A Newyeeres gift to a Gentlewoman (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
If pure goodwill, not meaning ill, might boldly, might boldly, Presume to tell his minde:I wold not vse, in terms diffuse, ...
Poems about corrected (21 Poems)
The Printer’s Error (Aaron Fogel Poems)
Fellow compositorsand pressworkers!I, Chief PrinterFrank Steinman,having worked fifty-seven years at my trade,and served five yearsas presidentof the HollistonPrinter's Council,being of ...
At a Lecture (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
Since mistakes are inevitable, I can easily be takenfor a man standing before you in this room filledwith yourselves. Yet ...
Prologue To Tancred And Sigismunda (James Thomson Poems)
Bold is the man! who, in this nicer age,Presumes to tread the chaste corrected stage.Now, with gay tinsel arts, we ...
Franklin Hyde (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His UncleHis uncle came on Franklin HydeCarousing in the Dirt.He shook ...
To The Kind Reader (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
No one talks more than a Poet;Fain he'd have the people know it.Praise or blame he ever loves;None in prose ...
Tale VI (George Crabbe Poems)
THE FRANK COURTSHIP.Grave Jonas Kindred, Sybil Kindred's sire,Was six feet high, and look'd six inches higher;Erect, morose, determined, solemn, slow,Who ...
The Borough. Letter IV: Sects And Professions In Religion (George Crabbe Poems)
SECTS in Religion?--Yes of every raceWe nurse some portion in our favour'd place;Not one warm preacher of one growing sectCan ...
The Sage Enamoured And The Honest Lady (George Meredith Poems)
IOne fairest of the ripe unwedded leftHer shadow on the Sage's path; he found,By common signs, that she had done ...
The Borough. Letter III: The Vicar–The Curate (George Crabbe Poems)
THE VICAR.WHERE ends our chancel in a vaulted space,Sleep the departed Vicars of the place;Of most, all mention, memory, thought ...
The Borough. Letter XIII: The Alms-House And Trustees (George Crabbe Poems)
LEAVE now our streets, and in yon plain beholdThose pleasant Seats for the reduced and old;A merchant's gift, whose wife ...
To The Comic Spirit (George Meredith Poems)
Sword of Common Sense! -Our surest gift: the sacred chainOf man to man: firm earth for trustIn structures vowed to ...
Styx River Anthology (Carolyn Wells Poems)
A parody of Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," wherein characters from famous poems and novels recite their own epithets.ANNABEL ...
Monotonous Variety (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
(All of them from two stories in a single magazine.)She "greeted" and he "volunteered"; She "giggled"; he "asserted";She "queried" and ...
Epitaph In Bookish Style (Benjamin Franklin Poems)
The Body of Benjamin Franklin (Printer)(Like the cover of an old bookIts contents torn outAnd stript of its lettering and ...
Cliche Came Out of its Cage (C. S. Lewis Poem)
1 You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'. Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar ...
TO THE KIND READER. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
No one talks more than a Poet; Fain he'd have the people know it. Praise or blame he ever loves; ...
The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot Poem)
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Franklin Hyde (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle. His Uncle came upon Franklin Hyde Carousing in the ...
A Letter from Artemesia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (John Wilmot Poems)
Chloe, In verse by your command I write. Shortly you'll bid me ride astride, and fight: These talents better with ...
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, ...