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 islanders (15 Poems)
The Battle Of Cressy (Peter John Allan Poems)
Drawn up in three divisions, soon as the English foundThat the Frenchmen were advancing, they started from the ground,Alarm'd, and burning in ...
The Devil Of Pope-Fig Island (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
BY master Francis clearly 'tis expressed:The folks of Papimania are blessed;True sleep for them alone it seems was madeWith US ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 04 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XLIGuelpho next them the land and place possest,Whose fortunes good with his great acts agree,By his Italian sire, fro the ...
Kismet (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Into the rock the road is cut full deep, At its low ledges village children play,From its high rifts fountains of ...
The Palatine (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Leagues north, as fly the gull and auk,Point Judith watches with eye of hawk;Leagues south, thy beacon flames, Montauk!Lonely and ...
Upon The Translation Of The Psalms By Sir Philip Sidney And The Countess Of Pembroke, His Sister (John Donne Poems)
ETERNAL God-for whom who ever dareSeek new expressions, do the circle square,And thrust into straight corners of poor witThee, who ...
“The Greeks planned for war” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
The Greeks planned for warOn the delightful island of Salamis.From the harbor of Athens, you could see itSeized by the ...
Fragments (Albert Pike Poems)
(OF AN UNFINISHED POEM.) Dear woman! star of sad life's clouded heaven,I dedicate myself to thee again; Fair woman! as ...
The Fight At Rorke’s Drift (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
It was over at Is?ndula, the bloody work was done, And the yet unburied dead looked up unblinking at the ...
Periander (George Meredith Poems)
IHow died Melissa none dares shape in words.A woman who is wife despotic lordsCount faggot at the question, Shall she ...
The Coffee Slips (Charles Lamb Poems)
Whene'er I fragrant coffee drink,I on the generous Frenchman think,Whose noble perseverance boreThe tree to Martinico's shore.While yet her colony ...
What does it take? (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Is the current rate of global warming a serious and cogent warning? Do we need to think about the fact ...
Over the Sea our Galleys Went (Robert Browning Poem)
Over the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding wind and a bounding wave, ...
The Wanderers (Robert Browning Poem)
OVER the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave To a speeding wind and a bounding wave-- ...