The Old Shepherd And The Squire (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
DEEP in a solitary glen,Far from the cheerful haunts of men;By poverty opprest, and taughtThe lonely task of silent thought,A ...
Ambition Poems (387 Poems)
The Spellin’-Bee (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I NEVER shall furgit that night when father hitched up Dobbin,An' all us youngsters clambered in an' down the road ...
The Maid of Gerringong (Henry Kendall Poems)
Rolling through the gloomy gorges, comes the roaring southern blast,With a sound of torrents flying, like a routed army, past,And, ...
‘Ostler Joe (George Robert Sims Poems)
I stood at eve, as the sun went down, by a grave where a woman lies,Who lured men's souls to ...
The Old Man And The Boy (George W Sands Poems)
Father, I have dreamed a dream,When the rosy morning hourPoured its light on field and stream,Kindling nature with its pow'r;--O'er ...
From “To a Writer of the Day” (Langdon Elwyn Mitchell Poems)
TECHNIQUE Could but this be broughtInto your ken,-that the technique is thought!Escape from "Style," the notion men can useWords without thoughts,-so ...
Ambition And Content: A Fable (Mark Akenside Poems)
"Optat quietem." -Hor.While yet the world was young, and men were few,Nor lurking fraud, nor tyrant rapine knew,In virtue rude, ...
The Vanities Of Life (John Clare Poems)
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.--_Solomon_What are life's joys and gains? What pleasures crowd its ways,That man should take such pains To ...
Epistle To The Labouring Poor (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
All you who turn the sturdy soil, Or ply the loom with daily toil, And lowly on through life turmoil For scanty fare, Attend, ...
The Vanity Of Human Wishes (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
I walk'd and did a little Mole-hill viewFull peopled with a most industrious crewOf busie Ants, where each one labor's ...
To Natural Philosophers (Margaret Cavendish Poems)
If any Philosophers have written of these Subjects, as Imake no question, or doubt, but they have, of all thatNature ...
The Deformed Artist (Mary Gardiner Horsford Poems)
The twilight o'er Italia's sky Had spread a shadowy veil, And one by one the solemn stars Looked forth, serene and pale; As quietly ...
To Stella Visiting Me in My Sickness (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Pallas, observing Stella's witWas more than for her sex was fit,And that her beauty, soon or late,Might breed confusion in ...
To a Lady Before Marriage (Thomas Tickell Poems)
Oh! form'd by Nature, and refin'd by Art,With charms to win, and sense to fix the heart!By thousands sought, Clotilda, ...
Old Ham Fresh Drest (Michael Massey Robinson Poems)
OLD HAM FRESH DREST , &c. BOOTED and spurr'd,our gallant wightReturning late one winter's nightFrom toil, hard ware and duty,Took ...
An Epistle To Rheinhart Kleiner, Esq., Poet-Laureate, And Author Of “Another Endless Day” (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
KLEINER! in whose quick pulses wildly beat The youth's ambition, and the lyrist's heat, Whose questing spirit scorns our lowly flights, And dares ...
Ode To Dragon (Hannah More Poems)
Dragon! since lyrics are the mode,To thee I dedicate my Ode,And reason good I plead:Are those who cannot write, to ...
War (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurledDeath, fate, and ruin, on a bleeding world.See! on yon heath what countless victims ...
An Epistle To Lady Bowyer (Mary Jones Poems)
How much of paper's spoil d what floods of ink!And yet how few how very few can think!The knack of ...
Fit The Second – The Bellman’s Speech (Lewis Carroll Poems)
The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies—Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!Such solemnity, too! One could ...
War (Janetta Philipps Poems)
When fell Oppression o'er the earthHer iron sceptre waved with fearful sway,To thee, dread power of War, the fiend gave ...
Governor Joseph Trumbull, (Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Poems)
Died at Hartford, August 4th, 1861; and his wife, Mrs. ELIZA STORRSTRUMBULL, the night after his funeral.Death's shafts fly thick, ...
Elegy On Sophia Graham (Matilda Betham Poems)
WHO DIED JAN. 21, 1800. Sweet is the voice of Friendship to the ear, Sweet is Affection's mildly-beaming eye, Sweet the applause which ...
An Epistle To The Earl Of Burlington (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
How happy you! who varied joys pursue;And every hour presents you something new!Plans, schemes, and models, all Palladio's art,For six ...
Charles The Fifth’s Clocks (John Quincy Adams Poems)
With Charles the Fifth art thou acquainted, reader?Of Ferdinand and Isabel the grandson,In ages past of Europe's realms file leader,Among ...
The Orphan’s Dream Of fame (Mattie Griffith Browne Poems)
I LEARNED within myself to live. I saw,E'en in my childhood, that the heart's bright budsWithered and faded at the ...
Contemplation (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
'They are all up--the innumerable stars-- And hold their place in heaven. My eyes have been Searching the pearly depths through which ...
Epistle From Mrs. Yonge To Her Husband (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
Think not this paper comes with vain pretenseTo move your pity, or to mourn th'offense.Too well I know that hard ...
The Table Of Emerald (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
That 'Emerald Green of the Pyramid'-- Were I where it is laid, I'd ask no king for his heavy crown, As its hidden ...
Adelaide Ironside (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Knowest thou now, O Love! Oh pure from the death of thy summer of sweetness!Seest thou now, O new-born Delight ...