piny head;Still away she plunges rampant Like a lion roused to wrath,And the proud wave lies humbled … Continue reading
The Voyage Of The ‘Ophir’ (George Meredith Poems)
Men of our race, we send you oneRound whom Victoria’s holy nameIs halo from the sunken sunOf her grand Summer’s day aflame.The heart of your loved Motherland,To them she loves as her own blood,This Flower of Ocean bears in hand,Assured … Continue reading