A Ballad Of The Eighteenth Century (Anne Hunter Poems)
'TWAS at the time the moon's broad shieldShone 'midst the vaulted skies,While trembling round, in regal state,The starry myriads rise.Her ...
Poems about tortur (21 Poems)
The Maniac (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
"WILD thro' the desert woods Alzira flew! Her robe disorder'd hung; Wet were her locks from midnight's chilly dew, Her ...
A Sketch (Eliza Acton Poems)
Where is he now?—that mightiest one, whose nameWas still the spell-word of the fray,—the soundWhich led his legions on untir'd, ...
Love, Death, And Reputation (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Reputation, Love, and Death,(The Last all Bones, the First all Breath, The Midd'st compos'd of Restless Fire)From each other wou'd ...
Life Is Our Dictionary.–Emerson (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
DEEM not thy labours or thy sufferings hard; The weary traveller makes a tuneless bard. Wouldst thou to raise and ...
On The Death Of A Young Gentleman, In The Eighth Year Of His Life (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
DEAR suffering Friend, what anguish rends thy heart!Could Pity's voice but soothe thy pungent grief!Pierced with Affliction's keenest-pointed dart,What words ...
On The Death Of My Friend, Mrs. Robinson (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
AND hath thy soul forsook her suffering clay?Doth the chill tomb enwrap thy grief-worn frame?Closed are those eyes which beam'd ...
Madness (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
OH, Madness! worst of ev'ry ill!'Twere mercy more the wretch to kill, Than thou should'st give the blow:Come racking ...
On The Death Of Elizabeth Scott (David John Scott Poems)
Ransom'd spirit, spread thy wings,Leave thy broken house of clay;Soar from earth and earthly things,To the realms of endless day.Weary ...
Revenge (Eliza Acton Poems)
I would not, in the wildness of revenge,Give poison to mine enemy, nor strikeMy dagger to his heart, but I ...
Endymion: Book IV (John Keats Poem)
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
Affliction (IV) (George Herbert Poem)
Broken in pieces all asunder, Lord, hunt me not, A thing forgot, Once a poor creature, now a wonder, A ...
To M. S. G. (Lord Byron Poem)
Whene'er I view those lips of thine, Their hue invites my fervent kiss; Yet, I forego that bliss divine, Alas! ...
242. The Poet’s Progress (Robert Burns Poem)
THOU, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain. The peopled fold thy kindly care have found, ...
351. Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry (Robert Burns Poems)
LATE crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg, About to beg a pass for leave to beg; Dull, listless, ...
138. Address to the Toothache (Robert Burns Poems)
MY curse upon your venom'd stang, That shoots my tortur'd gums alang, An' thro' my lug gies mony a twang, ...
Poems On The Slave Trade – Sonnet V (Robert Southey Poems)
Did then the bold Slave rear at last the Sword Of Vengeance? drench'd he deep its thirsty blade In the ...
The Pig (Christopher Smart Poems)
In ev'ry age, and each profession, Men err the most by prepossession; But when the thing is clearly shown, And ...
Golfre, Gothic Swiss Tale (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
I. Where freezing wastes of dazzl'ing Snow O'er LEMAN'S Lake rose, tow'ring; The BARON GOLFRE'S Castle strong Was seen, the ...
A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Soul O Who shall, from this Dungeon, raise A Soul inslav'd so many wayes? With bolts of Bones, that fetter'd ...
A Poem Upon The Death Of O.C. (Andrew Marvell Poems)
That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell's head, and numbred ev'ry hair, Now in its self (the ...