Paradise Lost : Book XII. (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon,Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel pausedBetwixt the world destroyed ...
Poems about forewarn (15 Poems)
Paradise Lost : Book VII. (John Milton Poems)
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that nameIf rightly thou art called, whose voice divineFollowing, above the Olympian hill I soar,Above ...
Nymphidia, The Court Of Fairy (Michael Drayton Poems)
Old Chaucer doth of Thopas tell,Mad Rabelais of Pantagruel,A latter third of Dowsabell,With such poor trifles playing;Others the like have ...
Protestant Popery: Or, The Convocation – Canto III (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Meanwhile at the declining Noon of Night,When gentle Sleep had veil'd each Mortal's Sight;With balmy Dews the smiling Pastures weep,Torrents ...
The Deluge (Henry Hart Milman Poems)
The following extract from the Mahabharata was published by Bopp, with a German translation, (the promised Latin version has not yet reached ...
Fragments Of A Long-Pondered Poem. (Henry Alford Poems)
I.That wrath divine I sing, whose bitter curseWeighed heavy on the race chosen of God;What time the holy city, favoured ...
The Shepherd’s Week : Wednesday; or, The Dumps (John Gay Poems)
Sparabella.The wailings of a maiden I recite,A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight.Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat,Nor the ...
“Thou That Know’st for Whom I Mourn” (Henry Vaughan Poems)
THOU that know'st for whom I mourn, And why these tears appear,That keep'st account till he return Of all his dust left ...
An Elegy on a Lap-dog (John Gay Poems)
Shock's fate I mourn; poor Shock is now no more, Ye Muses mourn, ye chamber-maids deplore. Unhappy Shock! yet more unhappy fair, Doom'd ...
Tale VI (George Crabbe Poems)
THE FRANK COURTSHIP.Grave Jonas Kindred, Sybil Kindred's sire,Was six feet high, and look'd six inches higher;Erect, morose, determined, solemn, slow,Who ...
Jenny (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Lazy laughing languid Jenny,Fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea,Whose head upon my knee to-nightRests for a while, ...
The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C. (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 12 (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 07 (John Milton Poems)
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...