The Mosaic Of Creation, Or The First Six Days. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
In the dark Backward of six thousand Years,(So Moses writes and all our Christian Seers)The World, a rude, unfashion'd Embryo ...
Poems about majestick (21 Poems)
The Bottle-Scrue (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
The Patten, Fan, and Petticoat,Three modern Themes of special Note,In parlous Rhimes immortal live,If Rhimes immortal Life can give;The Mouse--Trap ...
A Poem: To The Memory of Mrs. Oldfield (Richard Savage Poems)
Oldfield's no more!-And can the Muse forbear,O'er Oldfield's Grave to shed a grateful Tear?Shall she, the Glory of the British ...
A Fly Caught In A Cobweb (Richard Lovelace Poems)
Small type of great ones, that do humWithin this whole world's narrow room,That with a busie hollow noiseCatch at the ...
A salutation of his Majesties Ship the Soveraign (Henry King Poems)
Move on thou floating Trophee built to fame!And bid her trump spread thy Majestick name;That the blew Tritons, and those ...
Catullus Imitated. Ep. . Caelia And Laura (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Caelia to many does the Venus seem,Of all the reigning Nymphs near Isis Stream,The Toast of Coxcombs, and the Poet's ...
Clarinda (Henry Baker Poems)
Grateful, sincere, good--natur'd, mild, humane,Wise, and yet humble: witty, but not vain:Above her Sex divine Clarinda soars,Faultless herself, she Others ...
The History Of Job, A Sacred Poem. The Third Book. (Daniel Baker Poems)
Mean while loquacious Fame the News thro'--out Each Corner of the Land had spread about. The Monster Fame; by Stealth ...
The History Of Joseph: A Poem In Ten Books. Book IX. (Elizabeth Singer Rowe Poems)
The jocund years with smiling plenty crown'd,In shining circles now advanc'd their round:Unbounded crops reward the reaper's toil,And rustick pleasures ...
A Poem on Elijahs’Tran (Benjamin Colman Poems)
Coelo Musa beat.Hor. Carm. Lib. 4. Od. 8.—Nec meus audetRem tentare pudor, quam Vires serre recusent.Hor. Ep. 1. Lib. 2.I ...
The History Of Joseph: A Poem In Ten Books. Book VII. (Elizabeth Singer Rowe Poems)
'Twas night, and now advanc'd the solemn hour;The keeper of the prison, from his tow'r, Astonish'd, sees a form divinely ...
A Congratulatory Poem (Aphra Behn Poems)
While my sad Muse the darkest Covert Sought, To give a loose to Melancholy Thought; Opprest, and sighing with the ...
An Epistle From Alexander To Hephaestion In His Sickness (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
A Paraphrase On The Canticles. Chapter V. (Elizabeth Singer Rowe Poems)
The Night her blackest Vestments had put on,And all the fair remains of day were gone:When my dear Lord, as ...
The Bag (George Herbert Poems)
Away despair; my gracious Lord doth heare, Though windes and waves assault my keel, He doth preserve it: ...
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 ...
An EPISTLE from Alexander to Hephaestion In His Sickness (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
The Seasons: Winter (James Thomson Poems)
See! Winter comes, to rule the varied Year, Sullen, and sad; with all his rising Train, Vapours, and Clouds, and ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
From ‘Arcades’ (John Milton Poems)
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 08 (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...