Festus – XLII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
The soul--state, intermediate 'twixt earth's lifeAnd the world future, unconceived till seen,We search with curious awe; mark dormant death;Nor, joyless, ...
Poems about worser (19 Poems)
A Story Of Doom: Book II. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Now ere the sunrise, while the morning starHung yet behind the pine bough, woke and prayedThe world's great shipwright, and ...
ASTR (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Now with a general peace the world was blest,While ours, a world divided from the rest,A dreadful quiet felt, and ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book II – Part 05 – Infinite Worlds (Lucretius Poems)
Once more, we all from seed celestial spring,To all is that same father, from whom earth,The fostering mother, as she ...
Argentile and Curan. – Albion’s England (excerpt) (William Warner Poems)
The Brutons thus departed hence, seven kingdoms here begun,--Where diversely in divers broils the Saxons lost and won,--King Edel and ...
The Rivals; Or The Showman’s Ruse (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A TRAGI-COMEDY, IN ONE ACT. PERSONS REPRESENTED. BILLY MILLER ) The Rivals JOHNNY WILLIAMS ) TOMMY WELLS Conspirator TIME--Noon: SCENE--Country Town--Rear-view of the Miller Mansion, showing Barn, with practical loft-window opening ...
Sotweed redivivus (Benjamin Colman Poems)
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
King John And The Abbot Of Canterbury (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
An ancient story Ile tell you anon Of a notable prince, that was called King John;And he ruled England with ...
VIII: Song: To Sicknesse (Ben Jonson Poems)
Why, Disease, dost thou molestLadies? and of them the best?Do not men, ynow of ritesTo thy altars, by their nightsSpent ...
Ballad XIV (Christine de Pizan Poems)
Ah, Death, Death, Death, to thee I make my prayer ! Come, rend me from this dolorous world apart ! ...
Her Present Aunswer Againe To Him (Bartholomew Young Poems)
Me thinks thou tak'st the worser way, (Enamoured Sheepheard) and in vaineThat thou wilt seeke thine own decay, ...
Route Marchin’ (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains, A little front o' Christmas-time an' just be'ind the Rains; Ho! get ...
Safety-Clutch (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
Once I seen a human ruin In a elevator-well. And his members was bestrewin' All the place where he had ...
34. Remorse: A Fragment (Robert Burns Poems)
OF all the numerous ills that hurt our peace, That press the soul, or wring the mind with anguish Beyond ...
Sonnet 144: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair (William Shakespeare Poems)
Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is ...
Sonnet CXLIV (William Shakespeare Poems)
Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is ...
A Poem Upon The Death Of O.C. (Andrew Marvell Poems)
That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell's head, and numbred ev'ry hair, Now in its self (the ...
The Death of Cromwell (Andrew Marvell Poems)
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Sometimes I dip my pen and find the bottle full of fire, The salamanders flying forth I cannot but admire. ...