The Oeconomy Of Love (John Armstrong Poems)
Thy bounties, Love, in thy soft raptures, whenTimeliest the melting pairs indulge, and howBest to improve the genial joy, how ...
Poems about retorted (20 Poems)
The Unhappy State Of The Ungodly, After Death (Rees Prichard Poems)
You of each sex and age, draw near,And to my sad Complaint give ear,Who vice, unto the last obey'd,But now ...
“Now Summer with her wanton court is gone” (John Armstrong Poems)
Now Summer with her wanton court is goneTo revel on the south side of the world,And flaunt and frolic out ...
June (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The June house wasn't a house at all, But a level and leafy place, Where a gypsy scamp had pitched his camp-- A ...
Two Stanzas (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
There was once a town, the inhabitants of which were so passionately fondof poetry,that if some weeks passed by without ...
The Eutawville Lynching (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
(July, 1904)In the State of "Old Palmetto," from the town of Eutawville,Comes a voice of pain and anguish that refuses ...
How A Fisherman Corked Up His Foe In A Jar (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A fisherman lived on the shore, (It's a habit that fishers affect,) And his life was a hideous bore: He had nothing to ...
The Vainglorious (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A bulrush stood on a river's rim, And an oak that grew near by Looked down with cold hauteur on him, And addressed ...
Nature (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
I dreamed I had come into an immense underground temple with lofty archedroof. It was filled with a sort of ...
A Disagreement (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
"You give me no rest," growled the Patient."I cannot," retorted the Pill."In your stomach to beIs so dreadful to meThat ...
Sotweed redivivus (Benjamin Colman Poems)
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
Inebriety (George Crabbe Poems)
The mighty spirit, and its power, which stainsThe bloodless cheek, and vivifies the brains,I sing. Say, ye, its fiery vot'ries ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet VII (Anonymous Asian Poems)
"My friend, why are the Great Gods in conference?(In my dream) Anu, Enlil, and Shamash held a council,and Anu spoke ...
A Royal Princess (Christina Georgina Rossetti Poems)
I, a princess, king-descended, decked with jewels, gilded, drest,Would rather be a peasant with her baby at her breast,For all ...
A Dream Lesson (Carolyn Wells Poems)
Once there was a little boy who wouldn't go to bed, When they hinted at the subject he would only ...
Upon a Little Lady Under the Discipline of an Excellent Person. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
I. HOw comes the Day orecast ? the Flaming Sun Darkn'd at Noon, as if his Course were run ? ...
To Live Merrily, And To Trust To Good Verses (Robert Herrick Poem)
Now is the time for mirth, Nor cheek or tongue be dumb; For with the flow'ry earth The golden pomp ...
Before the Throne of Beauty XXVI (Khalil Gibran Poem)
One heavy day I ran away from the grim face of society and the dizzying clamor of the city and ...
The First Step (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
The young poet Evmenis complained one day to Theocritus: "I've been writing for two years now and I've composed only ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...