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Hudibras: Part 3 – Canto III (Samuel Butler Poems)

THE ARGUMENTThe Knight and squire's prodigious FlightTo quit th' inchanted Bow'r by Night.He plods to turn his amorous SuitT' a ...

The Third Booke Of Qvodlibets (Robert Hayman Poems)

Iustice Epigram.Kings doe correct those that Rebellious are,And their good Subjects worthily preferre:Iust Epigrams reproue those that offend,And those that ...

The Vision Of Piers Plowman – Part 18 (William Langland Poems)

Wolleward and weetshoed wente I forth afterAs a recchelees renk that ,And yede forth lik a lorel ...

Festus – Proem (Philip James Bailey Poems)

This time is equal to all time that's goneOf like extent, nor heeds to hide its faceBefore the future: each ...

Polyhymnia (George Peele Poems)

Therefore, when thirtie two were come and gone,Years of her raigne, daies of her countries peace,Elizabeth great Empresse of the ...

Rhodon And Iris. Prologue (Ralph Knevet Poems)

Dramatis Personae: RHODON. Shepheard ACANTHUS a friend to Rhodon. Shepheard MARTAGON. Shepheard CYNOSBATUS a friend to Martag. Shepheard ANTHOPHOTUS. Shepheard ...

Lament for Chaucer (Thomas Hoccleve Poems)

ALLAS! my worthi maister honorable,This landes verray tresor and richesse!Deth by thy deth hath harme irreparableUnto us doon: hir vengeable ...

To The Honorable Knight, Sir Edward Wingfield (Gervase Markham Poems)

When Alexander read Achilles prayse,VVwith honours enuie, and a loftie hart,He shed stout teares, in ruth of stonie dayesVVhich to ...

Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto I (Edward Benlowes Poems)

THE PRELIBATION To the SACRIFICE.ARGUMENT. Spes alit occiduas qui Sublunaribus haeret; Rivales JESUS non in Amore sinit. Quid mihi non ...

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 ...

Satyre Preludium (Edward Guilpin Poems)

Fie on these Lydian tunes which blunt our sprightsAnd turne our gallants to Hermaphrodites:Giue me a Doricke touch, whose Semphony,And ...

Robert Burns. (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)

WRITTEN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH, JANUARY 25, 1859.A HUNDRED years ago, when George was King, The second monarch ...

The Fairy’s Promise (Edwin Arnold Poems)

Poet.Beautiful silver-winged spirits of good,That hide in the leaves of the loneliest wood;Green-kirtled fairies whom none may seeBut the soul ...

Invocation To The Wanderer’s Legacy (Catharine Grace Godwin Poems)

BEAUTIFUL Spirit! that didst guard of eldThe song-inspiring fount of Castalie-Thou, unto whom supremacy is givenAnd sway o'er realms of ...

To Certain Poets (Joyce Kilmer Poem)

Now is the rhymer's honest trade A thing for scornful laughter made. The merchant's sneer, the clerk's disdain, These are ...

Ode (John Dryden Poem)

To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...

Dumb (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)

Gabriel whispered in mine ear His archangelic poesie. How can I write? I only hear The sobbing murmur of the ...

Dumb (Aleister Crowley Poem)