King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring;As proof, Candaules' story we will bring;In folly's scenes the king was truly great:His ...
Poems about forestall (21 Poems)
Otho The Great – Act II (John Keats Poems)
SCENE I. An Ante-chamber in the Castle.Enter LUDOLPH and SIGIFRED.Ludolph. No more advices, no more cautioning:I leave it all to ...
An Ode For The Fourth Of July (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Entranced I saw a vision in the cloudThat loitered dreaming in yon sunset sky,Full of fair shapes, half creatures of ...
Eclogue 3: Menalcas Daemoetas Palaemon (Publius Vergilius Maro Poems)
MENALCASWho owns the flock, Damoetas? Meliboeus?DAMOETASNay, they are Aegon's sheep, of late by himCommitted to my care.MENALCAS O every wayUnhappy sheep, ...
A Character (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A.HE is a man whose complex characterFew can decipher rightly; but for meI have found the key at last!B.What make ...
The Argument (Jane Kenyon Poems)
On the way to the village storeI drive through a down-draftfrom the neighbor's chimney.Woodsmoke tumbles from the eavesbacklit by sun, ...
A Word Of Wisdom (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Make the best of all things, As thy lot is cast?Whatsoe'er we call things All is well at last,If meanwhile, in cheerful ...
The Lover’s Year (George Parsons Lathrop Poems)
Thou art my morning, twilight, noon, and eve,My summer and my winter, spring and fall;For Nature left on thee a ...
Mater In Extremis (Jean Starr Untermeyer Poems)
I stand between them and the outer winds, But I am a crumbling wall. They told me they could bear the blast ...
The Church-Porch. Perirrhanterium (George Herbert Poems)
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
To an Antiquated Coquette (Earl of Dorset Charles Sackville Poems)
Phyllis, if you will not agree To give me back my liberty, In spite of you I must regain My ...
The Discharge (George Herbert Poems)
Busie enquiring heart, what wouldst thou know? Why dost thou prie,And turn, and leer, ...
Ode to Death (David James Scott Poems)
I do not fear thee, Death!I have a bantering thought!—though I am toldThou art inflexible, and stern, and bold;And that ...
Villanelle Of Marguerite’s (Ernest Christopher Dowson Poems)
A little, _passionately, not at all?_ She casts the snowy petals on the air: And what care we how ...
Requiescant (Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney Poems)
Now are they come unto the place of quiet,Into the heart of silence, where God is,Far, far away from all ...
A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret’s (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poems)
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
The Growth of Love (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
By The Fire-Side (Robert Browning Poem)
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
Any Wife To Any Husband (Robert Browning Poem)
I My love, this is the bitterest, that thou Who art all truth and who dost love me now As ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...