Sappho to Phaon (Ovid Heroid XV) (Alexander Pope Poems)
Say, lovely youth, that dost my heart command,Can Phaon's eyes forget his Sappho's hand?Must then her name the wretched writer ...
Poems about deluding (21 Poems)
Inebriety (George Crabbe Poems)
The mighty spirit, and its power, which stainsThe bloodless cheek, and vivifies the brains,I sing. Say, ye, its fiery vot'ries ...
Hero And Leander: The Second Sestiad (Christopher Marlowe Poems)
By this, sad Hero, with love unacquainted,Viewing Leander's face, fell down and fainted.He kissed her and breathed life into her ...
The Purple Cow Parodies (Carolyn Wells Poems)
Gelett Burgess' original poem…A Purple Cow I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I ...
The Basset-Table (Alexander Pope Poems)
Cardelia. Smilinda. Cardelia. The Basset-Table spread, the Tallier come;Why stays Smilinda in the Dressing-Room?Rise, pensive Nymph, the Tallier waits for ...
The Emigrant (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
"FAREWELL, ah, happy shades! ah, scenes belov'd, Of infant sports and bright unclouded hours! Where oft in childhood's happy days ...
To the Fair Clarinda (Aphra Behn Poems)
Who made love to me,Imagin'd more than woman. Fair lovely Maid, or if that Title beToo weak, too Feminine for ...
To A Painted Lady (Alexander Brome Poems)
Leave these deluding tricks and shows, Be honest and downright; What Nature did to view expose, Don't you ...
A Dream (Elizabeth Oakes Smith Poems)
I dreamed last night, that I myself did layWithin the grave, and after stood and wept,My spirit sorrowed where its ...
Annihilation (Elizabeth Oakes Smith Poems)
Doubt, cypress crowned, upon a ruined arch Amid the shapely temple overthrown, Exultant, stays at length her onward march: Her ...
Deluding Ourselves (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The master, the creator giving us rest time to refresh, to reflect to gain strength for the work of our ...
Away, Delights (John Fletcher Poem)
AWAY, delights! go seek some other dwelling, For I must die. Farewell, false love! thy tongue is ever telling Lie ...
On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
90. Epistle to James Smith (Robert Burns Poem)
DEAR SMITH, the slee'st, pawkie thief, That e'er attempted stealth or rief! Ye surely hae some warlock-brief Owre human hearts; ...
Epithalamion (Edmund Spenser Poems)
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
Poem 19 (Edmund Spenser Poems)
LEt no lamenting cryes, nor dolefull teares, Be heard all night within nor yet without: Ne let false whispers breeding ...
To the Muse of Poetry (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
EXULT MY MUSE! exult to see Each envious, waspish, jealous thing, Around its harmless venom fling, And dart its powerless ...
Eloisa to Abelard (Alexander Pope Poems)
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in ...
I Wish I Was By That Dim Lake (Thomas Moore Poems)
I wish I was by that dim Lake, Where sinful souls their farewell take Of this vain world, and half-way ...
Paradise Regained: The First Book (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Il Penseroso (John Milton Poems)
Hence, vain deluding Joys, ............The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested ............Or fill the fixed mind ...