Confidence Poems (227 Poems)
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 2: Fourth Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
_Interlocutors_: SEVERINO. MINUTOLO. SEV. You will see the origin of the nine blind men, who state ninereasons and special causes of their blindness, and yet they all agree inone general reason and one common enthusiasm. MIN. Begin with the first! … Continue reading
Orlando Furioso canto 13 (Ludovico Ariosto Poems)
ARGUMENTThe Count Orlando of the damsel blandWho loves Zerbino, hears the piteous woes.Next puts to death the felons with his handWho pent her there. Duke Aymon’s daughter goes,Seeking Rogero, where so large a bandThe old Atlantes’ magic walls enclose.Her he … Continue reading
A Tale of Tuscany (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
An Old-World tale. Who reads perchanceMay deem it dull or idly told,Preferring latter-day romanceWhere well trained hearts their loves unfold. Tuscany, land of fierce hates and wild loves and of limitless passions,Tuscany, home of Petrarca and Dante and lively Boccaccio,Tuscany, … Continue reading
The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter VI. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
An Exhortation to all that are out of Christ; in order to their closing the match with him: containing also motives and directions. Reader, into thine hands these lines are giv’n,But not without the providence of Heav’n;Or to advance thy … Continue reading
The Third Booke Of Qvodlibets (Robert Hayman Poems)
Iustice Epigram. Kings doe correct those that Rebellious are,And their good Subjects worthily preferre:Iust Epigrams reproue those that offend,And those that vertuous are, she doth commend. 2. To my delicate Readers. When I doe read others neate, dainty lines,I almost … Continue reading
Time (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Genius of musings, who, the midnight hourWasting in woods or haunted forests wild,Dost watch Orion in his arctic tower,Thy dark eye fix’d as in some holy trance;Or when the vollied lightnings cleave the air,And Ruin gaunt bestrides the winged storm,Sitt’st … Continue reading
Shakuntala Act III (Kalidasa Poems)
ACT III SCENE -The HERMITAGE in a Grove. The Hermit’s Pupil bearing consecrated grass. Pupil. [Meditating with wonder.] HOW great is the power of Dushyanta! -The monarch and his charioteer had no sooner entered the grove than we continued our … Continue reading
Paradise Regain’d : Book II. (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remainedAt Jordan with the Baptist, and had seenHim whom they heard so late expressly calledJesus Messiah, Son of God, declared,And on that high authority had believed,And with him talked, and with him lodged—I meanAndrew and … Continue reading
Moses In The Bulrushes. A Sacred Drama (Hannah More Poems)
“Let me assert eternal Providence,And justify the ways of God to Man.” ~ Paradise Lost. Persons Of The Drama. Hebrew Woman.Jochebed, Mother of Moses.Miriam, his Sister. Egyptians.The Princess, King Pharaoh’s DaughterMelita; and other Attendants. SCENE– On the Banks of the … Continue reading
Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. (William Cowper Poems)
SCENE I.– Adam and Eve. Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess of tender haste,With ceaseless pilgrimage,To find again thy Adam,Thus solitary wandered?Behold him! Speak! what are thy gentle orders?Why dost … Continue reading