Fairness Poems (7680 Poems)
Otho The Great – Act I (John Keats Poems)
A TRAGEDYIN FIVE ACTSDRAMATIS PERSONSOTHO THE GREAT, Emperor of Germany.LUDOLPH, his Son.CONRAD, Duke of Franconia.ALBERT, a Knight, favoured by Otho.SIGIFRED, an Officer, friend of Ludolph.THEODORE, an OfficerGONFRED, an OfficerETHELBERT. an Abbot.GERSA, Prince of Hungary.An Hungarian Captain.Physician.Page.Nobles, Knights, Attendants, and Soldiers.ERMINIA, Niece of … 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 Dreams That Came True (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere The world, her fixed foredooméd oval tracing,Rolling and rolling on and resting never, While like a phantom fell, behind her pacingThe unfurled flag of night, her shadow drear Fled as she fled and hung to … Continue reading
Ballad of Reading Gaol II (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Version II He did not wear his scarlet coat,For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his handsWhen they found him with the dead,The poor dead woman whom he loved,And murdered in her bed. He walked amongst … Continue reading
Accolon Of Gaul: Part III (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The eve now came; and shadows cowled the way Like somber palmers, who have kneeled to pray Beside a wayside shrine, and rosy rolled Up the capacious West a grainy gold, Luxuriant fluid, burned thro’ strong, keen skies, Which seemed as towering gates of Paradise Surged … 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
The Troubadour. Canto 1 (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
CALL to mind your loveliest dream,–When your sleep is lull’d by a mountain stream,When your pillow is made of the violet,And over your head the branches are metOf a lime-tree cover’d with bloom and bees,When the roses’ breath is on … Continue reading
The Wife Of Bath Her Tale (John Henry Dryden Poems)
In days of old, when Arthur filled the throne,Whose acts and fame to foreign lands were blown,The king of elves, and little fairy queen,Gambolled on heaths, and danced on every green;And where the jolly troop had led the round,The grass … Continue reading
Men (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million yearsStruggling and groping upward from the brute,And ever dragging still the brutish chains,And ever slipping backward to the brute.Shall he … 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