The Great God Guff (C J Dennis Poems)
There was once a Simple People - (you, of course, will understandThis is just a little fable of a non-existent ...
Poems about superstitious (21 Poems)
Poems (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
Musing on the changes that are observable in many of the scenes we contemplate, the circumstance of the spot on ...
The Legend of La Brea (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Down beside the loathly Pitch Lake,In the stately Morichal,Sat an ancient Spanish Indian,Peering through the columns tall.Watching vainly for the ...
The Age of Reason (C J Dennis Poems)
Whene'er I read some savage tale Of punishment devisedBy tyrants in an olden day, When serfs were victimised,I reverently tell ...
The Divine Mission (Alfred Gibbs Campbell Poems)
When on the earth had settled moral night,And darkness reigned where once shone Sinai's light;When superstitious rites usurped the placeWhere ...
How Canst Thou Doubt? (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
ALAS! for that voice which the envoy of Heaven, In accents celestial, pour'd sweet on the ear,That when the ...
The Boy And The Skylark (Charles Lamb Poems)
A FABLE."A wicked action fear to do,When you are by yourself; for though You think you can conceal it,A little ...
A Quest for Tophet (C J Dennis Poems)
'Twas a hell of a Hell they glimpsed, my son, In superstitious daysWhen cultured man had scarce begun To ...
Ghost That Wouldn’t Lie Still (C J Dennis Poems)
Once have we bashed him on the head; Twice have we stabbed him deep;Thrice have we left him there for ...
CEREMONY UPON CANDLEMAS EVE (Robert Herrick Poem)
Down with the rosemary, and so Down with the bays and misletoe; Down with the holly, ivy, all Wherewith ye ...
June (Denise Duhamel Poem)
The blue forest, chilled and blue, like the lips of the dead if the lips were gone. The year has ...
Religio Laici (John Dryden Poem)
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
To disappear enhances — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
To disappear enhances -- The Man that runs away Is tinctured for an instant With Immortality But yesterday a Vagrant ...
An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John (Thomas Carew Poems)
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
Fears In Solitude (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
November (John Clare Poem)
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face Beamless ...
Christmass (John Clare Poem)
Christmass is come and every hearth Makes room to give him welcome now Een want will dry its tears in ...
A Dialogue between Old England and New (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Father Riley’s Horse (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog By the troopers of the upper Murray side, ...
Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...