Of Prudence (John Denham Poems)
Wisdom's first progress is to take a viewWhat's decent or indecent, false or true.He's truly prudent who can separateHonest from ...
Poems about digression (21 Poems)
An Oriental Apologue (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Somewhere in India, upon a time,(Read it not Injah, or you spoil the verse,) There dwelt two saints whose privilege sublimeIt ...
The Progress Of Learning (John Denham Poems)
PREFACE.My early mistress, now my ancient Muse,That strong Circaean liquor cease t'infuse,Wherewith thou didst intoxicate my youth,Now stoop with disenchanted ...
The Triumph of Dead : Chap. 1 (Mary Sidney Herbert Poems)
That gallant lady, gloriously bright, The stately pillar once of worthiness, And now a little dust, a naked sprite, Turn'd ...
The Spinning-Wheel (Henry Baker Poems)
This comes to let you knowI'm well, thank God, and hope you're so:In Truth, I'm very much perplext,For something fine ...
The Cynotaph, (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
Poor Tray charmant!Poor Tray de mon Ami!-- Dog-bury, and Vergers.Oh! where shall I bury my poor dog Tray,Now his fleeting ...
Constable M’Carty’s Investigatio (Henry Lawson Poems)
Most unpleasantly adjacent to the haunts of lower orders Stood a 'terrace' in the city when the current year began,And a ...
He Prayed and the Plague Ceased (John Quarles Poems)
Prayer and the Plague are two most pow'rful things,Being both derived from the King of Kings;The Plague is sent to ...
A Dedication (Robert Burns Poems)
Expect na, sir, in this narration,A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication,To roose you up, an' ca' you guid,An' sprung o' great an' ...
His Father (John O Brien Poems)
We meet him first in frills immersed,By everyone caressed and nursed, A bonny baby-rather!But, though they please his every whim,Fill up ...
The Farmer (Jared Barhite Poems)
Of war and love some poets sing, And some of fame and glory, But few there are a tribute bring To him whose ...
Passer Le Temps (Hattie Howard Poems)
So _that's_ the way you pass your time! Indeed your charming, frank confession Betrays no sort of heinous crime, But marks a wonderful ...
Erratic Musings (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Alone. For Jack has gone away, To hide his head in proofs and letters;And left me here to spend the ...
To An Old Schoolfellow (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Der Schulfreund wird nie vergessen."—Jean PaulYour Edinburgh is well enough— Stone picture of the past and present;But we have in ...
To Lady Clan, (Anne MacVicar Grant Poems)
WHO INSISTED ON THE AUTHOR'S WRITING A POEM, ONMEETING BY APPOINTMENT WITH HER AND THREEOTHER LADIES AT AN INN ON ...
Minutes (David John Scott Poems)
Of The Jackson Hall Debating Society, December 5, 1877My muse inspire me, while I tellThe weighty matters that befellOn Monday ...
To Mrs. Goodchild (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
The night-wind's shriek is pitiless and hollow, The boding bat flits by on sullen wing, And I sit ...
Dear Friends And Neighbors (David John Scott Poems)
Dear friends and neighbors, one and all,I'm pleased to meet you here to-day;'Tis nice for neighbors thus to call,In such ...
Melancholetta (Lewis Carroll Poem)
With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong Such ...
113. A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. (Robert Burns Poems)
EXPECT na, sir, in this narration, A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication, To roose you up, an' ca' you guid, An' sprung ...
87. The Twa Dogs (Robert Burns Poems)
'TWAS 1 in that place o' Scotland's isle, That bears the name o' auld King Coil, Upon a bonie day ...