Cars Poems (918 Poems)
Georgic 1 (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what starMaecenas, it is meet to turn the sodOr marry elm with vine; how tend the steer;What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proofOf patient trial serves for thrifty bees;-Such are my themes. O universal lightsMost … Continue reading
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
Sleep And Poetry (John Keats Poems)
As I lay in my bed slepe full unmeteWas unto me, but why that I ne mightRest I ne wist, for there n’as erthly wight[As I suppose] had more of hertis eseThan I, for I n’ad sicknesse nor disese. ~ … Continue reading
The Culprit Fay (Joseph Rodman Drake Poems)
I.‘TIS the middle watch of a summer’s night -The earth is dark, but the heavens are bright;Nought is seen in the vault on highBut the moon, and the stars, and the cloudless sky,And the flood which rolls its milky hue,A … Continue reading
The Iliad: Book 20 (Homer Poems)
Thus, then, did the Achaeans arm by their ships round you, O sonof Peleus, who were hungering for battle; while the Trojans overagainst them armed upon the rise of the plain.Meanwhile Jove from the top of many-delled Olympus, bade Themisgather … Continue reading
The Minstrel ; Or, The Progress Of Genius – Book II. (James Beattie Poems)
I.Of chance or change O let not man complain,Else shall he never never cease to wail:For, from the imperial dome, to where the swainRears the lone cottage in the silent dale,All feel the assault of fortune’s fickle gale;Art, empire, earth … Continue reading
Hymn To Life (James Schuyler Poems)
The wind rests its cheek upon the ground and feels the cool dampAnd lifts its head with twigs and small dead blades of grassPressed into it as you might at the beach rise up and brush awayThe sand. The day … Continue reading
Tennants Anster Fair (Joseph Rodman Drake Poems)
I. ‘TIS the middle watch of a summer’s night -The earth is dark, but the heavens are bright;Nought is seen in the vault on highBut the moon, and the stars, and the cloudless sky,And the flood which rolls its milky … Continue reading
Festus – XXVIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
In such timeAs it takes to turn a leaf, we are in heaven;Making our way among the wheeling worlds,Millions of suns, half infinite each, and space,For ever shone into, for ever dark,As deity to and by created mind;Upborne by the … Continue reading