Frankincense and Myrrh (Amy Lowell Poem)
My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind ...
Poems about readily (24 Poems)
The Going of the Battery Wives. (Lament) (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough - Light in their loving as soldiers can be - ...
Hap (Thomas Hardy Poem)
If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: "Thou suffering thing, Know that ...
Sharing Our Abundance (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A profound message sharing our abundance something they, the children readily understood when asked what do you do if your ...
A Smell of Mothballs (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Behind the cabin, age and mothballs a smell I will not forget of a cabin, a retreat, of another time ...
The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
The Progress Of Wit (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
The Magnificent (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
The Ear-Maker And The Mould-Mender (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
The Cudgelled And Contented Cuckold (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
The Devil In Hell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
The Cobbler (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WE'RE told, that once a cobbler, BLASE by name; A wife had got, whose charms so high in fame; But ...
The Avaricious Wife And Tricking Gallant (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise, When men are duped by artful women's eves; Though death his weapon ...
St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
An EPISTLE From A Gentleman To Madam Deshouliers (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
URANIA, whom the Town admires, Whose Wit and Beauty share our Praise; This fair URANIA who inspires A thousand Joys ...
The Englishman (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
St George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon He drank a pint of English ale Out ...
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: ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
113. A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. (Robert Burns Poems)
EXPECT na, sir, in this narration, A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication, To roose you up, an' ca' you guid, An' sprung ...
Only a Jockey (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Out in the grey cheerless chill of the morning light, Out on the track where the night shades still lurk, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 08 (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
1819 New Year’s Carrier’s Address (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
Believe me, dear patrons, I have wand'red too far, Without any compass, or planet or star; My dear native village ...