Gold Poems (5431 Poems)
Lamia. Part II (John Keats Poems)
Love in a hut, with water and a crust,Is-Love, forgive us!-cinders, ashes, dust;Love in a palace is perhaps at lastMore grievous torment than a hermit’s fast:-That is a doubtful tale from faery land, Hard for the non-elect to understand.Had Lycius liv’d … Continue reading
One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part IV (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
LATE AUTUMN _They who die young are blest.– Should we not envy such? They are Earth’s happiest, God-loved and favored much!– They who die young are blest._ 1 _Sick and sad, propped among pillows, she sits at her window._ ’Though the dog-tooth violet come With … Continue reading
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 the strath of the west as they followed the hound. List if you wish to hear a layOf gentle … Continue reading
Of The Nature Of Things: Book IV – Part 05 – The Passion Of Love (Lucretius Poems)
This craving ’tis that’s Venus unto us:From this, engender all the lures of love,From this, O first hath into human heartsTrickled that drop of joyance which ere longIs by chill care succeeded. Since, indeed,Though she thou lovest now be far … Continue reading
Sonnets (Peter John Allan Poems)
I. Leaving his mountain eyrie far behind, On mighty pinions swiftly borne away, The eagle bathes his plumage in the day—Such flight is only for the giant’s might.Content am I some lowlier path to find— The sonnet’s simple loveliness for me, Whose timid muse … Continue reading
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (God – Grotto) (Henry Baker Poems)
God.See Chance. Providence. Know first, that Heav’n, and Earth’s compacted Frame,And flowing Waters, and the starry Flame,And both the radiant Lights one common SoulInspires: and feeds and animates the Whole:This active Mind infus’d thro’ all the Space,Unites and mingles with … Continue reading
One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part V (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
WINTER _We, whom God sets a task, Striving, who ne’er attain, We are the curst!–who ask Death, and still ask in vain. We, whom God sets a task._ 1 _In the silence of his room. After many days._ All, all are shadows. All must … Continue reading
Yamoyden: Canto I (James Wallis Eastburn Poems)
I. THE morning air was freshly breathing,The morning mists were wildly wreathing;Day’s earliest beams were kindling o’erThe wood-crowned hills and murmuring shore.‘Twas summer; and the forests threwTheir chequered shapes of varying hue,In mingling, changeful shadows seen,O’er hill and bank, and … Continue reading
An Ode For The Fourth Of July (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Entranced I saw a vision in the cloudThat loitered dreaming in yon sunset sky,Full of fair shapes, half creatures of the eye,Half chance-evoked by the wind’s fantasyIn golden mist, an ever-shifting crowd:There, ‘mid unreal forms that came and wentIn air-spun … Continue reading
Hudibras – The Lady’s Answer to The Knight (Samuel Butler Poems)
That you’re a beast, and turn’d to grass,Is no strange news, nor ever was;At least to me, who once you know,Did from the pound replevin you,When both your sword and spurs were wonIn combat by an Amazon.That sword, that did … Continue reading