Epistle. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
FRIENDS of St. Andrew and the Thistle,Accept, I pray, this short epistle,In answer to your invitationTo the Grand Ball and ...
Poems about modish (21 Poems)
An Epilogue For The Tragedy Of King Henry IV Of France, Design’d To Have Been Spoken By Charlotta. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Well--I suppose you now sit all agogIn hopes to hear a smutty Epilogue,With filthy Meanings couch'd in modern Guise;Ye wicked ...
A Girls’ Grave (Patrick Edward Quinn Poems)
What story is here of broken love, What idyllic sad romance,What arrow fretted the silken dove That met with such grim mischance?I ...
Mahomet’s Kingdom. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
E'er the sixth Age the Christian Faith decreas'd,And stubborn Errors spread o'er all the East;The Judas Priest, debauch'd with sensual ...
To A Friend In London (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Well dost thou ask me in thy friendly Lays,How in this factious Place I spend my Days:Why briefly thus; as ...
Song. Translated From The Italian (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Oh! what is the gain of restless care,And what is ambitious treasure?And what are the joys that the modish share,In ...
The Summary of Wisedome (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto XI (Edward Benlowes Poems)
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD The Disincantation.ARGUMENT. Crispulus hic, nulli Nugarum Laude secundus, Cui Mens Lucis inops, Stulta Ruina Dom?s; ...
Poetical Reflections On A Late Poem Entitled Absalom And Achitophel (Anonymous British Poems)
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
The Wish (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
Our English Homer in his Rhimes,Asserts our Notions change with Times;This Maxim granted, makes me doubt,When some few Years are ...
Five Critcisms (Alfred Noyes Poems)
I.(_On many recent novels by the conventional unconventionalists_.)Old Pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich, After grim years of soul-destroying greed,Weds Columbine, ...
The New Bath Guide: Part I, Letter III (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Miss Jenny W---d---r, to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North. The Birth of Fashion, a Specimen of a modern ...
The Birth Of Fashion, A Specimen Of A Modern Ode (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Sure there are Charms by Heav'n assign'dTo modish Life alone,A Grace, an Air, a Taste refin'd,To vulgar Souls unknown.Nature, my ...
A Newport Romance (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
They say that she died of a broken heart (I tell the tale as 'twas told to me);But her spirit ...
The Beau, in Answer to the Belle (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
Artist! since it is confest,That of Painters you're the best;Prithee as thou dost excel,Draw the Beau as well as Belle;Draw ...
VIII. Things dependent or not dependent on us (Ellis Walker Poems)
In things that charm the soul, which love incite,By nature's force, use, profit, or delight.Beginning from the meanest things, that ...
Sonnet II (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
FULL oft beneath the steril soil conceal'd, The richest veins of golden treasures lie;So genius may, her glory unreveal'd, ...
The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
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 ...
Under Ben Bulben (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I Swear by what the sages spoke Round the Mareotic Lake That the Witch of Atlas knew, Spoke and set ...
The Talking Oak (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Once more the gate behind me falls; Once more before my face I see the moulder'd Abbey-walls, That stand within ...