The Farewell (Charles Churchill Poems)
_P_. Farewell to Europe, and at once farewellTo all the follies which in Europe dwell;To Eastern India now, a richer ...
Poems about fatally (21 Poems)
Alonzo And Cora – Part I (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
A TALE, FROM MARMONTEL'S INCAS OF PERUWHEN o'er the western world IBERIA'S bandsWith blood and rapine stain'd their guilty hands;When ...
The History Of Joseph: A Poem In Ten Books. Book II. (Elizabeth Singer Rowe Poems)
Young Shechem all the night impatient lay;And sought with eager eyes the breaking day;With ardent longings waits the promis'd hour,And ...
The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto V. (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Preludes.I The Comparison Where she succeeds with cloudless brow, ...
The Last Banquet Of Antony And Cleopatra (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Thy foes had girt thee with their dead array,O stately Alexandra! — yet the soundOf mirth and music, at the ...
The Calm (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers, have you observed the calm?Even the leaves of that symbolic palmThat denotes peace, political and otherwise, are scarcely stirredBy ...
Beowulf (Episode 41) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
THE bloody swath of Swedes and Geatsand the storm of their strife, were seen afar,how folk against folk the fight ...
The Siren’s Cave At Tivoli (Frances Anne Kemble Poems)
As o'er the chasm I breathless hung, Thus from the depths the siren sung: "Down, down into the ...
Sir Middel (George Borrow Poems)
So tightly was Swanelil lacing her vest,That forth spouted milk, from each lily-white breast;That saw the Queen-mother, and thus she ...
Charmion’s Lament (Eloise Alberta Bibb Poems)
Oh, for a drink, to-night,Mixed by some god of might,A draught of strange device,Though of exorbitant price,To give this tortured ...
Beowulf (Episode 37) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
'TWAS now, men say, in his sovran's needthat the earl made known his noble strain,craft and keenness and courage enduring.Heedless ...
Nun Snow (Alfred Kreymborg Poems)
A Pantomime of BeadsEarth VoiceISsheThoughtless of life,A lover of imminent death,Nun SnowTouching her strings of white beads?Is it her unseen ...
Love Versus Learning (Constance Naden Poems)
ALAS, for the blight of my fancies! Alas, for the fall of my pride! I planned, in my girlish romances, ...
The Lie (Antanas Skema Poems)
They ordered him to shoot a man.The gun shone with fresh oil.The doomed head shone with drops of sweat.He aimed ...
A Holocaust (Francis Thompson Poems)
'No man ever attained supreme knowledge, unless his heart had beentorn up by the roots.'When I presage the time shall ...
The Magic Cup (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
The Mandrake (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
Irreparableness (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I HAVE been in the meadows all the day And gathered there the nosegay that you see Singing within myself ...
Shut Up And Eat Your Toad (Edward Taylor Poems)
The disorganization to which I currently belong has skipped several meetings in a row which is a pattern I find ...
Shut Up And Eat Your Toad (James Tate Poems)
The disorganization to which I currently belong has skipped several meetings in a row which is a pattern I find ...
Conceit (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
It is conceit that kills us and makes us cowards instead of gods. Under the great Command: Know thy self, ...