Orlando Furioso Canto 21 (Ludovico Ariosto Poems)
ARGUMENTZerbino for Gabrina, who a heartOf asp appears to bear, contends. O'erthrown,The Fleming falls upon the other part,Through cause of ...
Adventure Poems (125 Poems)
Nymphidia, The Court Of Fairy (Michael Drayton Poems)
Old Chaucer doth of Thopas tell,Mad Rabelais of Pantagruel,A latter third of Dowsabell,With such poor trifles playing;Others the like have ...
Accolon Of Gaul: Part III (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The eve now came; and shadows cowled the way Like somber palmers, who have kneeled to pray Beside a wayside shrine, and ...
A Postscript unto the Reader (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
And now good Reader, I return againTo talk with thee, who hast been at the painTo read throughout, and heed ...
The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale,In which (though true, decorum must prevail),The subject from a picture shall arise,That by ...
The Rhemese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer:Of France the pride and honour I aver;The Holy Ampoule and delicious wine,Which ...
The Sinner and The Spider (John Bunyan Poems)
Sinner.What black, what ugly crawling thing art thou?Spider.I am a spider-------Sinner.A spider, ay, also a filthy creature.Spider.Not filthy as thyself ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XI: Hiawatha’s Wedding-Feas (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis,How the handsome YenadizzeDanced at Hiawatha's wedding;How the gentle Chibiabos,He the sweetest of musicians,Sang his songs ...
The Undying Splendour (John William Streets Poems)
I: ENGLANDThere lies an isle, a splendour of the seaHaunting as Babylon, illustrious as Rome:A race of Saxon freemen there ...
The Vengeance Of The Goddess Diana (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WHAT time the Norman ruled in SicilyAt that mild season when the vernal sea,O'erflitted by the zephyrs frolic wing,Dances and ...
Letter In Prose And Verse To Mrs. Bunbury (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
MADAM,I read your letter with all that allowance which critical candour couldrequire, but after all find so much to object ...
London Excursion (John Gould Fletcher Poems)
'BusGREAT walls of green,City that is afar.We gallop alongAlert and penetrating,Roads open about us,Housetops keep at a distance.Soft-curling tendrils,Swim backwards ...
Ode To Peace (John Duncombe Poems)
O'er desolated fields, where moveTo War's dread notes th' embattled host,O Peace! display thy olive-wreath,And bid the gentle voice of ...
Rouen (May Wedderburn Cannan Poems)
Early morning over Rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning,And the laughter of adventure and the steepness of the stair,And the dawn ...
The Tower of Doctrine – (from the History of Graunde Amoure) (Stephen Hawes Poems)
I loked about, and sawe a craggy rocheFarre in the west, neare to the element;And as I dyd then unto ...
Prologue To ‘Zobeide’ (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
IN these bold times, when Learning's sons exploreThe distant climate and the savage shore;When wise Astronomers to India steer,And quit ...
Offering (Kenneth Allott Poems)
I offer you my forests and my street-criesWith hands of double-patience under the clock,The antiseptic arguments and liesUttered before the ...
Lines Written October 23, 1836, A Few Hours After The Birth Of My First Child. (Henry Alford Poems)
Beautiful babe, I gaze upon thy face That bears no trace of earth: thy silk--soft cheek Gladdens me even to tears, and ...
The Path Of Faery (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IWhen dusk falls cool as a rained-on rose,And a tawny tower the twilight shows,With the crescent moon, the silver moon, ...
Home Thoughts From Abroad (John Buchan Poems)
Aifter the war, says the papers, they'll no be content at hame,The lads that hae feucht wi' death twae 'ear ...
Go Greyhound (Bob Hicok Poems)
A few hours after Des Moinesthe toilet overflowed.This wasn't the adventure it sounds.I sat with a man whose tattoosweighed more ...
From ‘The Song of Tiadatha ‘ (Owen Rutter Poems)
In this war the Hun has brought us,Some have learnt to make returns out,Some have learnt to write out orders.Some ...
Let Each Man Remember (Josephine Jacobsen Poems)
There is a terrible hour in the early morningWhen men awake and look on the day that bringsThe hateful adventure, ...
A Fragment (I) (Philip James Bailey Poems)
And Zetland where, betimes, some ruthless wightScaling the scaur, in sport the nests despoilsOf auk or gull; they, crowding clamorous ...
A Footnote to a Famous Lyric (Louise Imogen Guiney Poems)
TRUE love's own talisman, which hereShakespeare and Sidney failed to teach,A steel-and-velvet CavalierGave to our Saxon speech:Chief miracle of theme ...
The Parachutist (Jon Anderson Poems)
Then the air was perfect. And his descentto the white earth slowed.Fallingbecame an ability to rest--asthe released breathbelieves in life. ...
A Gallery To The Temple. Moderation (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Arts are th' Egyptian Handmaydes, to the Queene Of sciences: Moses the chiefe of Prophets, and of Men, Did these possesse: Our moderation must ...
Rocky Acres (Robert Graves Poems)
This is a wild land, country of my choice,With harsh craggy mountain, moor ample and bare.Seldom in these acres is ...
The Bullfrog Bell (Joseph Furphy Poems)
Now the truce of night brings respite to the sordid care of day,And in listlessness I pace the river side,Where ...
The Last Adventure (Jan Struther Poems)
You think yourselves the adventurous ones, you young ones,And us becalmed, torpid, our days uneventful,Our blood stagnant, our minds' antennae ...