On Beauty. A Riddle (Matthew Prior Poems)
Resolve Me, Cloe, what is This:Or forfeit me One precious Kiss.'Tis the first Off-spring of the Graces;Bears diff'rent Forms in ...
Poems about alcides (21 Poems)
Louisa To Strephon (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Ah! Strephon, how can you despiseHer, who without thy pity dies!To Strephon I have still been true,And of as noble ...
Atlas; Or The Minister Of State (Jonathan Swift Poems)
TO THE LORD TREASURER OXFORD 1710Atlas, we read in ancient song,Was so exceeding tall and strong,He bore the skies upon ...
The Honest Shepherd (Matthew Prior Poems)
When hungry wolves had trespass'd on the fold,And the robb'd shepherd his sad story told,"Call in Alcides," said a crafty ...
Epigram 23 (Henry Parrot Poems)
Non omnia possumus omnes Who saies Alcides hath more beard then wit? Whose place and countenance controlleth it Pish 'twas not meant he ...
The Temple of Fame (Alexander Pope Poems)
In that soft season, when descending show'rsCall forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;When op'ning buds salute the welcome ...
Hero And Leander: The Second Sestiad (Christopher Marlowe Poems)
By this, sad Hero, with love unacquainted,Viewing Leander's face, fell down and fainted.He kissed her and breathed life into her ...
Appendix: Containing The Author’s Conversation With His Bookseller, &c. (Christopher Anstey Poems)
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
Joseph (Daniel Baker Poems)
I. Not the Pellaean Conquerour, To whose insatiate restless Mind The spacious Globe too narrow did appear; It made him ...
The Ideal And The Actual Life (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Forever fair, forever calm and bright,Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice—Moons wane, and ...
Doubtful Dreams (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Aye, snows are rife in December, And sheaves are in August yet,And you would have me remember, And I would ...
In Obitum Honoratissimi Viri, Rogeri Manwood, Militis, Quaestorii Reginalis Capitalis Bareonis (Christopher Marlowe Poems)
NOCTIVAGI terror, ganeonis triste flagellum,Et Jovis Alcides, rigido vulturque latroni,Urna subtegitur. Scelerum, gaudete, nepotes!Insons, luctifica sparsis cervice capillis,Plange! fori lumen, ...
The Miseries of Man (Anne Killigrew Poem)
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
Endimion and Phoebe (excerpts) (Michael Drayton Poem)
In Ionia whence sprang old poets' fame, From whom that sea did first derive her name, The blessed bed whereon ...
Nymphidia, The Court Of Fairy (excerpts) (Michael Drayton Poem)
But let us leave Queen Mab a while, Through many a gate, o'er many a stile, That now had gotten ...
The Ideal And The Actual Life (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Forever fair, forever calm and bright, Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice-- Moons ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
A Letter To Doctor Ingelo, then With My Lord Whitlock, Amba (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Quid facis Arctoi charissime transfuga coeli, Ingele, proh sero cognite, rapte cito? Num satis Hybernum defendis pellibus Astrum, Qui modo ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...