Woe! to the just occasion that compels (Christopher Anstey Poems)
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
Poems about chastise (21 Poems)
La Priere de Nostre Dame (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
A.Almighty and all-merciable Queen,To whom all this world fleeth for succour,To have release of sin, of sorrow, of teen!Glorious Virgin! ...
An ABC (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
Incipit carmen secundum ordinem litterarum alphabeti.Almighty and al merciable queene,To whom that al this world fleeth for socour,To have relees ...
The Crusaders (C J Dennis Poems)
Peter the 'Ermit was a 'oly bloke, The parson sez, "wot chivvied coves to war." "Too right," I ...
A Girl’s Sin – In Her Eyes (Francis Thompson Poems)
Cross child! red, and frowning so? 'I, the day just over,Gave a lock of hair to--no! How DARE you say, ...
We Want Land (George Cosbuc Poems)
I'm hungry, naked, homeless, through,Because of loads I had to carry;You've spat on me, and hit me - marry,A dog ...
Sir John (George Borrow Poems)
Sir Lave to the island stray'd;He wedded there a lovely maid:"I'll have her yet," said John.He brought her home across ...
The Lord And The Bramble (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
To view his stately Walks and Groves, A Man of Pow'r and PlaceWas hast'ning on; but as he roves,His ...
XVI. Patience (Ellis Walker Poems)
You would be wise, I'll teach you if you please,Withdraw you mind from such wild thoughts as theseIf I my ...
Honour (Ada Cambridge Poems)
Me let the world disparage and despise — As one unfettered with its gilded chains, As one untempted by its ...
Furtively Waiting (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I wonder how they prepared those who John would chastise those whom he would chide calling them vipers in the ...
The Cudgelled And Contented Cuckold (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
The LORD and the BRAMBLE (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
To view his stately Walks and Groves, A Man of Pow'r and Place Was hast'ning on; but as he roves, ...
Whatever it is — she has tried it — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Whatever it is -- she has tried it -- Awful Father of Love -- Is not Ours the chastising -- ...
The Price of Fame (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Do I really love you? So let me guess, you'll think I'm easy prey if I say, okay I do ...
The Task: Book II, The Time-Piece (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English ...
Whom should I choose for my Judge? (fragment) (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Whom should I choose for my Judge? the earnest, impersonal reader, Who, in the work, forgets me and the world ...
Psalm 94 part 1 (Isaac Watts Poems)
v.1,2,7-14 C. M. Saints chastised, and sinners destroyed; or, Instructive afflictions. O God, to whom revenge belongs, "Proclaim thy wrath ...
Psalm 103 part 2 (Isaac Watts Poems)
v.8-18 L. M. God's gentle chastisement; or, His tender mercy to his people. The Lord, how wondrous are his ways! ...
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, ...
The Judge (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Say of him what you please, but I know my child's failings. I do not love him because he is ...