The Grave (excerpt) (Robert Blair Poems)
While some affect the sun, and some the shade.Some flee the city, some the hermitage;Their aims as various, as the ...
Poems about indulging (21 Poems)
Virtues That Pay (Joseph Furphy Poems)
You argue - as sympathy governs your bias -That Wisdom distributes the capon and crust,Indulging the sinful, and stinting the ...
Written At Clevedale In June, 1812, (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
When The Author Was Indulging In The Fancy That SheShould Leave England That Year To Return ToBarbados.1.NOW hush'd and tranquil ...
The Author (Charles Churchill Poems)
Accursed the man, whom Fate ordains, in spite,And cruel parents teach, to read and write!What need of letters? wherefore should ...
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 ...
The History Of Job, A Sacred Poem. The First Book. (Daniel Baker Poems)
You that at ev'ry trifling Cross repine, And tax the Ways of Providence Divine; You that to ev'ry soft Temptation ...
In The Canyon (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"This is her diary. Come with me to viewThe canyon; think you see it as of oldWhen Martha lived, and ...
Kuprianov and Natasha (Aleksandr Ivanovich Vvedensky Poems)
Kuprianov and his dear lady Natasha after walking those swinish guests to the door prepare for bed.kuprianovsaid, taking off his ...
The Borough. Letter XV: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Clelia (George Crabbe Poems)
WE had a sprightly nymph--in every townAre some such sprights, who wander up and down;She had her useful arts, and ...
Father Camus (E W Bowling Poems)
Smoking lately in my "Funny," as I'm wont, beneath the bank, Listening to Cam's rippling murmurs thro' the ...
Kisses And The Rhythmic Principle (C J Dennis Poems)
My dear ladies - that is to say, those of you who may happen inadvertently to glance through this ...
Old Town Types No. 4 – Our Mr. Trim (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr Trim, commercial traveller, is in town again, "Our Mr Trim," you know, debonair and neat;Landed here this morning on ...
The Executor (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
A Greedy Heir long waited to fulfill, As his Executor, a Kinsman's Will; And to himself his Age repeated o'er, ...
A Valuable Gift (Carolyn Wells Poems)
Old Father Time, one day In his study, so they say, Was indulging in a surreptitious nap, When from his ...
Song #8 (Christian Milne Poems)
When twilight sheds its parting ray,On Don's sweet banks I lonely stray,Indulging thought's dejected train,That paints my absent lover slain!Each ...
TO My Lord Colrane, In Answer to his Complemental Verses sent me under the Name of CLEANOR (Anne Killigrew Poem)
LOng my dull Muse in heavy slumbers lay, Indulging Sloth, and to soft Ease gave way, Her Fill of Rest ...
The Executor (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Greedy Heir long waited to fulfill, As his Executor, a Kinsman's Will; And to himself his Age repeated o'er, ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
The Whale (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
The Whale is found in seas and oceans, Indulging there in fishlike motions, But Science shows that Whales are mammals, ...
A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton (James Thomson Poems)
Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth, To mingle with his stars; and every muse, Astonish'd into silence, ...
Sunt Leones (Stevie Smith Poems)
The lions who ate the Christians on the sands of the arena By indulging native appetites played was now been ...