Against Constancy (Lord John Wilmot Poems)
Tell me no more of constancy,The frivolous pretenseOf old age, narrow jealousy,Disease, and want of sense.Let duller fools on whom ...
Envy & Jealousy Poems (868 Poems)
Passing the Test (Patience Strong Poems)
To everyone a gift is given and a problem set.There's a mission to fulfill, a challenge to be met...A special ...
Oblivion (Jesse Redmond Fauset Poems)
I hope when I am dead that I shall lie In some deserted grave--I cannot tell you why,But I should like ...
Duty (Peter McArthur Poems)
IF "Yea" and "Nay" were words enough for Him,Who taught beyond the lessons of all teaching,With works nor Time nor ...
O Navis (Lope de Vega Poems)
POOR bark of Life, upon the billows hoarseAssailed by storms of envy and deceit,Across what cruel seas in passage fleetMy ...
The Rose Of Sappho (Mrs. Walter Spencer Poems)
DEAR ROSE ! dear flower, unconscious as thou art,'Tis not the Zephyr agitates thy leaves,But the soft sigh of Love, ...
Sonnet V “Some Truths There Be Are Better Left Unsaid” (Henry Timrod Poems)
Some truths there be are better left unsaid;Much is there that we may not speak unblamed.On words, as wings, how ...
Licia Sonnets 35 (Giles Fletcher Sr Poems)
Whenas I wish, fair Licia, for a kissFrom those sweet lips where rose and lilies strive,Straight do mine eyes repine ...
Vanity (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
A wan sky greener than the lawn, A wan lawn paler than the sky.She gave a flower into my hand, And all ...
Sonnet IV (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Peace is happiness, but war is our plightUnder the heavens. He — prince of the night,Severe captain— and the World's ...
Our Crown Of Praise (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
A PRAISE beyond all other praise of oursThis nation holds in jealous trust for himWho may approve himself, even in ...
Addressed To Haydon (John Keats Poems)
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good,A loving-kindness for the great man's fame,Dwells here and there with people of no name,In noisome ...
98 (Mary Wroth Poems)
When I beheld the Image of my deare,With greedy lookes mine eyes would that way bend,Feare, and Desire, did inwardly ...
Dearth (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I hold your trembling hand to-night-- and yetI may not know what wealth of bliss is mine,My heart is such ...
Sursum Corda (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
Lift up your hearts ! A foe is at the gateJealous of England's greatness, jealous tooOf all that she has ...
To Mr. Pettie Of Morley (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Some of thy wealth talke, but I praise thy wit, And many worthy vertues gracing it. But thy great love to Arts, ...
Loyalty (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
THY fortunes are too full. The gods do not. Sanction in mortals such felicity.Let all be broken off 'twixt thee ...
Sonnet XIII. Addressed To Haydon (John Keats Poems)
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good,A loving-kindness for the great man's fame,Dwells here and there with people of no name,In noisome ...
Sonnet To Spenser (John Keats Poems)
Spenser! a jealous honourer of thine,A forester deep in thy midmost trees,Did last eve ask my promise to refineSome English ...
Heaven And The Stars (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
Brilliant heavens of evening, Distant stars clearly shining, Bright as the rapture of childhood,O why dare I send you nevermore greeting--Stars, who ...
Still Life. (John Dunmore Lang Poems)
From the Greek of Anacreon.CROWNED with laurel and with bay,Singing to my Lesbian lyre,Life glides peacefully away,Bringing all my hopes ...
To My Love (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
Kiss me softly and speak to me low;Malice has ever a vigilant ear;What if Malice were lurking near?Kiss me, dear!Kiss ...
Olton Pools (John Drinkwater Poems)
Now June walks on the waters,And the cuckoo's last enchantmentPasses from Olton pools.Now dawn comes to my windowBreathing midsummer roses,And ...
The Modern Saint (Matthew Prior Poems)
Her time with equal prudence Silvia shares,First writes her billet-doux, then says her prayers,Her mass and toilette, vespers, and the ...
Where the Tides ebb and flow (Lord Dunsany Edward Plunkett Poems)
The ebb cameAnd I saw the dead eyes of the housesAnd the jealousy of other forgotten thingsThat storm had not ...
To Mr. Austine Holle (Ralph Knevet Poems)
If I could hate thee; or of my selfe so much; To entertaine foule Envy; thy wits such, I like th' Illyrian ...
Pride (Mary Ann Carter Poems)
Pride spoils ev'ry sweet reflection--Mingles guilt with retrospection--For conscience must aloud proclaimIts sin, its sorrow, and its shame.Tho' pride may ...
Self-Deceit (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
My neighbour's curtain, well I see,Is moving to and fin.No doubt she's list'ning eagerly,If I'm at home or no.And if ...
An Old Story (Bob Hicok Poems)
It's hard being in lovewith fireflies. I have to doall the pots and pans.When asked to partiesthey always wear the ...
A Farewell (Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov Poems)
Farewell! Forget the days of trial,Of grudge, ill humor, misery--Tempests of heart and floods of weeping,And the revengeful jealousy.Ah, but ...