Ode XIII: On Lyric Poetry (Mark Akenside Poems)
I. 1.Once more I join the Thespian choir,And taste the inspiring fount again:O parent of the Grecian lyre,Admit me to ...
Inspirational Poems (597 Poems)
On the Banks of the Esk (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
WHILE Tweed's fam'd stream in numbers rolls along,And Tay's meanders sweetly glide in song;Thy windings Esk, in silence should not ...
To The Moon (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
THOU loveliest far of all the Heavenly Train!Thou bright attendant on Night's solemn reign!In whom created Beauty's charms combine,With excellence ...
Dressing Gown Farewell (Piotr Andreevich Viazemsky Poems)
Forgive me, dressing gown! My friend in idle bliss,Comrade of leisure, a witness to my secret thoughts!With you I knew ...
The Dead (John William Streets Poems)
Let music vast, triumphal, fill the world's great nave,Voicing the peerless theme of noble youthWho rose to Life's sublimest greatness ...
The Passions (William Collins Poems)
An Ode for MusicWhen Music, heavenly maid, was young,While yet in early Greece she sung,The Passions oft, to hear her ...
The Patriot’s Game (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I.TEAR down the crape from the column! Let the shaft stand white and fair!Be silent the wailing music-there is no ...
Ode On Hope (Maria Logan Poems)
HOPE , heavenly maid! to thee I sing, Who hovering round the anguish'd heart, Dost steep in dewy balm thy wing, To lenify ...
Nathalocus (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
I.Bleak was the pathway and barren the mountain,As the traveller passed on his wearisome way,Sealed by the frost was each ...
To Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
MY cousin, I have never seen thee--yetFrom childhood's early years my dearest thoughtsHave been so full of thee, I almost ...
The Assembly (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
THE theme my verse unfolds, ye Bridgetown Fair,Is one which late has claimed your constant care,Tis one so dear to ...
A Lamentation (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHERE ancient broken wall encloses round,From tread of lawless feet, the hallowed ground,And sombre yews their dewy branches wave,O'er many ...
On Reading Mrs. Hannah More’s Essay On St. Paul (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
OH ! I thou! whose Genius as thy Virtue shines,Around whose brows the wreath of Fame entwines;Benign Preceptress of thy ...
Ode To The Green Pond, (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
In the garden at Clevedale, whose waters havebeen immortalized from a Young Lady's fallinginto them.In imitation of Petrarch's Ode to ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 01 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
THE ARGUMENT.God sends his angel to Tortosa down,Godfrey unites the Christian Peers and Knights;And all the Lords and Princes of ...
Hymn (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Who shall commemorate all Thy chosen namesThou who art Sire at once and Son of man?Servant, friend, brother, bridegroom, husband, ...
The Difference (Jared Barhite Poems)
I have scanned the roll of teachers, Have noted the Aarons and Hurs Who have stayed education's Moses, And removed the cumbrous bars That ...
October And May (Henry James Pye Poems)
ADDRESSED TO SAMUEL JAMES ARNOLD, Esq.: "Behold, with mild and matron mien, "With sober eye, and brow serene, "October sweep along; "Bright are ...
To a Mountain (Henry Kendall Poems)
To thee, O father of the stately peaks,Above me in the loftier light — to thee,Imperial brother of those awful ...
To the Memory of a young Commander slain in a Battle with the Indians, 1724. (Mather Byles Poems)
Descend, immortal Muse, inspire my Song,Let mournful Numbers gently flow along:And thou, my Lyre, in solemn Notes complain,And in sad ...
Nature The Consoler (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
GLADLY I hail these solitudes, and breatheThe inspiring breath of the fresh woodland air,Most gladly to the past alone bequeathDoubt, ...
Colemira : A Culinary Eclogue (William Shenstone Poems)
Insensible of soft desire,Behold Colemira proveMore partial to the kitchen fireThan to the fire of Love.Night's sable clouds had half ...
The Distracted Puritan (Richard Corbet Poems)
Am I mad, O noble Festus,When zeal and godly knowledgeHave put me in hopeTo deal with the PopeAs well as ...
On Clevedale (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.WHATE'ER Arcadian scenes in fancy's dreams,Delight the eye and rise before the view,Stupendous rocks, wild woods, meand'ring streams,And lakes adorn'd ...
To My Mother In Heaven (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
1.THOU sainted Spirit! from the realms of lightLook down propitious on thy child below,Direct my thoughts, and guide my steps ...
To The Museum Committee (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
O ye in power, thus placed to ministerTo every pressing local, social claim,Of those who gave you this authority,Trusting you ...
Address At Ashton-Under-Lyne Literary Institute (John Critchley Prince Poems)
There is no nobler labour for mankindThan to instruct and elevate the mind,To pour into the eager ears of youthThe ...
Ode On Lord Hay’s BirthDay (James Beattie Poems)
A Muse, unskill'd in venal praise,Unstain'd with flattery's art;Who loves simplicity of laysBreathed ardent from the heart;While gratitude and joy ...
The Prisoners Of Naples (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I HAVE been thinking of the victims boundIn Naples, dying for the lack of airAnd sunshine, in their close, damp ...
More Bread And Cheese (Nathaniel Bloomfield Poems)
1 My Brothers of this world, of ev'ry Nation, Some maxims of prudence the Muse would inspire. Now restlessness reigns throughout every station; The ...