Orlando Furioso Canto 7 (Ludovico Ariosto Poems)
ARGUMENTRogero, as directed by the pair,The giantess Eriphila o'erthrows.That done, he to Alcina's labyrinth, whereMore than one knight is tied ...
Posterity Poems (92 Poems)
Paradise Lost : Book VII. (John Milton Poems)
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that nameIf rightly thou art called, whose voice divineFollowing, above the Olympian hill I soar,Above ...
The Universe (Henry Baker Poems)
A POEM. Intended to restrain the Pride of Man.Thy Works, Eternal Power by whom she sings!The Muse attempts, and tunes ...
Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 1. (William Cowper Poems)
CHORUS OF ANGELS, Singing the Glory of God.To Heaven's bright lyre let Iris be the bow,Adapt the spheres for chords, ...
A Poem On The African Slave Trade. Addressed To Her Own Sex. Part II (Mary Birkett Card Poems)
ERST, when the Muse of Pity o'er me stole,And kindled new ideas in my soul;When Nature's rude effusions pour'd along,Impell'd ...
An Epistle From A Student At Oxford To The Chevalier (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
While You, dread Sir, whom partial Heav'n denies,The fruitful Vineyard and Cis--Alpine Skies,O'er frozen Heights and chilling Desarts stray,Far from ...
The Poet (Mark Akenside Poems)
-A RhapsodyOf all the various lots around the ball,Which fate to man distributes, absolute;Avert, ye gods! that of the Muse's ...
Conlath And Cuthona (James Macpherson Poems)
ARGUMENT.Conlath was the youngest of Morni's sons, and brother to the celebrated Gaul. He was in love with Cuthona, the ...
Life (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE ministering spirits from aboveDescend with energy creative fraught,They breathe on nature with the breath of love,And lo! she wakens ...
Advice And Warning To The Adulterer (Rees Prichard Poems)
HEAR my advice, Adulterer obscene!And often in thy mind these precepts roll,E'er thou dost haste with appetite unclean,And headlong passion ...
Ode (Michael Massey Robinson Poems)
FOR THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY, 1816.When Spain's proud Genius saw Columbus braveThe Western Course of the Atlantic Wave;Saw his aspiring Mind, ...
Epilogue To Schiller’s “Song Of The Bell” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
And so it proved! The nation felt, ere long, That peaceful signal, and, with blessings fraught, A new-born joy appeared; in gladsome ...
The Mice. A Tale – To Mr. Adrian Drift (Matthew Prior Poems)
Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion,And, what is more, good education,Frolic and gay, in infant yearsEqually shared their parents' ...
Epilogue to Schiller’s Song of the Bell (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
To this city joy reveal it! Peace as its first signal peal it! (Song of the Bell—concluding lines.)AND so it proved! The ...
The Dead (John William Streets Poems)
Let music vast, triumphal, fill the world's great nave,Voicing the peerless theme of noble youthWho rose to Life's sublimest greatness ...
In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbigh-shire, (Katherine Philips Poems)
I CANNOT hold, for though to write were rude,Yet to be silent were Ingratitude,And Folly too; for if PosterityShould never ...
Burlesque Verses for Music : The Crow, a Mock Cantata (Joshua Weston Poems)
Recitative.Mourn, mourn, ye muses in the doleful'st strains,And with your tears spoil all the roads - and soak the neighb'ring ...
The Bastille: A Vision (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
"Drear cell! along whose lonely bounds, Unvisited by light, Chill silence dwells with night,Save where the clanging fetter sounds! Abyss, where mercy never ...
The Vote of Thanks Debate (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
Valediction to his Book (John Donne Poems)
I'LL tell thee now (dear love) what thou shalt do To anger destiny, as she doth us ; How I shall stay, ...
An Omar for Ladies (Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon Poems)
IOne for her Club and her own Latch-key fights,Another wastes in Study her good Nights.Ah, take the Clothes and let ...
On The Centenary Of The Presidency College (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
A hundred years! The very phraseUnsepultures the million'd dead;Three generations in that space,Ghosts of the past, have breathed and fled.Time ...
To John Milton (John Clare Poems)
_"From his honoured friend, William Davenant"_Poet of mighty power, I fainWould court the muse that honoured thee,And, like Elisha's spirit, ...
To my dead friend Ben Johnson (Henry King Poems)
I see that wreath which doth the wearer arm'Gainst the quick strokes of thunder, is no charmTo keep off deaths ...
The Dying Philosopher (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
I have crept forth to die among the trees.They have sweet voices that I love to hear,Sweet, lute-like voices. They ...
Let Us Live Armenians (Khoren Nar Bey de Lusignan Poems)
LIVE as Armenians, brethren, in this world!That name to us do history's pages give ;The heavens above salute us by ...
My Tomb (Pierre Jean de Beranger Poems)
(MON TOMBEAU) What! whilst I'm well, beforehand you design, At vast expense, for me to build a shrine? Friends, 'tis absurd! to no ...
Whether (By The Workes Of The Law) Any Of Adams Heyres May Be Restored Into Gods Fauour. (Henry Arthington Poems)
Some Men suppose, that though mans fallDid bring his of spring into paine,Yet God his Law gaue vnto all,To reconcile ...
To the Queen at Oxford (Henry King Poems)
Great Lady! That thus quite against our use,We speak your welcome by an English Muse,And in a vulgar tongue our ...
Meditation (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
With sadness I survey our present generation!Their future seems so empty, dark, and cold,Weighed down beneath a load of knowing ...