The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto II (Richard Savage Poems)
While thus a mind humane, and wise, he shows,All-eloquent of truth his language flows.Youth, tho' depress'd, thro' all his form ...
Poems about afflictive (12 Poems)
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. II. (Patience – Perjury) (Henry Baker Poems)
Patience.See Consolation.--Where--e'er the FatesCall, or recall Us, let Us follow still:Whate'er it be, all Fortune is subdu'dBy Patience.--Evils, for which ...
In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbigh-shire, (Katherine Philips Poems)
I CANNOT hold, for though to write were rude,Yet to be silent were Ingratitude,And Folly too; for if PosterityShould never ...
An Ode – Inscribed To The Memory Of The Hon. Colonel George Villiers (Matthew Prior Poems)
Say, dearest Villiers, poor departed friend,(Since fleeting life thus suddenly must end)Say, what did all thy busy hopes avail,That anxious ...
Man the Monarch (Mary Leapor Poems)
Amaz'd we read of Nature's early ThroesHow the fair Heav'ns and pond'rous Earth arose:How blooming Trees unplanted first began;And Beasts ...
A Prayer For A Clergyman, When He Goes To Visit The Sick, Or In The Time Of A Plague (Rees Prichard Poems)
Behold, my gracious God! with pitying eye,What dangers in my painful office lie,Who never must, at any season, ceaseTo visit ...
A Monody On The Death Of Mrs. Krutze. (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
OH Death! insatiate archer! why on mePour forth thy vengeance with a shaft so keen?Why was no other victim mark'd ...
On The Death Of The Rev. Mr. Suckling (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
ALAS! what mean those sudden plaints of woe,That strike my startled ear with accents wild?Relentless Death has aim'd th' unerring ...
The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
Birthday of but a single pang (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Birthday of but a single pang That there are less to come -- Afflictive is the Adjective But affluent the ...
Hymn 5 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Submission to afflictive providences. Job 1:21. Naked as from the earth we came, And crept to life at first, We ...
In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbigh-shire (Katherine Philips Poems)
I CANNOT hold, for though to write were rude, Yet to be silent were Ingratitude, And Folly too; for if ...