The Pastor’s Daughter. (George Pope Morris Poems)
An ivy-mantled cottage smiled, Deep-wooded near a streamlet's side,Where dwelt the village-pastor's child, In all her maiden bloom and pride.Proud suitors paid ...
Poems about sophistry (21 Poems)
The Farewell (Charles Churchill Poems)
_P_. Farewell to Europe, and at once farewellTo all the follies which in Europe dwell;To Eastern India now, a richer ...
The Dunciad: Book IV (Alexander Pope Poems)
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
Fragmentary Scenes From The Road To Avernus (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Scene I"Discontent"LAURENCE RABY.Laurence:I said to young Allan M'Ilveray, Beside the swift swirls of the North,When, in lilac shot through with ...
The Enthusiast (Anne Batten Cristall Poems)
ARLA. THE pious sire of ARLA rear'd her youth Strongly to feel the great Creator's power; In her pure bosom ...
On the Love of God (Caroline Fry Poems)
There was a slave, who, born to days unbless'd,Drew from his parent blood the hard decreeOf ceaseless and unwilling servitude.His ...
The Midnight Mass (Ada Cambridge Poems)
An Incident of the French Revolution.THE light lay trembling in a silver bar Along the western borders of the ...
The Corpse That Won’t Lie Still (C J Dennis Poems)
Aye, call it murder is ye will! 'Tis not the crime I fear.If his cold curse would but lie still ...
A Mother’s Prayer (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
SUFFER the little ones to come to Me,"Forbid them not," the Saviour said: and we,Remembering His words, sure comfort takeThat ...
In Imitation of E. of Rochester : On Silence (Alexander Pope Poems)
I. Silence! coeval with Eternity;Thou wert, ere Nature's-self began to be,'Twas one vast Nothing, all, and all slept fast in ...
Christmas Carol (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Fear not! For unto you is born a Child,In David's city Christ the Lord is born!(And babes today, Life's heritage ...
A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret’s (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poems)
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
Hawk Roosting (Ted Hughes Poem)
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Elegy VII (John Donne Poem)
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love, And in that sophistry, Oh, thou dost prove Too subtle: Foole, thou ...
A poem on divine revelation (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Hymn To The Penates (Robert Southey Poems)
Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain Ere PAEAN! on thy temple's ruined wall I hang the silent ...
Sonnet XXVIII: Weak Is the Sophistry (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Weak is the sophistry, and vain the art That whispers patience to the mind's despair! That bids reflection bathe the ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Ballade at Thirty-five (Dorothy Parker Poems)
This, no song of an ingénue, This, no ballad of innocence; This, the rhyme of a lady who Followed ever ...