Poetry And Reality (Jane Taylor Poems)
THE worldly minded, cast in common mould,With all his might pursuing fame or gold,And towards that goal too vehemently hurledTo ...
Poems about epicure (21 Poems)
The Urban Rat And The Suburban Rat (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A metropolitan rat invited His country cousin in town to dine: The country cousin replied, "Delighted." And signed himself, "Sincerely thine." The town rat ...
The World (Henry Vaughan Poems)
. I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And ...
Ode VI: To William Hall, Esquire: With The Works Of Chaulieu (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Attend to Chaulieu's wanton lyre;While, fluent as the sky-lark singsWhen first the morn allures it's wings,The epicure his theme pursues:And ...
Sonnet (Nicholas Breton Poems)
The worldly prince doth in his sceptre holdA kind of heaven in his authorities;The wealthy miser, in his mass of ...
The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
The Church-Porch. Perirrhanterium (George Herbert Poems)
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
L’Invention (Andre Marie de Chenier Poems)
O fils du Mincius, je te salue, ? toi Par qui le dieu des arts fut roi du peuple-roi! Et ...
Judith. (Daniel Baker Poems)
I. Speak, Muse, whom wilt thou sing? What mighty Man, what King, Upon the Stage what Hero wilt thou bring, ...
All Is Vanity (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
IHow vain is Life! which rightly we compare To flying Posts, that haste away;To Plants, that fade with the declining ...
The Petition For An Absolute Retreat (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
GIVE me O indulgent Fate!Give me yet, before I Dye,A sweet, but absolute Retreat,'Mongst Paths so lost, and Trees so ...
The Whaler’s Pig (Edwin James Brady Poems)
WE shipped him at the Sandwich Isles --'Fore God, he's mostly nose! We've fetched him full eight thousand miles To ...
A Song Demonstrating The Vanities Of Earthly Things (Anne Collins Poems)
Shall Sadnesse perswade me never to sing But leave unto Syrens that excellent thing, No that may not be, ...
The Old Dutch Oven (Arthur Chapman Poems)
Some sigh for cooks of boyhood days, but none of them for me;One roundup cook was best of all - ...
Inscribed To An Alderman (Anonymous British Poems)
Know ye the land where the leaf of the myrtleIs bestow'd on good livers in eating sublime?Where the rage for ...
Sonnet VII: Love in a Humour (Michael Drayton Poem)
Love in a humor play'd the prodigal And bade my Senses to a solemn feast; Yet, more to grace the ...
The Luxury to apprehend (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Luxury to apprehend The Luxury 'twould be To look at Thee a single time An Epicure of Me In ...
One of the ones that Midas touched (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One of the ones that Midas touched Who failed to touch us all Was that confiding Prodigal The reeling Oriole ...
Tema con Variazioni (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Why is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to that process of Dilution which has proved so advantageous ...
The World (Henry Vaughan Poems)
1 I saw Eternity the other night, 2 Like a great ring of pure and endless light, 3 All calm, ...
Allouette (Robert William Service Poems)
Singing larks I saw for sale - (Ah! the pain of it) Plucked and ready to impale On a roasting ...