Honesty & Integrity Poems (829 Poems)
Fitz Adam’s Story (James Russell Lowell Poems)
The next whose fortune ’twas a tale to tellWas one whom men, before they thought, loved well,And after thinking wondered why they did,For half he seemed to let them, half forbid,And wrapped him so in humors, sheath on sheath,‘Twas hard … Continue reading
A Discourse (Ralph Birchensha Poems)
Wonder to men, worlds glorie, mightie Lord,Earths monarch, Prince of thrones & powers all,Peerlesse for praise, famous in factes and deedes,Guider of Angels, aide of mortall men:Whose little finger swayes both sea and lande,And turnes the globe of heauen with … 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
Festus – XLII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
The soul–state, intermediate ‘twixt earth’s lifeAnd the world future, unconceived till seen,We search with curious awe; mark dormant death;Nor, joyless, evil accost, by heaven restrained;From bonds aeonian loosened, ere the end:View, visionary, the circle of false gods,Refractions of the sole … 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 Lay Of Marie – Canto Second (Matilda Betham Poems)
Some, fearing Marie’s tale was o’er, Lamented that they heard no more; While Brehan, from her broken lay, Portended what she yet might say. As the untarrying minutes flew, More anxious and alarm’d he grew. At length he spake:–”We wait too long The remnant of this wilder’d … Continue reading
The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Fifth. (Henry Alford Poems)
From the great sun light flows upon the earth; And every thing that lives this summer morn Looks joyous; all along the hills that stretch Far southward, slowly sail the dazzling heaps Of whitest vapour; but the upper heaven Is deep and clear;–above the yellow … 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
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