The Author (Charles Churchill Poems)
Accursed the man, whom Fate ordains, in spite,And cruel parents teach, to read and write!What need of letters? wherefore should ...
Poems about trammels (21 Poems)
Tale XIV (George Crabbe Poems)
THE STRUGGLES OF CONSCIENCE.A serious Toyman in the city dwelt,Who much concern for his religion felt;Reading, he changed his tenets, ...
The Summary of Wisedome (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
Tired (Augusta Davies Webster Poems)
No not to-night, dear child; I cannot go; I'm busy, tired; they knew I should not come; you do not ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto I (Edward Benlowes Poems)
THE PRELIBATION To the SACRIFICE.ARGUMENT. Spes alit occiduas qui Sublunaribus haeret; Rivales JESUS non in Amore sinit. Quid mihi non ...
A Walk To Pamphy Linns (Alexander Anderson Poems)
We took a walk to Pamphy linns— Three other friends and I,Glad-hearted as when day begins With summer in the ...
Daphne (George Meredith Poems)
Musing on the fate of Daphne,Many feelings urged my breast,For the God so keen desiring,And the Nymph so deep distrest.Never ...
Aspiring Miss DeLaine (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(A CHEMICAL NARRATIVE)Certain facts which serve to explainThe physical charms of Miss Addie De Laine,Who, as the common reports obtain,Surpassed ...
Solomon Redivivus, 1886 (Constance Naden Poems)
WHAT am I? Ah, you know it, I am the modern Sage, Seer, savant, merchant, poet-- I am, in brief, ...
Undines Of Diverse Days (Arthur Shearly Cripps Poems)
IThe eyes of heaven were on her bent,In a rapture of loving wonderment,As her song with the nightingale's was blent:And ...
Ballad of Captious Critics (C J Dennis Poems)
Stuffed with tradition and trammels of yore, Cramped in their studies, they sneer and scoldAt the strange, new passions young ...
A Bird’s Call (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Over the upland fields, where free and strong The fresh hill-breezes swept,I heard a wild bird calling all day ...
Sense And Spirit (George Meredith Poems)
The senses loving Earth or well or illRavel yet more the riddle of our lot.The mind is in their trammels, ...
Wishes (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
I wish we could live as the flowers live, To breathe and to bloom in the summer and sun; To ...
The Story of Ung (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago, Ung, a maker of pictures, fashioned an image of snow. Fashioned ...
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 ...
February (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As Wroten bie the Gode Pri (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
In Virgynë the sweltrie sun gan sheene, And hotte upon the mees did caste his raie; The apple rodded from ...
From “Snow-Bound,” 11:1-40, 116-154 (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder ...
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 Fair Singer (Andrew Marvell Poems)
To make a final conquest of all me, Love did compose so sweet an Enemy, In whom both Beauties to ...