The School-Boy (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THESE hallowed precincts, long to memory dear,Smile with fresh welcome as our feet draw near;With softer gales the opening leaves ...
Poems about couplets (18 Poems)
An After-Dinner Poem (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
(TERPSICHORE)Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, atCambridge, August 24, 1843.IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse,In ...
To Moliere (Nicholas Boileau Despreaux Poems)
Unequaled genius, whose warm fancy knows No rhyming labor, no poetic throes; To whom Apollo has unlocked his store; Whose coin is struck ...
The One I Was Searching For On the Earth and in Heaven (With English Translation) (Muhammad Iqbal Poems)
Urdu Couplets with Translationjinhe.n mai.n Dhuu.NDhataa thaa aasmaano.n me.n zamiino.n me.nvo nikale mere zulmat-e-Khaanaa-e-dil ke makiino.n me.nThe one I was ...
The Litany for Doneraile (Patrick O Kelly Poems)
Alas! how dismal is my tale, I lost my watch in Doneraile. My Dublin watch, my chain and seal, Pilfer'd at once in ...
Welcome To The Chicago Commercial Club (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
January 14, 1880CHICAGO sounds rough to the maker of verse;One comfort we have--Cincinnati sounds worse;If we only were licensed to ...
Religion (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
AN ESSAY IN COUPLETS.WHAT blesses yet is difficult,This--goodness: worship, the result.What man doth worship man doth love,And what he loveth ...
The Apology (Charles Churchill Poems)
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
The Light of Asia: Book the Fifth (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Round Rajagriha five fair hills arose,Guarding King Bimbas?ra's sylvan town:Baibh?ra green with lemon-grass and palms;Bipulla, at whose foot thin SarsutiSteals ...
The Candidate (George Crabbe Poems)
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO THE AUTHORS OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW.AN INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS OF THE AUTHOR TO HIS POEMS.Ye idler things, ...
The Pure Sacrifice Of Buddha (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Onward he passed, Exceeding sorrowful, seeing how men Fear so to die they are afraid to fear, ...
The Old Gentleman With The Amber Snuff-Box (Alfred Noyes Poems)
_The old gentleman, tapping his amber snuff-box(A heart-shaped snuff-box with a golden clasp)Stared at the dying fire. "I'd like them ...
In An Album (Alexander Anderson Poems)
At High Creoch, Gatehouse You ask me for a line or two— I never write in rainy weather—But I suppose ...
Mr. Pope (Allen Tate Poems)
When Alexander Pope strolled in the cityStrict was the glint of pearl and ''old sedans.Ladies leaned out more out of ...
Four Visions (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Visitations, visions, two couplets, two stories changing the course of our faith One who is sent, another land one who ...
A Tale of the Miser and the Poet (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
Inspiration (Robert William Service Poems)
How often have I started out With no thought in my noodle, And wandered here and there about, Where fancy ...
Perseus (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering Head alone shows you in the prodigious act Of digesting what centuries alone digest: ...