Robert Edward Lee (Duval Porter Poems)
Tho' Homor sings of Grecian IslesIn strains that every heart beguiles,How warriors fought and heroes fellFor Helen, false and fickle ...
Poems about prais (21 Poems)
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 ...
LXIX. The Character of a true Philosopher (Ellis Walker Poems)
If you have learn'd to live on homely food,To feed on roots, and lupines, be not proud,Since ev'ry beggar may ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
'Twixt those twin worlds,-the world of Sleep, which gaveNo dream to warn,-the tidal world of Death,Which the earth's sea, as ...
Upon the saying that my VERSES were made by another. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
NExt Heaven my Vows to thee (O Sacred Muse! ) I offer'd up, nor didst thou them refuse. O Queen ...
A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret’s (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poems)
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
The Tradesman and the Scholar (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Citizen of mighty Pelf, But much a Blockhead, in himself Disdain'd a Man of shining Parts, Master of Sciences ...
Sonnet XXXII: Our Flood’s-Queen Thames (Michael Drayton Poems)
Our flood's-queen Thames for ships and swans is crown'd, And stately Severn for her shore is prais'd, The crystal Trent ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
A Soliloquy Of The Full Moon, She Being In A Mad Passion (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Now as Heaven is my Lot, they're the Pests of the Nation! Wherever they can come With clankum and blankum ...
231. Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Robert Burns Poem)
WHEN Nature her great master-piece design'd, And fram'd her last, best work, the human mind, Her eye intent on all ...
On The Death Of A Young Lady Of Five Years Of Age (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
FROM dark abodes to fair etherial light Th' enraptur'd innocent has wing'd her flight; On the kind bosom of eternal ...
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the ...
Amoretti LXXIX: Men Call you Fair (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Men call you fair, and you do credit it, For that your self ye daily such do see: But the ...
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, ...
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (Alexander Pope Poems)
What beck'ning ghost, along the moon-light shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? 'Tis she!--but why that bleeding ...
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 ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1 (Alexander Pope Poems)
Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. (Martial, Epigrams 12.84) What dire offence from am'rous causes ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5 (Alexander Pope Poems)
She said: the pitying audience melt in tears, But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's ears. In vain Thalestris ...
An Epitaph (Matthew Prior Poems)
Interr'd beneath this marble stone, Lie saunt'ring Jack and idle Joan. While rolling threescore years and one Did round this ...
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...