A PASTORAL SUNG TO THE KING (Robert Herrick Poem)
MONTANO, SILVIO, AND MIRTILLO, SHEPHERDS MON. Bad are the times. SIL. And worse than they are we. MON. Troth, bad ...
Poems about languish (31 Poems)
HIS MISTRESS TO HIM AT HIS FAREWELL (Robert Herrick Poem)
You may vow I'll not forget To pay the debt Which to thy memory stands as due As faith can ...
To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything (Robert Herrick Poem)
Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be; Or bid me love, and I will give ...
THE RECKONING. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
LEADER. LET no cares now hover o'er us Let the wine unsparing run! Wilt thou swell our merry chorus? Hast ...
The Progress of Poesy (Thomas Gray Poem)
A Pindaric Ode Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A ...
The Magic Cup (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
The Devil In Hell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
Ode To Beauty (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Who gave thee, O Beauty! The keys of this breast, Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say when in ...
Endimion and Phoebe (excerpts) (Michael Drayton Poem)
In Ionia whence sprang old poets' fame, From whom that sea did first derive her name, The blessed bed whereon ...
Song To A Fair Young Lady Going Out Of Town In The Spring (John Dryden Poem)
Ask not the cause why sullen spring So long delays her flow'rs to bear; Why warbling birds forget to sing, ...
Troilus And Cressida (John Dryden Poem)
Can life be a blessing, Or worth the possessing, Can life be a blessing if love were away? Ah no! ...
A Song From The Italian (John Dryden Poem)
(LIMBERHAM: OR, THE KIND KEEPER) By a dismal cypress lying, Damon cried, all pale and dying, Kind is death that ...
The Message (John Donne Poem)
Send home my long stray'd eyes to me, Which O too long have dwelt on thee, Yet since there they ...
Persuasions to Joy, a Song (Thomas Carew Poem)
IF the quick spirits in your eye Now languish and anon must die; If every sweet and every grace Must ...
Song (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)
Why Damon, why, why, why so pressing? The Heart you beg's not worth possessing: Each Look, each Word, each Smile's ...
Sorrow (Li Ching Chao Poem)
To the melody of "Sheng Sheng Man" I pine and peak And questless seek Groping and moping to linger and ...
A Valentine (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Sent to a friend who had complained that I was glad enough to see him when he came, but didn't ...
Frances (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
Evening Solace (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
THE human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, ...
Stanzas (Emily Bronte Poem)
I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me, There's nothing lovely here; And doubly will the dark world ...
Remembrance (Emily Bronte Poem)
Cold in the earth-and the deep snow piled above thee, Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I ...
Death (Emily Bronte Poem)
Death! that struck when I was most confiding In my certain faith of joy to be - Strike again, Time's ...
My Earlier Life (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
I've been home a long time among the vast porticos, Which the mariner sun has tinged with a million fires, ...
415. Song-The last time I cam o’er the Moor (Robert Burns Poems)
THE LAST time I came o'er the moor, And left Maria's dwelling, What throes, what tortures passing cure, Were in ...
494. Song-Farewell thou stream that winding flows (Robert Burns Poem)
FAREWELL, thou stream that winding flows Around Eliza's dwelling; O mem'ry! spare the cruel thoes Within my bosom swelling. Condemn'd ...
322. Song-The Bonie Wee Thing (Robert Burns Poem)
Chorus.-Bonie wee thing, cannie wee thing, Lovely wee thing, wert thou mine, I wad wear thee in my bosom, Lest ...
Consolation (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Mist clogs the sunshine. Smoky dwarf houses Hem me round everywhere; A vague dejection Weighs down my soul. Yet, while ...
321. Song-Craigieburn Wood (Robert Burns Poems)
SWEET closes the ev'ning on Craigieburn Wood, And blythely awaukens the morrow; But the pride o' the spring in the ...
437. Song-Thine am I, my faithful Fair (Robert Burns Poems)
THINE am I, my faithful Fair, Thine, my lovely Nancy; Ev'ry pulse along my veins, Ev'ry roving fancy. To thy ...
528. Song-On Chloris being ill (Robert Burns Poems)
Chorus-Long, long the night, Heavy comes the morrow While my soul's delight Is on her bed of sorrow. CAN I ...