The Pennsylvania (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
PreludeI sing the Pilgrim of a softer climeAnd milder speech than those brave men's who broughtTo the ice and iron ...
Poems about confessors (15 Poems)
The Chapel of the Hermits (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
"I do believe, and yet, in grief,I pray for help to unbelief;For needful strength aside to layThe daily cumberings of ...
Protestant Popery: Or, The Convocation – Canto I (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
A Priestly--War I sing, and bloodless Field,And pious Chiefs, in Paper Warfare skill'd;Chiefs, that full oft have quarrell'd for their ...
Satire II (John Donne Poems)
Sir; though (I thanke God for it) I do hatePerfectly all this towne, yet there's one stateIn all ill things ...
The Spleen (Matthew Green Poems)
This motley piece to you I send,Who always were a faithful friend;Who, if disputes should happen hence,Can best explain the ...
The Men Of Old (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WELL speed thy mission, bold Iconoclast!Yet all unworthy of its trust thou art,If, with dry eye, and cold, unloving heart,Thou ...
Banished from Massachusett (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Over the threshold of his pleasant homeSet in green clearings passed the exiled Friend,In simple trust, misdoubting not the end."Dear ...
Hymn For All Saints Day In The Morning (Henry Alford Poems)
Stand up before your GodYou army bold and bright,Saints martyrs and confessorsIn your robes of white;The Church below doth challenge ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto I (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits, Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter ...
The Dunciad: Book II. (Alexander Pope Poems)
High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shoneHenley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne,Or that where on her Curlls the ...
Verses On Rome (Frances Anne Kemble Poems)
O Rome, tremendous! who, beholding thee, Shall not forget the bitterest private grief That e'er made havoc of ...
The Lorica of St Patrick (Anonymous Irish Poems)
I arise todayThrough a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,Through a belief in the Threeness,Through confession of the Oneness ...
The Feast Of St. Silas, Martyr, And Patron Of This Place (Charles Walter Stansby Williams Poems)
All Doctors and Confessors,Martyrs and holy Souls,Lighten my path of darknessWith your aureoles,When I come to die.Three times shall I ...
The Friar’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
CHARMIDES (Oscar Wilde Poems)
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...