Quickness (Henry Vaughan Poems)
False life, a foil and no more, whenWilt thou be gone?Thou foul deception of all menThat would not have the ...
Poems about deception (21 Poems)
Sonnet LXI (Juan Boscan Poems)
Sweet dream it was and also sweet affliction,when I was dreaming that it was a dream;a sweet delight I'd take ...
Tale IX (George Crabbe Poems)
EDWARD SHORE.Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou light divine!Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!Oft will the body's weakness ...
The Borough. Letter VI: Professions–Law (George Crabbe Poems)
TRADES and Professions--these are themes the Muse,Left to her freedom, would forbear to choose;But to our Borough they in truth ...
Alma Venus! [Excerpt] (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,Or grave stars cluster for their midnight ...
A Phenomenal Fauna (Carolyn Wells Poems)
THE REG'LAR LARKThe Reg'lar Lark's a very gay old Bird;At sunrise often may his voice be heardAs jauntily he wends ...
Omar Dead (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
FROM the squat tavern laughing to the eastHe turned; within the murmuring babbleceas'd;And red wine split on scattered roses thereExhaled ...
Tale XII (George Crabbe Poems)
'SQUIRE THOMAS; OR THE PRECIPITATE CHOICE.'Squire Thomas flatter'd long a wealthy Aunt,Who left him all that she could give or ...
The Borough. Letter XIV: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Life Of Blaney (George Crabbe Poems)
OBSERVE that tall pale Veteran! what a lookOf shame and guilt!--who cannot read that book?Misery and mirth are blended in ...
Introduction (Alan Seeger Poems)
I have gone sometimes by the gates of Death And stood beside the cavern through whose doors Enter the voyagers ...
Thrust And Riposte (Eugenio Montale Poems)
…The time has come, now, to suspend the suspensionof every worldly deception -wished for by you for me…Living on memories ...
To Henry. (Amelia Opie Poems)
SUPPRESS that cruel doubt, dear youth!That starting tear, that sigh reprove;Why dost thou wrong thine Emma's truth,And think that aught ...
Forgiven (Charles Hamilton Musgrove Poems)
I might have met his anger with a smile For so it was that I had set my ...
he and the hilltown (Rg Gregory Poem)
when they look into his mind they find a hill town somewhat surprised they go off to their learned books ...
Buying Time (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The chill of their lies buying time to regroup to fend off the people to abduct them in the night ...
When our hearts become proud (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
When our hearts become proud our garners full of grain, when we are revered, known in the gate claiming we ...
Account Of A Visit From St. Nicholas (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford (Thomas Warton Poems)
Ah, stay thy treacherous hand, forbear to trace Those faultless forms of elegance and grace! Ah, cease to spread the ...
Supernatural Songs (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I. Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn Because you have found me in the pitch-dark night With open ...
Fixed Is The Doom (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
FIXED is the doom; and to the last of years Teacher and taught, friend, lover, parent, child, Each walks, though ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...