Fie On Love (Francis Beaumont Poems)
Now fie on foolish love, it not befits Or man or woman know it.Love was not meant for people in ...
Poems about bedlam (21 Poems)
Anticipating (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They are downstairs, away from my office romping and shouting, in the living room I hear their squeals, their play, ...
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 ...
Sonnet IX: As Other Men (Michael Drayton Poem)
As other men, so I myself do muse Why in this sort I wrest invention so, And why these giddy ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Leaf Sermon (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I have been spiritually poisoned by the unclean, in ignorance blessed their springs. In consequence I withered and drifted down ...
The Four Ages of Man (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
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! ...
Visits To St. Elizabeths (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
This is the house of Bedlam. This is the man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is the ...
133. The Brigs of Ayr (Robert Burns Poems)
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
A Satyre Against Mankind (John Wilmot Poems)
Were I - who to my cost already am One of those strange, prodigious creatures, man - A spirit free ...
A Letter from Artemesia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (John Wilmot Poems)
Chloe, In verse by your command I write. Shortly you'll bid me ride astride, and fight: These talents better with ...
The Double Image (Anne Sexton Poems)
1. I am thirty this November. You are still small, in your fourth year. We stand watching the yellow leaves ...
Lullaby (Anne Sexton Poems)
It is a summer evening. The yellow moths sag against the locked screens and the faded curtains suck over the ...
Talking To Little Birdies (Charles Simic Poems)
Not a peep out of you now After the bedlam early this morning. Are you begging pardon of me Hidden ...
Mrs Frances Haris’s Petition (Jonathan Swift Poems)
To their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland, The humble petition of Frances Harris, Who must starve and die a ...
Poem (Remember midsummer: the fragrance of box) (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Remember midsummer: the fragrance of box, of white roses And of phlox. And upon a honeysuckle branch Three snails hanging ...
Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
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 ...
Spinster (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Now this particular girl During a ceremonious april walk With her latest suitor Found herself, of a sudden, intolerably struck ...