The C?uercyon of Swerers (Stephen Hawes Poems)
The fruytfull sentence & the noble werkesTo our doctryne wryten in olde antyquyteBy many grete and ryght notable clerkesGrounded on ...
Poems about prelates (21 Poems)
The Vision Of Piers Plowman – Part 09 (William Langland Poems)
'Sire Dowel dwelleth,' quod Wit, 'noght a day hennesIn a castel that Kynde made of foure kynnes thynges.Of erthe and ...
The Vision Of Piers Plowman – Part 07 (William Langland Poems)
Treuthe herde telle herof, and to Piers senteTo taken his teme and tilien the erthe,And purchaced hym a pardoun a ...
The Truckers (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE change of food enjoyment is to man;In this, t'include the woman is my plan.I cannot guess why Rome will ...
To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys (Henry King Poems)
It is, Sir, a confest intrusion hereThat I before your labours do appear,Which no loud Herald need, that may proclaimOr ...
The Priests Of Ireland (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
YOU have waited, Priests of Ireland, until the hour was late:You have stood with folded arms until 'twas asked-Why do ...
A Gallery To The Temple. The Deprecation (Ralph Knevet Poems)
(Lord) cease this direfull tintamarre Of civill warre: The bellowing drumme, and trumpet shrill, Are musicke meete, Rather for flameing Sinai Hill, Then Sion sweet. The ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 01 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
THE ARGUMENT.Ismeno conjures, but his charms are vain;Aladine will kill the Christians in his ire:Sophronia and Olindo would be slainTo ...
To Gaspar Visconti (James Crichton Poems)
I.When her fair land with grief o'erspread,Insubria mourn'd her primate dead;When Borromeo to the tombWas borne mid all-pervading gloom;When dimm'd ...
The Curse Of The Charter-Breakers (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
IN Westminster's royal halls,Robed in their pontificals,England's ancient prelates stoodFor the people's right and good.Closed around the waiting crowd,Dark and ...
To My Friend The Author Of The Tragedy Of Sir Walter Raleigh. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Whilst two great Bards our grateful Country mourns,And sheds the Debt of Sorrow o'er their Urns;Transfus'd in thee, revive their ...
Antipus (Luke Shepherd Poems)
As verily as Adam created firste his God So verily he tasted not, the fruite that was forbo As verily as Abell, ...
An Apology Written For My Son To The Reverend Mr. Sampson, (Mary Barber Poems)
With Joy your Summons we obey,And come to celebrate this Day.Yet I, alas! despair to please;For you require exalted Lays:And, ...
Rubens (Harriet Monroe Poems)
Here you are, grand old sensualist!And here are the three goddesses displaying their charms to Paris.It was all one to you ...
The King’s Grief (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
The king was lonely, the king was sad,Sad in his youth, when the world was glad:Sick at heart on his ...
On Buonaparte’s Coronation (Christian Milne Poems)
'TIS painful to a Briton's eyes,To see a tyrant in disguiseUsurping LOUIS ' throne;While Peers and Prelates round him crowd,And ...
The Truckers (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
A Dialogue between Old England and New (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
391. A Tippling Ballad-When Princes and Prelates, etc. (Robert Burns Poems)
WHEN Princes and Prelates, And hot-headed zealots, A' Europe had set in a low, a low, The poor man lies ...
The Place of the Damned (Jonathan Swift Poems)
All folks who pretend to religion and grace, Allow there's a HELL, but dispute of the place: But, if HELL ...
Joy-Bells (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
Ring your sweet bells; but let them be farewells To the green-vista'd gladness of the past That changed us into ...