Claude (John Hartley Poems)
I named him Claude, 'twas a strange conceit,'Twas a name that no relatives ever bore;Yet there lingered around it a ...
Conceits Poems (145 Poems)
Ode X: To Thomas Edwards, Esquire: On The Late Edition Of Mr. Pope’s Work (Mark Akenside Poems)
I.Believe me, Edwards, to restrainThe licence of a railer's tongueIs what but seldom men obtainBy sense or wit, by prose ...
Making Cider (Victoria Sackville-West Poems)
I saw within the wheelwright's shedThe big round cartwheels, blue and red;A plough with blunted share;A blue tin jug; a ...
A Twilight Moth (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Dusk is thy dawn; when Eve puts on its stateOf gold and purple in the marbled west,Thou comest forth like ...
“Hik-Tee-Dik!” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
THE WAR-CRY OF BILLY AND BUDDY When two little boys--renowned but for noise-- Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!-- May hurt a whole school, and ...
Mount Of Olives (I) (Henry Vaughan Poems)
1.SWEET, sacred hill ! on whose fair browMy Saviour sate, shall I allow Language to love,And idolize some shade, or grove,Neglecting ...
The Gascon (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
I AM always inclined to suspect The best story under the sunAs soon as by chance I detect That teller and hero ...
As You Came from the Holy Land (Sir Walter Raleigh Poems)
As you came from the holy landOf Walsingham,Met you not with my true loveBy the way as you came?'How shall ...
A Character (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
Though a strong vanity may you persuade — -You are not for a politician made;Your tropes are drawn from Robin ...
A Sweet Pastoral (Nicholas Breton Poems)
Good Muse, rock me asleepWith some sweet harmony;The weary eye is not to keepThy wary company.Sweet Love, begone awhile,Thou knowest ...
Good-bye (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home;Thou art my friend, and I'm not thine.Long through thy weary crowds I roam;A river-ark ...
The Praise And Commendation Of A Good Woman (Rees Prichard Poems)
As a wise child excells the scept'red fool,Who of conceit and selfishness is full —As a good name exceeds the ...
At Cheshire Cheese (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
When first of wise old Johnson taught, My youthful mind its homage brought, And made the pond'rous crusty sage The object of a ...
Being waked out of my sleep by a snuff of Candle which offended me, I thus thought (Henry King Poems)
Perhaps 'twas but conceit. Erroneous sence!Thou art thine own distemper and offence.Imagine then, that sick unwholsom steamWas thy corruption breath'd ...
The Age of a Dream (Lionel Pigot Johnson Poems)
To Christopher WhallImageries of dream reveal a gracious age:Black armour, falling lace, and altar lights at morn.The courtesy of Saints, ...
To Mr. Thomas Warde Of Bixley (Ralph Knevet Poems)
If my devout Muse could ever bring Ought worth acceptance, or an offering Unto thy Vertue, justly I might deeme My selfe thrice ...
To My Good Master (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
In fancy, always, at thy desk, thrown wide, Thy most betreasured books ranged neighborly-- The rarest rhymes of every land and sea And ...
To his Friend Master R. L., In Praise of Music and Poetry (Richard Barnfield Poems)
If music and sweet poetry agree,As they must needs (the sister and the brother),Then must the love be great 'twixt ...
Sonnet I. (John Moultrie Poems)
'Twas my fond wish to greet our wedding day,My Margaret, with a strain of jocund rhyme,Such as I used to ...
Magnificat In Little (Leonie Adams Poems)
I was enriched, not casting after marvels,But as one walking in a usual place,Without desert but common eyes and ears,No ...
With Colors Gay (Howard S Abbott Poems)
With colors gay, adown the street,The drums alert with stirring beat,Our lads pass by who rode for France.They proudly step ...
Misconstruction (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
HOW man misjudges man! the outward seeming,Gesture, or glance, or utterance that may jarAgainst some petty, pampered, poor conceit,Unworthy, undefined, ...
Tale XIX (George Crabbe Poems)
THE CONVERT.Some to our Hero have a hero's nameDenied, because no father's he could claim;Nor could his mother with precision ...
The Church-Porch. Perirrhanterium (George Herbert Poems)
Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhanceThy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure,Hearken unto a Vesper, ...
Tale III (George Crabbe Poems)
THE GENTLEMAN FARMER.Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all,Who dwelt around, "the Gentleman" would call;Whether in pure humility or ...
Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur (excerpt) (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
That story which the bold Sir Bedivere, First made and latest left of all the knights, Told, when ...
Alsace-Lorraine (George Meredith Poems)
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
Ernest: The Rule Of Right – Book IV (Capel Lofft Poems)
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
Tale XV (George Crabbe Poems)
ADVICE; OR THE 'SQUIRE AND THE PRIEST.A wealthy Lord of far-extended landHad all that pleased him placed at his command;Widow'd ...
The Candidate (George Crabbe Poems)
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO THE AUTHORS OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW.AN INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS OF THE AUTHOR TO HIS POEMS.Ye idler things, ...