To My Old Schoolmaster (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
AN EPISTLE NOT AFTER THE MANNER OF HORACEOld friend, kind friend! lightly downDrop time's snow-flakes on thy crown!Never be thy ...
Poems about scandals (20 Poems)
The Shepherd’s Calendar – September (John Clare Poems)
Harvest awakes the morning stillAnd toils rude groups the valleys fillDeserted is each cottage hearthTo all life save the crickets ...
Black Lizzie (Henry Kendall Poems)
THE GLOVED and jewelled bards who sing Of Pippa, Maud, and Dorothea,Have hardly done the handsome thing For you, my inky Cytherea.Flower ...
Psalm XXXVIII. (Rees Prichard Poems)
My gracious God! compassion's Sire!Do not rebuke me in thine ire,Nor let thy dreadful wrath extendIts terrors to my latter ...
Our Country (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
WE give thy natal day to hope,O Country of our love and prayer!Thy way is down no fatal slope,But up ...
A Town (Jane Taylor Poems)
A BUSY town mid Britain's isle, Behold in fancy's eye ;With tower, and spire, and civic pile, Beneath a summer sky :And ...
Macleay Street and Red Rock Lane (Henry Lawson Poems)
MACLEAY STREET looks to Mosman, Across the other side,With brave asphalted pavements And roadway clean and wide.Macleay Street hath its mansions, Its grounds ...
Possessions (Ken Smith Poems)
They spent my life plotting against me.With nothing to do but cultivate themselves,but to be there, aligning their shadows,they were ...
The Temple of Fame (Alexander Pope Poems)
In that soft season, when descending show'rsCall forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;When op'ning buds salute the welcome ...
The Leper (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
NOTHING is better, I well think, Than love; the hidden well-waterIs not so delicate to drink: This was ...
Our Underpaid Army (A B Banjo Paterson Poems)
Napoleon made his Marshals out of mud,And Cromwell's Ironsides were mostly tanner,But nowadays our officers have blood,And lots of cash, ...
The Stewed Samaritan (George Ade Poems)
Within a house of public entertainment There sat an ebon slave close at the foot Of a heavy chair topping ...
A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call’d The Female Nine (Earl of Dorset Charles Sackville Poems)
When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines Which ty'd her dear monkey so fast by the loins, Show'd his ...
Mercury And The Elephant (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
As Merc'ry travell'd thro' a Wood, (Whose Errands are more Fleet than Good) An Elephant before him lay, That much ...
The Man Who Could Write (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Boanerges Blitzen, servant of the Queen, Is a dismal failure -- is a Might-have-been. In a luckless moment he discovered ...
Up At A Villa- Down In The City (Robert Browning Poem)
(As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality) I Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, ...
A Ramble in St. James’s Park (John Wilmot Poems)
Much wine had passed, with grave discourse Of who fucks who, and who does worse (Such as you usually do ...
A Satyre Against Mankind (John Wilmot Poems)
Were I - who to my cost already am One of those strange, prodigious creatures, man - A spirit free ...
Satyr (John Wilmot Poems)
Were I (who to my cost already am One of those strange prodigious Creatures Man) A Spirit free, to choose ...
Hymn 133 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Love and charity. 1 Cor. 13:2-7, 13. Let Pharisees of high esteem Their faith and zeal declare, All their religion ...