Eleonora (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
O THOU ! to whom each thought unchanging tends,To thee these lines a wretched captive sends.In vain did love our ...
Poems about unwary (21 Poems)
The Kelly Gang (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hearThe news that's going round,On the head of bold Ned KellyThey have placed two ...
Periander (George Meredith Poems)
IHow died Melissa none dares shape in words.A woman who is wife despotic lordsCount faggot at the question, Shall she ...
The Struggle (Donald Marquis Poems)
I HAVE been down in a dark valley; I have been groping through a deep gorge; Far above, the lips ...
The Minglers (C J Dennis Poems)
A sight that gives me much distress Is George without his trousers,Garbed, scantily, in bathing dress Proscribed by saintly Wowsers,And ...
February (Arthur Christopher Benson Poems)
February, bitter February,Month of hope withheld and promise vain,Drenching, under fickle smiles, the unwaryEarth with devastating rain.Ere the limes with ...
Deirdre (Edith Mirick Poems)
She did not trail her grief in the dustLike a bedraggled scarfTo tangle at the hearts of unwary passers.Grief sat ...
A Pastoral Dialogue (Melibæus, Alcippe, Asteria, Licida, Alcimedon, and Amira. ) (Anne Killigrew Poem)
Melibæus. WElcome fair Nymphs, most welcome to this shade, Distemp'ring Heats do now the Plains invade: But you may sit, ...
From The First Act Of The Aminta Of Tasso (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
It seldom snowed – Part III (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It seldom snowed they said, and they were nearly right. In all of nine eventful seasons crystal white on average ...
Afflictions Sanctified by the Word (William Cowper Poem)
Oh how I love Thy holy Word, Thy gracious covenant, O Lord! It guides me in the peaceful way; I ...
415. Song-The last time I cam o’er the Moor (Robert Burns Poems)
THE LAST time I came o'er the moor, And left Maria's dwelling, What throes, what tortures passing cure, Were in ...
494. Song-Farewell thou stream that winding flows (Robert Burns Poem)
FAREWELL, thou stream that winding flows Around Eliza's dwelling; O mem'ry! spare the cruel thoes Within my bosom swelling. Condemn'd ...
Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford (Thomas Warton Poems)
Ah, stay thy treacherous hand, forbear to trace Those faultless forms of elegance and grace! Ah, cease to spread the ...
One Of Twain (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
One of twain, twin-born with flowers that waken, Now hath passed from sense of sun and rain: Wind from off ...
The Fortune-Teller, a Gypsy Tale (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
LUBIN and KATE, as gossips tell, Were Lovers many a day; LUBIN the damsel lov'd so well, That folks pretend ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...