The Progress Of Learning (John Denham Poems)
PREFACE.My early mistress, now my ancient Muse,That strong Circaean liquor cease t'infuse,Wherewith thou didst intoxicate my youth,Now stoop with disenchanted ...
Disagreement & Quarelling Poems (358 Poems)
The Muses Threnodie: Fourth Muse (Henry Adamson Poems)
This time our boat passing too nigh the land,The whirling stream did make her run on sand;Aluif, we cry'd, but ...
A Day: An Epistle (John Armstrong Poems)
Escap'd from London now four Moons, and more,I greet gay Wilkes from Fulda's wasted Shore,Where cloath'd with Woods a hundred ...
An Ode On The Peace (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
I.As wand'ring late on Albion's shoreThat chains the rude tempestuous deep,I heard the hollow surges roarAnd vainly beat her guardian ...
The Triumph Of Melancholy (James Beattie Poems)
1Memory, be still! why throng upon the thoughtThese scenes deep-stain'd with Sorrow's sable dye?Hast thou in store no joy-illumined draught,To ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Bees – Boy) (Henry Baker Poems)
Bees.See Labour.Of all the mute Creation, These aloneA public Weal, and common Int'rest know,Imbody'd: and subsist by certain Laws.Mindful of ...
7 Days on the Sea (May Swenson Poems)
Monday The world is a ball of water. See, it is round-sided. I move across its topside, upon the world, not in it. The boat ...
The Pastoral, Or Lyric Muse Of Scotland. Canto Third. (Hector MacNeill Poems)
The night blew cauld thro' snaw and sleet, Loud rair'd the blast wi' deaf'ning din;A voice cam' sad, yet mournfu' sweet; "Unbar ...
An Epistle Of The Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole (Richard Savage Poems)
Still let low wits, who sense nor honour prize,Sneer at all gratitude, all truth disguise;At living worth, because alive, exclaim,Insult ...
The Misanthrope Reclaimed – Act III (George W Sands Poems)
Scene I. Near the place of the damned. Enter Werner and Spirit.Werner.What piercing, stunning sounds assail my ear!Wild shrieks and ...
Ode (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
Delivered on the first anniversary of the Carolina Art Association, Feb. 10, 1856.THERE are two worlds wherein our souls may ...
Hudibras, Part I (excerpts) (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth,The manner how he sallied forth;His arms and equipage are shown;His ...
The Hares, A Fable. (James Beattie Poems)
Yes, yes, I grant the sons of earthAre doom'd to trouble from their birth.We all of sorrow have our share;But ...
Ballad Of A Strange Thing (Phelps Putnam Poems)
HIS name was Chance, Jack Chance, he said,And that his family was dead.He was a lucid fool, his eyesWere cool ...
Old Donald (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Up in the Highlands of ScotlandThe fairies are very rude;I do not know if all are so-Some of them may ...
Written in Milton’s PARADISE LOST. (Mather Byles Poems)
Had I, O had I all the tuneful ArtsOf lofty Verse; did ev'ry Muse inspireMy flowing Numbers, and adorn my ...
Marenghi (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
I.Let those who pine in pride or in revenge,Or think that ill for ill should be repaid,Who barter wrong for ...
Suche Waiwarde Waies Hath Love That Moste Parte In Discorde (Henry Howard Poems)
Suche waiwarde waies hath love that moste parte in discorde; Our willes do stand wherby our hartes but seldom dooth accorde. Disceyte ...
The Adventures Of Little Bob Bonnyface (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
LITTLE Bob Bonnyface went out one dayInto his father's fields to play;Twas a morn undarkened by mist or cloud,With the ...
Conor And Mona (Michael Scanlan Poems)
A legend of Ancient Eire a song of Conor and Mona,Who lived near the Halls of Fiarna, and loved in ...
Festus – VIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Comes on a quarrel stormy and stern, if brief,'Tween the two foe friends, this demanding whatCannot be;--who immunity shall secure'Gainst ...
The Ladle. A Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
The Sceptics think 'twas long agoSince gods came down incognitoTo see who were their friends or foes,And how our actions ...
Epistle To My Brother George (John Keats Poems)
Full many a dreary hour have I past,My brain bewildered, and my mind o'ercastWith heaviness; in seasons when I've thoughtNo ...
John Underhill (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A score of years had come and goneSince the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth stone,When Captain Underhill, bearing scarsFrom Indian ambush ...
The Song Of Hiawatha I: The Peace-Pipe (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
On the Mountains of the Prairie,On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry,Gitche Manito, the mighty,He the Master of Life, descending,On the ...
Abt Volger (Robert Browning Poems)
(after he has been extemporizing upon the musical instrument of his invention)</i>Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I ...
At The Grave Of My Guardian Angel: St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans (Larry Levis Poems)
for Gerald SternAt sixteen I was so vulnerable to every influenceThat the overcast light, making the trash of addicts & ...
Meo Patacca – Canto I (Giuseppe Berneri Poems)
Please don't feel annoyedIn being told about the great valourOf the most clever among the Roman Braves,Whose name is mentioned ...
Rover (Henry Kendall Poems)
NO classic warrior tempts my pen To fill with verse these pages-No lordly-hearted man of men My Muse's thought engages.Let others choose ...
The Vagabonds (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
WE are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger 's my dog.-Come here, you scamp!Jump for the gentlemen,-mind your eye! Over the table,-look ...