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The Swan Song of Parson Avery (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)

When the reaper's task was ended, and the summer wearing late,Parson Avery sailed from Newbury, with his wife and children ...

Ode To Apollo (James Lister Cuthbertson Poems)

"Tandem venias precamur Nube candentes humeros amictus Augur Apollo." Lord of the golden lyre Fraught with the Dorian fire, Oh! fair-haired child of Leto, come ...

A Jacobite’s Exile (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)

The weary day runs down and dies,The weary night wears through:And never an hour is fair wi' flower,And never a ...

To. W. P. (George Santayana Poems)

ICalm was the sea to which your course you kept,Oh, how much calmer than all southern seas!Many your nameless mates, ...

The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)

TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...

Dauid And Beersheba (Francis Sabie Poems)

Svch time as Tytan with his fiery beames In highest degree, made duskish Leo sweat Field-tilling Swains driue home their ...

Genesis BK VI (Caedmon Poems)

(ll. 246-260) The Holy Lord, All-wielding God, with mighty handhad wrought ten angel-orders in whom He trusted well, that theywould ...

Isandula (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)

Ever the story liveth of the fight on the far hillside,Fraught with the ancient sorrow that is brother born of ...

A New Year Thought (C J Dennis Poems)

Brother, who on some near morrowMakes a pledge conceived in sorrow Makes a New Year resolution Seeking plenary ablution.Makes a ...

The Bridge (Edward Thomas Poems)

I have come a long way to-day:On a strange bridge alone,Remembering friends, old friends,I rest, without smile or moan,As they ...

CHARMIDES (Oscar Wilde Poems)

I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...

The Garden Of Eros (Oscar Wilde Poems)

It is full summer now, the heart of June; Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir Upon the upland meadow ...

The Last Tournament (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)

Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...

Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)