THE WIDOWS’ TEARS; OR, DIRGE OF DORCAS (Robert Herrick Poems)
Come pity us, all ye who see Our harps hung on the willow-tree; Come pity us, ye passers-by, Who see ...
Poems about zeal (31 Poems)
At An Inn (Thomas Hardy Poem)
WHEN we as strangers sought Their catering care, Veiled smiles bespoke their thought Of what we were. They warmed as ...
A Confession To A Friend In Trouble (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Your troubles shrink not, though I feel them less Here, far away, than when I tarried near; I even smile ...
THE WARNING. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
WHEN sounds the trumpet at the Judgment Day, And when forever all things earthly die, We must a full and ...
RINALDO.* (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[This Cantata was written for Prince Frederick of Gotha, and set to music by Winter, the Prince singing the part ...
CELEBRITY. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
ON bridges small and bridges great Stands Nepomucks in ev'ry state, Of ...
A Boy in Church (Robert Graves Poem)
"Gabble-gabble,. brethren,. gabble-gabble!" My window frames forest and heather. I hardly hear the tuneful babble, Not knowing nor much caring ...
Out into the Street (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Taking God's message, his love the fact, the truth of our one true God out into the street, to the ...
The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
The Hymn (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, Praise ...
Alexander’s Feast; Or, The Power Of Music (John Dryden Poems)
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World Made Cunningly (John Donne Poem)
I am a little world made cunningly Of elements, and an angelic sprite; But black sin hath betrayed to endless ...
From The Ladies Defence (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
Sardis (William Cowper Poem)
(Revelations, iii. 1-6) "Write to Sardis," saith the Lord, "And write what He declares, He whose Spirit, and whose word, ...
Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq. (William Cowper Poem)
Thy country, Wilberforce, with just disdain, Hears thee, by cruel men and impious, call'd Fanatic, for thy zeal to loose ...
Jesus Hasting to Suffer (William Cowper Poem)
The Saviour, what a noble flame Was kindled in his breast, When hasting to Jerusalem, He march'd before the rest. ...
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 ...
Fit the Seventh ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Banker's Fate They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Christmass (John Clare Poem)
Christmass is come and every hearth Makes room to give him welcome now Een want will dry its tears in ...
Alexander VI Dines with the Cardinal of Capua (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
Next, then, the peacock, gilt With all its feathers. Look, what gorgeous dyes Flow in the eyes! And how deep, ...
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar (Robert Browning Poem)
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Hymn to Love (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
We are thine, O Love, being in thee and made of thee, As théou, Léove, were the déep thought And ...
Obermann Once More (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
113. A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. (Robert Burns Poems)
EXPECT na, sir, in this narration, A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication, To roose you up, an' ca' you guid, An' sprung ...
57. Holy Willie’s Prayer (Robert Burns Poems)
O THOU, who in the heavens does dwell, Who, as it pleases best Thysel', Sends ane to heaven an' ten ...
70. Epistle to the Rev. John M’Math (Robert Burns Poems)
WHILE at the stook the shearers cow'r To shun the bitter blaudin' show'r, Or in gulravage rinnin scowr To pass ...
75. Halloween (Robert Burns Poems)
UPON that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans 2 dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly ...