The Coming Day (Ernest Jones Poems)
THE midnight hour is passing-the sunrise is at handThe watchers on the mountain tops are looking o'er the land,The world ...
Poems about superstition (21 Poems)
Ode To Tranquillity (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
O! where, thou friend of mortals, say,Dost thou thy placid charms display?Thou with Innocence art join'd,Empress of the spotless mind.Thy ...
Enigma XXII. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
A CHAIN of hills in Asia seek,Where snow o'erspreads the summit's bleak, Throughout the live long year;While all the ...
Enigma XXX. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
LET a Parisian prelate lead the vanOf worthies now advancing on the stage;Surely 'twas his own mind the pious manPourtray'd, ...
Zoroaster (Charles Hamilton Musgrove Poems)
I. The light of a new day was on his brow, The faith of a great dawn was ...
Superstition (Ann Radcliffe Poems)
High mid Alverna's awful steeps, Eternal shades, and silence dwell,Save, when the gale resounding sweeps, Sad straings are faintly heard ...
On The Freedom Of The Press (Benjamin Franklin Poems)
While free from Force the Press remains, Virtue and Freedom chear our Plains, And Learning Largesses bestows, And keeps unlicens'd ...
Sonnet LXI (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Supposed to have been written in America. ILL-omen'd bird! whose cries portentous floatO'er yon savannah with the mournful wind;While, as ...
Let You Not Say Of Me When I Am Old (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Let you not say of me when I am old,In pretty worship of my withered handsForgetting who I am, and ...
The River Scamander (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
The Road to Roundabout (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Some say that Guy of Warwick The man that killed the Cow, And brake the mighty Boar alive Beyond the ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
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 ...
Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford (Thomas Warton Poems)
Ah, stay thy treacherous hand, forbear to trace Those faultless forms of elegance and grace! Ah, cease to spread the ...
Ainsi Va le Monde (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
Ode to Despair (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
TERRIFIC FIEND! thou Monster fell, Condemn'd in haunts profane to dwell, Why quit thy solitary Home, O'er wide Creation's paths ...
The Confessor, a Sanctified Tale (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
When SUPERSTITION rul'd the land And Priestcraft shackled Reason, At GODSTOW dwelt a goodly band, Grey monks they were, and ...
Eloisa to Abelard (Alexander Pope Poems)
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav'nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 03 (John Milton Poems)
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
Sonnets 09: Let You Not Say Of Me When I Am Old (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Let you not say of me when I am old, In pretty worship of my withered hands Forgetting who I ...