Be Hopeful: II — The Rose (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Blushing and glowing, the rose in full bloom,Jewell'd with dewdrops and rich in perfume;Fairest of blossoms, a gem and a ...
Poems about detraction (21 Poems)
Sonnet To Chatterton (John Keats Poems)
O Chatterton! how very sad thy fate!Dear child of sorrow -- son of misery!How soon the film of death obscur'd ...
Vignette – XII (Matilda Betham Poems)
_To the late Lady Rouse Boughton_.'Tis said, that jealous of a name We all would praise confine,And choke the leading path ...
Ernest: The Rule Of Right – Book IV (Capel Lofft Poems)
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
Envy, A Poem (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Oh! hideous fiend, of form uncouth, With jaundic'd eye, and canker'd tooth, Fell Envy, why dost thou profane The labours ...
The Village (book 2) (George Crabbe Poems)
ArgumentThere are found amid the Evils of a Laborious Life, some Views of Tranquillity and Happiness. - The Repose and ...
The Last Landlord (Elizabeth Akers Allen Poems)
"YOU who dread the cares and labors Of the tenant's annual quest, You who long for peace and ...
The Priest Dissected: A Poem (Christopher Anstey Poems)
CANTO I. Hush'd be the envious tongues that dare Bright --- to profane Thy hallow'd shades, where science fair Has ...
Ode To Happiness (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
O THOU! who dwell'st in heav'n alone,Whose beams surround th' Omniscient's throne,'Tis by his just decrees denied,That thou with mortals ...
To Miss Wallis, (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
WITH A SPRIG OF CRIMSON HEATH WHICH GREW ON THESUMMIT OF A MOUNTAIN. MUSE that lov'st the lonely mountain,Cliff abrupt, ...
The Day Of Dead Soldiers (Emma Lazarus Poems)
WELCOME, thou gray and fragrant Sabbath-day,To deathless love and valor dedicate!Glorious with the richest flowers of May,With early roses, lingering ...
No Enemies (Benjamin Cutler Clark Poems)
He has no enemies! you say. I pity his condition; His manhood he has thrown away, His candour and position. ...
XLIX. Impertinent Eloquence not worth the hearing (Ellis Walker Poems)
Avoid, if possible, th' impertinenceOf those who prostitute their eloquence:Who with a long harangue from desk or stageBoth the rich ...
Friends Beyond (Thomas Hardy Poem)
WILLIAM Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough, Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's, And the Squire, and Lady ...
The Growth of Love (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
72. Song-Young Peggy Blooms (Robert Burns Poem)
YOUNG Peggy blooms our boniest lass, Her blush is like the morning, The rosy dawn, the springing grass, With early ...
At His Grave (Alfred Austin Poem)
LEAVE me a little while alone, Here at his grave that still is strown With crumbling flower and wreath; The ...
125. Lines to Mr. John Kennedy (Robert Burns Poems)
FAREWELL, dear friend! may guid luck hit you, And 'mang her favourites admit you: If e'er Detraction shore to smit ...
Ode to the Goddess Ceres (Thomas Moore Poems)
Dear Goddess of Corn, whom the ancients we know, (Among other odd whims of those comical bodies,) Adorn'd with somniferous ...
Arcades (John Milton Poems)
Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby at Harefield, by som Noble persons of her Family, ...
Sonnet 11 (John Milton Poems)
XI A Book was writ of late call'd Tetrachordon; And wov'n close, both matter, form and stile; The Subject new: ...