Elegy I. He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country (William Shenstone Poems)
He Arrives at His Retirement in the Country, and Takes Occasion To Expatiate in Praise of Simplicity.To a FriendFor rural ...
Poems about insincere (21 Poems)
Here And There: Or This World And The Next: Being Suitable Thoughts For A New Year (Hannah More Poems)
Here bliss is short, imperfect, insincere,But total, absolute, and perfect there.Here time's a moment, short our happiest state,There infinite duration ...
On The Regret Of Youth (Matilda Betham Poems)
Before a rose is fully blown, The outward leaves announce decay; So, ere the spring of Youth is flown, Its tiny pleasures die ...
Balaam’s Wish (John Newton Poems)
How blest the righteous areWhen they resign their breath!No wonder Balaam wished to shareIn such a happy death.Oh! let me ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Twentieth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Like a strong youth who, from refreshing sleep After hard travel, rises light of heart, Active of limb, flushed with ...
The Revolution (George Meredith Poems)
INot yet had History's Aetna smoked the skies,And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained,While overhead in ordered set and riseHer ...
A Breach Of Friendship (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
'TIS friendship's test to guard the name Of him you love from all attack, As you are to his face, ...
Lines For The Fortune Cookies (Frank O Hara Poems)
I think you're wonderful and so does everyone else.Just as Jackie Kennedy has a baby boy, so will you—even bigger.You ...
A Lover’s Quarrel (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
We two were lovers, the Sea and I; We plighted our troth 'neath a summer sky.And all through the riotous, ...
I Am The Only Being Whose Doom (Emily Jane Bronte Poems)
I am the only being whose doom No tongue would ask no eye would mourn I never caused ...
Real Help (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
If you can smooth his path a bit, Bring laughter to his worried face, Restore today his stock of grit ...
Hymn VIII: What Could Your Redeemer Do (Charles Wesley Poems)
What could your Redeemer doMore than he hath done for you?To procure your peace with God,Could he more than shed ...
Caught in the Undertow (Christopher Morley Poems)
COLIN, worshipping some frail, By self-deception sways her: Calls himself unworthy male, Hardly even fit to praise her.But this tactic ...
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, ...
Laughter and Tears IX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
As the Sun withdrew his rays from the garden, and the moon threw cushioned beams upon the flowers, I sat ...
It is a secular world (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Our Indonesian friends again exhibit strains of gross hypocrisy, it's a virus that abounds in the islands of a thousand ...
“I am the only being whose doom…” (Emily Bronte Poem)
I am the only being whose doom No tongue would ask no eye would mourn I never caused a thought ...
A Lovers’ Quarrel (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
We two were lovers, the Sea and I; We plighted our troth 'neath a summer sky. And all through the ...
Dedicatory Poem For “Underwoods” (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
TO her, for I must still regard her As feminine in her degree, Who has been my unkind bombarder Year ...
Immolated (Herman Melville Poems)
Children of my happier prime, When One yet lived with me, and threw Her rainbow over life and time, Even ...
Silence (Marianne Moore Poems)
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave nor the glass ...