To The Right Hon. Mr. Dodington (Edward Young Poems)
Long, Dodington, in debt, I long have sought To ease the burden of my graceful thought: And now a ...
Poems about fops (21 Poems)
The Fair Nun (Elijah Fenton Poems)
Ire per Ignes,Et gladios ausim. Neque ad hoc tamen ignibus ullis,Aut gladiis opus est; opus est mihi Crine. —Ovid. Met. ...
The Young Rat And His Dam, The Cock And The Cat (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
No Cautions of a Matron, Old and Sage, Young Rattlehead to Prudence cou'd engage; But forth the Offspring of her ...
The Invitation: To Tom Hughes (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Come away with me, Tom,Term and talk are done;My poor lads are reaping,Busy every one.Curates mind the parish,Sweepers mind the ...
Clepsydra (Charles Cotton Poems)
WHY, let is run! who bids it stay? Let us the while be merry; Time there in water creeps away, ...
On the Countess Dowager of Manchester (Earl of Dorset Charles Sackville Poems)
Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair. Mopsa, who in her youth was scarce thought fair, In spite of age, ...
Song (Aphra Behn Poems)
Oh love! that stronger art than Wine,Pleasing Delusion, Witchery divine,Wont to be priz'd above all Wealth,Disease that has more Joys ...
English Thornton (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Here! You sons of the menWho fought with Washington at Valley Forge,And whipped Black Hawk at Starved Rock,Arise! Do battle ...
Song (Love) (Aphra Behn Poems)
Oh love! that stronger art than Wine,Pleasing Delusion, Witchery divine,Wont to be priz'd above all Wealth,Disease that has more Joys ...
Sonnet (Alice Dunbar-Nelson Poems)
I had no thought of violets of late,The wild, shy kind that spring beneath your feetIn wistful April days, when ...
Queen Hilda of Virland (Henry Lawson Poem)
PART I Queen Hilda rode along the lines, And she was young and fair; And forward on her shoulders fell ...
The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
Signior Dildo (John Wilmot Poems)
You ladies of merry England Who have been to kiss the Duchess's hand, Pray, did you not lately observe in ...
A Ramble in St. James’s Park (John Wilmot Poems)
Much wine had passed, with grave discourse Of who fucks who, and who does worse (Such as you usually do ...
A Satyre Against Mankind (John Wilmot Poems)
Were I - who to my cost already am One of those strange, prodigious creatures, man - A spirit free ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women) (Alexander Pope Poems)
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4 (Alexander Pope Poems)
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd, And secret passions labour'd in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz'd ...
English Thornton (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Here! You sons of the men Who fought with Washington at Valley Forge, And whipped Black Hawk at Starved Rock, ...