To Mrs. Barber (Mary Barber Poems)
See, the bright Sun renews his annual Course,Each Beam re--tinges, and revives its Force,By Years uninjur'd; so may'st thou remain,Not ...
Poems about refines (21 Poems)
A Song (Mark Akenside Poems)
The Shape alone let others prize,The Features of the Fair;I look for Spirit in her Eyes,And Meaning in her Air.A ...
Adversity salutary (John Bowring Poems)
Both joy and sorrow come from Thee,Who in our life's variety Dost good with seeming evil blend:Thou wakest peace from suffering,And ...
The Sonnet (Henry Ellison Poems)
In this strait-waistcoat of poor fourteen linesOur Shakspear cramped his mighty intellect.'Tis as if Ocean should confines elect,Like tributary streams; ...
The Sisters (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
One outlives her sympathies, and onemust drowse by day because her nights refuseto let remembering stop. She as in stoneimprisoning ...
Hope (Joseph Addison Poems)
Our lives, discoloured with our present woes,May still grow white and shine with happier hours.So the pure limped stream, when ...
The Ghost – Book I (Charles Churchill Poems)
With eager search to dart the soul,Curiously vain, from pole to pole,And from the planets' wandering spheresTo extort the number ...
On The Pleasures Of College Life (George Moses Horton Poems)
With tears I leave these academic bowers, And cease to cull the scientific flowers; With tears I hail the fair ...
Love Sonnets (Charles Harpur Poems)
How beautiful doth the morning rise O'er the hills, as from her bower a bride ...
The Pleasures Of The Mind (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
IN Life's first dawn, ere Reason's rayRising sheds the promis'd day,Gay Novelty officious flies,With mantle dipt in heav'nly dies;Trifles than ...
Prosperity (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Enlaced with gardened jewelryMy basking villas nestWhere sifted sunshine soothes the eyeAnd cosy hillocks rest.Convention's fronds here screen from viewImmodest ...
Passion Uninspired By Sentiment (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
"OH! Passion, seducer of heart and of soul! Thou transport tyrannic! half pleasure, half pain! Why consum'st thou the breast ...
A Translation (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artesEmolht mores, nee sinit esseferos,To rightly learn the pugilistic art,Such as Jem Earywig can well impart,Refines the ...
Sonnet XLIX: Thou Leaden Brain (Michael Drayton Poem)
Thou leaden brain, which censur'st what I write, And say'st my lines be dull and do not move, I marvel ...
Ode to the Memory of Burns (Thomas Campbell Poem)
Soul of the Poet ! wheresoe'er, Reclaimed from earth, thy genius plume Her wings of immortality ; Suspend thy harp ...
Cleon (Robert Browning Poem)
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
Hymn 4 part 2 (Isaac Watts Poems)
The inward witness to Christianity. 1 Jn. 5:10. Questions and doubts be heard no more, Let Christ and joy be ...
EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women) (Alexander Pope Poems)
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
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, ...
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, ...
Failure (Tim Connor Poem)
Failure It's only a word. But it carries with it so much pain and so little concern so much frustration ...