The Author (Charles Churchill Poems)
Accursed the man, whom Fate ordains, in spite,And cruel parents teach, to read and write!What need of letters? wherefore should ...
Poems about flatterer (21 Poems)
The Parish Register – Part II: Marriages (George Crabbe Poems)
DISPOSED to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay;There's great advantage in a small delay:Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise ...
Paraphrases From David’s Psalms (Emma Lyon Poems)
Paraphrased From David's Psalms. Psalm XIX.THE arched heavens ere since the birth of timeInstruct the earth, in characters sublime, ...
The Borough. Letter VII: Professions–Physic (George Crabbe Poems)
NEXT, to a graver tribe we turn our view,And yield the praise to worth and science due,But this with serious ...
The Birth Of Flattery (George Crabbe Poems)
Muse of my Spenser, who so well could singThe passions all, their bearings and their ties;Who could in view those ...
Fridolin (The Walk To The Iron Factory) (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
A gentle was Fridolin, And he his mistress dear,Savern's fair Countess, honored in All truth and godly fear.She was so ...
Edwin And Edith – Part II (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
SIR OSMOND'S youth in camps was bred,And manly sports still pleas'd his age:Beneath his spear the wolf had bled;His arm ...
The Lover’s Complaint (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
ME , from the source of every comfort torn,Condemn'd in pensive solitude to mourn,Me, a devoted prey to pain and ...
The Wonders of the One Pound Note (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers!You .... with but a sixpence in your pocket, and you with half a "quid," and you with a ...
Hope (Ernest Jones Poems)
Gate!-that never wholly closes, Opening yet so oft in vain!Garden! full of thorny roses! ...
Ode To Despair (Charlotte Smith Poems)
FROM THE NOVEL OF EMMELINE. THOU spectre of terrific mien!Lord of the hopeless heart and hollow eye,In whose fierce train ...
To A Dog (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
Dear faithful object of my tender care,Whom but my partial eyes none fancy fair;May I unblamed display thy social mirth,Thy ...
Sonnet VI. To Hope (Charlotte Smith Poems)
OH, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes.How shall I lure thee to my haunts forlorn?For me wilt thou renew ...
Cat! (Eleanor Farjeon Poems)
Cat!Atter her, atter her,Sleeky flatterer,Spitfire chatterer,Scatter her, scatter herWuff!Wuff!Treat her rough!Git her, git her,Whiskery spitter!Catch her, catch her,Green-eyed scratcher!SlatherySlitheryHisser,Don't miss ...
Clerihew – Cleopatra (Edmund Clerihew Bentley Poems)
The one thing CleopatraNever could abide was a flatterer.When Anthony compared her to ThaisShe knocked him right of the dais.(Edmund ...
The Strange Lady (William Cullen Bryant Poem)
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze ...
201. Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787 (Robert Burns Poems)
AFAR 1 the illustrious Exile roams, Whom kingdoms on this day should hail; An inmate in the casual shed, On ...
Fridolin (The Walk To The Iron Factory) (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
A gentle was Fridolin, And he his mistress dear, Savern's fair Countess, honored in All truth and godly fear. She ...
Astrophel And Stella-First Song (Sir Philip Sidney Poems)
Doubt you to whom my Muse these notes intendeth, Which now my breast o'ercharged to music lendeth? To you, to ...
Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth th’ impression fill (William Shakespeare Poems)
Your love and pity doth th' impression fill Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow; For what care I who ...
Sonnet CXII (William Shakespeare Poems)
Your love and pity doth the impression fill Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow; For what care I who ...