The Drunkard’s Wife (Janet Hamilton Poems)
O Jeanie, my woman! whar is't ye are gaun,Wi' a bairn on yer arm an' ane in yer haun?There's snaw ...
Poems about murther (21 Poems)
58 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Say Venus how long have I lov'd, and serv'd you heere?Yet all my passions scorn'd or doubted, although cleere;Alas thinke ...
70 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Poore Love in chaines, and fetters like a thiefeI mett ledd forth, as chast Diana's gaineVowing the untaught Lad should ...
Sonnet XLVI: Plain-Path’d (Michael Drayton Poems)
Plain-path'd Experience, th'unlearned's guide,Her simple followers evidently showsSometimes what Schoolmen scarcely can decide,Nor yet wise Reason absolutely knows.In making trial ...
Pyramvs And Thisbe (Dunstan Gale Poems)
Neere to the place where Nilus channels runne, There stood a town by loue long since vndone For ...
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; ...
The Trial Of Sarah—, Alias Slim Sal, For Privately Stealing (Edward Moore Poems)
The pris'ner was at large indicted, For that by thirst of gain excited, One day in July last, ...
Dauid And Beersheba (Francis Sabie Poems)
Svch time as Tytan with his fiery beames In highest degree, made duskish Leo sweat Field-tilling Swains driue home their ...
Guy and Amarant (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Guy journeyes towards that sanctifyed groundWhereas the Jewes fayre citye sometime stood,Wherin our Saviours sacred head was crownd,And where for ...
XI: Epode (Ben Jonson Poems)
Not to know vice at all, and keepe true state, Is vertue, and not Fate:Next, to that vertue, is to ...
Christ’s Death (Edmund Elys Poems)
This day Prest with our Sins, the MOST HIGH Fell. Least he should Feed on Us, Christ Satiates Death With ...
The Haunted House (Thomas Hood Poem)
Oh, very gloomy is the house of woe, Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling, With all the ...
Sonnet XLVI: Plain-Path’d Experience (Michael Drayton Poems)
Plain-path'd Experience, th'unlearned's guide, Her simple followers evidently shows Sometimes what Schoolmen scarcely can decide, Nor yet wise Reason absolutely ...
Sonnet II: My Heart Was Slain (Michael Drayton Poem)
My heart was slain, and none but you and I; Who should I think the murther should commit, Since but ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
407. Epigram-Thanks for a National Victory (Robert Burns Poems)
YE hypocrites! are these your pranks? To murder men and give God thanks! Desist, for shame!-proceed no further; God won't ...
163. On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams (Robert Burns Poems)
O THOU whom Poetry abhors, Whom Prose has turnèd out of doors, Heard'st thou yon groan?-proceed no further, 'Twas laurel'd ...
M’Fingal – Canto IV (John Trumbull Poems)
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
On The Yong Baronett Portman Dying Of An Impostume In’s Head (William Strode Poems)
Is Death so cunning now that all her blowe Aymes at the heade? Doth now her wary Bowe Make surer ...
For A Gentleman, Who, Kissinge His Friend At His Departure Left A Signe Of Blood On Her (William Strode Poems)
What mystery was this; that I should finde My blood in kissing you to stay behinde? 'Twas not for want ...
Venus and Adonis (William Shakespeare Poems)
Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, ...