Poems about unstain (21 Poems)
Willelmus Van Nassau (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
Yes! we confess it! ‘mong the sons of Fate, Earth’s great ones, thou art great!As that tall peak which from her silver cone Of maiden snow unstain’dAll but the bravest scares, and reigns alone In glacier isolation: Thus wert thou, … Continue reading
Giorgione And Violante (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
I WAS a painter; if I lov’d Her glorious face too much, It was that thought had carv’d its lines,– I worshipp’d it as such: Hour by hour I gaz’d on her, And trembled at her touch. The earnest fire … Continue reading
The Queen’s Visit To Ireland IV (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
So let a ‘favourable speed’ assistThe keel that bears her yacht across the sea,Let there no spindrift of the salt spray be,Let night sleep sweetly, let wild waves be whist,The calm unstain’d by any wreath of mist.On land be kindred … Continue reading
THE BEAUTEOUS FLOWER. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
SONG OF THE IMPRISONED COUNT. COUNT. I KNOW a flower of beauty rare, Ah, how I hold it dear! To seek it I would fain repair, Were I not prison’d here. My sorrow sore oppresses me, For when I was … Continue reading
403. The Soldier’s Return: A Ballad (Robert Burns Poems)
WHEN wild war’s deadly blast was blawn, And gentle peace returning, Wi’ mony a sweet babe fatherless, And mony a widow mourning; I left the lines and tented field, Where lang I’d been a lodger, My humble knapsack a’ my … Continue reading
To a Lock of Hair (Sir Walter Scott Poems)
Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright As in that well – remember’d night When first thy mystic braid was wove, And first my Agnes whisper’d love. Since then how often hast thou prest The torrid zone of this … Continue reading
Lines to the memory of Richard Boyle, Esq. (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
“Fate snatch’d him early to the pitying sky.” – POPE. IF WORTH, too early to the grave consign’d, Can claim the pitying tear, or touch the mind ? If manly sentiments unstain’d by art, Could waken FRIENDSHIP, or delight the … Continue reading
The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C. (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining alwayes, disappears. In the Weak Circles of increasing Years; And his short Tumults of themselves Compose, While flowing Time above … Continue reading
Sonnet 10 (John Milton Poems)
X Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of Englands Counsel, and her Treasury, Who liv’d in both, unstain’d with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till the sad breaking of that Parlament Broke him, … Continue reading
The Hymn (John Milton Poems)
I It was the Winter wilde, While the Heav’n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw to him Had doff’t her gawdy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize: It was no season then for … Continue reading