Dignity Poems (199 Poems)
Hudibras: Part 3 – Canto III (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENT The Knight and squire’s prodigious FlightTo quit th’ inchanted Bow’r by Night.He plods to turn his amorous SuitT’ a Plea in Law, and prosecuteRepairs to Counsel, to advise‘Bout managing the Enterprise;But first resolves to try by Letter,And one … Continue reading
The Iliad: Book 10 (Homer Poems)
Now the other princes of the Achaeans slept soundly the wholenight through, but Agamemnon son of Atreus was troubled, so that hecould get no rest. As when fair Juno’s lord flashes his lightning intoken of great rain or hail or … Continue reading
Cymon And Iphigenia. From Boccace (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Old as I am, for lady’s love unfit,The power of beauty I remember yet,Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit.If love be folly, the severe divine;Has felt that folly, though he censures mine;Pollutes the pleasures of a … Continue reading
The Art Of Preserving Health. Book III (John Armstrong Poems)
EXERCISE. Thro’ various toils th’ adventurous Muse has past;But half the toil, and more than half, remains.Rude is her Theme, and hardly fit for Song;Plain, and of little ornament; and IBut little practis’d in th’ Aonian arts.Yet not in vain … Continue reading
The Maid-Martyr (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Only you’d have me speak. Whether to speakOr whether to be silent is all one;Whether to sleep and in my dreaming frontHer small scared face forlorn; whether to wakeAnd muse upon her small soft feet that pacedThe hated, hard, inhospitable stone—I … Continue reading
The Oeconomy Of Love (John Armstrong Poems)
Thy bounties, Love, in thy soft raptures, whenTimeliest the melting pairs indulge, and howBest to improve the genial joy, how shunThe snakes that under rosy pleasure lurk,I sing; if thou, fair Cytherea, deignGracious to smile on my attempt. Tho’ thouNone … 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
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 1: Third Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
TANSILLO. There are several varieties of enthusiasts, which may all be reduced totwo kinds. While some only display blindness, stupidity, and irrationalimpetuosity, which tend towards savage madness, others by divineabstraction become in reality superior to ordinary men. And these againare … 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
A Poem On The African Slave Trade. Addressed To Her Own Sex. Part II (Mary Birkett Card Poems)
ERST, when the Muse of Pity o’er me stole,And kindled new ideas in my soul;When Nature’s rude effusions pour’d along,Impell’d by Fancy, rais’d th’unpolish’d song;Then, when Imagination – Charming Maid,In all the rainbow’s lively hues array’d,Bade me her visionary heights … Continue reading