An Ode – Humbly Inscribed To The Queen, On the Glorious Success of Her Majesty’s Arms (Matthew Prior Poems)
When great Augustus govern'd ancient Rome,And sent his conquering bands to foreign wars,Abroad when dreaded, and beloved at home,He saw ...
Poems about ill-omen (17 Poems)
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 ...
A Summer Day (Joanna Baillie Poems)
The dark-blue clouds of night in dusky lines,Drawn wide and streaky o'er the purer sky,Wear faint the morning purple on ...
An Epistle From A Student At Oxford To The Chevalier (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
While You, dread Sir, whom partial Heav'n denies,The fruitful Vineyard and Cis--Alpine Skies,O'er frozen Heights and chilling Desarts stray,Far from ...
Elegy On Newstead Abbey (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
'It is the voice of years that are gone!they roll before me with all their deeds.'~OSSIANNewstead! fast-falling, once-resplendent dome! Religion's shrine! ...
Fragment 3 (Matilda Betham Poems)
A Pilgrim weary, toil-subdued, I reach'd a country, strange and rude, And trembled, lest approaching eve My hope of shelter might deceive; When I ...
To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison (Thomas Tickell Poems)
If, dumb too long, the drooping Muse hath stay'd,And left her debt to Addison unpaid;Blame not her silence, Warwick, but ...
On Self – Abasement And Humility (Hakim Sanai Poems)
Lowliness befits thee, violence suits thee not; a, naked man frantic in a bee-house is out of place. Leave aside ...
Nocturne (Gerald Griffin Poems)
Sleep that like the couched dove Broods o'er the weary eye, Dreams that with soft heavings move The heart of ...
The Lost Child. Canto I. (George Jehoshaphat Mountain Poems)
I. OF all that men with zeal and ardour chace, Pour'd here and there on life's promiscuous ground,Some points are ...
William And Mira (Christian Milne Poems)
A TALE. ON her lov'd infant, as it sleeping lies,Ah! little does the tender mother know,While fondly gazing with delighted ...
Woe! to the just occasion that compels (Christopher Anstey Poems)
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
Sonnet XVII. From The Thirteenth Cantata Of Metastasio (Charlotte Smith Poems)
ON thy grey bark, in witness of my flame,I carve Miranda's cypher--Beauteous tree!Graced with the lovely letters of her name,Henceforth ...
Sonnet LXI (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Supposed to have been written in America. ILL-omen'd bird! whose cries portentous floatO'er yon savannah with the mournful wind;While, as ...
The Undertaker’s Horse (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
The eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o' mornings on the ...
M’Fingal – Canto II (John Trumbull Poems)
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
The Granny Grey, a Love Tale (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
DAME DOWSON, was a granny grey, Who, three score years and ten, Had pass'd her busy hours away, In talking ...