The Scourge of Villainy (John Marston Poems)
In serious jest, and jesting seriousness, I strive to scourge polluting beastliness; I invocate no Delian deity, No sacred offspring of Mnemosyne; I pray ...
Poems about villainy (21 Poems)
Some Rubaiyat (Mohammed Said Sarmad Poems)
1Thou hast made thyself famous in winning hearts,Also in the art of friendship and affection,Those eyes which are vigilant are ...
The Wynnes Of Wynhavod. Act III (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
Scene I.A Garden on the banks of the Thames, at Fulham, behind the Wynnes' lodgings. Time, evening. Moon and starlight. ...
Pelleas And Ettarre (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gapLeft by the Holy Quest; and as he satIn hall at old ...
Balin and Balan (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
Pellam the King, who held and lost with LotIn that first war, and had his realm restoredBut rendered tributary, failed ...
The Borough. Letter VI: Professions–Law (George Crabbe Poems)
TRADES and Professions--these are themes the Muse,Left to her freedom, would forbear to choose;But to our Borough they in truth ...
Valentine and Ursine (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Part the First.When Flora 'gins to decke the fieldsWith colours fresh and fine,Then holy clerkes their mattins sing To good ...
Fragments From “The Brigand.” A Poem. Canto II (Albert Pike Poems)
The silver horn of the advancing tide Had ploughed its highest furrow in the sand, And was retiring. Noon, with ...
Titus Andronicus’s (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
The Lamentable and Tragical History of Titus Adronicus, &c.You noble minds, and famous martiall wights,That in defence of native country ...
Humanity’s Stream. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
I stood upon a crowded thoroughfare,Within a city's confines, where were metAll classes and conditions, and surveyed,From a secluded niche ...
The Divine Mission (Alfred Gibbs Campbell Poems)
When on the earth had settled moral night,And darkness reigned where once shone Sinai's light;When superstitious rites usurped the placeWhere ...
Interview By A Guggenheim Recipient (Charles Bukowski Poems)
this South American up here on a Gugg walked in with his whore and she sat on the edge of ...
Speculum Tuscanismi (Gabriel Harvey Poems)
Since Galatea came in, and Tuscanism gan usurp,Vanity above all: villainy next her, stateliness EmpressNo man but minion, stout, lout, ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Balin and Balan (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot In that first war, and had his realm restored But rendered ...
Geraint And Enid (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...
Pelleas And Ettarre (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
The Passing of Gundagai (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
"I'll introduce a friend!" he said, "And if you've got a vacant pen You'd better take him in the shed ...
Old Schooldays (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Awake, of Muse, the echoes of a day Long past, the ghosts of mem'ries manifold -- Youth's memories that once ...