To M. E. A. (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
Oh! had I that poetic lore Bestowed upon the favored few,To ope' Dame Nature's bounteous store, And hold her treasures up to ...
Poems about houris (21 Poems)
The Dinner Table Talk (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
Now soup, if you like made of beef very nice, You'll find this the next thing to the height of perfection; And ...
To Eliza (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Eliza, what fools are the Mussulman sect, Who to woman deny the soul's future existence!Could they see thee, Eliza, they'd own ...
Written On The Anniversary Of Our Father’s Death (Hartley Coleridge Poems)
STILL for the world he lives, and lives in bliss,For God and for himself. Ten years and threeHave now elapsed ...
Fragments From “The Brigand.” A Poem. Canto I (Albert Pike Poems)
Bring the wine-cup, companions! and let it go round! At its bottom good humor and mirth will be found; Bring ...
Wallace: Book I (Blind Hary Poems)
(VITA NOBILISSIMI DEFENSORIS SCOTIE WILELMI WALLACE MILITIS)Book IOur antecessowris that we suld of reideAnd hald in mynde, thar nobille worthi ...
The pilgrimage to Mecca (George Canning Poems)
What holy rites Mohammed's laws ordain,What various duties bind his faithful train,—What pious zeal his scatter'd tribes unitesIn fix'd observance ...
Abu Midjan (George MacDonald Poems)
If I sit in the dustFor lauding good wine,Ha, ha! it is just:So sits the vine!Abu Midjan sang as he ...
An English Poet. (Frank Sidgwick Poems)
The poet cried, ' I am obsessed, * And out of joint I find the times ; Silent the Muse ...
Heaven And Earth (Abdul Ghani Khan Poems)
Would there be elation and youth, the beloved and a chalice full;Several flowers and a few friends in a mellow ...
A Lament for Persia (Edward Henry Bickersteth Poems)
Mourn, Persia, mourn! thy charms decay; Proud Ispahan, the seat of power, Is shorn by time's relentless sway Of her ...
Paradise (Edward Powys Mathers Poems)
Love Ballad of Kurdistan.Paradise, my darling, know that paradise,The Prophet-given paradise after death,Is far and very mysterious and most high;My ...
When Man Sits Down In Dust (Abdul Ghani Khan Poems)
Manhood stands tall and high, and becomes madness;The self takes leave of being and becomes ecstasy.When iron sated with blood ...
To Eliza (Lord Byron Poem)
Eliza, what fools are the Mussulman sect, Who to woman deny the soul's future existence! Could they see thee, Eliza, ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Bride of Abydos, The (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The Palace of Art (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, "O Soul, make merry ...
Tales Of Arabia (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
YES, friend, I own these tales of Arabia Smile not, as smiled their flawless originals, Age-old but yet untamed, for ...
Nicotine (Ezra Pound Poems)
Hymn to the Dope Goddess of the murmuring courts, Nicotine, my Nicotine, Houri of the mystic sports, trailing-robed in gabardine, ...