Truth And Falsehood. A Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
Once on a time, in sunshine weather,Falsehood and Truth walk'd out together,The neighbouring woods and lawns to view,As opposites will ...
Citizenship Poems (201 Poems)
The Last Time (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Another year? another year! Who dare depend on other years?The judgment of this world is near, And all its children faint for ...
Fortune Of War (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
NOUGHT more accursed in war I knowThan getting off scot-free;Inured to danger, on we goIn constant victory;We first unpack, then ...
The Gardener XLII: O Mad, Superbly Drunk (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
O mad, superbly drunk; If you kick open your doors andplay the fool in public; If you empty your bag in a ...
Prologue to Caesar Borgia (John Henry Dryden Poems)
The unhappy man, who once has trailed a pen,Lives not to please himself, but other men;Is always drudging, wastes his ...
A Warnin (John Hartley Poems)
A'a dear, what it is to be big! To be big i' one's own estimation,To think if we shake a lawse ...
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, ...
Retrospect of Song (Janet Hamilton Poems)
I've sung of Spring, her buds and flowers, Of Summer suns and Summer roses;Of golden Autumn's dreamy skies, The wealth her bounteous ...
The Civil War in America (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Ah, bannered stars and stripes! your gloryHath paled, the blazoned folds all goryWith kindred blood hang sadly drooping;The eagle and ...
Lady Acheson Weary Of The Dean (Jonathan Swift Poems)
The Dean would visit Market-hill;Our invitation was but slight;I said-why-Let him if he will,And so I bid Sir Arthur write.His ...
A Ballad Of The Town Water (Robert Fuller Murray Poems)
It is the Police Commissioners,All on a winter's day;And they to prove the town waterHave set themselves away.They went to ...
To Rutherford Birchard Hayes (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AT THE DINNER TO THE PRESIDENT,BOSTON, JUNE 26, 1877How to address him? awkward, it is trueCall him "Great Father," as ...
Arthur Ziegelboim (Rachel Korn Poems)
When was your immortal deed set and sealed?Or, could it have been a childish dreamThat came as a sinister messageInto ...
“Justine, You Love Me Not!” (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
I know, Justine, you speak me fairAs often as we meet;And 'tis a luxury, I swear,To hear a voice so ...
Who’ll Buy Gods Of Love (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
OF all the beauteous waresExposed for sale at fairs,None will give more delightThan those that to your sightFrom distant lands ...
The Fox And The Crane (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
ONCE two persons uninvitedCame to join my dinner table;For the nonce they lived united,Fox and crane yclept in fable.Civil greetings ...
To A Baby Born Without Limbs (Kingsley Amis Poems)
This is just to show you whose boss around here.It'll keep you on your toes, so to speak,Make you put ...
The Gift (To Iris, In Bow Street, Covent Garden) (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
SAY, cruel IRIS, pretty rake,Dear mercenary beauty,What annual offering shall I make,Expressive of my duty?My heart, a victim to thine ...
Brazilian Tragedy (Manuel Bandeira Poems)
Misael, civil servant in the Ministry of Labor, 63 years old, met new Maria Elvira: prostitute, syphilitic, with ulcerated fingers, ...
Lines To Harriet Wilson (Lady Caroline Lamb Poems)
Harriet Wilson, shall I tell thee where,Beside my being cleverer,We differ?—thou wert hired to hold thy tongue,Thou hast no right ...
An Epistle to a young Gentleman, dissuading him from entering into Holy Orders (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
Inspir'd with friendship, fly, O muse!To greet my Genius, a recluse!Opprest, o'erwhelm'd with sullen grief --Haste -- now, or never, ...
Lines Addressed To Mr. M. Fairlie, Esq., Viewfield House, (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On Receiving His Photographic PortraitMy valued friend, long tried and true,Thanks warm, sincere, I render you,And haste to say with ...
An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s (Richard Corbet Poems)
He that would write an epitaph for thee,And do it well, must first begin to beSuch as thou wert; for ...
Sonnet XVII. To Sir Henry Vane The Younger (John Milton Poems)
Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, ...
Angle of Geese (Navarre Scott Momaday Poems)
How shall we adornRecognition with our speech?-Now the dead firstbornWill lag in the wake of words.Custom intervenes;We are civil, something ...
Sonnet 1 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
NOT love, nor war, nor the tumultuous swellOf civil conflicts, nor the wrecks of change,And duty struggling with afflictions strange,Not ...
To Philippa (Jan Struther Poems)
Your eyes are two grey Puritans,Your mouth's a laughing Cavalier;And all day long a civil warBetween them doth appear.For though ...
The Prophecy Of Famine (Charles Churchill Poems)
A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, ESQ. Nos patriam fugimus.--VIRGIL.When Cupid first instructs his darts to flyFrom the sly ...
The Sotweed Factor (3) (Ebenezer Cook Poems)
Condemn'd by Fate to way-ward Curse, Of Friends unkind, and empty Purse: Plagues worse than fill'd ...
Ye Wearie Wayfarer [A Dedication to the author of Holmby House” (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Fytte IBy Wood and Wold"Beneath the greenwood bough." — W. Scott.Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows, Though ...