Belphegor Addressed To Miss De Chammelay (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place,The last effusions of my muse to grace.O charming Phillis! may the same ...
Poems about bailiffs (21 Poems)
A Poem, On The Year 1629, When The Corn Was Unwholesome By Reason Of Excessive Rain (Rees Prichard Poems)
Thou Sov'reign of mercy! thou Sire of all pow'r!Who feedest the hungry, with-hold not our foodFrom us, who forgiveness repentant ...
The Authors: A Satire (Richard Savage Poems)
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
Lady Wentworth (Nora Perry Poems)
'She shall marry me yet,' he smiling said -Smiling, and under his breath - but redAs flame his dark cheek ...
The Bards Who Lived at Manly (Henry Lawson Poems)
The camp of high-class spielers, Who sneered in summer dress,And doo-dah dilettante, And scornful "venuses"-House agents, and storekeepers, All eager they to "bleed"-The bards ...
To Victor Daley (Henry Lawson Poems)
I THOUGHT that silence would be best, But I a call have heard,And, Victor, after all the rest, I well might say ...
The Nabob (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
(To the memory of William Hickey, Esq.)COMING out of India with ten thousand a yearExchanged for flesh and temper, a ...
In A/C With Ghosts (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
You can shuffle and scuffle and scold, You can rattle the knockers and knobs,Or batter the doorsteps with buckets of gold Till ...
Description of an Author’s Bedchamber (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
WHERE the Red Lion flaring o'er the way,Invites each passing stranger that can pay;Where Calvert's butt, and Parsons' black champagne,Regale ...
An Author’s Bedchamber (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR'S BEDCHAMBERWHERE the Red Lion flaring o'er the way,Invites each passing stranger that can pay;Where Calvert's butt, ...
Sonnet To A Clam (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
Dum tacent clamantINGLORIOUS friend! most confident I am Thy life is one of very little ease; Albeit men mock thee with their ...
On Circuit (Horace Smith Poems)
Two neighbours, fighting for a yard of land;Two witnesses, who _lie_ on either hand;Two lawyers, issuing many writs and pleas;Two ...
The Conference (Charles Churchill Poems)
Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree,When they are told that grace was said by me;The servants gone to ...
The Borough. Letter VI: Professions–Law (George Crabbe Poems)
TRADES and Professions--these are themes the Muse,Left to her freedom, would forbear to choose;But to our Borough they in truth ...
Off Scarborough (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(SEPTEMBER, 1779)I"Have a care!" the bailiffs cried From their cockleshell that layOff the frigate's yellow side, Tossing on Scarborough Bay,While ...
A Parody (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
ON PORT ROYAL SHORE. SIX months had William skulking been,About fair Britain's Isle;Six months--and scarce a friend had seen,Poor William ...
Another Economic Riddle (C J Dennis Poems)
I venerate economists As very learned blokes,But when in paradox they speakTheir meaning oft I vainly seek, Suspecting subtle jokes.They ...
Thick-Headed Thoughts: Part 3 (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
'Tis a wicked world we live in;Wrong in reason, wrong in rhyme;But no matter: we'll not give inWhile we still ...
Belphegor Addressed To Miss De Chammelay (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
M’Fingal – Canto II (John Trumbull Poems)
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
A Description of the Morning (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Now hardly here and there a hackney-coach Appearing, show'd the ruddy morn's approach. Now Betty from her master's bed had ...