Life Poems (14739 Poems)
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 their mean estate,To feel for misery, and to look on crimeWith ruth, till they forget that they themselvesAre of the … Continue reading
The Destruction Of Troy (John Denham Poems)
AN ESSAY ON THE SECOND BOOK OF VIRGIL’S AENEIS, THE ARGUMENT. The first book speaks of Aeneas’s voyage by sea, and how, being cast bytempest upon the coast of Carthage, he was received by Queen Dido, who,after the feast, desires … Continue reading
Hudibras: Part 3 – Canto III (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENT The Knight and squire’s prodigious FlightTo quit th’ inchanted Bow’r by Night.He plods to turn his amorous SuitT’ a Plea in Law, and prosecuteRepairs to Counsel, to advise‘Bout managing the Enterprise;But first resolves to try by Letter,And one … Continue reading
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
The Iliad: Book 10 (Homer Poems)
Now the other princes of the Achaeans slept soundly the wholenight through, but Agamemnon son of Atreus was troubled, so that hecould get no rest. As when fair Juno’s lord flashes his lightning intoken of great rain or hail or … Continue reading
Cymon And Iphigenia. From Boccace (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Old as I am, for lady’s love unfit,The power of beauty I remember yet,Which once inflamed my soul, and still inspires my wit.If love be folly, the severe divine;Has felt that folly, though he censures mine;Pollutes the pleasures of a … 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 Day And The War (James Madison Bell Poems)
Sacred to the memory of the immortal Captain John Brown, the hero, saint and martyr of Harper’s Ferry. The following poem is most respectfully inscribed, by one who loved him in life, and in death would honor his memory. Twelve … 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