Our Country (John Turvill Adams Poems)
Sweetly the voice of long departed timeComes o'er the soul, and in its whispers bringsVisions of glory, mighty deeds sublime,And ...
Poems about subsistence (21 Poems)
Oh! Mr. Malthus! (Stephen Leacock Poems)
'Mother, Mother, here comes Malthus,Mother, hold me tight!Look! It's Mr. Malthus, Mother!Hide me out of sight.'This was the cry of ...
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
the spiritual, Platonic old England .S. T. COLERIDGE, Anima Poetae'Your situation', said Coningsby, looking up the green and silent valley, ...
Barbarians. (Robert Crawford Poems)
As the crinoid star-fish to the sea-baseBy his stem fixed draws bare subsistence inHis straitened sphere, as in the sunless ...
Tale II (George Crabbe Poems)
THE PARTING HOUR.Minutely trace man's life; year after year,Through all his days let all his deeds appear,And then though some ...
Tale I (George Crabbe Poems)
THE DUMB ORATORS; OR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY.That all men would be cowards if they dare,Some men we know have ...
The Apology (Charles Churchill Poems)
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
Tale XVII (George Crabbe Poems)
RESENTMENT.Females there are of unsuspicious mind,Easy and soft and credulous and kind;Who, when offended for the twentieth time,Will hear the ...
The Ghost – Book I (Charles Churchill Poems)
With eager search to dart the soul,Curiously vain, from pole to pole,And from the planets' wandering spheresTo extort the number ...
William And Mira (Christian Milne Poems)
A TALE. ON her lov'd infant, as it sleeping lies,Ah! little does the tender mother know,While fondly gazing with delighted ...
To The Comic Spirit (George Meredith Poems)
Sword of Common Sense! -Our surest gift: the sacred chainOf man to man: firm earth for trustIn structures vowed to ...
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 Hall Of Justice (George Crabbe Poems)
Part IMAGISTRATE, VAGRANT, CONSTABLE, &c. VAGRANT.Take, take away thy barbarous hand,And let me to thy ...
The Appeal Of The Chorus (Aristophanes Poems)
If A veteran author had wished to engage Our assistance to-day, for a speech from the stage, We ...
The Grave And The Tree (Arthur Weir Poems)
Of double depth they made her grave, And covered it with massive stone,And there, where silvery birches wave, They left ...
On Victoria’s Jubilee (Ernest George Henty Poems)
Just fifty years ago, this land in slumber lay;The native chased the wild dingo, which roamed from day to dayO'er ...
A PANEGYRIC TO SIR LEWIS PEMBERTON (Robert Herrick Poem)
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
Cleon (Robert Browning Poem)
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
Cows In Art Class (Charles Bukowski Poems)
good weather is like good women- it doesn't always happen and when it does it doesn't always last. man is ...
Snowbound, a Winter Idyl (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
The Dream Of Wearing Shorts Forever (Les Murray Poems)
To go home and wear shorts forever in the enormous paddocks, in that warm climate, adding a sweater when winter ...