Envy & Jealousy Poems (868 Poems)
Rambles In Waltham Forest (Marguerite Blessington Poems)
LAND of soft showers and far-extending vales,And woodlands fanned by summer’s gentlest gales,And streams, that glisten as they steal, half hidThe tangled brake and waving sedge amid;Land!–where rich plenty with abounding flow, Bids ‘neath her smile the golden meadow glow,And from … Continue reading
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
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
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 Lay Of Marie – Canto First (Matilda Betham Poems)
The guests are met, the feast is near, But Marie does not yet appear! And to her vacant seat on high Is lifted many an anxious eye. The splendid show, the sumptuous board, The long details which feuds afford, And discontent is prone to hold, Absorb the … Continue reading
The Believer’s Jointure : Chapter II. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
Containing the Marks and Characters of the Believer in Christ; together with some further privileges and grounds of comfort to the Saints. Sect. I.Doubting Believers called to examine, by marks drawn from their love to Him and his presence, their … Continue reading
Faringdon Hill. Book II (Henry James Pye Poems)
The sultry hours are past, and Phobus nowSpreads yellower rays along the mountain’s brow:The broken clouds unnumber’d tints display,Drinking the effulgence of departing day;And to our eyes present a radiant view,Italia’s purpled ether never knew.The eastern prospect now attracts the … 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
Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 07 – Beginnings Of Civilization (Lucretius Poems)
Afterwards,When huts they had procured and pelts and fire,And when the woman, joined unto the man,Withdrew with him into one dwelling place, Were known; and when they saw an offspring bornFrom out themselves, then first the human raceBegan to soften. … 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