Success Poems (5537 Poems)
Stanza’s Concerning Some Persons And Things, That Are Mentioned In The Holy Scriptures (Rees Prichard Poems)
FROM Adam’s lapse, this useful lesson learn,“As the least sin, there’s nothing costs so much”Thence, too, the danger thou may’st well discern,“All things forbidden by the Lord, to touch.” Old Eve, by her offence and fatal crime,Has thrown a powerful … Continue reading
Modern Moses (James Madison Bell Poems)
There is a tide in men’s affairs,Leading to fame not wholly theirs —Leading to high positions, wonThrough noble deeds by others done.And crowns there are, and not a few,And royal robes and sceptres, too,That have, in every age and land,Been … Continue reading
British Georgics. January (James Grahame Poems)
The labours of the plough, the various toilsThat, still returning with the changeful year,Demand the husbandman’s and cottar’s care;The joys and troubles of the peasant’s life;His days and nights of festive mirth, that serve,Though few, yet long foreseen, remembered long,To … Continue reading
Joconde (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IN Lombardy’s fair land, in days of yore,Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store;Each FAIR, with anxious look, his favours sought,And ev’ry heart within his net was caught.Quite proud of beauteous form and smart address,In which the world … Continue reading
Rhodon And Iris. Act IV (Ralph Knevet Poems)
SCEN. 1.Iris, Panace, Violetta.Ir. Curst was the wight that did in murther first Embrue his guilty hands: curst was that hand Which first was taught by damned hellish art To forge the killing blade in Vulcans flames: What raging fury raignes in mortall brests, That man should … Continue reading
Mogg Megone – Part II. (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
‘Tis morning over Norridgewock, —On tree and wigwam, wave and rock.Bathed in the autumnal sunshine, stirredAt intervals by breeze and bird,And wearing all the hues which glowIn heaven’s own pure and perfect bow,That glorious picture of the air,Which summer’s light-robed … Continue reading
Hermann And Dorothea – VI. Klio (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE AGE. WHEN the pastor ask’d the foreign magistrate questions,What the people had suffer’d, how long from their homes they had wander’d,Then the man replied:–”By no means short are our sorrows,For we have drunk the bitters of many a long … Continue reading
The Old-Home Folks (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Such was the Child-World of the long-ago–The little world these children used to know:–Johnty, the oldest, and the best, perhaps,Of the five happy little Hoosier chapsInhabiting this wee world all their own.–Johnty, the leader, with his native toneOf grave command–a … Continue reading
A Story Of Plantagenet (Nora Pembroke Poems)
In the small Village of St Joseph, below the City of Ottawa, stilllives or did live very recently, an ancient couple, whole story istold in the following lines. PART I Lays of fair dames of lofty birth, And golden hair alt … Continue reading
A Story Of Carn Brea – Book First (John Harris Poems)
ARGUMENT. THE Poem opens with an Allusion to bright Gems and noble Minds often shining amid Rubbish and Barrenness-Song of the Moorland Maiden-The Author’s Love of Nature-His County his Copy-Book-The Horsemen-Carn Brea-Rain Storm-Cottage on a Rock-Burial of a Christian-Sabbath Evening … Continue reading