Sonnet CXVII: “Within the circle of my darling’s charms” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Within the circle of my darling's charms I stand as grimly as some ruin old, Which creeping roses tenderly enfold ...
Poems about defects (21 Poems)
Aaron (George Herbert Poem)
Holiness on the head, Light and perfection on the breast, Harmonious bells below, raising the dead To led them unto ...
Easter (George Herbert Poem)
Rise, heart, thy lord is risen. Sing his praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise ...
The Mother Mourns (Thomas Hardy Poem)
When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time, And sedges were horny, And summer's green wonderwork faltered On leaze and in lane, ...
Noe more unto my thoughts appeare (Sidney Godolphin Poem)
NOE more unto my thoughts appeare, Att least appeare lesse fayre, For crazy tempers justly feare The goodnesse of the ...
Hymn To Adversity (Thomas Gray Poem)
Daughter of Jove, relentless Power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The Bad affright, ...
The Ear-Maker And The Mould-Mender (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
Reformation (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Gentleman, most wretched in his Lot, A wrangling and reproving Wife had got, Who, tho' she curb'd his Pleasures, ...
The Ecstasy (John Donne Poem)
Where, like a pillow on a bed A pregnant bank swell'd up to rest The violet's reclining head, Sat we ...
February (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
The Author to her Book (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by ...
M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
In Memoriam A. H. H.: 54. Oh, yet we Trust that somehow Goo (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final end of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of ...
Ad Se Ipsum (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
DEAR sir, good-morrow! Five years back, When you first girded for this arduous track, And under various whimsical pretexts Endowed ...
Sonnet XLIX (William Shakespeare Poems)
Against that time, if ever that time come, When I shall see thee frown on my defects, When as thy ...
Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come (William Shakespeare Poems)
Against that time, if ever that time come, When I shall see thee frown on my defects, When as thy ...
The Three Taverns (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
When the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii Forum, and The Three Taverns.-(Acts ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
An Epitaph (Matthew Prior Poems)
Interr'd beneath this marble stone, Lie saunt'ring Jack and idle Joan. While rolling threescore years and one Did round this ...
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I) (Ezra Pound Poems)
"Vocat aestus in umbram" Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre For three years, out of ...
Paradise Lost: Book 08 (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...