The Star-Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key Poems)
O! say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last ...
Poems about preserv (21 Poems)
Mercury And The Elephant (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
As Merc'ry travell'd thro' a Wood, (Whose Errands are more Fleet than Good) An Elephant before him lay, That much ...
The Pilot That Weath’d The Storm (George Canning Poems)
If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky, if no longer dark tempests deform;When our perils are ...
Stanzas. (Eliza Acton Poems)
I saw the worthless and the vile,By Pleasure's light surrounded,And wond'ringly I mark'd the while,Their joy and bliss unbounded. For ...
Love And Duty (Elizabeth Beverley Poems)
"Dear Anna, why that falling tear, Dost weep, my love, because we part? My constancy thou need'st not fear; Thy ...
Defence of Fort M’Henry (Francis Scott Key Poems)
Tune -- ANACREON IN HEAVEN O! say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd ...
Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
The Task: Book IV, The Winter Evening (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
A poem on divine revelation (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
The Four Ages of Man (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
246. Song-Robin Shure in Hairst (Robert Burns Poem)
HIS face with smile eternal drest, Just like the Landlord's to his Guest's, High as they hang with creaking din, ...
To a Lady on Her Remarkable Preservation (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Though thou did'st hear the tempest from afar, And felt'st the horrors of the wat'ry war, To me unknown, yet ...
Song for All Seas, All Ships. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 TO-DAY a rude brief recitative, Of ships sailing the Seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal; Of unnamed ...
An Epitaph On Mr. Fishborne The Great London Benefactor, And His Executor (William Strode Poems)
What are thy gaines, O death, if one man ly Stretch'd in a bed of clay, whose charity Doth hereby ...
The Lascar (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
I. "Another day, Ah! me, a day "Of dreary Sorrow is begun! "And still I loath the temper'd ray, "And ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) (Alexander Pope Poems)
He said, and pass'd with sad presaging heart To seek his spouse, his soul's far dearer part; At home he ...
In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbigh-shire (Katherine Philips Poems)
I CANNOT hold, for though to write were rude, Yet to be silent were Ingratitude, And Folly too; for if ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
To His Coy Mistress (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Had we but World enough, and Time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which ...
Psalm 85 (John Milton Poems)
Thy Land to favour graciously Thou hast not Lord been slack, Thou hast from hard Captivity Returned Jacob back. Th' ...