A Fragment (I) (Philip James Bailey Poems)
And Zetland where, betimes, some ruthless wightScaling the scaur, in sport the nests despoilsOf auk or gull; they, crowding clamorous ...
Poems about vainer (21 Poems)
Sarpedon’s Speech To Glaucus, In The Twelfth Book Of Homer (John Denham Poems)
Thus to Glaucus spakeDivine Sarpedon, since he did not findOthers, as great in place, as great in mind:--Above the rest ...
In Vain (Lucy Hamilton Hooper Poems)
Clasp closer, arms; press closer, lips, In last and vain carressing;For never more that pallid cheek Will crimson 'neath your pressing,For these ...
Evenstar (Robert Nichols Poems)
Evenstar, still evenstarIf this twilight thou dost shineOn a more unhappy head,On tears lonelier than mine,Vainer prayers and deepest sighs,Take, ...
Defiance (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Tho' the modern woman pantsTo disguise her gender,Yet no fear my spirits hauntsLest I should offend her.Vain it were indeed ...
The Candidate (George Crabbe Poems)
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO THE AUTHORS OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW.AN INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS OF THE AUTHOR TO HIS POEMS.Ye idler things, ...
Cinderella (Clara Doty Bates Poems)
Poor, pretty little thing she was, The sweetest-faced of girls, With eyes as blue as larkspurs, And ...
Easter Thoughts (Caroline Fry Poems)
IS'T joy to me that Jesus lives? That he,Whom mortals buried, burst the riven tomb,And came again to prove that ...
The Divine Mission (Alfred Gibbs Campbell Poems)
When on the earth had settled moral night,And darkness reigned where once shone Sinai's light;When superstitious rites usurped the placeWhere ...
God Wrapt Him (Alexander Anderson Poems)
God wrapt him in a world of purer light And clearer thought. His soulPulsed into being, gifted with far might. ...
Antagonists (Cale Young Rice Poems)
I Life flung to Art this voice, of mercy bare. "Fool, to my human earth come you, so free, To ...
The Question Whither (George Meredith Poems)
IWhen we have thrown off this old suit,So much in need of mending,To sink among the naked mute,Is that, think ...
Poets (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells That the wind sways above a ruined shrine. Vainer his voice in whom ...
The Vain King (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
Frances (Charlotte Bronte Poem)
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
Porphyria’s Lover (Robert Browning Poems)
The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And ...
M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
Content, To My Dearest Lucasia (Katherine Philips Poems)
Content, the false World's best disguise, The search and faction of the Wise, Is so abstruse and hid in night, ...
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 ...
Conrad Siever (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Not in that wasted garden Where bodies are drawn into grass That feeds no flocks, and into evergreens That bear ...
A Sea-Shore Grave. To M. J. L. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
By Sidney and Clifford Lanier. O wish that's vainer than the plash Of these wave-whimsies on the shore: "Give us ...