Pictures From Appledore (James Russell Lowell Poems)
IA heap of bare and splintery cragsTumbled about by lightning and frost,With rifts and chasms and storm-bleached jags,That wait and ...
Poems about unsocial (17 Poems)
The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto IV (Richard Savage Poems)
Still o'er my mind wild Fancy holds her sway,Still on strange visionary land I stray.Now scenes crowd thick! now indistinct ...
The Grave (excerpt) (Robert Blair Poems)
While some affect the sun, and some the shade.Some flee the city, some the hermitage;Their aims as various, as the ...
The Kitten (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WANTON droll, whose harmless playBeguiles the rustic's closing day,When, drawn the evening fire about,Sit aged crone and thoughtless lout,And child ...
To A Fly, Taken Out Of A Punch Bowl (John Wolcot Poems)
Ah! poor intoxicated little knave,Now senseless, floating on the fragrant wave; Why not content the cakes alone to munch?Dearly thou pay'st ...
Epilogue To The Theatrical Presentation At Strawberry Hill (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHILE fogs along the Thames' damp margin creep,And cold winds through his leafless willows sweep;And fairy elves, whose summer sport ...
The Borough. Letter XXIV: Schools (George Crabbe Poems)
To every class we have a School assign'd,Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:Yet one there is, that ...
Tale VI (George Crabbe Poems)
THE FRANK COURTSHIP.Grave Jonas Kindred, Sybil Kindred's sire,Was six feet high, and look'd six inches higher;Erect, morose, determined, solemn, slow,Who ...
The Borough. Letter XVI: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Benlow (George Crabbe Poems)
SEE! yonder badgeman with that glowing face,A meteor shining in this sober place!Vast sums were paid, and many years were ...
The Birth Of Flattery (George Crabbe Poems)
Muse of my Spenser, who so well could singThe passions all, their bearings and their ties;Who could in view those ...
Corsica (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
——— A manly race Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave; Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard To hold a ...
In the Manner of Spenser (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
So long estranged from every Muse's lyre,And groveling in the tangled net of Care;What powerful breath shall kindle up that ...
Ode To Benevolence (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
NYMPH of the joy-diffusing smile,The soft, endearing mien;Whose looks the heaviest grief beguile,And chear the gloomiest scene;May ev'ry Muse her ...
Trying To Write (Elizabeth Smart Poems)
That day i finished A small piece For an obscure magazine I popped it in the box And such a ...
A Bonus (Elizabeth Smart Poems)
That day i finished A small piece For an obscure magazine I popped it in the box And such a ...
Hymn To The Penates (Robert Southey Poems)
Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain Ere PAEAN! on thy temple's ruined wall I hang the silent ...
My Tails (Robert William Service Poems)
I haven't worn my evening dress For nearly twenty years; Oh I'm unsocial, I confess, A hermit, it appears. So ...