Epistle To A Young Clergyman (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
My youthful brother, oft I long To write to you in prose or song; With no pretence to judgment strong, But warm affection, May ...
Discovery & Invention Poems (190 Poems)
Alice And The White Knight (Lewis Carroll Poems)
Alice was walking beside the White Knight in Looking Glass Land."You are sad." the Knight said in an anxious tone: ...
A Gallery To The Temple. The Deprecation (Ralph Knevet Poems)
(Lord) cease this direfull tintamarre Of civill warre: The bellowing drumme, and trumpet shrill, Are musicke meete, Rather for flameing Sinai Hill, Then Sion sweet. The ...
Prelude (George Wither Poems)
(From _The Shepherd's Hunting_)Seest thou not, in clearest days,Oft thick fogs cloud Heaven's rays?And that vapours which do breatheFrom the ...
The Song of Ninian Melville (Henry Kendall Poems)
Sing the song of noisy Ninny - hang the Muses - spit it out!(Tuneful Nine ye needn't help me - ...
To his unconstant Friend (Henry King Poems)
But say thou very woman, why to meThis fit of weakness and inconstancie?What forfeit have I made of word or ...
A Receipt For Writing A Novel (Mary Alcock Poems)
Would you a favrite novel make,Try hard your readers heart to breakFor who is pleasd, if not tormented?(Novels for that ...
Song For Th’ Hard Times, (1879.) (John Hartley Poems)
Nah chaps, pray dooant think it's a sarmon awm praichin, If aw tell yo some nooations at's entered mi pate;For ther's ...
Colonial Nomenclature. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
'Twas said of Greece two thousand years ago,That every stone i' the land had got a name.Of New South Wales ...
Lines To Mr. Radcliffe, On First Reading The Mysteries Of Udolpho (Matilda Betham Poems)
Enchantress! whose transcendant pow'rs, With ease, the massy fabric raise;-- Beneath whose sway the tempest low'rs, Or lucid stream meaend'ring plays;-- Accept the tribute ...
Elegy On The Death Of Henry Lord Hastings (John Denham Poems)
Reader, preserve thy peace: those busy eyesWill weep at their own sad discoveries,When every line they add improves thy loss,Till, ...
Want And I (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
Who's there? who's there? who was it triedTo force the entrance I've denied?An 'twere a friend, I'd gladly borne it,But ...
Used Up (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Where shall be found the niche unfill'd,—A spot unclaim'd, a field untill'd?Who may secure a vacant spaceFairly to run and ...
I Am An Atheist Who Says His Prayers (Karl Shapiro Poems)
I am an atheist who says his prayers.I am an anarchist, and a full professor at that. I take the ...
Rich And Poor (A Ballad For Union) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O ladies, lords, and gentlemen, Attend to what I say,For well I wot you'll like it when You listen to my lay;And ...
Prometheus, Or, The Poet’s Forethought. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Of Prometheus, how undaunted On Olympus' shining bastionsHis audacious foot he planted,Myths are told and songs are chanted, Full of promptings and ...
Merchandise (J Milton Hayes Poems)
MERCHANDISE! Merchandise! Tortoiseshell, spices,Carpets and Indigo sent o'er the highseas;Mothero'Pearl from the Solomon IslesBrought by a brigantine ten thousand miles.Rubber ...
On My Lord Croft’s And My Journey Into Poland, (John Denham Poems)
FROM WHENCE WE BROUGHT L, FOR HIS MAJESTY, BYTHE DECIMATION OF HIS SCOTTISH SUBJECTS THERE.Toll, toll, Gentle bell, for the soul Of ...
Discontent (Jared Barhite Poems)
Let quiet people talk of peace-- Contentment of the mind, But he who lives at perfect ease Can never bless mankind. If each no ...
The Muse (George Wither Poems)
She doth tell me where to borrowComfort in the midst of sorrow:Makes the desolatest placeTo her presence be a grace;And ...
The Labyrinth (Henry King Poems)
Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and weAre daily lost in that Obliquity.'Tis a perplexed circle, in whose roundNothing but sorrows ...
Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness (John Donne Poems)
Since I am coming to that holy room, Where, with thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made thy music; ...
Valedictory Address To The D–n (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
John Alexander Frere, John,When we were first acquent,You lectured us as FreshmenIn the holy term of Lent;But now you're gettin' ...
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 ...
Progress (Henry Vanderford Poems)
"Man hath sought out many inventions."The planets, forced by Nature's law,Within their orbits ceaseless roll,And man the lesson thence may ...
Jericho; or, The Waters Healed (John Newton Poems)
Though Jericho pleasantly stood,And looked like a promising soil;The harvest produced little food,To answer the husbandman's toil.The water some property ...
Mrs. Merdle Discourseth Of Things Earthly (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
No matter how costly or flimsy her dresses, The angel you honor with your kind attentions; No matter how foolish her wardrobe ...
Address And Invitation (Janet Hamilton Poems)
To a Young Friend who had gone over to Ireland in the interests of his Political Party, at the Parliamentary ...
Daedalus in Sicily (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
All his life he was building something, inventing something.Now, for a Cretan queen, an artificial heifer,so as to cuckold the ...
The Voice of the Negro (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
All ye nations, pause a moment! listen to the Negro's voice,Coming up from all vocations where his life has made ...