Frost (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
White artist he, who, breezeless nights, From tingling stars jocosely whirls, A harlequin in spangled tights, His wand a pot of pounded pearls. The ...
Poems about plebeian (20 Poems)
To Sir Roger Townsend (Ralph Knevet Poems)
I Sent my Muse unto the house of fame, Of her to enquire out some Honourd name Worthy of my Verse, and ...
Midsummer (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IThe mellow smell of hollyhocksAnd marigolds and pinks and phloxBlends with the homely garden scentsOf onions, silvering into rods;Of peppers, ...
The Herald Crane (Hamlin Garland Poems)
Oh! say you so, bold sailorIn the sun-lit deeps of sky!Dost thou so soon the seed-time tellIn thy imperial cry,As ...
Paraphrase Of Seneca’s Thyestes, Act 2 (Matthew Hale Poems)
Let him that will ascend, the tottering SeatOf courtly Grandeur, and become as greatAs are his mounting Wishes: As for ...
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 ...
Backwardness of the Present Spring Accounted For, May 5th, 1782 (Francis Noel Clarke Mundy Poems)
Last Wen'sday, when Jupiter rose to survey The annual return and procession of May, Concluding, the lady with Venus and ...
Empire Building (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Somehow I never liked you, John, your ways were crude Your smile was pharisaical, your manners rude; Although you prospered ...
Dawn (Gabriel Ferrater Poems)
The night goes away, another night, and the wingof an immense airplance has placed itselfbetween the wide blue and the ...
Old Town Types No. 5 – Mr Mead The Printer (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr Mead, the printer -- so the townsfolk called him; But never in his presence since his reign began;Such a ...
LXXI. Knowledge vain without Practice (Ellis Walker Poems)
Such, and so differing is the characterOf the plebeian and philosopher.Now the proficient, he that labours onTowards perfection, by these ...
Parody of Tennyson’sTo Edward Lear on His Travels in Greece (Edward Lear Poems)
Delirious Bulldogs; -- echoing callsMy daughter, -- green as summer grass; --The long supine Plebeian ass,The nasty crockery boring falls; ...
Belphegor Addressed To Miss De Chammelay (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
The Glove (Robert Browning Poem)
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
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, ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 1 (Christopher Smart Poems)
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3 (Alexander Pope Poems)
Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flow'rs, Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs, There stands a ...
To Gnedich (Alexander Pushkin Poems)
With Homer you conversed alone for days and nights, Our waiting hours were passing slowly, And shining you came down ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...