Corinna (Jonathan Swift Poems)
This day (the year I dare not tell) Apollo play'd the midwife's part;Into the world Corinna fell, And he endued her with ...
Poems about midwife (21 Poems)
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto III (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The Restauration.ARGUMENT. Laetior una Dies, JESU, tua Sacra Canenti; Qu?m sine Te, melicis Secula mille Lyris. Ut paveam Scelus omne, ...
Palinodia (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI. I was mistaken, my dear Gino. Long And greatly have I erred. I fancied life ...
Woe! to the just occasion that compels (Christopher Anstey Poems)
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
The Haunted House (George MacDonald Poems)
Suggested by a drawing of Thomas Moran, the American painter.This must be the very night!The moon knows it!—and the trees!They ...
Botany-Bay Flowers (Barron Field Poems)
GOD of this Planet! for the name best fitsThe purblind view, which men of this "dim spot"Can take of THEE, ...
Satyre Preludium (Edward Guilpin Poems)
Fie on these Lydian tunes which blunt our sprightsAnd turne our gallants to Hermaphrodites:Giue me a Doricke touch, whose Semphony,And ...
In Imitation of E. of Rochester : On Silence (Alexander Pope Poems)
I. Silence! coeval with Eternity;Thou wert, ere Nature's-self began to be,'Twas one vast Nothing, all, and all slept fast in ...
A Saint About To Fall (Dylan Thomas Poems)
A saint about to fall,The stained flats of heaven hit and razedTo the kissed kite hems of his shawl,On the ...
Old Town Types No. 12 – Mrs Munn, The Nurse (C J Dennis Poems)
Mrs Munn, the midwife - Mother Munn they called her --Wallowed in the world's woes; sickness ne'er appalled her. She ...
Old Town Types No. 10 – Big Doc Littlejohn (C J Dennis Poems)
Big Doc. Littlejohn, and ugly man and tall,He wasn't very graceful, no part of him was small;Big, frame, big head, ...
Praeludium (Ben Jonson Poems)
And must I sing? What subject shall I choose!Or whose great name in poets' heaven use,For the more countenance to ...
A Son Was Born To A Poor Peasant (Fyodor Sologub Poems)
A son was born to a poor peasant. A foul old woman stepped insideThe hut, with trembling bony fingers Clawing ...
The Owl (Ted Hughes Poem)
I saw my world again through your eyes As I would see it again through your children's eyes. Through your ...
Destiny (Gregory Corso Poem)
They deliver the edicts of God without delay And are exempt from apprehension from detention And with their God-given Petasus, ...
Tunbridge Wells (John Wilmot Poems)
At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head From Thetis' lap, I raised myself from bed, And mounting steed, ...
The Twins Of Lucky Strike (Robert William Service Poems)
I've sung of Violet de Vere, that slinky, minky dame, Of Gertie of the Diamond Tooth, and Touch-the-Button Nell, And ...
Morning Song (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its ...
The Bee Meeting (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers---- The rector, the midwife, the sexton, ...
Wintering (Sylvia Plath Poems)
This is the easy time, there is nothing doing. I have whirled the midwife's extractor, I have my honey, Six ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...