Place Poems (7098 Poems)
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
Antonio Melidori (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SCENE I.[A place not far from the summit of Mount Psiloriti, in the Isle of Candia. Philota discovered with a basket of grapes upon her head; she looks eagerly upward. Time, a little before sunset.]PHILOTA. WHY comes he not? Here … Continue reading
The Brus Book XIII (John Barbour Poems)
[Douglas's division attacks]Quhen thir twa fyrst bataillis werAssemblyt as I said you er,The Stewart Walter that than wasAnd the gud lord als of DouglasIn a bataill, quhen that thai sawThe erle foroutyn dred or awAssembill with his cumpanyOn all that … Continue reading
Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 07 – Beginnings Of Civilization (Lucretius Poems)
Afterwards,When huts they had procured and pelts and fire,And when the woman, joined unto the man,Withdrew with him into one dwelling place, Were known; and when they saw an offspring bornFrom out themselves, then first the human raceBegan to soften. … Continue reading
Vision Of Columbus – Book 1 (Joel Barlow Poems)
Long had the Sage, the first who dared to braveThe unknown dangers of the western wave,Who taught mankind where future empires layIn these fair confines of descending day,With cares o’erwhelm’d, in life’s distressing gloom,Wish’d from a thankless world a peaceful … Continue reading
The Brus Book IV (John Barbour Poems)
[English harshness to prisoners]In Rawchryne leve we now the kingIn rest foroutyn barganyng,And off his fayis a quhile speke weThat throu thar mycht and thar powsteMaid sic a persecuciouneSa hard, sa strayt and sa felouneOn thaim that till hym luffand … Continue reading
The Brus Book IX (John Barbour Poems)
[The king goes to Inverurie and falls ill]Now leve we intill the ForestDouglas that sall bot litill restTill the countre deliveryt beOff Inglis folk and thar powste,And turne we till the noble kingThat with the folk off his ledingTowart the … Continue reading
Time (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Genius of musings, who, the midnight hourWasting in woods or haunted forests wild,Dost watch Orion in his arctic tower,Thy dark eye fix’d as in some holy trance;Or when the vollied lightnings cleave the air,And Ruin gaunt bestrides the winged storm,Sitt’st … Continue reading
The Iliad: Book 14 (Homer Poems)
Nestor was sitting over his wine, but the cry of battle did notescape him, and he said to the son of Aesculapius, ‘What, nobleMachaon, is the meaning of all this? The shouts of men fighting by ourships grow stronger and … Continue reading
Goldilocks And Goldilocks (William Morris Poems)
It was Goldilocks woke up in the mornAt the first of the shearing of the corn. There stood his mother on the hearthAnd of new-leased wheat was little dearth. There stood his sisters by the quern,For the high-noon cakes they … Continue reading