Writing Poems (332 Poems)
Hymn To Life (James Schuyler Poems)
The wind rests its cheek upon the ground and feels the cool dampAnd lifts its head with twigs and small dead blades of grassPressed into it as you might at the beach rise up and brush awayThe sand. The day … Continue reading
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
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
The Muses Threnodie: Sixth Muse (Henry Adamson Poems)
As we arrived at our Lady’s Steps,Incontinent all men reversed their caps,Bidding us welcome home, and joining hand,They ask from whence we came, and from what land;Said we, some curious, catching every wind,Do run through sea and land to either … Continue reading
Under The Willows (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Frank-hearted hostess of the field and wood,Gypsy, whose roof is every spreading tree,June is the pearl of our New England year.Still a surprisal, though expected long.Her coming startles. Long she lies in wait,Makes many a feint, peeps forth, draws coyly … Continue reading
The Rural Life In New England. Canto Second (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
In the gay and crowded cityWhere the tall and jostling roof-treesJealous seem of one another,Jealous of the ground they stand on,Each one thrusting out its neighborFrom the sunrise, or the sunset,In a boarding school of fashionWas Miranda comprehended,Goal of her … 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
Hermann And Dorothea – II. Terpsichore (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
HERMANN. THEN when into the room the well-built son made his entry,Straightway with piercing glances the minister eyed him intently,And with carefulness watch’d his looks and the whole of his bearing,With an inquiring eye which easily faces decyphers;Then he smiled, … Continue reading
The Convocation: A Poem (Richard Savage Poems)
When Vertue’s Standard Ecclesiasticks bear,Their sacred Robe the noblest Minds revere.All to its Guidance do their Thoughts submit,But such who triumph in licentious Wit;And nauseous Mirth as high Desert esteem,When rais’d by Scorn upon Religion’s ThemeAs Kings by Right Divine … Continue reading
The Fovrth Booke Of Qvodlibets (Robert Hayman Poems)
1. To the Reader. Sermons and Epigrams haue a like end,To improue, to reproue, and to amend:Some passe without this vse, ’cause they are witty;And so doe many Sermons, more’s the pitty. 2. To the Reader. Of my small course, … Continue reading