The Misanthrope’s Reverie (Joseph Warren Watson Poems)
What's man but a heathenish bandit?Earth's charity proves but a lie -Tis given with looks that remand it;Philanthropy's all in ...
Poems about libel (21 Poems)
The Cavalier’s March to London (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
To horse! to horse! brave Cavaliers!To horse for Church and Crown!Strike, strike your tents! snatch up your spears!And ho for ...
A Summons (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
MEN of the North-land! where's the manly spiritOf the true-hearted and the unshackled gone?Sons of old freemen, do we but ...
The Demon Drink! (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"I do well to be angry, even unto death."—Jonah iv. 9."I do well to be angry, even unto death,"To denounce, ...
De Libris (William Cosmo Monkhouse Poems)
True - there are books and books. There's Gray,For instance, and there's Bacon;There's Longfellow, and Monstrelet,And also Colton's " Lacon,"With ...
The Roving Bee (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Nature's self's thy Ganymede.Cowley.EVERY bud possessingThat the garden yields,Yet in search of blessingFound in distant fields,Wild inconstant bee,What so false ...
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 I (George Crabbe Poems)
THE DUMB ORATORS; OR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY.That all men would be cowards if they dare,Some men we know have ...
Hippodromani (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Part IVisions in the SmokeRest, and be thankful! On the verge Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,But whose granite ...
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 ...
Appendix: Containing The Author’s Conversation With His Bookseller, &c. (Christopher Anstey Poems)
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
Crossing Solway (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
May 16: 1568Blow from the North, thou bitter North wind,Blow over the western bay,Where Nith and Eden and Esk run ...
From “Curiosity” (Charles Sprague Poems)
"The NewsTHE NEWS! our morning, noon, evening cry, Day unto day repeats it till we die. For this the cit, ...
To Mr Edward Howard, on his Incomparable (Earl of Dorset Charles Sackville Poems)
Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare, For, read it backward like a witch's prayer, 'Twill do as ...
Drogie (David Rorie Poems)
Yersel' is't? Imphm! Man that's bad!A kin' o' thinness o' the blude?Gaed aff las' nicht intil a dwam?Keep's a'! But ...
The Friar’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
182. The Libeller’s Self-reproof (Robert Burns Poems)
RASH 1 mortal, and slanderous poet, thy name Shall no longer appear in the records of Fame; Dost not know ...
M’Fingal – Canto II (John Trumbull Poems)
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Falstaff’s Lament Over Prince Hal Become Henry V (Herman Melville Poems)
One that I cherished, Yea, loved as a son - Up early, up late with, My promising one: No use ...