Sense & Perception Poems (7587 Poems)
Ruth (Henry Lawson Poems)
All is well-in a prison-to-night, and the warders are crying ‘All’s Well!’I must speak, for the sake of my heart-if it’s but to the walls of my cell.For what does it matter to me if to-morrow I go where I … Continue reading
A Poem On The African Slave Trade. Addressed To Her Own Sex. Part I (Mary Birkett Card Poems)
OPPRESSION! thou, whose hard and cruel chain,Entails on all thy victims woe and pain;Who gives with tyrant force and scorpion whip,The cup of mis’ry to a Negro’s lip;Marks with stern frown thy wide, unhallow’d reign,And broods with gloomy wing o’er … Continue reading
Fingal – Book II (James Macpherson Poems)
ARGUMENT. The ghost of Crugal, one of the Irish heroes who was killed in battle, appearing to Connal, foretells the defeat of Cuthullin in the next battle, and earnestly advises him to make peace with Swaran. Connal communicates the vision; … Continue reading
Pictures From Appledore (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I A heap of bare and splintery cragsTumbled about by lightning and frost,With rifts and chasms and storm-bleached jags,That wait and growl for a ship to be lost;No island, but rather the skeletonOf a wrecked and vengeance-smitten one,Where, aeons ago, … Continue reading
The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter V. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
Arguments and Encouragements to Gospel Ministers to avoid a Legal strain of Doctrine, and endeavour the Sinner’s match with Christ by Gospel-means. Sect. I.A Legal Spirit the root of Damnable Errors. Ye heralds great, that blow in name of God,The … Continue reading
The Blind Girl Of Castel Cuille (Jacques Jasmin Poems)
Only the Lowland tongue of Scotland mightRehearse this little tragedy aright;Let me attempt it with an English quill;And take, O Reader, for the deed the will. I At the foot of the mountain height Where is perched Castel Cuille,When the apple, … Continue reading
Shakuntala Act II (Kalidasa Poems)
ACT II SCENE – A PLAIN, with royal pavilions on the skirt of the forest. Madhavya. (Emperor’s court jester)[Sighing and lamenting.] STRANGE recreation this! -Ah me! I am wearied to death. -My royal friend has an unaccountable taste. -What can … Continue reading
Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. (Jonathan Swift Poems)
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drewFrom Nature, I believe ‘em true:They argue no corrupted mindIn him; the fault is in mankind.This maxim more than all the restIs thought too base for human breast:“In all distresses of our friends,We first consult our … Continue reading
Songs of the Night Watches (complete) (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(Old English Manner.) APPRENTICED. Come out and hear the waters shoot, the owlet hoot, the owlet hoot; Yon crescent moon, a golden boat, hangs dim behind the tree, O!The dropping thorn makes white the grass, O sweetest lass, and sweetest lass; Come out … Continue reading
Advice To Ev’ry Master Of A Family, To Govern His House In A Religious Manner (Rees Prichard Poems)
If truly pious thou wou’dst fain appear,And strictly Christian, whilst thou livest here,To a small church convert thy own abode,And make thy private house, the house of God. Make thou a hallow’d church of thy abode,And let thy family, like … Continue reading