The Stranger (John Clare Poems)
When trouble haunts me, need I sigh? No, rather smile away despair;For those have been more sad than I, With burthens more ...
Poems about burthens (21 Poems)
Tribute To Oliver Wendell Holmes (Julia Ward Howe Poems)
Thou metamorphic god!Who mak'st the straight Olympus thy abode, Hermes to subtle laughter moving, Apollo with serener loving,Thou demi-god also!Who dost all ...
A Gallery To The Temple. The Burthen (Ralph Knevet Poems)
While on my self I doe reflect, I spy a brittle House of clay, With many imperfections deck't, Which while I labour to ...
68 (Mary Wroth Poems)
My paine still smother'd in my grieved brest,Seekes for some ease, yet cannot passage finde,To be discharg'd of this unwellcome ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Fourth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
But, when they were alone,--and now no more By that subduing presence overawed,-- With free tongue giving loose to wrath ...
The Borough. Letter XXIV: Schools (George Crabbe Poems)
To every class we have a School assign'd,Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:Yet one there is, that ...
Tale III (George Crabbe Poems)
THE GENTLEMAN FARMER.Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all,Who dwelt around, "the Gentleman" would call;Whether in pure humility or ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Twelfth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
While thus the gentle Aziel, at the sight Of holiness, to thoughts of Heaven recalled, Stood contrite, watchful,--by far different ...
The Parish Register – Part II: Marriages (George Crabbe Poems)
DISPOSED to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay;There's great advantage in a small delay:Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise ...
An Anthem Of Earth (Francis Thompson Poems)
Proemion.Immeasurable Earth!Through the loud vast and populacy of Heaven,Tempested with gold schools of ponderous orbs,That cleav'st with deep-revolting harmoniesPassage perpetual, ...
Night (Charles Churchill Poems)
AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD. Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii.When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,In pity's strains, the ...
The Toils Of The Voyager (George Jehoshaphat Mountain Poems)
I. WHAT song is this which on the water rings, Rousing the lonely post? — its flag ascends:Forth from the ...
Vertumnus and Pomona : Ovid’s Metamorphose (Alexander Pope Poems)
The fair Pomona flourish'd in his reign;Of all the Virgins of the sylvan train,None taught the trees a nobler race ...
Carisima (Albert Pike Poems)
'Do YOU NOT KNOW I LOVE YOU? "-So you cried, And blessed my lips with kisses multiplied, Sweeter than those ...
To The Sinking Sun (Francis Thompson Poems)
How graciously thou wear'st the yoke Of use that does not fail!The grasses, like an anchored smoke, Ride in the ...
Sacrament Hymn (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
ON a fair Sabbath day, when His banquet is spread, It is pleasant to feast ...
On Hearing The Introduction To “Lohengrin” (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
I. THOSE fine-drawn string?d notes so inly smite, It is as if the bows of sprites could strain The sensitive ...
In Love’s Eclipse (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
WHEN death-the dreadful shadow of the earth- Rests on the mortal face of Love's twin star, Love turns dismayed, as ...
Sonnets xiv (William Shakespeare Poems)
MY love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love ...
Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming (William Shakespeare Poems)
My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear; That love ...
Sonnet CII (William Shakespeare Poems)
My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love ...