The Monitions of the Unseen (Jean Ingelow Poems)
There are who give themselves to work for men,—To raise the lost, to gather orphaned babesAnd teach them, pitying of ...
Intelligence Poems (115 Poems)
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 1: Third Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
TANSILLO.There are several varieties of enthusiasts, which may all be reduced totwo kinds. While some only display blindness, stupidity, and ...
Shakuntala Act IV (Kalidasa Poems)
ACT IVSCENE -A LAWN before the Cottage.The two damsels are discovered gathering flowers.Anusuya: O MY Priyamvada, though our sweet friend ...
The Island: Canto II. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.How pleasant were the songs of Toobonai,When Summer's Sun went down the coral bay!Come, let us to the islet's softest ...
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 1: First Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
TANSILLO, CICADA.TANS. The enthusiasms most suitable to be first brought forward andconsidered are those that I now place before you ...
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 2: Second Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
MARICONDO. Here you see a flaming yoke enveloped in knots round which iswritten: Levius aura; which means that Divine love ...
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 2: Third Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
_Interlocutors_:LIBERIO. LAODONIO.LIB. Reclining in the shade of a cypress-tree, the enthusiast findinghis mind free from other thoughts, it happened that ...
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 1: Second Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
TANSILLO.Now begins the enthusiast to display the affections and uncover thewounds which are for a sign in his body, and ...
The Bas Bleu: Or, Conversation. Addressed To Mrs. Vesey (Hannah More Poems)
VESEY, of Verse the judge and friend,Awhile my idle strain attend:Not with the days of early Greece,I mean to ope ...
Eleonora : A Panegyrical (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Dedicated to the Memory of the Late Countess of Abingdon.As when some great and gracious monarch dies,Soft whispers first and ...
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 ...
Intimations Of The Beautiful (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThe hills are full of propheciesAnd ancient voices of the dead;Of hidden shapes that no man sees,Pale, visionary presences,That speak ...
The Graveyard By The Sea (Paul Valery Poems)
This quiet roof, where dove-sails saunter by,Between the pines, the tombs, throbs visibly.Impartial noon patterns the sea in flame --That ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 02 – Against Teleological (Lucretius Poems)
And walking nowIn his own footprints, I do follow throughHis reasonings, and with pronouncements teachThe covenant whereby all things are ...
Book V – Part 02 – Against Teleological Concept (Lucretius Poems)
And walking nowIn his own footprints, I do follow throughHis reasonings, and with pronouncements teachThe covenant whereby all things are ...
The Misanthrope Reclaimed – Act II (George W Sands Poems)
The verge of Creation. Enter Werner and Spirit.Werner.We have outtravelled light and sound:The harmonies that pealed around us, asThrough yon ...
The American Way (Gregory Corso Poems)
1I am a great AmericanI am almost nationalistic about it!I love America like a madness!But I am afraid to return ...
Menotomy Lake (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
THE INDIAN CAMP.OUT from the Northern forest, dim and vast;Out from the mysteryOf yet more shadowy times, a pathless past,Untracked ...
The Arch Apostate (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
"Since he miscalled the morning star,Nor man, nor fiend hath fallen so far."— ByronWhen gathered in the courts above, Before Jehovah's ...
Paradiso: Canto II (Dante Alighieri Poems)
Paradiso Canto 2O Ye, who in some pretty little boat,Eager to listen, have been followingBehind my ship, that singing sails ...
The Old Man Of The Mountains Under The Moon And Stars (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
FROM the house of desolation,From the doors of lamentation,I went forth into the midnight and the vistas of the moon;Where ...
Life (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE ministering spirits from aboveDescend with energy creative fraught,They breathe on nature with the breath of love,And lo! she wakens ...
A Dispute With Death (Guido Cavalcanti Poems)
0 SLUGGISH, hard, ingrate, what doest thou?Poor sinner, folded round with heavy sin,Whose life to find out joy alone is ...
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 ...
De Rerum Virtute (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
I.Here is the skull of a man: a man's thoughts and emotionsHave moved under the thin bone vault like cloudsUnder ...
The Titmouse (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
You shall not be overboldWhen you deal with arctic cold,As late I found my lukewarm bloodChilled wading in the snow-choked ...
Renewed (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
WELCOME, rippling sunshine!Welcome, joyous air!Like a demon shadowFlies the gaunt despair!Heaven, through heights of happy calm,Its heart of hearts uncloses,To ...
Summer: Wednesday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Father! at whose awakening nodThe early day-break gilds the hills;'Tis Thine almighty mandate, God!Which mountain, valley, sea and sod,With light ...
Winter: Thursday Morning (John Bowring Poems)
Thou best of Beings!—now the night is fled,And day awakes in all its bliss again;Man, rising from his heaven-protected bed,Is ...
Summer: Saturday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Thro' the thick trees the evening breezes speak,And ripple the calm surface of the lake;And heaven is clad in its ...