Breathing Poems (661 Poems)
The Columbiad: Book X (Joel Barlow Poems)
The vision resumed, and extended over the whole earth. Present character of different nations. Future progress of society with respect to commerce; discoveries; inland navigation; philosophical, med and political knowledge. Science of government. Assimilation and final union of all languages. … Continue reading
The Portrait (John Pierpont Poems)
Why does the eye, with greater pleasure, restOn the proud oak, in vernal honors drest,When sultry gales, that to his arms repair,Are cooled and freshened, while they linger there;Than when his fading robes are seared, and castOn the cold mercy … Continue reading
Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 1. (William Cowper Poems)
CHORUS OF ANGELS, Singing the Glory of God. To Heaven’s bright lyre let Iris be the bow,Adapt the spheres for chords, for notes the stars;Let new-born gales discriminate the bars,Nor let old Time to measure times be slow.Hence to new … Continue reading
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 that despised and odious crone,He wounded sore, and writhing with the smart,The beldam’s treason to the prince makes known,Whose scorn … Continue reading
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 rosy rolled Up the capacious West a grainy gold, Luxuriant fluid, burned thro’ strong, keen skies, Which seemed as towering gates of Paradise Surged … Continue reading
The Foster-Child (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
IN IMITATION OF SPENCER. CANTO I.‘MID Cambria’s hills a lowly cottage stood,Circled with mossy tufts of sombre green;A vagrant brook flow’d wildly thro’ the wood,Flashing in lucid lapse the shades between;And, cloth’d in mist, a distant hut was seen:A village … Continue reading
The Campaign, A Poem, To His Grace The Duke Of Marlborough (Joseph Addison Poems)
While crowds of princes your deserts proclaim,Proud in their number to enrol your name;While emperors to you commit their cause,And Anna’s praises crown the vast applause;Accept, great leader, what the Muse recites,That in ambitious verse attempts your fights.Fir’d and transported … Continue reading
Aechdeacon Barbour (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THROUGH the long hall the shuttered windows shedA dubious light on every upturned head;On locks like those of Absalom the fair,On the bald apex ringed with scanty hair,On blank indifference and on curious stare;On the pale Showman reading from his … Continue reading
Out Of The East (John Freeman Poems)
When man first walked upright and soberly Reflecting as he paced to and fro,And no more swinging from wide tree to tree, Or sheltered by vast boles from sheltered foe,Or crouched within some deep cave by the sea Stared at the noisy waste … Continue reading
The Golden Legend: VI. The School Of Salerno (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
A traveling Scholastic affixing his Theses to the gateof the College. _Scholastic._ There, that is my gauntlet, my banner, my shield,Hung up as a challenge to all the field!One hundred and twenty-five propositions,Which I will maintain with the sword of … Continue reading