Apples (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The old apple-tree at the top of the orchardLies flatOn its back . . .It's been like thatSince it came ...
Poems about afflict (21 Poems)
A Parodie (George Herbert Poems)
Soul's joy, when thou art gone, And I alone, ...
Complaining (George Herbert Poems)
Do not beguile my heart, Because thou artMy ...
The Rich Man’s Woes (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
HE 'S worth a million dollars and you think he should be glad,Because you want for money you believe he ...
The Life of Man (Francis Bacon Poems)
The world's a bubble; and the life of man less than a span.In his conception wretched; from the womb so ...
XXI. Modesty and Contentment (Ellis Walker Poems)
When you see any one with tears bemoanThe loss of goods or absence of a son,Whom he perhaps thinks drown'd ...
Written On A Rainy Good Friday (Charlotte Eliza Dixon Poems)
WEEP , ye Heavens! weep, I say!My tears shall swell your gushing torrent!A deed most foul was done to-day,Which neither ...
On The Death Of Elizabeth Scott (David John Scott Poems)
Ransom'd spirit, spread thy wings,Leave thy broken house of clay;Soar from earth and earthly things,To the realms of endless day.Weary ...
Enigma XXXV. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
SAY who was into Egypt sold,And there a dire event foretold, About t' afflict the land?Declare that prince of ...
Dawn (Arthur Symons Poems)
Here in the little roomYou sleep the sleep of innocent tired youth,While I, in very sooth,Tired, and awake beside you ...
Sonnet CV: “If thou art sinful, there are thousands then” (George Henry Boker Poems)
CVIf thou art sinful, there are thousands then Who howl from pulpits, and make dreary night Of texts as barefaced ...
What shall I do when the Summer troubles (Emily Dickinson Poems)
956What shall I do when the Summer troubles-What, when the Rose is ripe-What when the Eggs fly off in MusicFrom ...
Hymn To Adversity (Thomas Gray Poem)
Daughter of Jove, relentless Power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The Bad affright, ...
What shall I do when the Summer troubles — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
What shall I do when the Summer troubles -- What, when the Rose is ripe -- What when the Eggs ...
Psalm 63 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Longing after God; or, The love of God better than life. Great God, indulge my humble claim, Thou art my ...
Prothalamion (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did ...
Prometheus Unbound: Act I (excerpt) (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
SCENE.--A Ravine of Icy Rocks in the Indian Caucasus. Prometheus is discovered bound to the Precipice. Panthea and Ione areseated ...
La Solitude de St. Amant (Katherine Philips Poems)
1 O! Solitude, my sweetest choice Places devoted to the night, Remote from tumult, and from noise, How you my ...
The Question to Lisetta (Matthew Prior Poems)
WHAT nymph should I admire or trust, But Chloe beauteous, Chloe just? What nymph should I desire to see, But ...
The Daguerreotype (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
This, then, is she, My mother as she looked at seventeen, When she first met my father. Young incredibly, Younger ...
Paradise Regained: The First Book (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...