Truth And Falshood (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Once on a Time, in Sunshine Weather,Falshood and Truth walk'd out together,The neighbouring Woods and Lawns to view,As Opposites will ...
Poems about falshood (21 Poems)
On the Earl of Essex (Henry King Poems)
Essex twice made unhappy by a Wife,Yet Marry'd worse unto the Peoples strife:He who by two Divorces did untieHis Bond ...
Inscriptions: III: Whoe’er Thou Art Whose Pat In Summer Lies (Mark Akenside Poems)
Whoe'er thou art whose path in summer liesThrough yonder village, turn thee where the groveOf branching oaks a rural palace ...
31 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Fie tedious Hope, why doe you still rebell?Is it not yet enough you flatter'd me,But cuningly you seeke to use ...
69 (Mary Wroth Poems)
An end fond Jelousie, alas I knowThy hiddenest, and thy most secret Art,Thou canst no new invention frame but part,I ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto X (Edward Benlowes Poems)
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD. The Abnegation.ARGUMENT. What's potent Opulencie? What's remiss Voluptuousness? World, what's All This, To That the ...
Alonzo And Cora – Part III (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
MISFORTUNE'S stings transfix the purest heart,And souls, unknown to guilt, with anguish smart.Not virtue can secure the good man's state,Nor ...
The Old Worlds Tragedie (Francis Sabie Poems)
I sing of horrors sad and dreadfull rage, Of stratagems wrought in the former age, Contagious vice, and in conclusion, ...
Poetical Reflections On A Late Poem Entitled Absalom And Achitophel (Anonymous British Poems)
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
To The Royal Society (Abraham Cowley Poems)
I.Philosophy the great and only heirOf all that human knowledge which has binUnforfeited by man's rebellious sin,Though full of years ...
The History Of Joseph: A Poem In Ten Books. Book VII. (Elizabeth Singer Rowe Poems)
'Twas night, and now advanc'd the solemn hour;The keeper of the prison, from his tow'r, Astonish'd, sees a form divinely ...
Guy and Amarant (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Guy journeyes towards that sanctifyed groundWhereas the Jewes fayre citye sometime stood,Wherin our Saviours sacred head was crownd,And where for ...
Alexis. (Daniel Baker Poems)
My loyal Muse would feign aspire to sing The Praises of our gracious King: But, ah! 'twould ill become his ...
To Echo (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
ENCHANTRESS of the rocks! in accents sweet,Again those deep mysterious notes repeat;Once more thy vocal efforts I engage,To swell with ...
The soldier’s bride to her husband, after his escape from imminent danger (Eliza Acton Poems)
I tremble at thy peril past!It shakes me, like some fearful dream,In horror's mould of madness cast,To chill the warm ...
LXXV. The usefulness of Philosophy (Ellis Walker Poems)
Philosophy's most useful part is this,Which shews us what a wise man's duty is,Which teacheth what we should pursue or ...
Song! (Eliza Acton Poems)
In Beauty's dwelling all things fair, And rich, to win her sweet smiles strove;But still young Beauty's only care ...
The Discontent. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
I. HEre take no Care, take here no Care, my Muse, Nor ought of Art or Labour use: But let ...
Content, To My Dearest Lucasia (Katherine Philips Poems)
Content, the false World's best disguise, The search and faction of the Wise, Is so abstruse and hid in night, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...