Stairways (Hazel Hall Poems)
Why do I think of stairwaysWith a rush of hurt surprise?Wistful as forgotten love In remembered eyes;And fitful as the ...
Poems about intrigue (21 Poems)
Louisa: A Poetical Novel. Fourth Epsitle. (Anna Seward Poems)
LOUISATOEMMA. APRIL 25th, 1781. OH! my lov'd EMMA , I have much ...
Poetical Reflections On A Late Poem Entitled Absalom And Achitophel (Anonymous British Poems)
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
Epistle To Fabio (Francisco de Rioja Poems)
Fabio ! the courtier's hopes are chains that windWith fatal strength around the ambitious mind; And he who breaks or ...
The Insect (C J Dennis Poems)
From Camoweal to Windywoe, from Windywoe to Thirstyville,We'll drag the line around the map, along the plain, and up the ...
The Martyred Democrat (C J Dennis Poems)
(Begin breezily):In Lady Lusher's drawing-room, where float the strains of ...
Princess Anne (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
November 5: 1640Harsh words have been utter'd and written on her, Henrietta the Queen:She was young in a difficult part, ...
The Vanities Of Life (Anonymous British Poems)
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity--SOLOMON.What are life's joys and gains?What pleasures crowd its ways,That man should take such painsTo ...
The Silence of the Bush (George Gordon McCrae Poems)
There's that in our lone Bush, I know not what,Which 'genders silence; I've all that to learn.Here, there and everywhere, ...
Ode To The (George Canning Poems)
How blest, how firm the Statesman stands, (Him no low intrigue shall move),Circled by faithful kindred bands, And propp'd by ...
Melbourne Sonnets: I: In Collins Street (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
THIS city's greatness glares - a wild obsession,New, crude, harsh, unremembering, un-romantlc;Some latent thing gropes here, unseen, gigantic,With Internecine commerce ...
Keepers On The Tower (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Theirs is a blest intrigue,They are in league,God and my conscience, in conspiracyTo parch my corporal being utterly.Every time I ...
AFRICAN WRITINGS (Godfrey Mutiso Gorry Poem)
If you meet literature from Africa Or even their mentors In such works You realize a trait of madness Pumping ...
Hurricane (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A hole in the wall shop, Counter and seller Plastic cups and pitchers A bit of rum, a bunch of ...
Running on the Razor’s Edge (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
His eyes tell the story Captured in the ephemeral emulsion Of the digital image Silently, knowingly Speaking Of the things ...
Richard Minutolo (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Anaphora (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
In memory of Marjorie Carr Stevens Each day with so much ceremony begins, with birds, with bells, with whistles from ...
Upon A Dying Lady (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I Her Courtesy With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace, She lies, her lovely piteous head amid dull red ...
Signior Dildo (John Wilmot Poems)
You ladies of merry England Who have been to kiss the Duchess's hand, Pray, did you not lately observe in ...
Patriotism 02 Nelson, Pitt, Fox (Sir Walter Scott Poems)
TO mute and to material things New life revolving summer brings; The genial call dead Nature hears, And in her ...