Shoreline (Mary Barnard Poems)
The seas has made a wall for its defenceof falling water. Those whose impertinenceleads them to its moving ledgesit rejects. ...
Poems about impertinence (21 Poems)
The Ballade Of The Glutton (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
I'm greedy by nature, and often in vainHave lingered too long o'er the succulent hare,Accepting the jelly, ignoring the pain,Intent ...
An Apology For Not Showing Her What I Had Wrote (William Cowper Poems)
Did not my Muse (what can she less?)Perceive her own unworthiness,Could she by some well-chosen theme,But hope to merit your ...
Sincerity (Mary Barber Poems)
Sincerity, what are thy Views;No more my Breast attend.By thee, alas! we often lose,But seldom gain a Friend.No more with ...
Book Contents: Moods Of Ginger Mick (C J Dennis Poems)
MOODS OF GINGER MICKThis book was dedicated to "THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE ...
Of Verbal Criticism (David Mallet Poems)
Among the numerous fools, by Fate design'd Oft to disturb, and oft divert, mankind, The reading coxcomb is of special ...
A Poem Upon His Sacred Majesty, His Voyage For Holland: By Way Of Dialogue, Between Belgia And Brita (Alicia D Anvers Poems)
BRITANNIA.Wretched Britannia! Hapless and undone! How have my Follies call'd this Vengeance down, And anger'd Heav'n to so severe a ...
Wisdom. (Daniel Baker Poems)
Be Wise d'ye say, I scorn that Word: Love's Politicks no such Rule afford, For Love and Wisdom never yet, ...
XLIX. Impertinent Eloquence not worth the hearing (Ellis Walker Poems)
Avoid, if possible, th' impertinenceOf those who prostitute their eloquence:Who with a long harangue from desk or stageBoth the rich ...
By the Gardens of Phraskdtih. (Frank Sidgwick Poems)
(At a Dinner of the Omar Khayyam Club.) "Draw nigh the Board " one came to me and said ' ...
Karenge Ya Marenge (Countee Cullen Poems)
Wherein are words sublime or noble? What Invests one speech with haloed eminence, Makes it the sesame for all doors ...
Night Piece (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
Climb, claim your shelf-room, farPacked from inquisitive moonAnd cold contagious stars.Lean out, but look no longer,No further, than to stirNight ...
The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
The Way to know the Bobolink (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Way to know the Bobolink From every other Bird Precisely as the Joy of him -- Obliged to be ...
Lord Walter’s Wife (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
I 'But where do you go?' said the lady, while both sat under the yew, And her eyes were alive ...
A Letter from Artemesia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (John Wilmot Poems)
Chloe, In verse by your command I write. Shortly you'll bid me ride astride, and fight: These talents better with ...
Night Piece (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
Climb, claim your shelf-room, far Packed from inquisitive moon And cold contagious stars. Lean out, but look no longer, No ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1 (Alexander Pope Poems)
Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. (Martial, Epigrams 12.84) What dire offence from am'rous causes ...
Paradise Lost: Book 08 (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...