O Gather Me the Rose (William Ernest Henley Poem)
O gather me the rose, the rose, While yet in flower we find it, For summer smiles, but summer goes, ...
Poems about canker (21 Poems)
She, To Him III (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I WILL be faithful to thee; aye, I will! And Death shall choose me with a wondering eye That he ...
Sonnet XIII: Letters and Lines (Michael Drayton Poem)
To the Shadow Letters and lines we see are soon defac'd, Metals do waste and fret with canker's rust, The ...
Sorrow (Li Ching Chao Poem)
To the melody of "Sheng Sheng Man" I pine and peak And questless seek Groping and moping to linger and ...
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year (Lord Byron Poem)
Missolonghi, Jan. 22, 1824 'Tis time this heart should be unmoved, Since others it hath ceased to move: Yet, though ...
56. Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet (Robert Burns Poem)
WHILE winds frae aff Ben-Lomond blaw, An' bar the doors wi' driving snaw, An' hing us owre the ingle, I ...
110. Epistle to a Young Friend (Robert Burns Poems)
May-, 1786.I LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither ...
Regret (Robert William Service Poems)
It's not for laws I've broken That bitter tears I've wept, But solemn vows I've spoken And promises unkept; It's ...
Sonnet LXX (William Shakespeare Poems)
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of ...
Sonnet XCIX (William Shakespeare Poems)
The forward violet thus did I chide: Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from ...
Sonnet XCV (William Shakespeare Poems)
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the ...
Sonnet XXXV (William Shakespeare Poems)
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses ...
Sonnet 99: The forward violet thus did I chide (William Shakespeare Poems)
The forward violet thus did I chide: "Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from ...
Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done (William Shakespeare Poems)
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done. Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud, Clouds and eclipses ...
Sonnet 54: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem (William Shakespeare Poems)
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, ...
Sonnet 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect (William Shakespeare Poems)
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of ...
Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame (William Shakespeare Poems)
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the ...
Passing away, saith the World (Christina Rossetti Poems)
Passing away, saith the World, passing away: Chances, beauty and youth, sapp'd day by day: Thy life never continueth in ...
Arcades (John Milton Poems)
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, ...
From ‘Arcades’ (John Milton Poems)
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
Lycidas (John Milton Poems)
In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, ...