Art Poems (5300 Poems)
Moome (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
IN vain my eye-lids seek reposeWhile midnight spreads her thickest gloom,My heart, a stranger to repose,Still bleeds o’er poor departed MOOME !No gossip in my faithful heartShall ever occupy her room;They live by flattery and by art,But Truth and Nature … Continue reading
To Cynthia On His Love After Death (Francis Kynaston Poems)
Let Lovers that like honey flies After balme dropping showres Swarming in sun-shine of thine eyes, Kissing thy beauties … Continue reading
The Tavern Of Despair (Donald Marquis Poems)
THE wraiths of murdered hopes and loves Come whispering at the door, Come creeping through the weeping mist That drapes the barren moor; But we within have turned the key ‘Gainst Hope and Love and Care, Where Wit keeps tryst … Continue reading
To His Royal Highness The Duke Of York (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
FROM the recesses of this wild domain,Where artless truth and simple manners reign,The blushing Muse conveys the humble pleaOf modest merit, Royal YORK , to thee:Nor seeks by flattery base, or sordid art,To soothe thy princely ear, or reach thy … Continue reading
Ode To war (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
STERN Power! who long in distant lands,Has thunder’d out thy dire commands;And while no lenient thought thy rage restrain’d,Hast urged thy mad destructive course,By Fury drawn and rude resistless Force;And arm’d with iron shield,Too long hast joy’d thy thirsty sword … Continue reading
Le Trist Adieu (Eliza Acton Poems)
Oft have we parted Love! beforeWith prospects darkly shadow’d o’er,But never have we sunder’d yet,With such wild hopelessness as now,Since first by fate’s caprice we met,Since first upon each heart was set,Too powerful love’s recorded vow.Oh! absence were enough to … Continue reading
A Letter to my Sister (Charles Frederick White Poems)
Allene, sweet sister, with the bloodOf youth yet coursing through your cheeks,I was informed, not long ago,That you had quit attending school.What is the cause that you should actSo rashly as to stop your searchThrough that enormous libraryPiled up by … Continue reading
XXXV. A true Philosopher described (Ellis Walker Poems)
Having consider’d thus what’s to be done,The hazards, hardships, and the risque you run,Consider with what strength you are endow’d,What nature for th’ encounter hath allow’d;As if you affect th’ Olympick exercise,Examine well your back, your shoulders, thighs,What brawn, what … Continue reading
A Poem For The Birth-Day Of The Right Honble The Lady Catharine Tufton (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
‘Tis fit SERENA shou’d be sung.High-born SERENA, Fair and Young, Shou’d be of ev’ry Muse and Voice The pleasing, and applauded Choice. But as the Meanest of the Show Do First in all Processions go: So, let my Steps pursue … Continue reading
My Sister (Albert Pike Poems)
And thou too, dearest sister! thou art dead!The pitiless archer once again has spedAt our small circle an unerring dart.Thus, one by one, alas! from me departThe images that, in fond memory stored,I count, as jealous misers count their hoard.The … Continue reading