Her Portrait (Francis Thompson Poems)
Oh, but the heavenly grammar did I holdOf that high speech which angels' tongues turn gold!So should her deathless beauty ...
Poems about mitigate (21 Poems)
A Dialogue Betwixt An Exciseman And Death (Anonymous British Poems)
Upon a time when Titan's steeds were drivenTo drench themselves beneath the western heaven;And sable Morpheus had his curtains spread,And ...
Edwin And Isabel; Or The Nabob (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
HARK ! heard you not yon mournful bell,Slow sounding thro' the gloom;A lovely victim's fate to tell,Call'd early to the ...
In Mortem Meditare. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
DYING THOUGHTS.As Life's receding sunset fades And night descends,I calmly watch the gathering shades,As darkness stealthily invades ...
Ode To Benevolence (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
NYMPH of the joy-diffusing smile,The soft, endearing mien;Whose looks the heaviest grief beguile,And chear the gloomiest scene;May ev'ry Muse her ...
Apostrophe (Charlotte Smith Poems)
TO AN OLD TREE. WHERE thy broad branches brave the bitter North,Like rugged, indigent, unheeded, worth,Lo! Vegetation's guardian hands embossEach ...
Death (Beilby Porteus Poems)
Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes,I woo thee, Death! — Life and all its joysI leave to those ...
Ad Poetas (George Henry Boker Poems)
O brother bards, why stand ye silent all, Amidst these days of noble strife,While drum and fife and the ...
Nous Autres (Geoffrey Dearmer Poems)
We never feel the lust of steelOr fury-woken blood,We live and die and wonder whyIn mud, and mud, and mud,And ...
On The Death Of E. A. Towry (Elizabeth Susan Law Poems)
CHECK not the tear which Grief and Nature crave,To bathe so fair an infant's early grave;But let the Christian's hope ...
Lincoln (George Henry Boker Poems)
Crown we our heroes with a holier wreathThan man e'er wore upon this side of death;Mix with their laurels deathless ...
Thoughts In A Zoo (Countee Cullen Poems)
They in their cruel traps, and we in ours, Survey each other's rage, and pass the hours Commiserating each the ...
Sonnet After The Death Of Laura (Anne Hunter Poems)
COME, tender thoughts, with twilight's pensive gloom,Come, tender thoughts, and sooth the soul of care,Soften remembrance, mitigate despair,And cast a ...
Sonnet CXLII: “I have been false for thy repose alone” (George Henry Boker Poems)
I have heen false for thy repose alone, And the sweet cause half pardoned the offense, Even in the judgment ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
Gertrude of Wyoming (Thomas Campbell Poem)
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Cassidy’s Epitaph (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Here lies a bloke who's just gone West, A Number One Australian; He took his gun and did his best ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
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 ...
Paradise Lost: Book 01 (John Milton Poems)
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...