Criticism Poems (108 Poems)
A Broadway Idyl (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
For hours I stood upon The Bridge,1Which looms like a volcanic ridge,Above a scathing fire below.A flaming crater of burning hearts-And, as souls passed beneath my feet,As weary souls passed to and froA knowledge came, so sad, yet sweet,Each inner … Continue reading
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 1: First Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
TANSILLO, CICADA. TANS. The enthusiasms most suitable to be first brought forward andconsidered are those that I now place before you in the order that seemsto me most fitting. CIC. Begin, then, to read. TANSILLO. 1. Ye Muses, that so … 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
The Deluge (Henry Hart Milman Poems)
The following extract from the Mahabharata was published by Bopp, with a German translation, (the promised Latin version has not yet reached this country,) with four other extracts from the same poem. It is inserted here not on account of its poetical merit, but … Continue reading
The Authors: A Satire (Richard Savage Poems)
Bright Arts, abus’d, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And the dark Sophist dims the Text Divine.The Art of Reasoning in Religion’s Cause,By Superstition’s Taint a Blindness draws.The Art of … Continue reading
Vignette – XVIII (Matilda Betham Poems)
_Written jointly with a particular Friend, after a conversationsimilar to the subject, with the Damon of the Story_. ——– Believing love was all a bubble,And wooing but a needless trouble,Damon grew fond of posied rings,And many such romantic things;But whether … Continue reading
Epistle To The Rev. J— B—, Whilst Journeying For The Recovery Of His Health (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
When warm’d with zeal, my rustic Muse Feels fluttering fain to tell her news, And paint her simple, lowly views With all her art, And, though in genius but obtuse, May touch the heart. Of palaces and courts of kings She thinks but little, never sings, But … Continue reading
The Poet (Mark Akenside Poems)
-A Rhapsody Of all the various lots around the ball,Which fate to man distributes, absolute;Avert, ye gods! that of the Muse’s son,Curs’d with dire poverty! poor hungry wretch!What shall he do for life? he cannot workWith manual labour: shall those … Continue reading
St Patricks Day (John O Brien Poems)
‘Tis the greatest splash of sunshine right through all my retrospection On the days when fairies brought me golden dreams without alloy,When I gazed across the gum-trees round about the old selection To the big things far beyond them, with the yearning … Continue reading
Meo Patacca – Canto I (Giuseppe Berneri Poems)
Please don’t feel annoyedIn being told about the great valourOf the most clever among the Roman Braves,Whose name is mentioned more than any other.Just because he was well endowed with brains,Although he was born a commoner,And had great projects on … Continue reading