Olympus (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Through female subtlety intense,Or the good luck of innocence,Or both, my Wife, with whom I planTo pass calm evenings when ...
Coventry Patmore Poems (38 Poems)
An Idyll (Coventry Patmore Poems)
'And even our women,' lastly grumbles Ben,'Leaving their nature, dress and talk like men!'A damsel, as our train stops at ...
Alexander And Lycon (Coventry Patmore Poems)
'What, no crown won,These two whole years,By man of fortitude beyond his peers,In Thrace or Macedon?''No, none.But what deep trouble ...
The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto VI. (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Preludes.I Perfect Love rare Most rare is still most noble found, ...
The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto IV. (Coventry Patmore Poems)
PreludesI The Rose of the World Lo, when the Lord made North and ...
The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto V. (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Preludes.I The Comparison Where she succeeds with cloudless brow, ...
The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto III. (Coventry Patmore Poems)
PreludesI The Lover He meets, by heavenly chance express, ...
The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto IX. (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Preludes.I The Wife's Tragedy Man must be pleased; but him to please ...
The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto I. (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Preludes.I The Impossibility Lo, Love's obey'd by all. 'Tis right ...
The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto II. (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Preludes.I The Paragon When I behold the skies aloft ...
Amelia (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Whene'er mine eyes do my Amelia greet It is with such emotion ...
L’allegro (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Felicity! Who ope'st to none that knocks, yet, laughing weak, ...
King Cophetua The First (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Said Jove within himself one day, 'I'll make me a mistress out of clay! ...
A London F?te (Coventry Patmore Poems)
All night fell hammers, shock on shock; With echoes Newgate's granite clang'd: ...
A Dream (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Amid the mystic fields of Love I wander'd, and beheld a grove. ...
Night And Sleep (Coventry Patmore Poems)
How strange at night to wake And watch, while others sleep, ...
The Circles (Coventry Patmore Poems)
'Within yon world-wide cirque of war What's hidden which they fight so for?' ...
The Wedding Sermon (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Now, while she's changing, said the Dean, "Her bridal for her traveling dress, I'll preach allegiance to your queen! Preaching's ...
Eros (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Bright thro' the valley gallops the brooklet; Over the welkin travels the cloud; ...
Semele (Coventry Patmore Poems)
No praise to me! My joy 'twas to be nothing but the glass ...
A Retrospect (Coventry Patmore Poems)
I, trusting that the truly sweet Would still be sweetly found the true, ...
The After-Glow (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Suspicion's playful counterfeitBegot your question strange:The only thing that I forgetIs that there's any change.Did that long blight which fell ...
Ma Belle (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Farewell, dear Heart! Since needs it must I go, Dear Heart, farewell! ...
The Year (Coventry Patmore Poems)
The crocus, while the days are dark,Unfolds its saffron sheen;At April's touch the crudest barkDiscovers gems of green.Then sleep the ...
Magna Est Veritas [great is the truth] (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Here, in this little Bay, Full of tumultuous life and great repose, Where, twice a day, The purposeless, gay ocean ...
Love’s Reality (Coventry Patmore Poems)
I walk, I trust, with open eyes; I've travelled half my worldly course; And in the way behind me lies ...
Magna Est Veritas (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Here, in this little Bay, Full of tumultuous life and great repose, Where, twice a day, The purposeless, gay ocean ...
The Foreign Land (Coventry Patmore Poems)
A woman is a foreign land, Of which, though there he settle young, A man will ne'er quite understand The ...
The Married Lover (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Why, having won her, do I woo? Because her spirit's vestal grace Provokes me always to pursue, But, spirit-like, eludes ...
The Revelation (Coventry Patmore Poems)
An idle poet, here and there, Looks around him; but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller ...