Rosara’s Chain. The Ivory Halls. (Alicia LeFanu Poems)
As down the circling wave they glide,Thus spoke at length the Elfin guide:"My friend, behold the favoured coast,"Where ...
Poems about presides (21 Poems)
After Dinner (Albert Pike Poems)
To BEVERLEY TUCKER, ESQUIRE, GREETING: Dear BEV. this greeting goes to you across the Atlantic brine, From the little room ...
A Description Of One Of The Pieces Of Tapistry At Long-Leat (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
THUS Tapistry of old, the Walls adorn'd, Ere noblest Dames the artful Shuttle scorn'd: Arachne, then, with Pallas did contest, ...
An Ode On Hope (Emma Lyon Poems)
HOPE , heavenly maid! to thee I sing, Who hovering round the anguish'd heart, Dost steep ...
from The Nerve Meter (Antonin Artaud Poems)
An actor is seen as if through crystals. Inspiration in stages. One musn't let in ...
Ode To Tranquillity (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
O! where, thou friend of mortals, say,Dost thou thy placid charms display?Thou with Innocence art join'd,Empress of the spotless mind.Thy ...
Ode To Happiness (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
O THOU! who dwell'st in heav'n alone,Whose beams surround th' Omniscient's throne,'Tis by his just decrees denied,That thou with mortals ...
Enigma XI. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
OF virtuous Agrippina's son,Who on proud Rome's imperial throne, Succeeds Tiberius dead;The muse with unfeign'd sorrow sings,And all-reluctant tunes ...
Ballade Of Vision (David Gow Poems)
THE years slip past, and the hour-glass flows, But its sands are more than the ocean-tide's;They ruin the rose ...
Ode To Harmony (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
QUEEN of the blest Angelic Choir!Bright native of the spheres!Whose pow'rs all Nature's works inspire,Whose notes, entranc'd, she hears,'Tis thou ...
Good Temper (Charles Lamb Poems)
In whatsoever place residesGood Temper, she o'er all presides;The most obdurate heart she guides.Even Anger yields unto her power,And sullen ...
Lines Written At Belvoir Castle, 1883 (Frances Anne Kemble Poems)
Two things remain unalter'd in this place, Tho' since I came here forty years are told- The smiling ...
Divinely Superfluous Beauty (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals, Over and under the ocean ... Divinely superfluous beauty Rules the ...
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature (Philip Freneau Poem)
ALL that we see, about, abroad, What is it all, but nature's God? In meaner works discovered here No less ...
Joconde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
The Wood (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
Lachin Y Gair (Lord Byron Poem)
Away, ye gay landscapes, ye garden of roses! In you let the minions of luxury rove; Restore me to the ...
The Landlady (Margaret Atwood Poem)
This is the lair of the landlady She is a raw voice loose in the rooms beneath me. the continuous ...
To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
To cultivate in ev'ry noble mind Habitual grace, and sentiments refin'd, Thus while you strive to mend the human heart, ...
Queen Mab: Part VI (excerpts) (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
"Throughout these infinite orbs of mingling light, Of which yon earth is one, is wide diffus'd A Spirit of activity ...
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, ...