Mrs. Myrick’s Lecture (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
You know, dear, that this vicious world is ever prone to see,Most glaring faults and blemishes, in evey purity;And thus, ...
Characters Poems (296 Poems)
On The Medusa Of Leonardo da Vinci In The Florentine Gallery (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky,Upon the cloudy mountain-peak supine;Below, far lands are seen tremblingly;Its horror and its beauty ...
To The Hon. Edward Howard, On ‘The British Princes’ (John Denham Poems)
What mighty gale hath raised a flight so strong,So high above all vulgar eyes, so long?One single rapture scarce itself ...
To The Portrait Of Napoleon, As First Consul (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Brilliant as Lucifer, Son of the Morning,Rises this reincarnation of Mars!Youth at its apogee, precedent scorning,Genius ascending its path toward ...
Liberty Or Death (James Madison Bell Poems)
Virginius, the Roman Father, With beating heart, though brave,Beheld his fair Virginia doomed, To be a tyrant's slave.Despair had gather'd on his ...
A Gallery To The Temple. Infirmitye (Ralph Knevet Poems)
I want a volubility of tongue, To trafficke for applause; Although I know the lawes And rights of rhetoricke: I am not strung For ...
Perfect Character (Hattie Howard Poems)
He lives but half who never stood By the grave of one held dear, And out of the deep, dark loneliness Of a ...
Christmas At The Round Table (John Hookham Frere Poems)
The great King Arthur made a royal feast,And held his Royal Christmas at Carlisle,And thither came the vassals, most and ...
Shew Us Thy Glory (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory."—Exodus xxxiii. 18.Shew us thy glory, Lord: From Sinai's mount of flame,With ...
Tears At The Grave Of Sir Albertus Morton (Who Was Buried At Southampton) Wept By Sir H. Wotton. (Sir Henry Wotton Poems)
Silence (in truth) would speak my sorrow best,For, deepest wounds can least their feelings tell;Yet, let me borrow from mine ...
Writing (Howard Nemerov Poems)
The cursive crawl, the squared-off charactersthese by themselves delight, even withouta meaning, in a foreign language, inChinese, for instance, or ...
Ang tunay na lalaki (The Real Man) Stalks in the Streets of New York (Nick Carbo Poems)
Looking to harvest what makes him happy.The AA meetings have thrownhim into iconoclastic jousts with Titansand Gorgons with glowing snake ...
The intellect and the heart (Muhammad Iqbal Poems)
One day Intellect said to the heart"A guide to the misguided ones I amBeing on the earth I reach up ...
Americanisation (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
Britannia needs no Boulevards,No spaces wide and gay:Her march was through the crooked streetsAlong the narrow way.Nor looks she where, ...
Ode V: On Love Of Praise (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Of all the springs within the mindWhich prompt her steps in fortune's maze,From none more pleasing aid we findThan from ...
Belshazzar (John Newton Poems)
Poor sinners! little do they thinkWith whom they have to do!But stand securely on the brinkOf everlasting woe.Belshazzar thus, profanely ...
Exhortation To Be Temperate (John Pierpont Poems)
Oh! what are the pangs that result from excess,In quaffing the juice of the vine;Tho' the bosom may feel them ...
Carving A Name (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
I wrote my name upon the sand, And trusted it would stand for aye;But, soon, alas! the refluent sea Had washed my ...
The White Rabbit’s Verses (Lewis Carroll Poems)
They told me you had been to her,And mentioned me to him;She gave me a good character,But said I could ...
On Revisiting Harrow (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Here once engaged the stranger's view Young Friendship's record simply traced;Few were her words; but yet, though few, Resentment's hand the line ...
Direction (Jewell Miller Poems)
How shall it be when I go hence? Shall IBear forth the tablets of my day incisedBy my own hand,-- in ...
Dream Song 71: Spellbound held subtle Henry all his four (John Berryman Poems)
Spellbound held subtle Henry all his fourhearers in the racket of the marketwith ancient signs, infamous characters,new rythms. On the ...
Woman Waiting (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
Over the gray, massed blunder of her facelight hung crudely and apologetic sightcrossed in a hurry. Asking very little,her eyes ...
The Flight Of Youth (Hartley Coleridge Poems)
YOUTH, thou art fled, — but where are all the charmsWhich, though with thee they came, and passed with thee,Should ...
To Mr. Rose; (Mary Barber Poems)
Believe me, Rose, howe'er this Con. may please,With flowing Numbers, and an easy Phrase;With Wit, with Humour, and with ev'ry ...
“The passions of a child attend his dreams” (Max Eastman Poems)
The passions of a child attend his dreams.He lives, loves, hopes, remembers, is forlorn,For legendary creatures, whom he deemsNot too ...
Another Sonnet, To a Black Itself (Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury Poems)
Thou Black, wherein all colours are compos'd,And unto which they all at last return,Thou colour of the Sun where it ...
Aequanimitas (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Watchword sublime of Rome's imperial sage,Tersest of synonyms for self-control,Paramount precept of the Stoic's age,Noblest of mottoes for the lofty ...
The Platypus (Oliver Herford Poems)
MY child, the Duck-billed PlatypusA sad example sets for us:From him we learn how IndecisionOf character provokes Derision.This vacillating Thing, ...
The Honest Shepherd (Matthew Prior Poems)
When hungry wolves had trespass'd on the fold,And the robb'd shepherd his sad story told,"Call in Alcides," said a crafty ...