Happiness Poems (5743 Poems)
Festus – VII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
A man in love sees wonders naturally.Ours sole,–abnormal gifts but gradual given,Can make participable his starry views,And intuitions spiritual instilled,May be, by angel kind of other worlds.An ominous parable told by his love, endured,Heart–faltering, he his constancy asserts:Still, who can … Continue reading
Sleep And Poetry (John Keats Poems)
As I lay in my bed slepe full unmeteWas unto me, but why that I ne mightRest I ne wist, for there n’as erthly wight[As I suppose] had more of hertis eseThan I, for I n’ad sicknesse nor disese. ~ … Continue reading
Resignation Pt 2 (Edward Young Poems)
But what in either sex, beyondAll parts, our glory crowns?‘In ruffling seasons to be calm,And smile, when fortune frowns.’ Heaven’s choice is safer than our own;Of ages past inquire,What the most formidable fate?‘To have our own desire.’ If, in your … Continue reading
The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter VI. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
An Exhortation to all that are out of Christ; in order to their closing the match with him: containing also motives and directions. Reader, into thine hands these lines are giv’n,But not without the providence of Heav’n;Or to advance thy … Continue reading
The Third Booke Of Qvodlibets (Robert Hayman Poems)
Iustice Epigram. Kings doe correct those that Rebellious are,And their good Subjects worthily preferre:Iust Epigrams reproue those that offend,And those that vertuous are, she doth commend. 2. To my delicate Readers. When I doe read others neate, dainty lines,I almost … Continue reading
The Art Of Preserving Health. Book III (John Armstrong Poems)
EXERCISE. Thro’ various toils th’ adventurous Muse has past;But half the toil, and more than half, remains.Rude is her Theme, and hardly fit for Song;Plain, and of little ornament; and IBut little practis’d in th’ Aonian arts.Yet not in vain … Continue reading
The Believer’s Principles : Chap. II. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
The Believer’s Principles concerning the Law and Gospel;Particularly, 1. The Mystery2. The Difference.3. The Harmony4. The Place and Station,Of Law and Gospel. Sect. I.The Mystery of Law and Gospel. Though law-commands and gospel-graceAgree in mutual joint embrace;Yet law and gospel … Continue reading
Festus – II (Philip James Bailey Poems)
From heaven, soul–like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart’s state, empty and collapsed, the world’sVain pleasures leave us in, dissatisfied,Distraught, not penitent of them, in ourselves;Youth’s natural fitful unavailing struggleNote, ‘gainst temptation come unlooked for; power,Love, wisdom; who shall … Continue reading
Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 07 – Beginnings Of Civilization (Lucretius Poems)
Afterwards,When huts they had procured and pelts and fire,And when the woman, joined unto the man,Withdrew with him into one dwelling place, Were known; and when they saw an offspring bornFrom out themselves, then first the human raceBegan to soften. … Continue reading
Vision Of Columbus – Book 1 (Joel Barlow Poems)
Long had the Sage, the first who dared to braveThe unknown dangers of the western wave,Who taught mankind where future empires layIn these fair confines of descending day,With cares o’erwhelm’d, in life’s distressing gloom,Wish’d from a thankless world a peaceful … Continue reading