The Dunciad: Book II. (Alexander Pope Poems)
High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shoneHenley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne,Or that where on her Curlls the ...
Poems about magistrates (21 Poems)
The Story Of Ill May Day, In The Reign Of King Henry VIII (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
The Story of Ill May Day, in the reign of king Henry the Eighth, and why it was so called; ...
The Beggar’s Soliloquy (George Meredith Poems)
I Now, this, to my notion, is pleasant cheer, To lie all alone on a ragged heath, Where your nose ...
London From Hampstead Heath (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
PEACE on the hush'd earth fell at eventide, As dew from heaven upon the thirsty grass; No sound unmusical broke ...
Sacred Song Of Ancient Mexicans – XIII. (Daniel Garrison Brinton Poems)
_Ciuacoatl icuic._ 1. Quaui, quaui, quilaztla, coaeztica xayaualoc uiuiya quauiuitluitzalochpa chalima aueuetl ye colhoa. 2. Huiya tonaca, acxolma centla teumilco ...
Mr. Francis Beaumont’s Letter to Ben Jonson (Francis Beaumont Poems)
The sun, which doth the greatest comfort bring To absent friends (because the self-same thing They know they see, however ...
Paddy’s Letter, 1857 (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
I've had all sorts of luck, sometimes bad, sometimes better, But now I have somebody's luck and my ...
Old Town Types No.17- Mr Bodge the Banker (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr Bodge, the banker, was a power in the land;His city bank had granted him an autocratic hand; For our ...
Discerning Mr. Murphy (C J Dennis Poems)
Discerning Mr. Murphy sees The dangers of the foolish planOf giving frailty its fees, And taxing weak, misguided man.Reluctantly, and ...
A Familiar Letter (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
YES, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying; Who knows what a treasure your casket may hold? I'll ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
133. The Brigs of Ayr (Robert Burns Poems)
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
Psalm 82 (Isaac Watts Poems)
God the supreme Governor; or, Magistrates warned. Among th' assemblies of the great A greater Ruler takes his seat; The ...
Psalm 58 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Warning to magistrates. Judges, who rule the world by laws, Will ye despise the righteous cause, When th' injured poor ...
Policeman G. (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
To Policeman G. the Inspector said: "When you pass the 'shops' you must turn your head; If you took a ...
The Execution of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1650, and on the twenty-first of May, The city of Edinburgh was put into a ...
The Funeral of the Late Ex-Provost Rough, Dundee (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1888, and on the 19th of November, Which the friends of the late Ex-Provost Rough ...
The Wreck of the Steamer London (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day, That eighty-two passengers, with spirits light and gay, ...
A New Year’s Resolution to Leave Dundee (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Welcome! thrice welcome! to the year 1893, For it is the year I intend to leave Dundee, Owing to the ...
The Black Watch Memorial (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Ye Sons of Mars, it gives me great content To think there has been erected a handsome monument In memory ...
The Burial of the Reverend Gilfillan (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
On the Gilfillan burial day, In the Hill o' Balgay, It was a most solemn sight to see, Not fewer ...