The Magic Cup (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared,Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared.IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool,To dark suspicion grown ...
Poems about mortified (19 Poems)
The Devil Of Pope-Fig Island (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
BY master Francis clearly 'tis expressed:The folks of Papimania are blessed;True sleep for them alone it seems was madeWith US ...
The Character Of A Good Parson. Imitated From Chaucer, And Enlarged (John Henry Dryden Poems)
A parish-priest was of the pilgrim-train;An awful, reverend, and religious man.His eyes diffused a venerable grace,And charity itself was in ...
Touch Him If You Dare (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
A TALE OF THE HEDGE.Hedge-Plants."Beware!We advise you to take care.He lodges with us, so we know him well,And can tellYou ...
The One I Was Searching For On the Earth and in Heaven (With English Translation) (Muhammad Iqbal Poems)
Urdu Couplets with Translationjinhe.n mai.n Dhuu.NDhataa thaa aasmaano.n me.n zamiino.n me.nvo nikale mere zulmat-e-Khaanaa-e-dil ke makiino.n me.nThe one I was ...
The Sister Of Charity (Gerald Joseph Griffen Poems)
She once was a lady of honor and wealth; Bright glowed in her features the roses of health; Her vesture was blended ...
Elegy VI (Henry James Pye Poems)
Now has bright Sol fulfill'd his circling course, Again to Taurus roll'd his burning car, Since, cruel Prudence, thy resistless force Tore me ...
Takin’ Boarders (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
_We'd_ never thought of takin' 'em,--'t was Mary Ann's idee,--Sence she got back from boardin'-school she's called herself "Maree"An' scattered ...
The Stylite (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
He nearly drowned in hermit-seeking seasOf visitors - those voids he had allowedTo suck his soul - damned sycophantic fleas!Wrenching ...
The Ten Poems of Solitude V (Hugues C Pernath Poems)
I abhor the shame, the shudder of the pastWhen everything was more than being and nothing else.When each moment unmoved, ...
Vii. _to luigi del riccio._ (Michelangelo Buonarroti Poems)
Nel dolce d' una.It happens that the sweet unfathomed sea Of seeming courtesy sometimes doth hide Offence to life and honour. This ...
To An Ante-Mortem Undertaker Who Embalms Me In Verse (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
If I were deadAnd yet had readThe praise you have applied,Methinks I'd beMore speedilyA body mortified.And would that nowI might ...
The Turtle’s Sermon (George Johnston Poems)
An old and crafty terrapin,Who lately found his speech,Like many another simple lout,Concluded he could preach.And so he waddled to ...
Judas And Jesus (Endre Ady Poems)
I carve my defiant, raging pulseIn basalt rock on the Mount of Skulls,My Christ, the poet I adored,I sold you, ...
The Magic Cup (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Psalm XXXV: Now Plead My Cause, Almighty God (Isaac Watts Poems)
Now plead my cause, Almighty God, With all the sons of strife; And fight against the men of blood, Who ...
Psalm 35 part 2 (Isaac Watts Poems)
v.12-14 C. M. Love to enemies. Behold the love, the gen'rous love, That holy David shows; Hark, how his sounding ...
Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift (Jonathan Swift Poems)
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...