Metamorphosis VIII, 611-724 (Ovid Poems)
Baucis and PhilemonTHUS Achelous ends: his audience hearWith admiration, and admiring, fearThe pow'rs of heav'n; except Ixion's son,Who laugh'd at ...
Poems about exempted (20 Poems)
The Rainbow (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
The shower is past, and the sky O'erhead is both mild and serene, Save where a few drops from on high, Like gems, ...
Advice To A Woman, Not To Grieve Too Much For The Death Of Her Child (Rees Prichard Poems)
O! Martha, Martha, cease thy plaintive moan —Take comfort — check thy over frequent sighsFor thy dear babe — whom ...
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 ...
Any Soldier To His Son (Anonymous Poems)
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack ...
Any Soldier To His Son (George Willis Poems)
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack ...
Elegy XVIII (John Donne Poems)
THE heavens rejoice in motion ; why should IAbjure my so much loved variety,And not with many youth and love ...
A Bill for the Better Promotion of Oppression on the Sabbath Day (Thomas Love Peacock Poems)
Forasmuch as the Canter's and Fanatic's LordSayeth peace and joy are by me abhorred;And would fill each Sunday with gloom ...
Mankinds Lamentation (Henry Arthington Poems)
Mankinds lamentation,Of their miserable condition,By naturall corruption,Through Adams inclination,Vnto his wiues perswasion,By Serpents first suggestion,Through Sathans instigation.All Adams heyres in ...
The Thracian Stone (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
"The faieries gave him the propertie of the Thracian stone; for who toucheth it is exempted from griefe."The fairies to ...
A May Night on the Mountains (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Tis a wonderful time when these hours begin, These long 'small hours' of night,When grass is crisp, and the air is ...
A Fable (William Cowper Poems)
A raven, while with glossy breastHer new-laid eggs she fondly press'd,And, on her wicker-work high mounted,Her chickens prematurely counted(A fault ...
The Hyperboreans (Pindar Poems)
Among them too are the MusesFor everywhereTo flute and string the young girlsAre dancing,In their hair the gold leaves of ...
The Sotweed Factor (3) (Ebenezer Cook Poems)
Condemn'd by Fate to way-ward Curse, Of Friends unkind, and empty Purse: Plagues worse than fill'd ...
The Grammarians Funeral (Benjamin Tompson Poems)
Eight Parts of Speech this Day wear Mourning GownsDeclin'd Verbs, Pronouns, Participles, Nouns.And not declined, Adverbs and Conjunctions,In Lillies Porch ...
The Last Giustianini (Edith Wharton Poems)
O WIFE, wife, wife! As if the sacred name Could weary one with saying! Once again Laying against my brow ...
A Song Between Syrenus and Sylvanus (Bartholomew Young Poems)
Syrenus. Who hath of Cupids cates and dainties prayed,May feede his stomack with them at his pleasure:If in his drinke ...
Ida Chicken (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
After I had attended lecturesAt our Chautauqua, and studied FrenchFor twenty years, committing the grammarAlmost by heart,I thought I'd take ...
The Everlasting Gospel (William Blake Poems)
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
Ida Chicken (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
After I had attended lectures At our Chautauqua, and studied French For twenty years, committing the grammar Almost by heart, ...