The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter II. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
The manner of a Sinner's divorce from the Law in a work of Humiliation, and his Marriage to the Lord ...
Atheism Poems (69 Poems)
The Convocation: A Poem (Richard Savage Poems)
When Vertue's Standard Ecclesiasticks bear,Their sacred Robe the noblest Minds revere.All to its Guidance do their Thoughts submit,But such who ...
Queen Mab: Part VII. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
SPIRIT 'I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met ...
Letter To Maria Gisborne (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
The spider spreads her webs, whether she beIn poet's tower, cellar, or barn, or tree;The silk-worm in the dark green ...
A Congratulatory Epistle From His Holiness The Pope To The Reverend Dr. Snape (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
To Thee, my Snape, in these Reforming Times,Grateful, we send our Blessing and our Rimes.Odd it may seem for Us, ...
The Progress Of Learning (John Denham Poems)
PREFACE.My early mistress, now my ancient Muse,That strong Circaean liquor cease t'infuse,Wherewith thou didst intoxicate my youth,Now stoop with disenchanted ...
The Tales Of The Blest–A Vision (Peter John Allan Poems)
I STOOD upon a mountain, lip to lipWith rosy morning, and her breathing cameRefreshingly upon my fever'd brow;I felt my ...
How Long (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery's gloomy ...
Letter From Boston (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Dear M---- By way of saving time,I'll do this letter up in rhyme,Whose slim stream through four pages flowsEre one is ...
The Temple of Friendship (Voltaire Poems)
Sacred to peace, within a wood's recess,A blest retreat, where courtiers never press,A temple stands, where art did never tryWith ...
Suum Cuique (John Henry Dryden Poems)
When lawless men their neighbours dispossess,The tenants they extirpate or oppress,And make rude havoc in the fruitful soil,Which the right ...
I Am An Atheist Who Says His Prayers (Karl Shapiro Poems)
I am an atheist who says his prayers.I am an anarchist, and a full professor at that. I take the ...
Atheism — (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Muse! Muse! where shall I begin the spacious feildTo tell what curses unbeleif doth yeild?Thou who dost daily feel his ...
Heart it is, not a brick or stone (Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Khan Poems)
Dil Hi To Hai Na Sang-o-KhistDard Se Bhar Na Aaye Kyon?Royenge Hum Hazaar BaarKoyee Hamein Sataye Kyon?Dair Nahin, Haram Nahin,Dar ...
LXXX. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Certainly this man is, thro' polish and good breeding, a human being;For he, who is not possessed of these, is ...
Religious Obsession — translation from Dharmamoha (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Who is obsessed by religionHe is blindHe only kills and gets killed.Even an atheist is blessedBecause he doesn't have the ...
The House-Top (Herman Melville Poems)
No sleep. The sultriness pervades the airAnd blinds the brain—a dense oppression, suchAs tawny tigers feel in matted shades,Vexing their ...
Written In Sickness (John Quincy Adams Poems)
Lord Of all worlds, let thanks and praiseTo thee forever fill my soul;With blessings thou hast crowned my daysMy heart, ...
Letter From Under The Sea (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
If you are my friend...Help me...to leave youOr if you are my lover...Help me...so I can be healed of you...If ...
Sonnett – XVII (James Russell Lowell Poems)
THE SAME CONTINUEDA poet cannot strive for despotism;His harp falls shattered; for it still must beThe instinct of great spirits ...
The Author (Charles Churchill Poems)
Accursed the man, whom Fate ordains, in spite,And cruel parents teach, to read and write!What need of letters? wherefore should ...
Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
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, ...
Epilogue (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
(THE GRAVEYARD OF SPOON RIVER. TWO VOICES ARE HEARD BEHIND A SCREEN DECORATED WITH DIABOLICAL AND ANGELIC FIGURES IN VARIOUS ...
The Sage Enamoured And The Honest Lady (George Meredith Poems)
IOne fairest of the ripe unwedded leftHer shadow on the Sage's path; he found,By common signs, that she had done ...
A Modern Apostle V (Constance Naden Poems)
SUMMER passed by, and Autumn; Winter came With grey cold days and black unpitying nights, And many children gathered round ...
Inebriety (George Crabbe Poems)
The mighty spirit, and its power, which stainsThe bloodless cheek, and vivifies the brains,I sing. Say, ye, its fiery vot'ries ...
Retrospect; (Charles Tompson Poems)
Or,A Review of my Scholastic Days"O, Festus Dies Hominis!"-O, the Joyful Day of Man!Why, (when the hours of school-day bliss ...
Lines on Dreams (Caroline Oliphant Poems)
Oh! Dreams are mysteries! The free born mindOwns not the fetters which the body wears,By sleep imposed. But starting from ...
Hellbound Train (Anonymous Americas Poems)
A Texas cowboy lay down on a barroom floor,Having drunk so much he could drink no more;So he fell asleep ...