Fire Poems (6356 Poems)
The Famous Historie: Cap. XVI (Patrick Gordon Poems)
The Argument.The English armie furth before their KingTo ma[illeg.]ter comes and all their foraigne aidDouglas returnd recounteth eurie thingDitchis t’intrap his foes greate Bruce hath madeRandolphs rare fight fair conquest first doth bringBruce Beaumout kills the English dooth vpbraid The Scots … Continue reading
The Culprit Fay (Joseph Rodman Drake Poems)
I.‘TIS the middle watch of a summer’s night -The earth is dark, but the heavens are bright;Nought is seen in the vault on highBut the moon, and the stars, and the cloudless sky,And the flood which rolls its milky hue,A … Continue reading
Festus – XXXIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
As in our sky sometimes a vaporous massLow down, shows thunder threatening; while by windsOf happier, if adverse wing fanned, high up,Unutterably extolled, a cloud–stream clear,Tinged as with ghostliest silver, spreads, opposed,Its shadowy waveletage, bespeaking peaceProspective, genial change; so here; … Continue reading
Orlando Furioso Canto 21 (Ludovico Ariosto Poems)
ARGUMENTZerbino for Gabrina, who a heartOf asp appears to bear, contends. O’erthrown,The Fleming falls upon the other part,Through cause of that despised and odious crone,He wounded sore, and writhing with the smart,The beldam’s treason to the prince makes known,Whose scorn … Continue reading
Vision Of Columbus – Book 8 (Joel Barlow Poems)
And now the Angel, from the trembling sight,Veil’d the wide world-when sudden shades of nightMove o’er the ethereal vault; the starry trainPaint their dim forms beneath the placid main;While earth and heaven, around the hero’s eye,Seem arch’d immense, like one … Continue reading
The Famous Historie: Cap. XIV (Patrick Gordon Poems)
The Argument.The feild of Cree feirce Edwards praise beginnHe beats with fiftie fiftein hundreth foesThe thrid time Douglas doth his castell winnThen Bonkill, Randolph, Huntleis Lord doth loseThe bloodie and the cruell fight of LinnThe first two Douglas taks frie … Continue reading
The Iliad: Book 20 (Homer Poems)
Thus, then, did the Achaeans arm by their ships round you, O sonof Peleus, who were hungering for battle; while the Trojans overagainst them armed upon the rise of the plain.Meanwhile Jove from the top of many-delled Olympus, bade Themisgather … Continue reading
Festus – XIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive shore,The arch–fiend and youth, bound skyward, soaring holdDarkly, commune, like twilight and midnight,Of being and things to be, ‘mid interspaceOf … 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
Heartsease And Rue: Friendship (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I.AGASSIZ Come Dicesti _egli ebbe?_ non viv’ egli ancora? Non fiere gli occhi suoi lo dolce lome? I The electric nerve, whose instantaneous thrillMakes next-door gossips of the antipodes,Confutes poor Hope’s last fallacy of ease,–The distance that divided her from … Continue reading