Under The Old Elm (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Poem Read At Cambridge On The Hundredth Anniversary Of Washington's Taking Command Of The American ArmyIWords pass as wind, but ...
Poems about entail (21 Poems)
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Hunger – Imprecation) (Henry Baker Poems)
Hunger.See Famine.The Morning came, the Night, and Slumbers past,But still the furious Pangs of Hunger last:The cank'rous Rage still gnaws ...
An Epistle Of The Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole (Richard Savage Poems)
Still let low wits, who sense nor honour prize,Sneer at all gratitude, all truth disguise;At living worth, because alive, exclaim,Insult ...
The Character Of The Bore (John Donne Poems)
Well; I may now receive and die. My sin Indeed is great, but yet I have been in A purgatory, such as ...
Satire IV (John Donne Poems)
Well; I may now receive, and die. My sin Indeed is great, but yet I have been in A purgatory, such as ...
Thoughts On Jesus Christ’s Decent Into Hell (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
WHAT wondrous noise is heard around!Through heaven exulting voices sound,A mighty army marches onBy thousand millions follow'd, lo,To yon dark ...
The Vindication of a Right Honourable Gentleman (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
Arma virumque cano.-- ~Virg.Why should so many curses come onThe hoary head of P---st D---d?(I think his real name, M'Gr---r,Would ...
The Litany for Doneraile (Patrick O Kelly Poems)
Alas! how dismal is my tale, I lost my watch in Doneraile. My Dublin watch, my chain and seal, Pilfer'd at once in ...
The Chameleon (Matthew Prior Poems)
As the Chameleon, who is knownTo have no colours of his own,But borrows from his neighbour's hueHis white or black, ...
Love’s Diet (John Donne Poems)
To what a cumbersome unwieldinessAnd burdenous corpulence my love had grown, But that I did, to make it less, And keep it ...
Jackdaw (Padraic Colum Poems)
ALOOF from his tribeOn the elm-tree's top,A jackdaw perchedA hand-reach up.Silent he satOn the branch, nor stirred,And I saw m ...
Written For My Son (Mary Barber Poems)
When Athens was for Arts and Arms renown'd,Olympic Wreaths uncommon Merit crown'd.These slight Distinctions from the Learn'd and Wise,Convey'd eternal ...
This Heritage To The Race Of Kings (Joseph Plunkett Poems)
This heritage to the race of kings,Their children and their children's seedHave wrought their prophecies in deedOf terrible and splendid ...
An Anthem Of Earth (Francis Thompson Poems)
Proemion.Immeasurable Earth!Through the loud vast and populacy of Heaven,Tempested with gold schools of ponderous orbs,That cleav'st with deep-revolting harmoniesPassage perpetual, ...
After Sixty Years (Edith Nesbit Poems)
RING, bells! flags, fly! and let the great crowd roar Its ecstasy. Let the hid heart in prayer ...
Mates (Ada Cambridge Poems)
It boots not to retrace the path To ages dim and hoar, When Man, at the domestic hearth, ...
The True Effigies Of A Certain Squire: Inscribed To Clemena (Elizabeth Thomas Poems)
Some generous painter now assist my pen,And help to draw the most despised of men:Or else, oh Muse! do thou ...
On The Fading Enjoyments Of Time (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
ALTHO' to man's aspiring pride, It may appear degrading;Yet look on all the world around,And say what ...
Water (Philip Larkin Poem)
If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water. Going to church Would entail ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST’S DESCENT INTO HELL. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...