Media & News Poems (893 Poems)
Fitz Adam’s Story (James Russell Lowell Poems)
The next whose fortune ’twas a tale to tellWas one whom men, before they thought, loved well,And after thinking wondered why they did,For half he seemed to let them, half forbid,And wrapped him so in humors, sheath on sheath,‘Twas hard … Continue reading
A Broadway Idyl (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
For hours I stood upon The Bridge,1Which looms like a volcanic ridge,Above a scathing fire below.A flaming crater of burning hearts-And, as souls passed beneath my feet,As weary souls passed to and froA knowledge came, so sad, yet sweet,Each inner … Continue reading
The Maid Of Saxony; Or, Who’s The Traitor? – Act II (George Pope Morris Poems)
Scene I. Discovered. The stage represents a large apartment without the usual side-entrances. On the left hand is a row of long, old-fashioned windows, with painting-screens so arranged as to let the light fall obliquely on the tables beneath; at which the FACTORY GIRLS … Continue reading
The Believer’s Jointure : Chapter II. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
Containing the Marks and Characters of the Believer in Christ; together with some further privileges and grounds of comfort to the Saints. Sect. I.Doubting Believers called to examine, by marks drawn from their love to Him and his presence, their … 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
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
The Believer’s Principles : Chap. II. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
The Believer’s Principles concerning the Law and Gospel;Particularly, 1. The Mystery2. The Difference.3. The Harmony4. The Place and Station,Of Law and Gospel. Sect. I.The Mystery of Law and Gospel. Though law-commands and gospel-graceAgree in mutual joint embrace;Yet law and gospel … Continue reading
M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill’d in martial rule,First put the British troops to school;Instructed them in warlike trade,And new manoeuvres of parade,The true war-dance of Yankee reels,And manual exercise of heels;Made them give up, like saints complete,The arm of flesh, and trust … Continue reading
The Maid-Martyr (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Only you’d have me speak. Whether to speakOr whether to be silent is all one;Whether to sleep and in my dreaming frontHer small scared face forlorn; whether to wakeAnd muse upon her small soft feet that pacedThe hated, hard, inhospitable stone—I … Continue reading