Love Poems (19819 Poems)
History of the Twentieth Century (A Roadshow) (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
The Sun’s in its orbit, yet I feel morbid. Act 1 Prologue Ladies and gentlemen and the day!All ye made of sweet human clay!Let me tell you: you are o’kay. Our show is to start without much delay.So let me inform … Continue reading
Carmen Seculare. For the Year 1700. To The King (Matthew Prior Poems)
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, Superior to the rest;Aera’s deriv’d, and Chronicles begunFrom Empires founded, and from Battels won:Show all the Spoils by valiant Kings … Continue reading
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 shade,And hear the warbling birds I the damsels said:The wood-dove from the forest depth shall coo,Like voices of the Gods … Continue reading
Festus – XIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
In one of earth’sHead cities, awaiting this, the effect unknown,Of evil, not, truly, all–wise, we towerlike rise;With eminent but indifferent eye survey,Subdue, in thought, society, now in allIts greater grades seen. Secret science, sinceDivert to aims of power mysterious, schemesFor … Continue reading
Festus – XLI (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Millennial earth, transfigured to a star,The rebegotten world, see, born again;Good, universal order, peace and joy.Fruits of the new creation, all the heirsHoly, of light, share; sweet command in these,In those, obedience sweeter still. All artSublimed, all science hallowed, to … Continue reading
On the Prospect of Peace (Thomas Tickell Poems)
______ SacerdosFronde super mitram, & felici comptus oliva.Virg. To the Lord Privy Seal Contending kings, and fields of death, too longHave been the subject of the British song.Who hath not read of fam’d Ramillia’s plain,Bavaria’s fall, and Danube choak’d with … Continue reading
Otho The Great – Act I (John Keats Poems)
A TRAGEDYIN FIVE ACTSDRAMATIS PERSONSOTHO THE GREAT, Emperor of Germany.LUDOLPH, his Son.CONRAD, Duke of Franconia.ALBERT, a Knight, favoured by Otho.SIGIFRED, an Officer, friend of Ludolph.THEODORE, an OfficerGONFRED, an OfficerETHELBERT. an Abbot.GERSA, Prince of Hungary.An Hungarian Captain.Physician.Page.Nobles, Knights, Attendants, and Soldiers.ERMINIA, Niece of … Continue reading
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 in the order that seemsto me most fitting. CIC. Begin, then, to read. TANSILLO. 1. Ye Muses, that so … Continue reading
The Dreams That Came True (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere The world, her fixed foredooméd oval tracing,Rolling and rolling on and resting never, While like a phantom fell, behind her pacingThe unfurled flag of night, her shadow drear Fled as she fled and hung to … Continue reading
Ballad of Reading Gaol II (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Version II He did not wear his scarlet coat,For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his handsWhen they found him with the dead,The poor dead woman whom he loved,And murdered in her bed. He walked amongst … Continue reading