74 (Mary Wroth Poems)
Love a childe is ever crying,Please him, and he strait is flying;Give him, he the more is craving,Never satisfi'd with ...
Poems about speaketh (20 Poems)
To certaine questions and Riddles ensuing: X (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
A certain dead creature in mine armes I take,With her back to my bosome, great glee doth she makeAs thus ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Thirteenth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Seven days accomplished,--unto Pharaoh's court The sons of Amram went; by Voice Divine Commanded; and, in presence of the king, ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Twenty-Third. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Meanwhile, within the heart of the dead sun, After that glory angelic had passed out, Long time reigned silence, night ...
Love Or Fame: Part V: Love (Fannie Isabelle Sherrick Poems)
And what is life?--a pleasure and a pain, A vision of the sun--a day of rain. And what is love?--a ...
The Ruling Thought (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
Most sweet, most powerful, Controller of my inmost soul; The terrible, yet precious gift Of heaven, companion kind Of all ...
The World Runs Round (Edward Rowland Sill Poems)
THE world runs round, And the world runs well; And at heaven's bound, Weaving what the hours shall tell Of ...
A Woman’s Mood (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Poems)
Because you cannot pluck the flower,You pass the sweet scent by;Because you cannot have the starsYou will not see the ...
The Lament Of The Old Nurse (Aeschylus Poems)
NURSE Our mistress bids me with all speed to call Aegisthus to the strangers, that he come ...
The Mighty One (David James Scott Poems)
You have felt his power—you have felt his power—For a mighty one is he:He is found in the field and ...
The Plains (George Essex Evans Poems)
WIDE are the plains-the plains that stretch to the west An ocean of trackless waste, untrodden and rude,Where an ...
Afterward (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Poems)
There is no vacant chair. The loving meet—A group unbroken—smitten, who knows how?One sitteth silent only, in his usual seat;We ...
Elaine and Elaine (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Poems)
IDead, she drifted to his feet.Tell us, Love, is Death so sweet?Oh! the river floweth deep.Fathoms deeper is her sleep.Oh! ...
The Sign (Frederic Manning Poems)
We are here in a wood of little beeches: And the leaves are like black lace Against a sky of ...
Asking in Vain (Charles Harpur Poems)
Still his little grave she seeketh In her mother-sorrow wild,Hush! While in her heart she speaketh To the ...
There is a Tongue in Every Leaf (Anonymous British Poems)
There is a tongue in every leaf,A voice in every rill --A voice that speaketh everyhwere,In flood and fire, through ...
Sonnet LIX: “If I am never merry when my brow” (George Henry Boker Poems)
LIXIf I am never merry when my brow Aches with the pressure of this laurel crown; And looks severe, and ...
Sonnet: Spirit Of Love (Dante Alighieri Poems)
I felt a spirit of love begin to stirWithin my heart, long time unfelt till then;And saw Love coming towards ...
Sirena (Michael Drayton Poem)
NEAR to the silver Trent SIRENA dwelleth; She to whom Nature lent All that excelleth; By which the Muses late ...
The Secret People (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that ...