The Desirable Undefined (Jared Barhite Poems)
I have often thought there's a power Unknown to science or art, That opens and closes the portals That lead to the human ...
Poems about discontents (13 Poems)
Prelude (George Wither Poems)
(From _The Shepherd's Hunting_)Seest thou not, in clearest days,Oft thick fogs cloud Heaven's rays?And that vapours which do breatheFrom the ...
The Departure. AN ELEGY. (Henry King Poems)
VVere I to leave no more then a good friend,Or but to hear the summons to my end,(Which I have ...
To William Drummond of Hawthornden (Mary Oxlie of Morpet Poems)
I never rested on the Muses bed,Nor dipt my Quill in the Thessalian Fountaine,My rustick Muse was rudely fostered,And flies ...
The Muse (George Wither Poems)
She doth tell me where to borrowComfort in the midst of sorrow:Makes the desolatest placeTo her presence be a grace;And ...
The Great Summons [from the Chinese] (Arthur Waley Poems)
Green Spring receivethThe vacant earth;The white sun shineth;Spring wind provokethTo burst and burgeonEach sprout and flower.In those dark caves where ...
King Leir and His Three Daughters (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
A lamentable Song of the Death of King Leir and his Three Daughters. To the tune of When flying Fame.King ...
From “What Is the Use?” (Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth Poems)
"I SAW a man, by some accounted wise, For some things said and done before their eyes, Quite overcast, and, ...
We Are Silent (Ernest Jones Poems)
We are dead, and we are buried!Revolution's soul is tame!They are merry o'er our ashes,And our tyrants rule the same!But ...
A Sonnet (Albert Pike Poems)
Lo! the calm evening of a stormy life;The Sun, unclouded, in the West declining; Peace at the end of discontents ...
The Precinct. Rochester (Amy Lowell Poem)
The tall yellow hollyhocks stand, Still and straight, With their round blossoms spread open, In the quiet sunshine. And still ...
Discontents In Devon (Robert Herrick Poem)
More discontents I never had Since I was born, than here; Where I have been, and still am, sad, In ...
Despair (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
I have experienc'd The worst, the World can wreak on me--the worst That can make Life indifferent, yet disturb With ...