Fragment IX (James Macpherson Poems)
Thou askest, fair daughter of theisles! whose memory is preservedin these tombs? The memory of Ronnanthe bold, and Connan the ...
Poems about detains (21 Poems)
Horace’s Ode IX. Book III (James Arbuckle Poems)
One Evening the loveliest PairThat ever frequented the Plain,Bright Lydia, th' all conquering Fair,And Damon, the beautiful Swain,Sat down in ...
Elegy I. He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country (William Shenstone Poems)
He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country, and Takes Occasion To Expatiate in Praise of Simplicity.To a FriendFor rural ...
Soliloquy (Jane Taylor Poems)
Here's a beautiful earth and a wonderful sky,And to see them, God gives us a heart and an eye;Nor leaves ...
To My Absent Daughter. (George Pope Morris Poems)
Georgie, come home!--Life's tendrils cling about thee, Where'er thou art, by wayward fancy led.We miss thee, love!--Home is not home without ...
To A Friend, (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
WHO SENT ME FLOWERS, WHEN CONFINED BYILLNESS.WHILE sickness still my step detainsFrom scenes where vernal pleasure reigns,Where Spring has bath'd ...
Louisa: A Poetical Novel. Second Epsitle. (Anna Seward Poems)
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
The Borough. Letter III: The Vicar–The Curate (George Crabbe Poems)
THE VICAR.WHERE ends our chancel in a vaulted space,Sleep the departed Vicars of the place;Of most, all mention, memory, thought ...
The Borough. Letter XI: Inns (George Crabbe Poems)
All the comforts of life in a Tavern are known,'Tis his home who possesses not one of his own;And to ...
Rosara’s Chain. The Palace Of Mirrors (Alicia LeFanu Poems)
To cheer the Prince, his aged friendHis pleasing converse loves to lend;And, as his lips events relate,AMANTOR asks ...
Ode To Independence (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
THOU, by whose gen'rous mien, whose open brow,Thy unsubdued majestic heart we know;Whose god-like port proclaims thy race divine,Whose smiles ...
Time (George Herbert Poems)
Meeting with Time, slack thing, said I, Thy sithe is dull; whet it for shame.No marvell Sir, he did replie,If ...
XIV. Temperance (Ellis Walker Poems)
In ev'ry thing that happens search you mindAnd try what force, what faculties you findFor the encounter of the object ...
Her Death And After (Thomas Hardy Poem)
'TWAS a death-bed summons, and forth I went By the way of the Western Wall, so drear On that winter ...
Hymn 73 (Isaac Watts Poems)
The church's beauty in the eyes of Christ. SS 4:1-11. Kind is the speech of Christ our Lord, Affection sounds ...
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the ...
Hymn Of Man (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began, The word of the earth in the ...
A Song To David (Christopher Smart Poems)
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2 (Alexander Pope Poems)
Not with more glories, in th' etherial plain, The sun first rises o'er the purpled main, Than, issuing forth, the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...