ASTR (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Now with a general peace the world was blest,While ours, a world divided from the rest,A dreadful quiet felt, and ...
Poems about receipts (17 Poems)
The Authors: A Satire (Richard Savage Poems)
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
The Monks Of Catalonia (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail,The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale,Where oft the holy fathers pow'rs displayed,And ...
Hans Carvel (Matthew Prior Poems)
Hans Carvel, impotent and old,Married a lass of London mould.Handsome? Enough; extremely gay;Loved music, company, and play:High flights she had, ...
The Bean Eaters (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair,Dinner is a casual affair.Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood,Tin flatware.Two ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto X (Edward Benlowes Poems)
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD. The Abnegation.ARGUMENT. What's potent Opulencie? What's remiss Voluptuousness? World, what's All This, To That the ...
An Impartial History (Dougal Graham Poems)
AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY of the RISE, PROGRESS, AND EXTINCTION of the late REBELLION In Britain, in the Years 1745 and ...
The New Bath Guide: Part I, Letter I (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Miss Jenny W---d---r, to Lady Eliz. M---d---ss, at --- Castle, North.A View from the Parades at Bath, with some Account ...
The Steel Glass (George Gascoigne Poems)
O knights, O squires, O gentle bloods yborn, You were not born all only for yourselves: Your country claims ...
A Commonplace Song (George Essex Evans Poems)
Ebbs and flows the restless river In the city streetWhere the great nerve centres quiver, Where the pulses ...
Upon A Wasp Chilled With Cold (Edward Taylor Poems)
The bear that breathes the northern blastDid numb, torpedo-like, a waspWhose stiffened limbs encramped, lay bathingIn Sol's warm breath and ...
The Monks Of Catalonia (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
Remembrances (John Clare Poem)
Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh ...
Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
Upon A Wasp Chilled With Cold (Edward Taylor Poems)
The bear that breathes the northern blast Did numb, torpedo-like, a wasp Whose stiffened limbs encramped, lay bathing In Sol's ...
The Old Chimaeras. Old Recipts (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
THE old Chimaeras, old receipts For making "happy land," The old political beliefs Swam close before my hand. The grand ...
Jinny the Just (Matthew Prior Poems)
Releas'd from the noise of the butcher and baker Who, my old friends be thanked, did seldom forsake her, And ...