The Summary of Wisedome (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
Poems about commits (21 Poems)
Contentment; Or Hints To Servants On The Present Scarcity (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Dearly beloved Countrymen and Friends, Accept the verse an half--starv'd Poet sends: Who scant of paper in these needy times, ...
The Monopolist (Christopher Anstey Poems)
O ponder well, ye serving Maids, The doleful Tale I sing: Learn how disastrous 'tis to wear Too high your ...
Dedication (Charles Churchill Poems)
To Churchill's Sermons. The manuscript of this unfinished poem was found among the few papers Churchill left behind ...
The Voyage Of St. Brendan A.D. 545 – The Paradise Of Birds (Denis Florence MacCarthy Poems)
It was the fairest and the sweetest scene--The freshest, sunniest, smiling land that e'erHeld o'er the waves its arms of ...
Childhood (David Bates Poems)
Childhood, sweet and sunny childhood, With its careless, thoughtless air, Like the verdant, tangled ...
To The Lord Falkland (Abraham Cowley Poems)
FOR HIS SAFE RETURN FROM THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SCOTS. Great is thy Charge, O North! be wise and ...
My Thrush (Edward James Mortimer Collins Poems)
All through the sultry hours of June,From morning blithe to golden noon,And till the star of evening climbsThe gray-blue East, ...
Sonnet VII (Anna Seward Poems)
If he whose bosom with no transport swellsIn vernal airs, and hours, commits the crimeOf sullenness to Nature; 'gainst the ...
Love, the Soul of Poetry (Anne Killigrew Poem)
WHen first Alexis did in Verse delight, His Muse in Low, but Graceful Numbers walk't, And now and then a ...
Edward Hirsch (Edward Hirsch Poem)
In Memory of Dennis Turner, 1946-1984 A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop, and ...
Fast Break (Edward Hirsch Poem)
In Memory of Dennis Turner, 1946-1984 A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop, and ...
Crime and Punishment chapter XII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of Crime and Punishment." And ...
If He Could Forgive (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Something we never remember in that moment of anger when someone does us wrong no matter how slight or great ...
Sonnet XLI (William Shakespeare Poems)
Those petty wrongs that liberty commits, When I am sometime absent from thy heart, Thy beauty and thy years full ...
Sonnet IX (William Shakespeare Poems)
Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye That thou consumest thyself in single life? Ah! if thou issueless ...
Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits (William Shakespeare Poems)
Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits When I am sometime absent from thy heart, Thy beauty and thy years full ...
Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye (William Shakespeare Poems)
Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye, That thou consum'st thy self in single life? Ah, if thou ...
If I weep (Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems)
If I weep, if I come with excuses, my beloved puts cotton wool in his ears. Every cruelty which he ...
Modern Love XL: I Bade My Lady Think (George Meredith Poems)
I bade my Lady think what she might mean. Know I my meaning, I? Can I love one, And yet ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...