Fashion Poems (605 Poems)
Twilight (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.HOW sweet the silence of the twilight hour,When the still zephyr softly breathes around,When Contemplation, in her fav’rite bower,Sooths the torn heart still laboring with the wound! 2.See the last tints of fading light decay,The few faint blushes soften into … Continue reading
To Flora (Henry Baker Poems)
False one! You have oft profess’d,I alone could make you blest;Wherefore then am I despis’d?Wherefore is my Rival priz’d?Why, he’s rich, and makes a Shew,A pert, fantastick, airy Beau:I guilty am of Poverty,A Crime your Sex will ne’er pass by. … Continue reading
From Faust – II. Prologue In Heaven (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE ARCHANGELS’ SONG. RAPHAEL. THE sun still chaunts, as in old time, With brother-spheres in choral song,And with his thunder-march sublime Moves his predestined course along.Strength find the angels in his sight, Though he by none may fathomed be;Still glorious … Continue reading
Verses (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Benevolence, attended by beauty, By elegance, fashion, and grace,Makes pleasure, the handmaid of duty, To plead for the poor in this place. She pleads! while rich music is ringing Through halls gay with splendour and light,Where a voice, like a seraph’s, is singing Of … Continue reading
Lines By A Clerk (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
OH! I did love her dearly,And gave her toys and rings,And I thought she meant sincerely,When she took my pretty things.But her heart has grown as icyAs a fountain in the fall,And her love, that was so spicy,It did not … Continue reading
The Goblet (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
ONCE I held a well-carved brimming goblet,—In my two hands tightly clasp’d I held it,Eagerly the sweet wine sipp’d I from it,Seeking there to drown all care and sorrow. Amor enter’d in, and found me sitting,And he gently smiled in … Continue reading
The Proof – The Queen Of Fashion (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
The point I advance, if it need confirmation, I’ll prove by a witness that few will dispute, A pink of perfection and truth in the naion Where fashion and folly are all of a suit. ’Tis “Merdle the banker”–or rather his wife, Whose fashion, … Continue reading
Written In Sickness (John Quincy Adams Poems)
Lord Of all worlds, let thanks and praiseTo thee forever fill my soul;With blessings thou hast crowned my daysMy heart, my head, my hand control:O, let no vain presumption rise,No impious murmur in my heart,To crave the boon thy will … Continue reading
A Letter of Advice (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
You tell me you’re promised a lover,My own Araminta, next week;Why cannot my fancy discoverThe hue of his coat, and his cheek?Alas! if he look like another,A vicar, a banker, a beau,Be deaf to your father and mother,My own Araminta, … Continue reading
Early September (Robert Henry Forster Poems)
IIs Autumn here, or doth the Summer’s reignContinue still? The sun that hath as yetPaid but a portion of his August debt,Late though it be, endeavours to regainA reputation which the clouds and rainThrough many a week of gloominess and … Continue reading