An Epistle To Sir John Blount City: London (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Wonder not Blount, whose magick HandLifts to the Clouds thy native Land,That in these busy, golden Times,Thy Ears are teaz'd ...
Excuse Poems (268 Poems)
An Epistle Addressed To Sir Thomas Hanmer, On His Edition Of Shakspeare’s Works (William Taylor Collins Poems)
WHILE, born to bring the Muse's happier days,A patriot's hand protects a poet's lays,While nurs'd by you she sees her ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 05 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XLVI'Sir King,' quoth she, 'my name Clorinda hight,My fame perchance has pierced your ears ere now,I come to try my ...
Friar Philip’s Geese (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR,The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware;Yet, why suppose the sex my ...
The Stone (Peter McArthur Poems)
A MAN! A man! There is a man loose in Canada,A man of heroic mould, a 'throwback' of earlier ages,Vigorous, ...
An English Ballad, On The Taking Of Namur, By The King Of Great Britain (Matthew Prior Poems)
Dulce est desipere in loco.Some Folks are drunk, yet do not know it:So might not Bacchus give You Law?Was it ...
Merlin: A Poem (Jane Brereton Poems)
1Illustrious Queen! The loyal Zeal excuse,The fond Ambition, of a British Muse,Who wou'd, in Merlin's Praise, attempt to soar;And in ...
To A Friend (John Pierpont Poems)
Friend of my dark and solitary hour,When spectres walk abroad, and ghosts have power,To thee I look to dissipate the ...
To Mrs. Pleydell, With A Pot Of Honey, During The Ferment Occasioned By The Popish Bill Of Toleratio (Hector MacNeill Poems)
Remov'd thank God! from fierce contentions;Unknown to parties or Conventions;Alike averse to rage and folly,And foe to gloomy melancholy;Amid confusion, war, ...
The Progress Of Marriage (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Aetatis suae fifty-two,A rich Divine began to wooA handsome young imperious girl,Nearly related to an Earl.Her parents and her friends ...
March (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The March house, strangely, was built in a tree, With a fluttering roof of leaves, And strong, straight boughs for the walls ...
The Indiscreet Confessions (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
FAMED Paris ne'er within its walls had got,Such magick charms as were Aminta's lot,Youth, beauty, temper, fortune, she possessed,And all ...
The Servant Girl Justified (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
BOCCACE alone is not my only source;T'another shop I now shall have recourse;Though, certainly, this famed Italian witHas many stories ...
To my honoured Friend Mr. George Sandys (Henry King Poems)
It is, Sir, a confest intrusion hereThat I before your labours do appear,Which no loud Herald need, that may proclaimOr ...
The Pariah – Legend (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
WATER-FETCHING goes the nobleBrahmin's wife, so pure and lovely;He is honour'd, void of blemish.And of justice rigid, stern.Daily from the ...
The Daughter (Matilda Betham Poems)
"Come, mournful lute! dear echo of my woe! No stranger's tread in this lone spot I fear, Sweeter thy notes in such ...
Epilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken For ‘She Stoops To Conquer’ (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
'Enter' MRS. BULKLEY,'who curtsies very low as beginning to speak.Then enter' MISS CATLEY,'who stands full before her, and curtsies to ...
Horace, Epist. I, VII Imitation Of Horace To Lord Oxford (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Harley, the nation's great support,Returning home one day from court,His mind with public cares possest,All Europe's business in his breast,Observed ...
Coeur De Lion And His Horse (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
"Ah, Fanuel, my noble horse, and art thou, art thou slain?Wilt thou never bear me to the chase or the ...
The Spleen (Matthew Green Poems)
This motley piece to you I send,Who always were a faithful friend;Who, if disputes should happen hence,Can best explain the ...
To Natural Philosophers (Margaret Cavendish Poems)
If any Philosophers have written of these Subjects, as Imake no question, or doubt, but they have, of all thatNature ...
The Ogre (Jared Barhite Poems)
There's an ogre abroad, boys, There's an ogre abroad, A three-handed monster That makes his abode In hamlet and city, In country and town, And revels ...
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 ...
Friendship And Single Life, Against Love And Marriage (John Denham Poems)
Love! in what poison is thy dart Dipp'd, when it makes a bleeding heart? None know but they who feel the smart.It ...
To The Countess Of Bedford II (John Donne Poems)
TO have written then, when you writ, seem'd to meWorst of spiritual vices, simony ;And not to have written then ...
How A Fair One No Hope To His Highness Accorded (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
She has slid down the channels Of history's annals Disguised as the child of a king, But that is a glib And iniquitous fib, For ...
HERE I sit with my paper. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
HERE I sit with my paper, my pen my ink,First of this thing, and that thing,and t'other thing think ;I ...
A Letter (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
After W. M. P.Dear Kitty,At length the term's ending;I 'm in for my Schools in a week;And the time that ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 02 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XIBut when the angry king discovered notWhat guilty hand this sacrilege had wrought,His ireful courage boiled in vengeance hotAgainst the ...
Epistle From Mrs. Yonge To Her Husband (Mary Wortley Montagu Poems)
Think not this paper comes with vain pretenseTo move your pity, or to mourn th'offense.Too well I know that hard ...