An Horation Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return From Ireland (Andrew Marvell Poems)
The forward Youth that would appearMust now forsake his Muses dear,Nor in the Shadows singHis Numbers languishing.'Tis time to leave ...
Poems about ruine (21 Poems)
The Sale of Rebellious House-hold Stuff. To the tune of Old Simon the King (Anonymous British Poems)
Rebellion hath broken up house,And hath left me old lumber to sell;Come hither and take your choice,I'll promise to use ...
Fumant Dans Le Cristal (Andre Marie de Chenier Poems)
Fumant dans le cristal, que Bacchus ? longs flots Partout aille ? la ronde ?veiller les bons mots. Reine de ...
Assurance (George Herbert Poems)
O Spitefull bitter thought!Bitterly spitefull thought! Couldst thou inventSo high a torture? Is ...
Wisdom. (Daniel Baker Poems)
Be Wise d'ye say, I scorn that Word: Love's Politicks no such Rule afford, For Love and Wisdom never yet, ...
The Miseries of Man (Anne Killigrew Poem)
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
The Discontent. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
I. HEre take no Care, take here no Care, my Muse, Nor ought of Art or Labour use: But let ...
The Unequal Fetters (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Cou'd we stop the time that's flying Or recall itt when 'tis past Put far off the day of Dying ...
Satyr (John Wilmot Poems)
Were I (who to my cost already am One of those strange prodigious Creatures Man) A Spirit free, to choose ...
On The Death Of Sir Rowland Cotton Seconding That Of Sir Robert (William Strode Poems)
More Cottons yet? O let not envious Fate Attempt the Ruine of our growing State. O had it spar'd Sir ...
Sonnet LVI (Edmund Spenser Poems)
FAyre ye be sure, but cruell and vnkind, As is a Tygre that with greedinesse hunts after bloud, when he ...
Visions of the worlds vanitie. (Edmund Spenser Poems)
One day, whiles that my daylie cares did sleepe, My spirit, shaking off her earthly prison, Began to enter into ...
In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbigh-shire (Katherine Philips Poems)
I CANNOT hold, for though to write were rude, Yet to be silent were Ingratitude, And Folly too; for if ...
Orinda To Lucasia Parting October 1661 At London (Katherine Philips Poems)
Adieu dear object of my Love's excess, And with thee all my hopes of happiness, With the same fervent and ...
To Mr. Vaughan, Silurist on His Poems (Katherine Philips Poems)
Had I ador'd the multitude, and thence Got an antipathy to wit and sence, And hug'd that fate, in hope ...
The Mower’s Song (Andrew Marvell Poems)
My Mind was once the true survey Of all these Medows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the ...
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost (Andrew Marvell Poems)
When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold, In slender Book his vast Design unfold, Messiah Crown'd, Gods Reconcil'd Decree, ...
Psalm 01 (John Milton Poems)
Done into Verse, 1653. Bless'd is the man who hath not walk'd astray In counsel of the wicked, and ith'way ...
Sonnet 08 (John Milton Poems)
VIII Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms, Whose chance on these defenceless dores may sease, If ever deed of ...
Psalm 07 (John Milton Poems)
Aug. 14. 1653. Upon The Words Of Chush The Benjamite Against Him. Lord my God to thee I flie Save ...