The Familie (George Herbert Poems)
What doth this noise of thoughts within my heart, As if ...
Poems about complaints (21 Poems)
Decay (George Herbert Poems)
Sweet were the dayes, when thou didst lodge with Lot,Struggle with Jacob, sit with Gideon,Advise with Abraham, when thy power ...
The Nymph Selvagia Her Song (Bartholomew Young Poems)
Sheepheard, who can passe such wrong, And a life in woes so deepe?Which to live is ...
‘Me, A Sinner’ (C J Dennis Poems)
Should it occasion much surprise That criminals should deal in blame,As all of us, and recognise The full depth of ...
Contradictin’ Joe (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Heard of Contradictin' Joe?Most contrary man I know.Always sayin', "That's not so."Nothing's ever said, but heSteps right up to disagree--Quarrelsome ...
The Modern Cherub (C J Dennis Poems)
Give me a dad who knows his place And never gives me cheek,And a mother mild who treats her child ...
To a Lady Singing a Song of His Composing (Edmund Waller Poems)
Chloris! yourself you so excel,When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought,That, like a spirit, with this spellOf my own teaching, ...
Winter (C J Dennis Poems)
Winter comes; and our complaintsGrow apace as summer faints, Waning days grow dull and drear, Something tells, too well, I ...
Peter Anderson And Co. (Henry Lawson Poem)
He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago, And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.', ...
The Miseries of Man (Anne Killigrew Poem)
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
Life (George Herbert Poem)
I made a posie, while the day ran by: Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie My life ...
two spanish poems (Rg Gregory Poem)
(a) orihuela-time the sun in orihuela calms the dust and people glide about the streets at ease (problems left indoors ...
Preface to Hunting of the Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; II: On Malicious Cruelty To Harmless Creatures (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
The cruelty of P. L. Brown- (He had ten toes as good as mine) Was known to every one in ...
Psalm 76 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Israel saved, and the Assyrians destroyed. In Judah God of old was known; His name in Isr'el great; In Salem ...
Psalm 142 (Isaac Watts Poems)
God is the hope of the helpless. To God I made my sorrows known, From God I sought relief; In ...
On The Death Of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
HAIL, happy saint, on thine immortal throne, Possest of glory, life, and bliss unknown; We hear no more the music ...
Siena (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Inside this northern summer's fold The fields are full of naked gold, Broadcast from heaven on lands it loves; The ...
Poem 1 (Edmund Spenser Poems)
YE learned sisters which haue oftentimes beene to me ayding, others to adorne: Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
Epithalamion (Edmund Spenser Poems)
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
To Mr James Scrymgeour, Dundee (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Success to James Scrymgeour, He's a very good man, And to gainsay it, There's few people can; Because he makes ...