Fantasma (Albert Pike Poems)
I sit, unconscious of all things around,And look into my soul. Within it farThere is an image, dim and indistinct.Of ...
Poems about adversity (21 Poems)
Views Of Life (Anne Bronte Poems)
When sinks my heart in hopeless gloom,And life can show no joy for me;And I behold a yawning tomb,Where bowers ...
Liberality, Or The Decayed Macaroni (Christopher Anstey Poems)
I am a decay'd macaroni, My lodging's up three pair of stairs; My cheeks are grown wondrously bony, And grey, ...
Repose (Frances Fuller Victor Poems)
I lay me down straight, with closed eyes, And pale hands folded across my breast, Thinking, unpained, ...
To The Shade Of Mary Robinson (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
"HOW sadly, sweet seraph, I mourn that I never, I ne'er was so happy thee living to know! How sadly ...
Apostrophe (Charlotte Smith Poems)
TO AN OLD TREE. WHERE thy broad branches brave the bitter North,Like rugged, indigent, unheeded, worth,Lo! Vegetation's guardian hands embossEach ...
A Reprimand (Frances Fuller Victor Poems)
Behold my soul? She sits so far above you Your wildest dream has never glanced so high; ...
On Seeing A Butterfly Some Miles Out At Sea (Caroline Fry Poems)
THOU surely art rash, with thy pinions of gold, To be flitting thus far from thy home in the ...
The Emigrant (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
"Oh! I shall ne'er forget thee, wretched wight! While memory holds forget thee shall I never; Thy conscious form, that ...
Verses II (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Supposed to have been written in the New Forest,in early Spring. AS in the woods, where leathery Lichen weavesIts wint'ry ...
Sonnet LXV. To Dr. Parry Of Bath (Charlotte Smith Poems)
With some botanic drawings which had been madesome years. IN happier hours, ere yet so keenly blewAdversity's cold blight, and ...
The Building of the Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
My Hope in the Lord (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Even in the storms the disquiet of my life seeking clarity for my path that you would guide my feet ...
Reverse cannot befall (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Reverse cannot befall That fine Prosperity Whose Sources are interior -- As soon -- Adversity A Diamond -- overtake In ...
The Spirit lasts — but in what mode — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Spirit lasts -- but in what mode -- Below, the Body speaks, But as the Spirit furnishes -- Apart, ...
How happy I was if I could forget (Emily Dickinson Poem)
How happy I was if I could forget To remember how sad I am Would be an easy adversity But ...
The going from a world we know (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The going from a world we know To one a wonder still Is like the child's adversity Whose vista is ...
The Emigrants: Book I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792. ...
The Emigrants: Book II (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
Ode to Reflection (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
O THOU, whose sober precepts can controul The wild impatience of the troubled soul, Sweet Nymph serene ! whose all-consoling ...
The Alien Boy (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
'Twas on a Mountain, near the Western Main An ALIEN dwelt. A solitary Hut Built on a jutting crag, o'erhung ...