Nature Poems (9896 Poems)
Book I – Part 06 – Confutation Of Other Philosophers (Lucretius Poems)
And on such grounds it is that those who heldThe stuff of things is fire, and out of fireAlone the cosmic sum is formed, are seenMightily from true reason to have lapsed.Of whom, chief leader to do battle, comesThat Heraclitus, … Continue reading
Hermann And Dorothea – V. Polyhymnia (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE COSMOPOLITE. BUT the Three, as before, were still sitting and talking together,With the landlord, the worthy divine, and also the druggist,And the conversation still concern’d the same subject,Which in every form they had long been discussing together.Full of noble … Continue reading
Coombe-Ellen (William Lisle Bowles Poems)
Call the strange spirit that abides unseenIn wilds, and wastes, and shaggy solitudes,And bid his dim hand lead thee through these scenesThat burst immense around! By mountains, glens,And solitary cataracts that dashThrough dark ravines; and trees, whose wreathed rootsO’erhang the … Continue reading
Glotta (James Arbuckle Poems)
Sacred, O Glotta! be the following strains;Thy flow’ry borders, and thy pleasing plains,Inspire the Muse. Carnarvon, present be,I sing of Glotta, and I sing to thee;Whose late appearance in these northern climesIs thus reflected back in northern rhimes. Windsor’s fair … Continue reading
The Blind Girl Of Castel-Cuille. (From The Gascon of Jasmin) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
At the foot of the mountain heightWhere is perched Castel Cuille,When the apple, the plum, and the almond treeIn the plain below were growing white,This is the song one might perceiveOn a Wednesday morn of Saint Joseph’s Eve: “The roads … Continue reading
The Art Of Preserving Health. Book I (John Armstrong Poems)
AIR. Daughter of Paeon, queen of every joy,Hygeia; whose indulgent smile sustainsThe various race luxuriant nature pours,And on th’ immortal essences bestowsImmortal youth; auspicious, O descend!Thou chearful guardian of the rolling year,Whether thou wanton’st on the western gale,Or shak’st the … Continue reading
The Miracle Of The Corn (Padraic Colum Poems)
People in the LegendFARDORROUGHA A FarmerPAUDEEN Fardorroughas Servant: a FoolSHEILA Fardorroughas WifeAISLINN A ChildTHREE WOMENSHAUN o’ THE BOG A Poor Man The action passes in a farmer’s house in the old times. SCENE: The interior of FARDORROUGHA’S house. The door … Continue reading
Mazelli – Canto I (George W Sands Poems)
I. “Stay, traveller, stay thy weary steed,The sultry hour of noon is near,Of rest thy way-worn limbs have need,Stay, then, and, taste its sweetness here.The mountain path which thou hast spedIs steep, and difficult to tread,And many a farther step … Continue reading
Otho The Great – Act II (John Keats Poems)
SCENE I. An Ante-chamber in the Castle.Enter LUDOLPH and SIGIFRED.Ludolph. No more advices, no more cautioning:I leave it all to fate to any thing!I cannot square my conduct to time, place,Or circumstances; to me ’tis all a mist!Sigifred. I say … Continue reading
Elegiac Feelings American (Gregory Corso Poems)
1How inseparable you and the America you saw yet was neverthere to see; you and America, like the tree and theground, are one the same; yet how like a palm treein the state of Oregon. . . dead ere it … Continue reading