Mostly Slavonic (Henry Lawson Poems)
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
Honor Poems (1825 Poems)
Otho The Great – Act IV (John Keats Poems)
SCENE I. AURANTHE'S Apartment.AURANTHE and CONRAD discovered.Conrad. Well, well, I know what ugly jeopardyWe are cag'd in; you need not ...
Hermann And Dorothea – IV. Euterpe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
MOTHER AND SON.THUS the men discoursed together; and meanwhile the motherWent in search of her son,--at first in front of ...
Hymn To The Naiads (Mark Akenside Poems)
ARGUMENT. The Nymphs, who preside over springs and rivulets, are addressed at day-break, in honor of their several functions, and ...
The Three Gossips’ Wager (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
AS o'er their wine one day, three gossips sat,Discoursing various pranks in pleasant chat,Each had a loving friend, and two ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. II. (Philosophy – Place) (Henry Baker Poems)
Philosophy.Happy the Man, who, studying Nature's Laws,Thro' known Effects can trace the secret Cause:Who, without Fear, his certain Fate can ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring;As proof, Candaules' story we will bring;In folly's scenes the king was truly great:His ...
A Monumental Column : A Funeral Elegy (John Webster Poems)
To The Right Honourable Sir Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and One ...
Guy Of The Temple (John Hay Poems)
Down the dim West slow fails the stricken sun,And from his hot face fades the crimson flushVeiled in death's herald-shadows ...
Otho The Great – Act II (John Keats Poems)
SCENE I. An Ante-chamber in the Castle.Enter LUDOLPH and SIGIFRED.Ludolph. No more advices, no more cautioning:I leave it all to ...
Queen Mab: Part VII. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
SPIRIT 'I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met ...
A Gallery To The Temple. The Incarnation (Ralph Knevet Poems)
(My God) who dids't thy glorious throne forsake, And from a Virgin pure thy manhood take, That Thou, thereby mights't us thy ...
The Mandrake (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
FLORENTINE we now design to show;—A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below;It seems a prudent woman he had wed,With beauty that ...
Queen Mab: Part IV. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
'How beautiful this night! the balmiest sigh, Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening's ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this ...
Polyhymnia (George Peele Poems)
Therefore, when thirtie two were come and gone,Years of her raigne, daies of her countries peace,Elizabeth great Empresse of the ...
ASTR (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Now with a general peace the world was blest,While ours, a world divided from the rest,A dreadful quiet felt, and ...
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 ...
The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour,In ev'ry age works miracles a store;Can Catos change to male coquets at ...
Edwin and Eltrada, a Legendary Tale (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
Where the pure Derwent's waters glide Along their mossy bed,Close by the river's verdant side, A castle rear'd its head.The antient pile ...
The Ghost, (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
There stands a City,-- neither large nor small,Its air and situation sweet and pretty;It matters very little -- if at ...
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 ...
The Art Of War. Book I. (Henry James Pye Poems)
TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM KEPPEL, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES, THIS POEM, TRANSLATED BY AN OFFICER AT HIS LEISURE HOURS, ...
The Carver In Stone (John Drinkwater Poems)
He was a man with wide and patient eyes,Grey, like the drift of twitch-fires blown in June,That, without fearing, searched ...
The Slave Trade, A Poem (Hannah More Poems)
If heaven has into being deign'd to callThy light, O Liberty! to shine on all;Bright intellectual Sun! why does thy ...
King Billy’s Skull. (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
THE scene is the Southern Hemisphere;The time - oh, any time of the yearWill do as well as another; say ...
Winter-Night Meditations (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
Rude winter's come, the sky's o'ercast, The night is cold and loud the blast, The mingling snow comes driving down, Fast whitening o'er ...
Manductio And Coelum. Part I (James Chamberlayne Poems)
I. Joy, when it once doth so excessive grow, That it all Bounds of Reason doth or'e-flow, Draws ever after't, as we daily ...
The British Heroes, A New Poem in honour of St. George (John Grubb Poems)
The story of King Arthur old is very memorable,The number of his valiant knights, and roundness of his Table.The knights ...
The General Resurrection (Mary Ann Carter Poems)
I.How lovely doth the universe appear!And how refulgent shine those glorious orbsThat round the sun their evolutions make!As well as ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Content – Courtship) (Henry Baker Poems)
Content.See Discontent.Let the rich Miser gather golden Gain,And live the large Possessor of the Plain:Whom Fears perpetual scare with neighb'ring ...