Love: An Elegy (Mark Akenside Poems)
Too much my heart of Beauty's power hath known,Too long to Love hath reason left her throne;Too long my genius ...
Poems about perjur (21 Poems)
Advice, To Guard Against The Temptations Of The Devil (Rees Prichard Poems)
SHOU'D Satan promise thee, or house or land,If thou wou'dst kneel and worship at his feet :Tell him, he has ...
Friday, The Toilette (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
LYDIA.Now twenty springs had cloth'd the Park with green,Since Lydia knew the blossom of fifteen;No lovers now her morning hours ...
To The Author’s Brother. On the choice of a Wife in the Year 1789 (Maria Logan Poems)
O THOU, the best of brothers and of friends!Say, who but thee could wake the sleeping lyre?Fann'd by thy breath ...
To A Young Gentleman In Love. A Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
From publick Noise and factious Strife,From all the busie Ills of Life,Take me, My Celia, to Thy Breast;And lull my ...
Lucy and Colin (Thomas Tickell Poems)
Of Leinster, fam'd for maidens fair,Bright Lucy was the grace;Nor e'er did Liffy's limpid streamReflect so fair a face,Till luckless ...
To Philaster (Sarah Fyge Poems)
Go perjur'd Youth and court what Nymph you please,Your Passion now is but a dull disease;With worn-out Sighs deceive some ...
The Vow-Breaker (Henry King Poems)
VVhen first the Magick of thine ey,Usurpt upon my liberty,Triumphing in my hearts spoyl, thouDidst lock up thine in such ...
Ode IV: Affected Indifference. To The Same (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Yes: you contemn the perjur'd maidWho all your favorite hopes betray'd:Nor, though her heart should home return,Her tuneful tongue it's ...
Belinda Defended. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Belinda swears by G---d her Hair is Black,And who denies it is a saucy Jack;The leaden Comb each Morning makes ...
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, ...
Alonzo And Cora – Part II (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
HAPPY the land, round which the ocean flows,Whose ebbing waves its fertile soil compose.The shepherd fearless leads his flocks to ...
The Farmer’s Daughter, A Poetical Tale (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Keen was the blast, and bleak the morn, When Lucy took her way, To seek the wretch, whose perjur'd vows ...
Charity; A Poetical Paraphrase Of The Thirteenth Chapter Of St. Paul’s Epistle To The Corinthians (Christopher Anstey Poems)
. Had it pleas'd him, from whom all wisdom flows, Him, who each good, each perfect gift bestows, With knowledge ...
The Perjured Nun (Anne Bannerman Poems)
AH ! why do grieve and look so wild,Lord Henrie, tell it to me !And why do you say you ...
Reason. (Daniel Baker Poems)
Reason, which long had absent been before, Vouchsaf'd one Day to come within my door. Affrighted at th' unusual Sight, ...
Out of Horace. Carm. Lib. 3. Od.11 (Daniel Baker Poems)
Amphion e'en hard Stones did move) Appease the stubborn Anger of my Love, And move her harder Heart. And thou, ...
A Pastoral Dialogue (Melibæus, Alcippe, Asteria, Licida, Alcimedon, and Amira. ) (Anne Killigrew Poem)
Melibæus. WElcome fair Nymphs, most welcome to this shade, Distemp'ring Heats do now the Plains invade: But you may sit, ...
Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor! (John Dryden Poem)
Farewell, ungrateful traitor! Farewell, my perjur'd swain! Let never injur'd woman Believe a man again. The pleasure of possessing Surpasses ...
83. The Cotter’s Saturday Night (Robert Burns Poems)
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
Sonnets CXXIX: Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame (William Shakespeare Poems)
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjur'd, murd'rous, ...