Arguments Poems (320 Poems)
The Maid’s Alarm (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Argument: Little Miss MuffetSat on a tuffet,Eating of curds and whey.There came a black spider,Which sat down beside her,And frightened Miss Muffet away. Queen Guinevere at Almesbury abodeUnknown, after her shameful flight from court,And there the long days came and … Continue reading
The Press (John MacCreery Poems)
ARGUMENT. ADDRESS to the Shade of Guttemberg–State of man before the Invention of Letters–Efforts of Ambition to perpetuate his fame–Birth of Letters–Tribute to the memory of those who first applied themselves to study–Awaking of Science–Astronomy, Painting, Sculpture, Poetry, began to … Continue reading
The Eighth Olympic Ode Of Pindar (Henry James Pye Poems)
To Alcimedon, on his Olympic Victory; Timosthenes, on his Nemean Victory; and Melesias, their Preceptor. ARGUMENT. Though this is called an Olympic Ode, the Poet does not confine himself to Alcimedon, who won the Prize in those Games, but celebrates … Continue reading
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 01 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
THE ARGUMENT.The camp at great Jerusalem arrives:Clorinda gives them battle, in the breastOf fair Erminia Tancred’s love revives,He jousts with her unknown whom he loved best;Argant th’ adventurers of their guide deprives,With stately pomp they lay their Lord in chest:Godfrey … Continue reading
The Return From The Quest (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Argument: Hark! hark!The dogs do bark;Beggars are coming to town.Some in rags,And some in tags,And some in velvet gown. The summer brooded and the winds were husht,And on the palace walls the sunshine slept,And all within King Arthur’s court withdrewTo … Continue reading
The Eel Pie (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find,It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind:Brown bread as well as white must be for me;My motto ever is—VARIETY. THAT brisk brunette, with languid, sleepy eye,Delights my fancy; Can you tell me why?The reason ‘s … Continue reading
Celia To Damon (Matthew Prior Poems)
What can I say? What Arguments can proveMy Truth? What Colors can describe my Love?If it’s Excess and Fury be not known,In what Thy Celia has already done? Thy Infant Flames, whilst yet they were conceal’dIn tim’rous Doubts, with Pity … Continue reading
The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter IV. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
A Caution to all against a Legal Spirit; especially to those that have a Profession without Power, and Learning without Grace. Why, says the haughty heart of legalists,Bound to the law of works by nat’ral twists,“Why such ado about a … Continue reading
To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys (Henry King Poems)
It is, Sir, a confest intrusion hereThat I before your labours do appear,Which no loud Herald need, that may proclaimOr seek acceptance, but the Authors fame.Much less that should this happy work commend,Whose subject is its licence, and doth sendIt … Continue reading
Don Juan: Canto The Seventeenth (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
The world is full of orphans: firstly, those Who are so in the strict sense of the phrase(But many a lonely tree the loftier grows Than others crowded in the forest’s maze);The next are such as are not doomed to lose Their tender … Continue reading