A Gallery To The Temple. Peace (Ralph Knevet Poems)
(Peace) whether ar't thou fled? Thy native soyle Is Christendome: Into what unknowne Ile Ar't Thou retir'd from us? What made thee to estrange ...
Poems about anchorite (21 Poems)
Solitude (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Had I but lived when music-loving PanStill played his flute amid the whispering reeds,When through Arcadian groves the dryads ran,And--symbolizing ...
Life (Peter McArthur Poems)
DEAR God, I thank Thee for this resting place,This fleshly temple where my soul may dwell,And, like an anchorite within ...
Gossip (Ivan Nikitin Poems)
Though blameless thy living As Anchorite's fate,Yet Gossip will find thee Or early or late.Through keyhole he enters And stands at thy side,Doors ...
France (Percy MacKaye Poems)
Half artist and half anchorite, Part siren and part Socrates,Her face -- alluring fair, yet recondite -- Smiled through her salons and ...
The Empty Purse–A Sermon To Our Later Prodigal Son (George Meredith Poems)
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
The Borough. Letter XXIII: Prisons (George Crabbe Poems)
'TIS well--that Man to all the varying statesOf good and ill his mind accommodates;He not alone progressive grief sustains,But soon ...
A Modern Apostle III (Constance Naden Poems)
ALAN had preached his sermon--grave, devout, Yet full of lightnings and electric shocks For tender souls who reckoned even doubt ...
The Moors (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
COME out, said Leonard, bursting through my door, His black curls tangled like a fretting sea,-- "Come out, nor waste ...
To The Dead Cardinal Of Westminster (Francis Thompson Poems)
I will not perturbateThy Paradisal stateWith praiseOf thy dead days;To the new-heavened say, -"Spirit, thou wert fine clay:"This do,Thy praise ...
Eternal Justice (Charles Mackay Poems)
The man is thought a knave, or fool, Or bigot, plotting crime, Who, for the ...
The Inner Room (Arthur Conan Doyle Poems)
It is mine - the little chamber, Mine alone.I had it from ...
The Wren (Frederick William Faber Poems)
There is a bay, all still and lone, And in the shade one broad grey stone Where at the evening ...
The Roussalka (Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Poems)
A LEGEND OF THE WATER-SPRITEIn forest depths, beside a mere,A monk once made his habitation ;Absorbed in penances severe,In fast ...
Religio Medici (Arthur Conan Doyle Poems)
God's own best will bide the testAnd God's own worst will fall;But, best or worst or last or first,He ...
Apathy Is Ascribed To The Modest Man (Bhartrihari Poems)
Apathy is ascribed to the modest man, Fraud to the devout, ...
The Hermit (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
The Devil In Hell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Two Gardens in Linndale (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Two brothers, Oakes and Oliver, Two gentle men as ever were, Would roam no longer, but abide In Linndale, where ...