The Summary of Wisedome (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
Poems about gluttony (21 Poems)
The History Of Job, A Sacred Poem. The Third Book. (Daniel Baker Poems)
Mean while loquacious Fame the News thro'--out Each Corner of the Land had spread about. The Monster Fame; by Stealth ...
The Old Worlds Tragedie (Francis Sabie Poems)
I sing of horrors sad and dreadfull rage, Of stratagems wrought in the former age, Contagious vice, and in conclusion, ...
To Penshurst (Ben Jonson Poems)
Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show, Of touch, or marble; nor canst boast a rowOf polish'd pillars, or ...
The Old Chartist (George Meredith Poems)
I Whate'er I be, old England is my dam! So there's my answer to the judges, clear. I'm nothing of ...
Young Democracy (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
HARK! Young Democracy from sleep Our careless sentries raps: A backwash from the Future's deep Our Evil's foreland laps. Unknown, ...
Bacchus [Excerpt] (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
I am the gift of tongues that flameInspired resolve above:I wither the weeds of paltry aimThat choke the growth of ...
Melbourne Sonnets: VII In The Bank (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
OUT of the dead cathedral, where dead saintsMark for untold contempt worn, sorry talesMumbled by fatted priests, whose boast be--wailsEarth, ...
Envy (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Black drips the ooze that you secrete on allThat Honour's burin graves or Love holds dear:At sacrifice you laugh, at ...
The Palace and the Hut XXIX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Part One As night fell and the light glittered in the great house, the servants stood at the massive door ...
Song of Fortune VI (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Man and I are sweethearts He craves me and I long for him, But alas! Between us has appeared A ...
Sausage (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Forget the frank, Give me the Fenway sausage. Lansdowne or Yawkey, Just give me the street, the crowds, the carts. ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
The Little Dog’s Day (Rupert Brooke Poems)
All in the town were still asleep, When the sun came up with a shout and a leap. In the ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
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 ...
Satyr (John Wilmot Poems)
Were I (who to my cost already am One of those strange prodigious Creatures Man) A Spirit free, to choose ...
The Beasts’ Confession (Jonathan Swift Poems)
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own Talents When beasts could speak (the learned say, They ...
The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto IV (excerpts) (Edmund Spenser Poems)
CANTO IIII To sinfull house of Pride, Duessa guides the faithfull knight, Where brothers death to wreak Sansjoy doth chalenge ...
Richard Pigott, the Forger (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Richard Pigott, the forger, was a very bad man, And to gainsay it there's nobody can, Because for fifty years ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...