On Sensibility.- A Fragment. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
OH Sensibility, thou dangerous gift,Which, like Pandora's fabled box, containsCompounded good and ill, the fountain headAnd source whence flow the ...
Poems about untoward (21 Poems)
Winifred Waters (John Daniel Logan Poems)
WINIFRED WATERS, when I look on you now,-With the sweet peace of God on your beautiful browAs you lie lily-white ...
“I buried love and doomed myself to be…” (Konstantin Simonov Poems)
I buried love and doomed myself to beIts monument. Above the recent graveUpon myself I carved a dozen lines,Beyond my ...
A Poem On The Fugitive Slave Law (Elymas Payson Rogers Poems)
Law! what is law? The wise and sage, Of every clime and every age, In this most cordially unite, That ...
The Rhyme of Joyous Garde (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Through the lattice rushes the south wind, dense With fumes of the flowery frankincense From hawthorn blossoming thickly; And gold ...
The Vanities Of Life (Anonymous British Poems)
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity--SOLOMON.What are life's joys and gains?What pleasures crowd its ways,That man should take such painsTo ...
How Canst Thou Doubt? (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
ALAS! for that voice which the envoy of Heaven, In accents celestial, pour'd sweet on the ear,That when the ...
The Surviving Thought (David James Scott Poems)
How long, ah me! this weary heart hath strivenWith vanity, and with a wild desire!How long, and yet how long, ...
At The Close Of The Canvass (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
'Twas a Venerable Person, whom I met one Sunday morning,All appareled as a prophet of a melancholy sect;And in a ...
Filipinos, Remember Us (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
You, if it fall to you to take From us the lamp that Athens gave, Fill it with mercy for ...
Polyphemus (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
Twas a sick young man with a face ungayAnd an eye that was all alone;And he shook his head in ...
Hypochondria (Charles Lamb Poems)
By myself walking,To myself talking,When as I ruminateOn my untoward fate,Scarcely seem IAlone sufficiently,Black thoughts continuallyCrowding my privacy;They come unbidden,Like ...
Margaret Fuller Slack (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I would have been as great as George EliotBut for an untoward fate.For look at the photograph of me made ...
Boaz Asleep (Victor Hugo Poem)
Boaz, overcome with weariness, by torchlight made his pallet on the threshing floor where all day he had worked, and ...
De Profundis (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I "Percussus sum sicut foenum, et aruit cor meum." - Ps. ci Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring ...
Old Deuteronomy (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
High from the earth I heard a bird, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
High from the earth I heard a bird, He trod upon the trees As he esteemed them trifles, And then ...
In Reference to Her Children (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
Resolution And Independence (William Wordsworth Poems)
I There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now ...
Margaret Fuller Slack (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I would have been as great as George Eliot But for an untoward fate. For look at the photograph of ...