The Poet’s Apology (Aristophanes Poems)
Our poet has never as yet Esteemed it proper or fit To detain you ...
Poems about merited (21 Poems)
My Wake (Albinas Zukauskas Poems)
If ever the time comes for me to dieTake a white birchwood table out there to the river,Set it up ...
Tatiana’s Letter (Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Poems)
FROM "EUGENE ONIEGIN"I write to you . . . when that is said What more is left for me to ...
Liebestod (Alan Seeger Poems)
I who, conceived beneath another star, Had been a prince and played with life, instead Have been its slave, an ...
Verses I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN PREFIXED TO THE NOVELOF EMMELINE, BUT THEN SUPPRESSED. O'ERWHELM'D with sorrow, and sustaining long"The proud man's ...
Lines To My Father (Countee Cullen Poems)
The many sow, but only the chosen reap; Happy the wretched host if Day be brief, That with the cool ...
Hymn XXIV: Saviour, If Thy Precious Love (Charles Wesley Poems)
Saviour, if thy precious loveCould be merited by mine,Faith these mountains would remove;Faith would make me ever thine:But when all ...
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 Monks Of Catalonia (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
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 ...
The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
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 ...
Joy to have merited the Pain — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Joy to have merited the Pain -- To merit the Release -- Joy to have perished every step -- To ...
Old Pictures In Florence (Robert Browning Poem)
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
Now let no charitable hope (Elinor Wylie Poems)
Now let no charitable hope Confuse my mind with images Of eagle and of antelope: I am by nature none ...
The Hound of Heaven (Francis Thompson Poems)
I fled Him down the nights and down the days I fled Him down the arches of the years I ...
On His Lady Denys (William Strode Poems)
Denys hath merited no slender praise, In that She well supplied the Formers daies. Conceive how Good she was, whose ...
Liebestod (Alan Seeger Poems)
I who, conceived beneath another star, Had been a prince and played with life, instead Have been its slave, an ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...