Home. (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Let us honour the gods of the household alway, Love ever the hearth and its graces,The spot where serenely and cheerfully ...
Poems about demeanour (21 Poems)
Native Land (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
I love my native land with such perverse affection!My better judgement has no standing here.Not glory, won in bloody action,nor ...
The Author (Charles Churchill Poems)
Accursed the man, whom Fate ordains, in spite,And cruel parents teach, to read and write!What need of letters? wherefore should ...
Hero And Leander. The Fourth Sestiad (George Chapman Poems)
Now from Leander's place she rose, and found Her hair and rent robe scatter'd on the ground; Which ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Ninth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
All night in slumber deep the armies lay: But, while the eastern sky with first faint beam Yet dimly reddened; ...
Night (Charles Churchill Poems)
AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD. Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii.When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,In pity's strains, the ...
My Cousin From Pall Mall (Arthur Patchett Martin Poems)
There's nothing so exasperates a true Australian youth,Whatever be his rank in life, be he cultured or uncouth,As the manner ...
Old Town Types No. 21 – Mr Woolin-Wister (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr Woolin-Wister was assistant at the store,He had an air of breeding, and the kind of clothes he woreWere very, ...
The Land of Exile (Chu Yuan Poems)
Methinks there's a geniusRoams in the mountains,Girdled with ivyAnd robed in wisteria,Lips ever smiling,Of noble demeanour,Driving the yellow pard,Tiger-attended,Couched in ...
To the Literary Ladies (Dorothy Coade Hewett Poems)
Here they come the clever ladiesin their detachable Peter Pan collarstheir fringes their sober meinhiding such anger suchsubtle vices dizzying ...
Hyperion (John Keats Poem)
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
RINALDO.* (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[This Cantata was written for Prince Frederick of Gotha, and set to music by Winter, the Prince singing the part ...
The Mandrake (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
400. Song-Lovely young Jessie (Robert Burns Poems)
TRUE hearted was he, the sad swain o' the Yarrow, And fair are the maids on the banks of the ...
Resolution And Independence (William Wordsworth Poems)
I There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now ...
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 ...
By the Grey Gulf-water (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Far to the Northward there lies a land, A wonderful land that the winds blow over, And none may fathom ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
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, ...