So, so, rock-a-by so! (Eugene Field Poem)
So, so, rock-a-by so! Off to the garden where dreamikins grow; And here is a kiss on your winkyblink eyes, ...
Poems about owe (49 Poems)
Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun (Eugene Field Poem)
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81 A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York ...
Horace iii. 13 (Eugene Field Poem)
O fountain of Bandusia, Whence crystal waters flow, With garlands gay and wine I'll pay The sacrifice I owe; A ...
The Progress Of Wit (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
The Monks Of Catalonia (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
The Case Of Conscience (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
The Poor Man’s Lamb (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
An EPISTLE From A Gentleman To Madam Deshouliers (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
URANIA, whom the Town admires, Whose Wit and Beauty share our Praise; This fair URANIA who inspires A thousand Joys ...
The Silken Tent (Robert Frost Poem)
She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when the sunny summer breeze Has dried the dew ...
Heroic Stanzas (John Dryden Poem)
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Francis Makemie (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
(Presbyter of Christ in Americas 1683-1708) To thee, plain hero of a rugged race, We bring the meed of praise ...
The Expiration (John Donne Poem)
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away, Turn thou ghost that ...
Elegy XVIII: Love’s Progress (John Donne Poems)
Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea ...
The Ecstasy (John Donne Poem)
Where, like a pillow on a bed A pregnant bank swell'd up to rest The violet's reclining head, Sat we ...
Is Heaven a Physician? (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Is Heaven a Physician? They say that He can heal -- But Medicine Posthumous Is unavailable -- Is Heaven an ...
I gave myself to Him — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I gave myself to Him -- And took Himself, for Pay, The solemn contract of a Life Was ratified, this ...
Epitaph for Maria Wentworth (Thomas Carew Poem)
And here the precious dust is laid; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made So fine that it the guest betray'd. Else ...
From The Ladies Defence (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
The Wife of Flanders (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered, Where I had seven sons until to-day, A little hill of ...
Wishes To His (Supposed) Mistress (Richard Crashaw Poem)
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
On Mr. G. Herbert’s Book, Entitled the Temple of Sacred Poe (Richard Crashaw Poems)
Know you fair, on what you look; Divinest love lies in this book, Expecting fire from your eyes, To kindle ...
The New Convert (William Cowper Poem)
The new-born child of gospel grace, Like some fair tree when summer's nigh, Beneath Emmanuel's shining face Lifts up his ...
True Pleasures (William Cowper Poem)
Lord, my soul with pleasure springs When Jesu's name I hear: And when God the Spirit brings The word of ...
Praise for Faith (William Cowper Poem)
Of all the gifts Thine hand bestows, Thou Giver of all good! Not heaven itself a richer knows Than my ...
Grace and Providence (William Cowper Poem)
Almighty King! whose wondrous hand Supports the weight of sea and land; Whose grace is such a boundless store, No ...
Retirement (William Cowper Poem)
Far from the world, O Lord, I flee, From strife and tumult far; From scenes where Satan wages still His ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
To Marguerite (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
So great my debt to thee, I know my life Is all too short to pay the least I owe, ...