The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 2: Second Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
MARICONDO. Here you see a flaming yoke enveloped in knots round which iswritten: Levius aura; which means that Divine love ...
Poems about pedants (21 Poems)
Oh! Mr. Malthus! (Stephen Leacock Poems)
'Mother, Mother, here comes Malthus,Mother, hold me tight!Look! It's Mr. Malthus, Mother!Hide me out of sight.'This was the cry of ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Flood – Fountain) (Henry Baker Poems)
Flood.See Deluge.-- Eridanus supreme of FloodsRush'd thro' the Forests, tore the lofty Woods,And rolling onward with a sweepy Sway,Bore Houses, ...
Funerall Elegy 3. (Ralph Knevet Poems)
When Hils, and Valleys, wrap't in sheets of snow, Did pennance for their summer luxury, And Winter old unto the world did ...
Hudibras, Part I (excerpts) (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth,The manner how he sallied forth;His arms and equipage are shown;His ...
Satire IV (John Donne Poems)
Well; I may now receive, and die. My sin Indeed is great, but yet I have been in A purgatory, such as ...
Address For The Opening Of The Fifth Avenue Theatre (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3, 1873HANG out our banners on the stately towerIt dawns at last--the long-expected hour!The steep is climbed, ...
The Metaphysical Sectarian (Samuel Butler Poems)
HE was in Logick a great Critick,Profoundly skill'd in Analytick.He could distinguish, and divideA Hair 'twixt South and South-West side:On ...
An Epistle To Lady Bowyer (Mary Jones Poems)
How much of paper's spoil d what floods of ink!And yet how few how very few can think!The knack of ...
To Hilaire Belloc (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them tangled in a ...
To A Friend In London, Upon My Returning To College (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
While You, dear Tom, in London City,Associate with the fair and witty,And, gayly rambling o'er the Town,Take the brisk Juice ...
A Ballade of Suicide (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
The gallows in my garden, people say,Is new and neat and adequately tall;I tie the noose on in a knowing ...
Aspasia (John Kenyon Poems)
TO ------. Bright Aspasia! say-how is it? Tell us with what spell is rife Smile of thine, whose briefest visit Wakes each dullest clod ...
Coptic Song (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
LEAVE we the pedants to quarrel and strive,Rigid and cautious the teachers to be!All of the wisest men e'er seen ...
Song Of The Edinburgh Academician (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
If ony here has got an ear,He'd better tak' a haud o' me,Or I'll begin, wi' roarin' din,To cheer our ...
The Dunciad: Book IV (Alexander Pope Poems)
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
The True Effigies Of A Certain Squire: Inscribed To Clemena (Elizabeth Thomas Poems)
Some generous painter now assist my pen,And help to draw the most despised of men:Or else, oh Muse! do thou ...
COPTIC SONG. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
LEAVE we the pedants to quarrel and strive, Rigid and cautious the teachers to be! All of the wisest men ...
To Belloc (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them ...
A Ballad Of Suicide (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall; I tie the noose on in ...
Garden Francies (Robert Browning Poem)
I. THE FLOWER'S NAME Here's the garden she walked across, Arm in my arm, such a short while since: Hark, ...