Power Poems (4499 Poems)
The Desirable Undefined (Jared Barhite Poems)
I have often thought there’s a power Unknown to science or art, That opens and closes the portals That lead to the human heart. I have learned there’s a secret something That remains yet undefined, That touches the springs and pulleys That open the human mind. … Continue reading
The Pictures Of Memory (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
LIKE fairy groupes beneath the forest shade,With moonlight faintly scatter’d o’er the scene,In long perspective stretching to the view,The shadowy forms of memory convene. With mimic art they past events pourtray,Act every scene of pain and pleasure o’er,They touch the … Continue reading
The First Sacrifice (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
PART I.A small dell, open on one side to the surrounding country. An altar-mound of green turf. Adam and Eve standing beside it, a lamb lying at their feet. EVE.Adam, the hour is nigh!And this green mound,Smooth in its surface … Continue reading
The Retrospect: CWM Elan, 1812 (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
A scene, which ‘wildered fancy viewedIn the soul’s coldest solitude,With that same scene when peaceful loveFlings rapture’s colour o’er the grove,When mountain, meadow, wood and streamWith unalloying glory gleam,And to the spirit’s ear and eyeAre unison and harmony.The moonlight was … Continue reading
Lines To Agnes Baillie On Her Birthday (Joanna Baillie Poems)
DEAR Agnes, gleamed with joy and dashed with tears,O’er us have glided almost sixty yearsSince we on Bothwell’s bonny braes were seen,By those whose eyes long closed in death have been,Two tiny imps, who scarcely stooped to gatherThe slender hair-bell … Continue reading
The Soldier’s Prayer (Rees Prichard Poems)
THOU God of might, who dost o’er hosts preside,Who dost alone the doubtful battle guide,Who dost alone the joyful vict’ry gain,O hear my prayer in this dread campaign! Here in the crown’s, our king and country’s right,We, for our lands, … Continue reading
My Name Was Martha (Martha Moulsworth Poems)
A Renaissance Woman’sAutobiographical Poem Nouember the 10th 1632The Memorandum of Martha MoulsworthWiddoweThe tenth day of the winter month NouemberA day which I must duely still rememberdid open first theis eis, and shewed this lightNow on thatt day vppon thatt daie … Continue reading
The Contented Man’s Morice (George Wither Poems)
False world, thy malice I espieWith what thou hast designed;And therein with thee to comply,Who likewise are combined:But, do thy worst, I thee defie,Thy mischiefs are confined. From me, thou my estate hast torn,By cheatings me beguiled:Me thou hast also … Continue reading
Orpheus (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
A:Not far from hence. From yonder pointed hill,Crowned with a ring of oaks, you may beholdA dark and barren field, through which there flows,Sluggish and black, a deep but narrow stream,Which the wind ripples not, and the fair moonGazes in … Continue reading
The First Hymn Of Callimachus. To Jupiter (Matthew Prior Poems)
While we to Jove select the holy victimWhom apter shall we sing than Jove himself,The god for ever great, for ever king,Who slew the earthborn race, and measures rightTo heaven’s great ‘habitants? Dictaean hear’st thouMore joyful, or Lycaean, long disputeAnd … Continue reading