Prologue To The University Of Oxford, 1674. (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Poets, your subjects have their parts assign'dTo unbend, and to divert their sovereign's mind:When tired with following nature, you think ...
Poems about unbend (21 Poems)
To the Muses (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
AVAUNT ! ye Nine; no more I sue For your capricious aid,Since you could thus its power deny To an invoking maid.So ...
An Extempore Invitation To The Earl Of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer (Matthew Prior Poems)
My Lord,Our weekly friends to-morrow meetAt Matthew's palace in Duke-street,To try for once if they can dineOn bacon-ham and mutton-chine.If, ...
Impromptu – VII (Mrs. Walter Spencer Poems)
IN ANSWER TO THE TOO PARTIAL OPINION OF AFRIEND.NO , flatterer, no! ah ne'er on me, dear friend,Will Poesy the ...
Louisa: A Poetical Novel. Fourth Epsitle. (Anna Seward Poems)
LOUISATOEMMA. APRIL 25th, 1781. OH! my lov'd EMMA , I have much ...
Tale XV (George Crabbe Poems)
ADVICE; OR THE 'SQUIRE AND THE PRIEST.A wealthy Lord of far-extended landHad all that pleased him placed at his command;Widow'd ...
The Wish (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
Our English Homer in his Rhimes,Asserts our Notions change with Times;This Maxim granted, makes me doubt,When some few Years are ...
Cameron’s Stone (Alexander Anderson Poems)
A pilgrim of the wilds to-day, I lie by Cameron's stone,And let my fancy roam and play, And take sweet ...
Ocean: An Ode. Concluding With A Wish. (Edward Young Poems)
Sweet rural scene Of flocks and green! At careless ease my limbs are spread; All nature still, But yonder rill; ...
Turkey-Cock (D H Lawrence Poems)
YOU ruffled black blossom,You glossy dark wind.Your sort of gorgeousness,Dark and lustrousAnd skinny repulsiveAnd poppy-glossy,Is the gorgeousness that evokes my ...
Paul Preaching At Athens (Anne C Lynch Poems)
Greece! hear that joyful sound,A stranger's voice upon thy sacred hill;Whose tones shall bid the slumbering nations round, ...
Rural & Friendly Pleasures (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
A TRUCE with life's tumultuous cares,Fled from the world's entangling snares,Let rural joys the mind unbend:Where sportive Health delighted roves,Mid ...
The Crosse (George Herbert Poems)
What is this strange and uncouth thingTo make me sigh, and seek, and faint, and die,Untill I ...
Bad Days (Boris Pasternak Poems)
When Passion week started and JesusCame down to the city, that dayHosannahs burst out at his entryAnd palm leaves were ...
On Brighton (Elizabeth Beverley Poems)
"Hail, favor'd spot, divine retreat, Sweet refuge from sol's scorching heat; Here, balmy zephyrs waft their wealth, And impregnate each ...
The Parting (Christian Milne Poems)
DEAR partner of my soul, adieu!I go! and see, the ship's in view--The streamers flutt'ring play,The hardy crew unbend each ...
Do not fret, do not cry, do not tax… (Boris Pasternak Poems)
Do not fret, do not cry, do not taxYour last strength, and your heart do not torture.You're alive, you're inside ...
The Phoenix (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
A Female Friend advis'd a Swain (Whose Heart she wish'd at ease) Make Love thy Pleasure, not thy Pain, Nor ...
Heather (Ezra Pound Poems)
The black panther treads at my side,And above my fingersThere float the petal-like flames.The milk-white girlsUnbend from the holly-trees,And their ...
The Progress Of Wit (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
The Phoenix (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Female Friend advis'd a Swain (Whose Heart she wish'd at ease) Make Love thy Pleasure, not thy Pain, Nor ...