Tale IX (George Crabbe Poems)
EDWARD SHORE.Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou light divine!Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!Oft will the body's weakness ...
Poems about grov (20 Poems)
Tale XVII (George Crabbe Poems)
RESENTMENT.Females there are of unsuspicious mind,Easy and soft and credulous and kind;Who, when offended for the twentieth time,Will hear the ...
Tale XV (George Crabbe Poems)
ADVICE; OR THE 'SQUIRE AND THE PRIEST.A wealthy Lord of far-extended landHad all that pleased him placed at his command;Widow'd ...
A Poem On The Inhumanity Of The Slave-Trade (Ann Yearsley Poems)
BRISTOL, thine heart hath throbb'd to glory.-Slaves,E'en Christian slaves, have shook their chains, and gaz'dWith wonder and amazement on thee. ...
Flight Of Leeona (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
In bloom gemm'd depths, where Sylvan branches meetAbove dim paths, that thread a still retreat;Where light on tip-toe shy, steals ...
Envy, A Poem (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Oh! hideous fiend, of form uncouth, With jaundic'd eye, and canker'd tooth, Fell Envy, why dost thou profane The labours ...
The Borough. Letter XVI: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Benlow (George Crabbe Poems)
SEE! yonder badgeman with that glowing face,A meteor shining in this sober place!Vast sums were paid, and many years were ...
An Essay on Man: Epistle 1 (Alexander Pope Poems)
To Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and ...
The Poor Of The Borough. Letter XX: Ellen Orford (George Crabbe Poems)
No charms she now can boast,--'tis true,But other charmers wither too:"And she is old,"--the fact I know,And old will other ...
Tale XII (George Crabbe Poems)
'SQUIRE THOMAS; OR THE PRECIPITATE CHOICE.'Squire Thomas flatter'd long a wealthy Aunt,Who left him all that she could give or ...
St. Anthony and his Pig. A Cantata (Frederick Forrest Poems)
RecitativeLet clownish Cymon, in fond rustic strains,To lovely Iphigene declare his pains;Let tink'ring Tom for dustcart Sylvia pine,I sing St. ...
The Female Philosopher (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
"YOU tell me, fair one, that you ne'er can love, And seem with scorn to mock the dangerous fire; But ...
The Folly Of Life (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
"AND what is life? A fleeting shade, A cheerless, beamless, frozen glade, A span too short for joy to smile, ...
Hymn 31 part 2 (Isaac Watts Poems)
The Christian's hidden life. Col. 3:3. O happy soul that lives on high While men lie grov'lling here His hopes ...
To Mæcenas (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Mæcenas, you, beneath the myrtle shade, Read o'er what poets sung, and shepherds play'd. What felt those poets but you ...
To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Indulgent muse! my grov'ling mind inspire, And fill my bosom with celestial fire. See from Jamaica's fervid shore she moves, ...
Monody to the Memory of Chatterton (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Chill penury repress'd his noble rage, And froze the genial current of his soul. GRAY. IF GRIEF can deprecate the ...
Stanzas Written under an Oak in Windsor Forest (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
"HERE POPE FIRST SUNG!" O, hallow'd Tree ! Such is the boast thy bark displays; Thy branches, like thy Patron's ...
An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1 (Alexander Pope Poems)
To Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride ...
Essay on Man (Alexander Pope Poems)
The First Epistle Awake, my ST. JOHN!(1) leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let ...