Sonnet XXII: To The Same. (Cyriac Skinner) (John Milton Poems)
Cyriac, this three years' day these eyes, though clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing ...
Conscience Poems (448 Poems)
Felix trembled (John Bowring Poems)
When the great Apostle spoke To Judea's tyrant lord,Felix trembled as he woke Conscience, with his awful word.When he told of fraud ...
Golden Verses (From Pythagoras) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
First, honour thou the immortal gods, as a law of thy being:Next, religiously keep thine oath, and reverence heroes:Pay thou ...
Roosevelt (Raymond Garfield Dandridge Poems)
"Put out the light!"He had no need of man-made glowWith celestial Dawn in sight:Unflinchingly, we saw him goOnward, to mount ...
The Sense Of Right (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Calm in well-deserving, Happy at the heart, Duty does his partSteadfast and unswerving.How should it affect him If some mocking-birds Clamour at his words,Or ...
Music In My Soul (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
There's music in my soul today,A joy of heart not there before:This state of conscience I relayTo rich and proud ...
At St. Paul’s (Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley Poems)
Not since Wren's Dome has whispered with man's prayer Have angels leaned to wonder out of Heaven At such uprush of intercession ...
A Hall (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
The road led straight to the temple.Notre Dame, though not Gothic at all.The huge doors were closed. I chose one ...
The Monument Of Francis Makemie (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
(Presbyter of Christ in America, 1683-1708)To thee, plain hero of a rugged race, We bring the meed of praise too long ...
Sonnet To Sleep (John Keats Poems)
O soft embalmer of the still midnight!Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, Enshaded in forgetfulness ...
An Unpraised Picture (Richard Francis Burton Poems)
I SAW a picture once by Angelo."Unfinished," said the critic; "done in youth;"And that was all, no thought of praise, ...
Zalka Peetruza (Raymond Garfield Dandridge Poems)
(_Who Was Christened Lucy Jane_)She danced, near nude, to tom-tom beat,With swaying arms and flying feet,'Mid swirling spangles, gauze and ...
For Freedom’s Sake (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
FOR freedom's sake, farewell. I would not fret youWith a dim sense of bonds about your heart;Be freed of all ...
Female (R S Thomas Poems)
It was the other way round:God waved his slow wandAnd the creature became a woman,Imperceptibly, retaining its body,Nose, brow, lips, ...
My Love (Juozas Tysliava Poems)
You are lovely and great as Rome among its hillsWorshipped by firemen patrolling my conscience.Storms unwind the darkening main roadsYou ...
Sonnet to Lord Bothwell – 5 (Mary Stuart Poems)
And I have shed for him so many a tear.First when he took my body and made it his ownAlthough ...
To A Friend. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
PEACEFUL as thy gentle spirit,May thy lot in life still be;And may heav'n its choicest blessings,Shower through future years on ...
Law (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
In the extremity of love's deep doleI cried for help unto my soul:"Why may another hold from me the mateWho ...
The Man from Strathbogie (Mary Finnin Poems)
Kelly on a mountainBeating on a drumThundering down StrathbogieBringing brumbies home.Kelly in a clouded nightThe white face in the rainSeeking ...
Petition (R S Thomas Poems)
And I standing in the shadeHave seen it a thousand timesHappen: first theft, then murder;Rape; the rueful actsOf the blind ...
Humble And Unnoticed Virtue (Hannah More Poems)
O my son!The ostentatious virtues which still pressFor notice and for praise; the brilliant deedsWhich live but in the eye ...
Preparation to Death (Manuel Bandeira Poems)
Life is a miracle.Each flower,with its form, colour, aromaeach flower is a miracle.Each bird,with its plumage, its flight, its songeach ...
Solitude; In Youth And Age (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
IN youth we shrink from solitude!It's quiet ways we shun,Because our hearts are fain to danceWith others in the sun;--Life's ...
A Certain Man (Jean Toomer Poems)
A certain man wishes to be a princeOf this earth; he also wants to beA saint and master of the ...
To the Bishop of Ross, After His Deliverance from Prison (Mary Stuart Poems)
Since God has, in his generosity,Granted you such good fortune nowIn all good standing to be free to go,With a ...
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 ...
Tale I (George Crabbe Poems)
THE DUMB ORATORS; OR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY.That all men would be cowards if they dare,Some men we know have ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto XII (Edward Benlowes Poems)
THE SWEETNESSE OF RETIREMENT,OR The Happinesse of a Private Life.The Segregation.THE ARGUMENT. True Blisse! Thou know'st but Few, to Few ...
Hero And Leander. The Fourth Sestiad (George Chapman Poems)
Now from Leander's place she rose, and found Her hair and rent robe scatter'd on the ground; Which ...
Louisa: A Poetical Novel. Fourth Epsitle. (Anna Seward Poems)
LOUISATOEMMA. APRIL 25th, 1781. OH! my lov'd EMMA , I have much ...