Fingal – Book Vi (James Macpherson Poems)
ARGUMENT.Night comes on. Fingal gives a feast to his army, at which Swaran is present. The king commands Ullin his ...
Poems about fliest (20 Poems)
The Sinner and The Spider (John Bunyan Poems)
Sinner.What black, what ugly crawling thing art thou?Spider.I am a spider-------Sinner.A spider, ay, also a filthy creature.Spider.Not filthy as thyself ...
Safi (Henry Kendall Poems)
Strong pinions bore Safi, the dreamer, Through the dazzle and whirl of a race,And the earth, raying up in confusion, Like a ...
The First Message (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
(Strophe)Poor World! that in wickedness liest Enthrall'd by the powers of ill,And, groaning and travailing, sighest For better and happier still,-- Lo! here ...
In Kentucky (James H. Mulligan Poems)
The moonlight falls the softestIn Kentucky;The summer days come oftestIn Kentucky;Friendship is the strongest,Love's light glows the longest;Yet, wrong is ...
To A Cape Pigeon. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
POOR little solitary thing!Why fliest thou all alone?Why follow our vessel with ceaseless wing?Why seek the torrid zone?There are no ...
Ruth’s Answer To Naomi (Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems)
(Written in her fifteenth year.)Entreat me not, I must not hear,Mark but this sorrow-beaming tear;Thy answer's written deeply nowOn this ...
To A Star (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Sweet star, which gleaming o'er the darksome sceneThrough fleecy clouds of silvery radiance fliest,Spanglet of light on evening's shadowy veil,Which ...
37 (Mary Wroth Poems)
How fast thou fliest, O time, on loves swift wings,To hopes of joy, that flatters our desire:Which to a Lover ...
A Green Heron (Maurice Thompson Poems)
Where a bright creek into the river's sideShoots its keen arrow, a green heron sitsWatching the sunfish as it gleaming ...
Fragments from ‘Genius Lost’ (Charles Harpur Poems)
Prelude I SEE the boy-bard neath life's morning skies, While hope's bright cohorts guess ...
The Hound of Heaven (Francis Thompson Poems)
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I ...
In Kentucky (Edwin Carty Ranck Poems)
(A Response to Judge Mulligan's Famous Toast.) The moonlight may be softest In Kentucky, And summer ...
The Arab’s Faerwell To His Horse (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
MY beautiful! my beautiful! that standest meekly by With thy proudly arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye; ...
Yarra Flats (C J Dennis Poems)
A spieler came to Yarra Glen upon the Yarra flats;He wore a suit of noisy cheeks and something cute in ...
Sonnet LXXXIII: “I, like thy shadow, am a part of thee” (George Henry Boker Poems)
I, like thy shadow, am a part of thee. In vain thou fliest: the level desert plain-- The ragged peak, ...
Time (Alec de Candole Poems)
O TIME, that fliest on never-failing wings, Consuming years, consuming memory, Consuming strength, and bringing vain regrets For lost delight ...
The Hound of Heaven (Francis Thompson Poems)
I fled Him down the nights and down the days I fled Him down the arches of the years I ...
Itylus (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring? A thousand summers are over ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...