The Splendid Shilling (James Bramston Poems)
Happy the Man, who void of Care and Strife, In silken or in leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling He nor hears ...
Poems about magick (20 Poems)
A Fairy Tale In The Ancient English Style (Thomas Parnell Poems)
In Britain's Isle and Arthur's days,When Midnight Faeries daunc'd the Maze,Liv'd Edwin of the Green;Edwin, I wis, a gentle Youth,Endow'd ...
The Indiscreet Confessions (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
FAMED Paris ne'er within its walls had got,Such magick charms as were Aminta's lot,Youth, beauty, temper, fortune, she possessed,And all ...
Thebais – Book Two (Pablius Papinius Statius Poems)
Now Jove's Command fulfill'd, the Son of MayQuits the black Shades and slowly mounts to Day.For lazy Clouds in gloomy ...
The Impossible Thing (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart,So great a charm was prompted to impart;To one in love, that he ...
The Vow-Breaker (Henry King Poems)
VVhen first the Magick of thine ey,Usurpt upon my liberty,Triumphing in my hearts spoyl, thouDidst lock up thine in such ...
A Song (1) (Henry Baker Poems)
Great Love! thou universal King!From whom our Joys and Sorrows spring,Take Pity on my Pain;Command Eliza, in whose EyesThe Force ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto X (Edward Benlowes Poems)
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD. The Abnegation.ARGUMENT. What's potent Opulencie? What's remiss Voluptuousness? World, what's All This, To That the ...
A Poem Upon His Sacred Majesty, His Voyage For Holland: By Way Of Dialogue, Between Belgia And Brita (Alicia D Anvers Poems)
BRITANNIA.Wretched Britannia! Hapless and undone! How have my Follies call'd this Vengeance down, And anger'd Heav'n to so severe a ...
The History Of Joseph: A Poem In Ten Books. Book IV. (Elizabeth Singer Rowe Poems)
Mean while thro' savage woods, and deserts vast, The captive with his Midian masters past. At last rich Egypt's pleasant ...
To My Fancie Upon Theophila (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Fly, Fancie, Beauties arched Brow, Darts, wing'd with Fire, thence sparkling flow. From Flash of Lightning Eye--balls turn; Contracted Beams ...
The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
The Impossible Thing (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart, So great a charm was prompted to impart; To one in love, ...
The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
Neighbour Peter’s Mare (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
Friar Philip’s Geese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
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 ...
From The First Act Of The Aminta Of Tasso (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
Ruins of Rome, by Bellay (Edmund Spenser Poems)
1 Ye heavenly spirits, whose ashy cinders lie Under deep ruins, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the ...
Daphnis And Chloe (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Daphnis must from Chloe part: Now is come the dismal Hour That must all his Hopes devour, All his Labour, ...