Humility (Caroline Fry Poems)
Humility, said Lena, as she drewA well-worn glove upon her sun-burnt hand,"Is the best ornament a Christian knows."I think not ...
Poems about priz (21 Poems)
Enigma XVIII. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
NOW o'er the vast waves of the northern Pacific,Prepare for a speedy and prosperous sail;And land on the coast of ...
Captivity (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
THE LAMENTATION OF A CANARY BIRD IN HIS CAGE. OH ! happy kindred, tenants of the air,Ye wing'd inhabitants of ...
Address To The Shade Of Burns (Christian Milne Poems)
Now thou art gone, O BURNS ! to thy last bed,Where Kings and Ploughmen, Wits and Fools, are laid;Nor softer ...
Written In Early Spring, 1795 (Christian Milne Poems)
Now Winter's chilling frosts are o'er,And cold bleak winds assail no more;The fleecy snow no more is seen,But Spring comes ...
To —— (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
My Reason for being one Week absent from her. You ask me why my throbbing breast Heaves with a ...
To A Poetic Friend (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
WHO DECLARED AN INTENTION OF LEAVING OFF WRITING IN FUTURE. OFT ' doth the mournful muse complain,And will, I wean, ...
Song (Love) (Aphra Behn Poems)
Oh love! that stronger art than Wine,Pleasing Delusion, Witchery divine,Wont to be priz'd above all Wealth,Disease that has more Joys ...
Song (Aphra Behn Poems)
Oh love! that stronger art than Wine,Pleasing Delusion, Witchery divine,Wont to be priz'd above all Wealth,Disease that has more Joys ...
By The Heath Stood A Lady (Dietmar von Aist Poems)
By the heath stood a lady,All lonely and fair;As she watch'd for her loverA falcon flew near."Happy falcon!" she cried,"Who ...
Sonnet 13 (Anna Seward Poems)
Thou child of Night and Silence, balmy Sleep,Shed thy soft poppies on my aching brow!And charm to rest the thoughts ...
An Invective against Gold (Anne Killigrew Poem)
OF all the Poisons that the fruitful Earth E'er yet brought forth, or Monsters she gave Birth, Nought to Mankind ...
The King and the Shepherd (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule ...
From The First Act Of The Aminta Of Tasso (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
From The Ladies Defence (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
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 ...
To a Republican Friend (Matthew Arnold Poem)
God knows it, I am with you. If to prize Those virtues, priz'd and practis'd by too few, But priz'd, ...
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 ...
Rinaldo to Laura Maria (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
THOU! whose sublime poetic art Can pierce the pulses of the heart, Can force the treasur'd tear to flow In ...
A Dialogue Between the Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Courage my Soul, now learn to wield The weight of thine immortal Shield. Close on thy Head thy Helmet bright. ...
A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Courage my Soul, now learn to wield The weight of thine immortal Shield. Close on thy Head thy Helmet bright. ...