Sir Orfeo (J. R. R. Tolkien Poems)
We often read and written find,as learned men do us remind,that lays that now the harpers singare wrought of many ...
Poems about ribaldry (19 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 ...
Of Coarse Fools (Sebastian Brant Poems)
Vile, scolding words do irritate,Good manners thereby will abateIf sow-bell's rung from morn to late.A new St. Ruffian now holds ...
Elegy IX (Henry James Pye Poems)
AVON. WRITTEN DURING THE STRATFORD JUBILEE. From the clear stream that o'er her grotto flows The silver-slipper'd Avon slowly rose, And pensive on ...
Christ in Flanders (Lucy Whitmell Poems)
We had forgotten You, or very nearly -You did not seem to touch us very nearly-Of course we thought about ...
Sir Orfeo (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
We often read and written find,as learned men do us remind,that lays that now the harpers singare wrought of many ...
The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Samson And Delilah (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Because thou wast most delicate, A woman fair for men to see, The earth did compass thy estate, Thou didst ...
A Riddle: A Tale (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
In Days of yore the Story goes,A subterranean Castle rose;Which rear'd its Head a wond'rous Height,The Work of some ingenious ...
Young Democracy (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
HARK! Young Democracy from sleep Our careless sentries raps: A backwash from the Future's deep Our Evil's foreland laps. Unknown, ...
What care the Dead, for Chanticleer — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
What care the Dead, for Chanticleer -- What care the Dead for Day? 'Tis late your Sunrise vex their face ...
To their apartment deep (Emily Dickinson Poem)
To their apartment deep No ribaldry may creep Untumbled this abode By any man but God -- (Emily Dickinson)
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The Cook’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. THE Cook of London, while the Reeve thus spake, For joy he laugh'd and clapp'd him on the ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
The Trumpeter, an Old English Tale (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
It was in the days of a gay British King (In the old fashion'd custom of merry-making) The Palace of ...
Ainsi Va le Monde (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book (Alexander Pope Poems)
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...