A Winter Day (Joanna Baillie Poems)
The cock, warm roosting 'midst his feather'd dames,Now lifts his beak and snuffs the morning air,Stretches his neck and claps ...
Poems about unrewarded (17 Poems)
The Authors: A Satire (Richard Savage Poems)
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
British Georgics. July (James Grahame Poems)
No more at dewy dawn, or setting sun,The blackbird's song floats mellow down the dale;Mute is the lark, or soars ...
Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,To welcome home mankind's mysterious friendWine, true begetter of all arts that be;Wine, privilege of ...
The First Hymn Of Callimachus. To Jupiter (Matthew Prior Poems)
While we to Jove select the holy victimWhom apter shall we sing than Jove himself,The god for ever great, for ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 02 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XIBut when the angry king discovered notWhat guilty hand this sacrilege had wrought,His ireful courage boiled in vengeance hotAgainst the ...
An Eastern Legend (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
Who in Bagdad knows not Jaffar, the Sun of the Universe?One day, many years ago (he was yet a youth), ...
Siste, Viator! (John Bowring Poems)
Look around thee—see decayOn her wing of darkness, sweepingEarth's proud monuments away—See the muse of history weepingO'er the ruins time ...
Peace And Pain (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
THE day and night are symbols of creation,And each has part in all that God has made;There is no ill ...
Saville In Trouble (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Sing muse! of Saville and the direful dayWhen beauty fell, to ruthless hands a prey;And life a sacrifice to savage ...
The Quest Of The Queen (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
All on a windy morn in lusty March,Rode Godwin hawking thro' his father's woodsAnd singing as he rode: stalwart was ...
The Modern Climber (E W Bowling Poems)
Year after year, as Summer suns come round, Upon the Calais packet am I found: Thence to Geneva hurried by ...
Out Of Bion. Love’s Tutor. (Daniel Baker Poems)
As underdeath an Oak one Day Free from unpeaceful Thoughts I lay A gentle Slumber o'er my head His downy ...
Fata Morgana (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
So I at last attainAll I have longed to gain;The fairy fleeting shade,The bliss so long delayed, —Now stress and ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
Press On (Calvin Coolidge Poem)
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men ...