Excellence Poems (152 Poems)
Festus – Proem (Philip James Bailey Poems)
This time is equal to all time that’s goneOf like extent, nor heeds to hide its faceBefore the future: each is missioned hereTo ends like worthy of its sender, God.Him therefore let us bless too, and take heart;All ages are … Continue reading
Mac Duff’s Cross (Joanna Baillie Poems)
MAC DUFF’S CROSS,A DRAMA. PRELUDE.NAY , smile not, lady, when I speak of witchcraft,And say that still there lurks amongst our glensSome touch of strange enchantment.—Mark that fragment,I mean that rough-hewn block of massive stone,Placed on the summit of this … Continue reading
The C?uercyon of Swerers (Stephen Hawes Poems)
The fruytfull sentence & the noble werkesTo our doctryne wryten in olde antyquyteBy many grete and ryght notable clerkesGrounded on reason & hyghe auctoryteDyde gyue vs example by good moralyteTo folowe the trace of trouthe and ryghtwysnesLeuynge our synne and … Continue reading
Ocean: An Ode. Concluding with A wish.* (Edward Young Poems)
I.Sweet rural scene!Of flocks and green!At careless ease my limbs are spread;All nature stillBut yonder rill;And listening pines not o’er my head:IIIn prospect wide,The boundless tide!Waves cease to foam, and winds to roar;Without a breeze,The curling seasDance on, in measure, … Continue reading
Queen Mab: Part II. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
If solitude hath ever led thy steps To the wild ocean’s echoing shore, And thou hast lingered there, Until the sun’s broad orb Seemed resting on the burnished wave, Thou must have marked the lines Of purple gold that motionless Hung o’er the sinking sphere; Thou must have … Continue reading
Queen Mab: Part IX. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
‘O happy Earth, reality of Heaven! To which those restless souls that ceaselessly Throng through the human universe, aspire! Thou consummation of all mortal hope! Thou glorious prize of blindly working will, Whose rays, diffused throughout all space and time, Verge to one point and blend … Continue reading
Jubilate Agno: Fragment A (Christopher Smart Poems)
Rejoice in God, O ye Tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and the Lamb. Nations, and languages, and every Creature, in which is the breath of Life. Let man and beast appear before him, and magnify his name together. … Continue reading
An Elegie on Henry, fourth Erle of Northumberlande (John Skelton Poems)
[Addressed to Henry Percy, fifth Earl of Northumberland] Poeta Skelton Laureatus libellum suum metrice alloquitur. Ad dominum properato meum mea pagina Percy, Qui Northumbrorum jura paterna gerit.Ad nutum celebris tu porna repone leonis, Quaeque suo patri tristia justa cano.Ast ubi perlegit, dubiam … Continue reading
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. II. (Plunder – Poets) (Henry Baker Poems)
Plunder. Now in the empty Isles of Juno’s FanePhoenix, and dire Ulysses, chosen Guards,Watch o’er the Prey. There Trojan Treasure snatch’dFrom burning Shrines, the Tables of the Gods,Goblets of massy Gold, and captive Robes,Lie pil’d in Heaps: Children, and trembling … Continue reading
How Long (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery’s gloomy night.In every region of the earth, Oppression rules with iron power,And every man of sterling worth, Whose soul disdains to cringe, or … Continue reading