Rhodon And Iris. Act I (Ralph Knevet Poems)
SCEN. 1.Poneria, Agnostus.Ag. Is the worlds eye not yet asleepe?Po. Hath Jove not yet put on his starry night-cap? No; nor Juno her spangl'd ...
Games Poems (175 Poems)
Hudibras: Part 3 – Canto III (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENTThe Knight and squire's prodigious FlightTo quit th' inchanted Bow'r by Night.He plods to turn his amorous SuitT' a ...
The Iliad: Book 22 (Homer Poems)
Thus the Trojans in the city, scared like fawns, wiped the sweatfrom off them and drank to quench their thirst, ...
May-Day (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Daughter of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring,With sudden passion languishing,Maketh all things softly smile,Painteth pictures mile on mile,Holds a cup ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book II – Part 03 – Atomic Forms And Their Combinations (Lucretius Poems)
Now come, and next hereafter apprehendWhat sorts, how vastly different in form,How varied in multitudinous shapes they are-These old beginnings ...
Notes On Vision (James Douglas Morrison Poems)
Look where we worship. We all live in the city.The city forms- often physically, but inevitablypsychically- a circle. A Game. ...
The Muses Threnodie: First Muse (Henry Adamson Poems)
Of Mr George Ruthven the tears and mournings,Amidst the giddie course of fortune's turnings,Upon his dear friend's death, Mr John ...
The Death Of The Boar (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
OSSIAN.This vale of Peace, this glen close by,Where deer and elk would often cry,Of old saw the fleet-footed Fianti boundIn ...
Malcolm’s Katie: A Love Story – Part IV. (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
From his far wigwam sprang the strong North WindAnd rush'd with war-cry down the steep ravines,And wrestl'd with the giants ...
The New Creatures (James Douglas Morrison Poems)
Snakeskin jacketIndian eyesBrilliant hairHe moves in disturbedNile insectAir~~~You parade thru the soft summerWe watch your eager rifle decayYour wildernessYour teeming ...
The Cross Roads; Or, The Haymaker’s Story (John Clare Poems)
Stopt by the storm, that long in sullen blackFrom the south-west stained its encroaching track,Haymakers, hustling from the rain to ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book IV – Part 04 – Some Vital Functions (Lucretius Poems)
In these affairsWe crave that thou wilt passionately fleeThe one offence, and anxiously wilt shunThe error of presuming the clear ...
Book IV – Part 04 – Some Vital Functions (Lucretius Poems)
In these affairsWe crave that thou wilt passionately fleeThe one offence, and anxiously wilt shunThe error of presuming the clear ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XVI: Pau-Puk-Keew (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis,He, the handsome Yenadizze,Whom the people called the Storm-Fool,Vexed the village with disturbance;You shall hear of ...
The Bottle-Scrue (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
The Patten, Fan, and Petticoat,Three modern Themes of special Note,In parlous Rhimes immortal live,If Rhimes immortal Life can give;The Mouse--Trap ...
Policeman X (John Oxenham Poems)
IF HE WOULD BUT DAREI stood, unseen, within a sumptous room,Where one clothed all in white sat silently.So sweet his ...
The Song Of Hiawatha XI: Hiawatha’s Wedding-Feas (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis,How the handsome YenadizzeDanced at Hiawatha's wedding;How the gentle Chibiabos,He the sweetest of musicians,Sang his songs ...
The Thirteenth Olympic Ode Of Pindar (Henry James Pye Poems)
To Xenophon of Corinth, on his Victory in the Stadic Course, and Pentathlon, at Olympia. ARGUMENT. The Poet begins his ...
Rhomboidal Dirge (George Wither Poems)
Ah me! Am I the swain That late from sorrow free Did all the cares on earth disdain? And still untouched, as at some ...
The Eighth Olympic Ode Of Pindar (Henry James Pye Poems)
To Alcimedon, on his Olympic Victory; Timosthenes, on his Nemean Victory; and Melesias, their Preceptor. ARGUMENT. Though this is called ...
Winona – Death Of Winona (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Down the broad _Ha-Ha Wak-pa_ the band took their way to the Games at _Keoza_While the swift-footed hunters by land ran the ...
Jonquil And Fleur-de-lys (Lord Alfred Douglas Poems)
iJonquil was a shepherd lad,White he was as the curded cream,Hair like the buttercups he had,And wet green eyes like ...
Scenes Of Youth, Or The Days Of Other Years,- 1809.- In Two Parts. (Margaretta Wedderburn Poems)
PART I.-Remembrance.THOSE days of youth I call to mind,Like dream by night away are fled,Or rose that's pluck'd, which soon ...
The Life Of Lincoln West (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
Ugliest little boythat everyone ever saw.That is what everyone said.Even to his mother it was apparent-when the blue-aproned nurse came ...
Broken Song (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Kasinath the new young singer fills the hall with sound:The seven notes dance in his throat like seven tame birds.His ...
The Ballad of Oriskany (Obadiah Cyrus Auringer Poems)
SHE leaned her cheek upon her hand,And looked across the glooming land;She saw the wood from farm to farmTouched by ...
Voluntaries (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
I.Low and mournful be the strain,Haughty thought be far from me;Tones of penitence and pain,Moanings of the tropic sea;Low and ...
When Sheridan Hurled The Discus (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
"Pinch me; ay, punch me, for fear I m not sitting here reading the paper.Sure as the sun in the ...
De Rerum Virtute (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
I.Here is the skull of a man: a man's thoughts and emotionsHave moved under the thin bone vault like cloudsUnder ...
School Days (Jared Barhite Poems)
Can we e'er forget our boyhood, And the days we spent at school, With the jolly youths and maidens Who with pencil for ...