Success Poems (5537 Poems)
The Little Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold.Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold.To this the god of love has oft recourse,When arrows fail to reach the secret source,And I’ll maintain he’s right, for, ‘mong mankind,Nice presents ev’ry where … Continue reading
M’Fingal – Canto III (John Trumbull Poems)
Now warm with ministerial ire,Fierce sallied forth our loyal ‘Squire,And on his striding steps attendsHis desperate clan of Tory friends.When sudden met his wrathful eyeA pole ascending through the sky,Which numerous throngs of whiggish raceWere raising in the market-place.Not higher … Continue reading
The Hind And The Panther, A Poem In Three Parts : Part I. (John Henry Dryden Poems)
A milk-white Hind, immortal and unchanged,Fed on the lawns, and in the forest ranged;Without unspotted, innocent within,She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.Yet had she oft been chased with horns and hounds,And Scythian shafts; and many winged woundsAimed … Continue reading
Resignation Pt 1 (Edward Young Poems)
The days how few, how short the yearsOf man’s too rapid race!Each leaving, as it swiftly flies,A shorter in its place. They who the longest lease enjoy,Have told us with a sigh,That to be born seems little moreThan to begin … Continue reading
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 by Fancy, rais’d th’unpolish’d song;Then, when Imagination – Charming Maid,In all the rainbow’s lively hues array’d,Bade me her visionary heights … Continue reading
Scenes From The Faust Of Goethe (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
SCENE 1.-PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN. THE LORD AND THE HOST OF HEAVEN. ENTER THREE ARCHANGELS. RAPHAEL:The sun makes music as of oldAmid the rival spheres of Heaven,On its predestined circle rolledWith thunder speed: the Angels evenDraw strength from gazing on its … Continue reading
Paradise Regain’d : Book I. (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sungBy one man’s disobedience lost, now singRecovered Paradise to all mankind,By one man’s firm obedience fully triedThrough all temptation, and the Tempter foiledIn all his wiles, defeated and repulsed,And Eden raised in the waste … Continue reading
Paradise Regain’d : Book II. (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remainedAt Jordan with the Baptist, and had seenHim whom they heard so late expressly calledJesus Messiah, Son of God, declared,And on that high authority had believed,And with him talked, and with him lodged—I meanAndrew and … Continue reading
Shakuntala Act VII (Final Act) (Kalidasa Poems)
ACT VIIKing Dushyant with Matali in the chariot of Indra (king of gods in heaven and also god of thunder), supposed to be above the clouds.King Dushyant: I am sensible, O Matali, that, for having executed the commission which Indra … Continue reading
The Iliad: Book 12 (Homer Poems)
So the son of Menoetius was attending to the hurt of Eurypyluswithin the tent, but the Argives and Trojans still fought desperately,nor were the trench and the high wall above it, to keep the Trojans incheck longer. They had built … Continue reading