Gold Poems (5431 Poems)
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 Pennsylvania (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
PreludeI sing the Pilgrim of a softer climeAnd milder speech than those brave men’s who broughtTo the ice and iron of our winter timeA will as firm, a creed as stern, and wroughtWith one mailed hand, and with the other … 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
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
The Little Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold.Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold.To this the god of love has oft recourse,When arrows fail to reach the secret source,And I’ll maintain he’s right, for, ‘mong mankind,Nice presents ev’ry where … Continue reading
The Vision Of Piers Plowman – Part 19 (William Langland Poems)
Thus I awaked and wroot what I hadde ydremed,And dighte me derely, and dide me to chirche,To here holly the masse and to be housled after.In myddes of the masse, tho men yede to offryng,I fel eftsoones aslepe – and … Continue reading
The Tragedy of White Injustice (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
(1)Lying and stealing is the white man’s game;For rights of God nor man he has no shame(A practice of his throughout the whole world)At all, great thunderbolts he has hurled;He has stolen everywhere-land and sea;A buccaneer and pirate he must … Continue reading
The Progres Of The Soule (John Donne Poems)
Wherein,BY OCCASION OFThe Religious death of MistrisE L I Z A B E T H D R V R Y,the incommodities of the Soulein this life, and her exaltation inthe next, are Contemplated.The Second Anniversarie. NOthing could make me sooner to … Continue reading
Resignation Pt 1 (Edward Young Poems)
The days how few, how short the yearsOf man’s too rapid race!Each leaving, as it swiftly flies,A shorter in its place. They who the longest lease enjoy,Have told us with a sigh,That to be born seems little moreThan to begin … Continue reading
The Minstrel; Or, The Progress Of Genius : Book I. (James Beattie Poems)
I.Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climbThe steep where Fame’s proud temple shines afar!Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublimeHath felt the influence of malignant star,And wag’d with Fortune an eternal war!Check’d by the scoff … Continue reading