British Georgics. December (James Grahame Poems)
Loud raves the blast, and, smell, the sleety showersDrive over hill and dale with hurrying sweep.The leafless boughs all to ...
Poems about dissipation (21 Poems)
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 ...
The Hours (John Peale Bishop Poems)
In the real dark night of the soul it is always threeo'clock in the morning. F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIALL day, knowing ...
Little Pat And The Parson (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
He stands at the door of the church peeping in,No troublesome beadle is near him;The preacher is talking of sinners ...
The Man About Town (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Evil-eyed loiterer, pilgrim of fashion, Sunless and hard is thy frost-bitten heart;Scoffing at nature's affection and passion, Till thou hast made the ...
Memory Of The Past (John Pierpont Poems)
Can we forget the gloomy time,When Bacchus ruled the day,—When dissipation, sloth and crime,Bore undisputed sway?The time—the time—the gloomy timeThe ...
Louisa: A Poetical Novel. Fourth Epsitle. (Anna Seward Poems)
LOUISATOEMMA. APRIL 25th, 1781. OH! my lov'd EMMA , I have much ...
The Borough. Letter XII: Players (George Crabbe Poems)
These are monarchs none respect,Heroes, yet an humbled crew,Nobles, whom the crowd correct,Wealthy men, whom duns pursue;Beauties shrinking from the ...
The Landlord’s Best (Alexander Anderson Poems)
A Humorous Reading A strappin', sonsie, weel-matched pairWere Jock Macree an' Maggie Blair,An' mony wusses, said an' thinkit,They had that ...
The Borough. Letter IX: Amusements (George Crabbe Poems)
OF our Amusements ask you?--We amuseOurselves and friends with seaside walks and views,Or take a morning ride, a novel, or ...
The New Bath Guide: Part II, Letter XV (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. Serious Reflections of Mr. B---n---r---d.--His Bill of Expences.-- The Distresses ...
The Brucedale Scandal (Dame Mary Gilmore DBE Poems)
Himself and me put in the trap And daundered into town,And there we found a whirlygig, ...
A May Term Memory (E W Bowling Poems)
She wore a sweet pink bonnet, The sweetest ever known: And as I gazed upon it, My heart ...
Nonsense Verses (Arthur Clement Hilton Poems)
By Edward Leary. There was an old fellow of Peterhouse, Who said, "You could not find a neater ...
Dan, The Wreck (Henry Lawson Poem)
Tall, and stout, and solid-looking, Yet a wreck; None would think Death's finger's hooking Him from deck. Cause of half ...
eight roundels (Rg Gregory Poem)
(roundel: variation of the rondeau consisting of three stanzas of three lines each, linked together with but two rhymes and ...
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 ...
Ego Dominus Tuus (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Hic. On the grey sand beside the shallow stream Under your old wind-beaten tower, where still A lamp burns on ...
Ode to Beauty (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
EXULTING BEAUTY,phantom of an hour, Whose magic spells enchain the heart, Ah ! what avails thy fascinating pow'r, Thy thrilling ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
To My Little Niece Sally Livingston (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
To my little niece Sally Livingston, on the death of a little serenading wren she admired. Hasty pilgrim stop thy ...