Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Content – Courtship) (Henry Baker Poems)
Content.See Discontent.Let the rich Miser gather golden Gain,And live the large Possessor of the Plain:Whom Fears perpetual scare with neighb'ring ...
Cry Poems (6608 Poems)
Egotism (Jane Taylor Poems)
YE powers fantastic ! goblin, sylph and fay,Whose subtle forms no laws material sway ;Ethereal essences, that dart and glideWherever ...
The Life And Death Of Christ (Rees Prichard Poems)
LET ev'ry Christian who desires to know,What to his Saviour happen'd here below,Draw near — whilst I his Incarnation tell,And ...
Uncle Ned’s Tale: An Old Dragoon’s Story (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I OFTEN, musing, wander back to days long since gone by,And far-off scenes and long-lost forms arise to fancy's eye.A ...
Evening (Joanna Baillie Poems)
HOW lovely, Evening, is thy parting smile!The twilight softness of thy glowing skyMay well the poet's pensive dream beguile,And kindle ...
Ode To Liberty (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Yet, Freedom, yet, thy banner, torn but flying,Streams like a thunder-storm against the wind.--BYRON.I.A glorious people vibrated againThe lightning of ...
To The Sons Of Brutus (Rees Prichard Poems)
YE sons of Brute, of Trojan blood,A lively, lovely, loving brood,Attend in haste, and to my strains draw nigh,With an ...
Hafbur And Signy (William Morris Poems)
TRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH.King Hafbur & King SiwardThey needs must stir up strife,All about the sweetling SignyWho was so fair ...
A Story Of Doom: Book V. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
And when two days were over, Japhet said,"Mother, so please you, get a wife for me."The mother answered, "Dost thou ...
An Epistle To George William Curtis (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Curtis, whose Wit, with Fancy arm in arm,Masks half its muscle in its skill to charm,And who so gently can ...
The Auction Sale (Henry Reed Poems)
Within the great grey flapping tentThe damp crowd stood or stamped about;And some came in, and some went outTo drink ...
Queen Mab: Part VI. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
All touch, all eye, all ear, The Spirit felt the Fairy's burning speech. O'er the thin texture of its frame The varying periods ...
Marsupial Bill (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
A CHRISTMAS STORY.1IT was the time when geese despond,And turkeys make their wills;The time when Christians, to a man,Forgive each ...
A Story Of Doom: Book VI. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Night. Now a tent was pitched, and Japhet satIn the door and watched, for on a litter layThe father of ...
The Prophecy Of St. Oran: Part II (Mathilde Blind Poems)
I.THERE was a windless mere, on whose smooth breastA little island, flushed with purple bloom,Lay gently cradled like a moorhen's ...
The Unhappy State Of The Ungodly, After Death (Rees Prichard Poems)
You of each sex and age, draw near,And to my sad Complaint give ear,Who vice, unto the last obey'd,But now ...
The Old-Fashioned Garden (John Russell Hayes Poems)
The house is hoary with the mould of years,And crumbling are its ivy-covered walls;The rain-storms dim it with their misty ...
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Student’s Tale; The Falcon of Ser Federigo (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
One summer morning, when the sun was hot,Weary with labor in his garden-plot,On a rude bench beneath his cottage eaves,Ser ...
The Battle Of Cressy (Peter John Allan Poems)
Drawn up in three divisions, soon as the English foundThat the Frenchmen were advancing, they started from the ground,Alarm'd, and burning in ...
Donald And Jessey (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
NOT in a verdant varying vale,Not shelter'd by a wood,Not sweetly fann'd by zephyr's gale,Or margin'd by a flood,Whose gentle ...
The Authors: A Satire (Richard Savage Poems)
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
Uncle Ned’s Tales: How The Flag Was Saved (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
'TWAS a dismal winter's evening, fast without came down the snow,But within, the cheerful fire cast a ruddy, genial glowO'er ...
Peruvian Tales: Cora, Tale VI (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
The troops of ALMAGRO and ALPHONSO meet on the plain of CUZCO —. MANCO -CAPAC attacks them by nights—His army ...
Oenone (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
There lies a vale in Ida, lovelierThan all the valleys of Ionian hills.The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen,Puts forth ...
Concerning The New Jerusalem (Rees Prichard Poems)
Ye Britons of the South come forth,With all your brethren of the North,And hearken to a pastor's strains,Who'd lead you ...
Health (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Of all the blessings which kind heaven bestows,From infancy to life's most lengthened close,The one, far greater than all earthly ...
Evangeline: Part The Second. III. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
NEAR to the bank of the river, o'ershadowed by oaks, from whose branchesGarlands of Spanish moss and of mystic mistletoe ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Ambition – Appeal ) (Henry Baker Poems)
Ambition.The Sisyphus is he, whom Noise and StrifeSeduce from all the soft Retreats of Life:To vex the Government, disturb the ...
An Ode – In Imitation of Horace, Book III. Ode II. (Matthew Prior Poems)
How long, deluded Albion, wilt thou lieIn the lethargic sleep, the sad reposeBy which thy close thy constant enemyHas softly ...
My Ode And Three Sonnets (As First Published On The Coronation Of Queen Victoria, June 28, 1838) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I.All joy to thee, my country, and my pride!Be the glad muse my patriot lay to guide; Suggest the thought, and ...