General Confession (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
In this noble ring to-dayLet my warning shame ye!Listen to my solemn voice,—Seldom does it name ye.Many a thing have ...
Poems about absolution (21 Poems)
From Fleeting Pleasures (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
A REQUIEM FOR ONE ALIVE.From fleeting pleasures and abiding cares,From sin's seductions and from Satan's snares,From woes and wrath to ...
Unhousel’d, Unanointed, Unanel’d (Katharine Tynan Poems)
When these men must go aloneSans an absolution,When their sins are heavy as lead,Thou Thyself will lift the head ;Thou, ...
Rest (Mathilde Blind Poems)
WE are so tired, my heart and I.Of all things here beneath the skyOne only thing would please us best--Endless, ...
Like An Evil Spirit (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
Like an evil spirit hast thou Shocked my heart from out its rest,If thou'lt take it quite away now-- Thou wilt win ...
Fragments From “The Brigand.” A Poem. Canto III (Albert Pike Poems)
The twenty-fifth had come; Peru awoke;One cry for freedom from her green hills broke,From her wide plains and valleys; and ...
Sea Dreams (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
A city clerk, but gently born and bred;His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child—One babe was theirs, a Margaret, three ...
Absolution (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THREE months had passed since she had knelt before The grate of the confessional, and he, --The priest--had ...
Don Diego Of The South (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(REFECTORY, MISSION SAN GABRIEL, 1869)Good!--said the Padre,--believe me still,"Don Giovanni," or what you will,The type's eternal! We knew him hereAs ...
GENERAL CONFESSION. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
In this noble ring to-day Let my warning shame ye! Listen to my solemn voice,-- Seldom does it name ye. ...
The Husband-Confessor (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Francis (named the first) o'er Frenchmen reign'd, In Italy young Arthur laurels gained, And oft such daring valour showed ...
The Case Of Conscience (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
AN EVENING WITH JOHN HEATH-STUBBS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Alone in Sutton with Fynbos my orange cat A long weekend of wind and rain drowning The tumultuous flurry of ...
Sea Dreams (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
A city clerk, but gently born and bred; His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child-- One babe was theirs, a ...
Phillis, Or, the Progress of Love (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Desponding Phillis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near; Salute her, and ...
Black Moran (Robert William Service Poems)
The mule-skinner was Bill Jerome, the passengers were three; Two tinhorns from the dives of Nome, and Father Tim McGee. ...
The Poet as Hero (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
You've heard me, scornful, harsh, and discontented, Mocking and loathing War: you've asked me why Of my old, silly sweetness ...
The Trumpeter, an Old English Tale (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
It was in the days of a gay British King (In the old fashion'd custom of merry-making) The Palace of ...
Faith (George William Russell Poems)
HERE where the loves of others close The vision of my heart begins. The wisdom that within us grows Is ...
Plea (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Secrets, you said, would hold us two apart; You'd have me know of you your least transgression, And so the ...