Prayer (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
SHE would not keep at home, the foolish woman, She would not mind her precious girls and boys, She had to go, ...
Poems about shrew (21 Poems)
The Three Warnings (Hester Lynch Piozzi Poems)
The tree of deepest root is foundLeast willing still to quit the ground;Twas therefore said, by ancient sages,That love of ...
Advice To A Young Man, Before He Goes A Courting (Rees Prichard Poems)
WHEN first thou go'st to court a maid,If thou'dst succeed, implore God's aid,And take his Spirit for thy guide,Or thou'lt ...
A Pastoral Dialogue Between Two Shepherdesses (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade,Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid,Whilst the World dissolves in Heat,Take this cool, and ...
Nobody Cometh To Woo (John Clare Poems)
On Martinmas eve the dogs did bark, And I opened the window to see,When every maiden went by with her spark But ...
An Epistle to Dr. Greenlaw (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
The buxom ladies of Parnassus,Are quite unlike our modern lasses,Who are a race of sordid b-----s,That prostitute their charms to ...
On —- (James Avis Bartley Poems)
A brainless beauty, a would-be coquette,A brow of marble, but a heart of jet;An eye that shows no vestige of ...
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 ...
A Pastoral Dialogue Between Two Shepherdesse (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade, Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid,Whilst the World dissolves in Heat,Take this cool, ...
Horses (Dorothy Violet Wellesley Poems)
Newmarket or St. Leger . . .Who, in the garden pony carrying skepsOf grass or fallen leaves, his knees gone ...
Ballades III – Of Blue China (Andrew Lang Poems)
THERE'S a joy without canker or cark, There 's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze ...
The Wishing-Caps (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Life's all getting and giving, I've only myself to give. What shall I do for a living? I've only one ...
Howl (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
Belphegor Addressed To Miss De Chammelay (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
A Pastoral Dialogue Between Two Shepherdesses (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade, Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid, Whilst the World dissolves in Heat, Take ...
The Friar’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
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 Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Shit List; Or, Omnium-gatherum Of Diversity Into Unity (A. R. Ammons Poem)
You'll rejoice at how many kinds of shit there are: gosling shit (which J. Williams said something was as green ...
An Allusion to Horace (John Wilmot Poems)
Well Sir, 'tis granted, I said Dryden's Rhimes, Were stoln, unequal, nay dull many times: What foolish Patron, is there ...
Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law (Adrienne Rich Poems)
1 You, once a belle in Shreveport, with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud, still have your dresses copied from ...