The Ballade of the Incompetent Ballade-Monger (James Kenneth Stephen Poems)
I am not ambitious at all: I am not a poet, I know (Though I do love to see a mere scrawl To ...
Poems about pierian (21 Poems)
On The Author’s Husband Desiring Her To Write Some Verses (Mary Whateley Poems)
VERSES, my love! As soon could IWithout a wing or feather fly;My head, with other matters fraught,No more attempts poetic ...
Anacreontic (William Shenstone Poems)
'Twas in a cool Aonian glade,The wanton Cupid, spent with toil,Had sought refreshment from the shade,And stretch'd him on the ...
Fragments From Sappho (Henry Alford Poems)
I. Hesperus, thou bringest near Hesperus, thou bringest nearAll that garish dayScattered far away:Thou bringest back the sheep,Thou bringest back the goat,Thou ...
Pious Pie Poem Puns (Jared Barhite Poems)
One pious afternoon in June When pyronomics held full sway, My pilot, fancy, led me on To seek new fields, piebald and gay. The ...
Hero And Leander. The Third Sestiad (George Chapman Poems)
New light gives new directions, fortunes new, To fashion our endeavours that ensue. More harsh, at least more ...
The Candidate (George Crabbe Poems)
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO THE AUTHORS OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW.AN INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS OF THE AUTHOR TO HIS POEMS.Ye idler things, ...
Sotweed redivivus (Benjamin Colman Poems)
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
Envy, A Poem (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Oh! hideous fiend, of form uncouth, With jaundic'd eye, and canker'd tooth, Fell Envy, why dost thou profane The labours ...
Anactoria (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
MY LIFE is bitter with thy love; thine eyesBlind me, thy tresses burn me, thy sharp sighsDivide my flesh and ...
Appendix: Containing The Author’s Conversation With His Bookseller, &c. (Christopher Anstey Poems)
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
Woe! to the just occasion that compels (Christopher Anstey Poems)
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
Grocyn At Oxford (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
_THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE_1491 As she who in some village-child unknown, With rustic grace and fantasy bedeck'd And in her simple ...
H. S. Mauberley (Life And Contacts) [Part I] (Ezra Pound Poems)
Vocat aestus in umbram Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'?lection de son s?pulchre For three years, out of ...
The New Bath Guide: Part I, Letter I (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Miss Jenny W---d---r, to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North.A View from the Parades at Bath, with some Account ...
On Water-Gruel, (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
On Water-Gruel, by Desire; occasioned by a singular Adventure.Hail! Water-Gruel, ever sacred Name,Once so propitious to my genial Flame;O! be ...
To James Norton Esq. (Charles Harpur Poems)
Think you I have not skill to gather gold, If I could love it as some others ...
From Sappho (Digby Mackworth Dolben Poems)
Thou liest dead,—lie on: of theeNo sweet remembrances shall be,Who never plucked Pierian rose,Who never chanced on Anter?s.Unknown, unnoticed, there ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk (Dorothy Parker Poems)
I was seventy-seven, come August, I shall shortly be losing my bloom; I've experienced zephyr and raw gust And (symbolical) ...
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I) (Ezra Pound Poems)
"Vocat aestus in umbram" Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre For three years, out of ...