Doing Good (John Bowring Poems)
If the hours of life are fleeting, Let those hours be well employed!Working, resting, parting, meeting, Life was given to be enjoyed.And ...
Poems about vicissitude (21 Poems)
Pleasures of Memory (John Bowring Poems)
The old have had their days of hope,They worked as through a telescope, On years to come;—which came and fled,But left ...
Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever: Book XII. – The Many Mansions (Edward Henry Bickersteth Poems)
Yet once more, Harp of prophecy, once moreFondly I come soliciting thine aid;By whose celestial minstrelsy inspiredThe saintly Enoch walk'd ...
The Emigrants: Book II (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
Alma Venus! [Excerpt] (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,Or grave stars cluster for their midnight ...
A Poem On The Last Day – Book I (Edward Young Poems)
While others sing the fortune of the great, Empire and arms, and all the pomp of state; With Britain's hero ...
Hope. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Hope is the shadowy essence of a wish, A fond desire which floats before our eyes;With lurid aberration, feverish,-- We ...
Life’s Undercurrent. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Within the precincts of a hospital, I wandered in a sympathetic mood;Where face to face with wormwood and with gall, ...
Life’s Pilgrimage (Alfred Gibbs Campbell Poems)
Earth hath no true reality;Its brightest gems doth time corrode;Decay is marked on all we see,And Life is but a ...
To The Sinking Sun (Francis Thompson Poems)
How graciously thou wear'st the yoke Of use that does not fail!The grasses, like an anchored smoke, Ride in the ...
Trumbull Stickney (George Cabot Lodge Poems)
"IIN silence, solitude and stern surmise His faith was tried and proved commensurate With life and death. The ...
House Of Bondage (Francis Thompson Poems)
IWhen I perceive Love's heavenly reaping stillRegard perforce the clouds' vicissitude,That the fixed spirit loves not when it will,But craves ...
Sonnet VI: The Kiss (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
What smouldering senses in death's sick delayOr seizure of malign vicissitudeCan rob this body of honour, or denudeThis soul of ...
THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
L'eternite est une pendule, dont le balancier dit et redit sans cesse ces deux mots seulement dans le silence des ...
The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
After all Birds have been investigated and laid aside — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
After all Birds have been investigated and laid aside -- Nature imparts the little Blue-Bird -- assured Her conscientious Voice ...
The Emigrants: Book II (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
On The Death Of A Favourite Old Spaniel (Robert Southey Poems)
And they have drown'd thee then at last! poor Phillis! The burthen of old age was heavy on thee. And ...
EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women) (Alexander Pope Poems)
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 07 (John Milton Poems)
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...