Sonnet XXXII: Our Flood’s-Quee (Michael Drayton Poems)
Our flood's-queen Thames for ships and swans is crown'd,And stately Severn for her shore is prais'd,The crystal Trent for fords ...
Poems about vaunts (21 Poems)
Partial Fame (Matthew Prior Poems)
The sturdy man, if he in love obtains,In open pomp and triumph reigns:The subtle woman, if she should succeed,Disowns the ...
The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
The Dunciad: Book II. (Alexander Pope Poems)
High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shoneHenley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne,Or that where on her Curlls the ...
Tale XVIII (George Crabbe Poems)
THE WAGER.Counter and Clubb were men in trade, whose pains,Credit, and prudence, brought them constant gains;Partners and punctual, every friend ...
The Walk (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly ...
Beowulf (Episode 09) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
ME thus often the evil monstersthronging threatened. With thrust of my sword,the darling, I dealt them due return!Nowise had they ...
Beowulf (Episode 13) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
MANY at morning, as men have told me,warriors gathered the gift-hall round,folk-leaders faring from far and near,o'er wide-stretch ed ways, ...
Hydon Hill (Chauncey Hare Townsend Poems)
Now on the summit rapt I stand,The centre of the circling land.See, around, above, below,What beauties blaze, what colors glow!Blending, ...
Beowulf (Episode 26) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: —"Lo, we seafarers say our will,far-come men, that we fain would seekHygelac now. We here ...
Sonnet CLXIII: “O for my sake do you with fortune chide” (George Henry Boker Poems)
O for my sake do you with fortune chide-- I almost took sad Shakespeare's thought for mine, So closely fits ...
Sonnet CLVI: “Out on the heart that has not faith enough” (George Henry Boker Poems)
Out on the heart that has not faith enough To recognize another's constancy; That vaunts its arrogant fidelity, And scorns ...
Sonnet XXXII: Our Flood’s-Queen Thames (Michael Drayton Poems)
Our flood's-queen Thames for ships and swans is crown'd, And stately Severn for her shore is prais'd, The crystal Trent ...
Fears In Solitude (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
Goliath Of Gath (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
SAMUEL, Chap. xvii. YE martial pow'rs, and all ye tuneful nine, Inspire my song, and aid my high design. The ...
The Walk (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on! ...
To The One Of Fictive Music (Wallace Stevens Poems)
Sister and mother and diviner love, And of the sisterhood of the living dead Most near, most clear, and of ...
The Negro Girl (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
I. Dark was the dawn, and o'er the deep The boist'rous whirlwinds blew; The Sea-bird wheel'd its circling sweep, And ...
Paradise Regained: The First Book (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...