Clifton Grove (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Lo! in the west, fast fades the lingering light,And day's last vestige takes its silent flight.No more is heard the ...
Poems about seducer (19 Poems)
At The Sight Of A Beautiful But Frail One (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
Ah ! lost one ! hide that tempting smile, And turn away that thrilling eye ;They only languish, to beguile, They only ...
Good Friday, A.D. 33 (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Mother, why are people crowding now and staring? Child, it is a malefactor goes to His doom,To the high hill of ...
The Prostitute (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Woman of weeping eye, ah! for thy wretched lot,Putting on smiles to lure the lewd passenger,Smiling while anguish gnaws at ...
A Gallery To The Temple. The Rocke (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Satan rejoyc'd, when Hee had wonne False Judas, to his wicked will, And made him to betray the Virgins sonne, That so Death's ...
Prayer (Dana Gioia Poems)
Echo of the clocktower, footstepin the alleyway, sweepof the wind sifting the leaves.Jeweller of the spiderweb, connoisseurof autumn's opulence, blade ...
The Borough. Letter XIX: The Parish-Clerk (George Crabbe Poems)
WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;The like slow speech was ...
The Poor Of The Borough. Letter XX: Ellen Orford (George Crabbe Poems)
No charms she now can boast,--'tis true,But other charmers wither too:"And she is old,"--the fact I know,And old will other ...
The Lass Of Fair Wone (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
From the German of B?rger. BESIDE the parson's dusky bow'r Why strays a troubl'd sprite,That dimly shines in ...
The Borough. Letter XIV: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Life Of Blaney (George Crabbe Poems)
OBSERVE that tall pale Veteran! what a lookOf shame and guilt!--who cannot read that book?Misery and mirth are blended in ...
The Enthusiast. Songs Of Arla. (Anne Batten Cristall Poems)
SONG I.WILD wing my notes, fierce passions urge the strain; Strong flame the fires that kindle in my soul; I ...
Ruin’d Innocence (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
"SEE'ST thou yon lily in its blooming pride, Its snowy bosom op'ning to the view, Surcharg'd with gems of bright ...
Unluckily For A Death (Dylan Thomas Poems)
Unluckily for a deathWaiting with phoenix underThe pyre yet to be lighted of my sins and days,And for the woman ...
Mesalliance (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
I am troubled to-night with a curious pain;It is not of the flesh, it is not of the brain,Nor yet ...
Il Trioonfo Del Amor (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
SO full my thoughts are of thee, that I swear All else is hateful to my troubl'd soul; ...
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 ...
ON FIRST READING JOHN GOODBY’S ‘IRISH POETRY SINCE 1950’ (Barry Tebb Poems)
Barbarous insult to Yeats' memory and Claudel's Allen, thank God you are dead, you who breathed the air of Apollinaire, ...
I Sit and Look Out. (Walt Whitman Poems)
I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear ...
God’s Skallywags (Robert William Service Poems)
The God of Scribes looked down and saw The bitter band of seven, Who had outraged his holy law And ...