Verses Written on Her Death-Bed (Mary Monck Poems)
Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ,Thou pleasing source of all my earthly joy:Thou tend'rest husband, and thou best ...
Poems about wooes (21 Poems)
Evasion (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IWhy do I love you, who have never given My heart encouragement or any cause?Is it because, as earth is held ...
Written Under The Drawing Of A Flying Cupid (Joanna Baillie Poems)
TRUST not yon little winged boy,Tho' beauteous he appears,Each rosy smile he yields thee nowThou wilt repay with tears.Tho' bright ...
“Lovely maiden, sigh no longer,” (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
LOVELY maiden, sigh no longer,Wipe those trickling tears away-Will thy grief restore thy lover,When it could not make him stay.Waste ...
II.–Death (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THEN whence, O Death! thy dreariness? We knowThat every flower the breeze's flattering breathWooes to a blush, and love-like murmuring ...
“Now, while the rear-guard” (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
NOW, while the rear-guard of the flying year,Rugged December on the season's vergeMarshals his pale days to the mournful dirgeOf ...
Sonnet I. To the River Trent (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Once more, O Trent! along thy pebbly margeA pensive invalid, reduced and pale,From the close sick-room newly let at large,Wooes ...
Growth (Peter McArthur Poems)
THE dumb earth yearns for the expressive seed,The fruit fulfilled gives ear to her desireAnd she but conscious of her ...
If A Dark Wretch E’er Stray’d (Lady Caroline Lamb Poems)
If a dark wretch e'er stray'd, Worse than the first fell slayer,'Tis he that wooes a maid, To rifle and betray her!For ...
The Summary of Wisedome (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
The Dance To Death. Act III (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT III. A cell in the Wartburg Monastery. Enter PRIOR PEPPERCORN with the casket.PRIOR.So! Glittering shell where doubtless shines concealedAn ...
The Kalevala – Rune XIX (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
ILMARINEN'S WOOING.ILMARINEN, hero-blacksmith,The eternal metal-worker,Hastens forward to the court-roomOf the hostess of Pohyola,Of the master of the Northland,Hastens through the ...
The Dance To Death. Act II (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT II.--At Eisenach.SCENE I. A Room in the LANDGRAVE'S Palace. FREDERICK THE GRAVE and HENRY SCHNETZEN.LANDGRAVE.Who tells thee of my ...
Dauid And Beersheba (Francis Sabie Poems)
Svch time as Tytan with his fiery beames In highest degree, made duskish Leo sweat Field-tilling Swains driue home their ...
A Spirit’s Return (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
…….."This is to be a mortal,And seek the things beyond mortality!" ~ Manfred.Thy voice prevails — dear friend, my gentle ...
The Kalevala – Rune XI (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
LEMMINKAINEN'S LAMENT.This the time to sing of Ahti,Son of Lempo, Kaukomieli,Also known as Lemminkainen.Ahti was the king of islands,Grew amid ...
A Summer Evening’s Meditation (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
'TIS past! The sultry tyrant of the southHas spent his short-liv'd rage; more grateful hoursMove silent on; the skies no ...
Reflections on the Close of the Year; Being Also My Birth-day (Caroline Fry Poems)
'Tis past—and the recording angel bearsTo Heaven the record of another year—Another year of nature's and of mine!Nature has known ...
Woman (Fitz-Greene Halleck Poems)
LADY, although we have not met,And may not meet, beneath the sky;And whether thine are eyes of jet,Gray, or dark ...
The Restless Mind (Ann Steele Poems)
Active, busy, restless mindThat canst never be confin'd;Whither, whither dost thou stray?Seek a guide that knows the wayTo the fair, ...
Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude (Thomas Gray Poem)
Now the golden Morn aloft Waves her dew-bespangled wing, With vermeil cheek and whisper soft She wooes the tardy Spring: ...