The Fable Of Midas (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Midas, we are in story told,Turn'd every thing he touch'd to gold:He chipp'd his bread; the pieces roundGlitter'd like spangles ...
Fate & Destiny Poems (4950 Poems)
Every Thing (Harold Monro Poems)
Since man has been articulate,Mechanical, improvidently wise,(Servant of Fate),He has not understood the little criesAnd foreign conversations of the smallDelightful ...
Ye Na Thee Hamaree Qismat (Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Khan Poems)
ye na thee hamaaree qismat ke wisaal-e-yaar hotaagar aur jeete rehte yahee intezaar hotatere waade par jiye ham to ye jaan jhooT jaanaake KHushee se mar na jaate agar 'eitabaar hotateree ...
Roly Poly (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
ROLY POLY'S just awakened,Wakened in his cosy bed,All his dainty ringlets tumbledO'er his shoulders, and his head:Roly Poly's cheeks are ...
For Ever (Henry Kendall Poems)
OUT of the body for ever, Wearily sobbing, "Oh, whither?"A Soul that hath wasted its chances Floats on the limitless ether.Lost in ...
Gaudeamus Igitur (Margaret Louisa Woods Poems)
Come, no more of grief and dying! Sing the time too swiftly flying. Just an hour Youth's in flower, Give me roses to remember In ...
The Dream Ring Of The Desert (J Milton Hayes Poems)
THE MERCHANT Abu Khan shunned the customs of his race,And sought the cultured wisdom of the West.His daughter fair Leola ...
Certain Books Of Virgil’s AEneis: Book II (Henry Howard Poems)
BOOK IIThey whisted all, with fixed face attent,When Prince AEneas from the royal seatThus gan to speak: O Queen, it ...
To His Excellency Philip Earl of Chesterfield, On His Extraordinary Embassy to Holland (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
O Chesterfield, with early Laurels crown'd,For poignant Wit and nervous Sense renown'd,Whom all the Powers of Eloquence adorn,For publick Scenes ...
The Calm (John Donne Poems)
Our storm is past, and that storm's tyrannous rage, A stupid calm, but nothing it, doth 'suage. The fable is inverted, and ...
Spring: Saturday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Hours, days, weeks,—so our life-time flows—Gently, as melt the vernal snowsBeneath the sun; they pass away,Like dew-drops in the eye ...
My Very Particular Friend (Maria Smith Abdy Poems)
Are you struck with her figure and face? How lucky you happened to meetWith none of the gossipping race, Who dwell in ...
The Rancho In The Rain (Henry Herbert Knibbs Poems)
The rabbit's ears are flattened and he's squattin' scared and still,Ag'inst the dripping cedar; and the quail below the hillAre ...
The Sun Hath Twice (Henry Howard Poems)
The sun hath twice brought forth the tender green, And clad the earth in lively lustiness; Once have the winds the trees ...
Orinda To Lucasia (Katherine Philips Poems)
ADIEU dear object of my Love's excess,And with thee all my hopes of happiness,With the same fervent and unchanged heartWhich ...
The Shepherd and the Philosopher (John Gay Poems)
Remote from cities liv'd a swain,Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;His head was silver'd o'er with age,And long experience ...
Duleep Singh (Janet Hamilton Poems)
An Indian Prince now Resident in England.Of late I listened to a wondrous tale From lips revered. 'Twas not of war ...
The Pledge At Spunky Point (John Hay Poems)
A Tale of Earnest Effort and Human PerfidyIt's all very well for preachingBut preachin' and practice don't gee:I've give the ...
The Loss Of Female Character (George Moses Horton Poems)
See that fallen Princess! her splendor is gone-- The pomp of her morning is over; Her day-star of pleasure refuses to dawn, She ...
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, ...
To Isabel (George W Sands Poems)
Come near me with thy lips, and, breathe o'er mineTheir breath, for I consume with love's desire,--Thine ivory arms about ...
“Lost Delight” (Laurence Hope Poems)
After the Hazara WarI lie alone beneath the Almond blossoms, Where we two lay together in the spring,And now, as then, ...
Alcanzar (Janet Little Poems)
WHEN first Alcanzar to the town did come,The people all believ'd that he was dumb:In troops, with hasty steps to ...
Song of Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Mine are the night and morning,The pits of air, the gulf of space,The sportive sun, the gibbous moon,The innumerable days.I ...
Ode on a nearer prospect of summer hill (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
O Summer Hill! if thou wert mine,I'd order in a pipe of wine,And ask a dozen friends to dine.In faith, ...
Ode to Fear (William Taylor Collins Poems)
Thou, to whom the world unknownWith all its shadowy shapes, is shown;Who seest, appalled, the unreal scene,While fancy lifts the ...
The Silver Herons (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Within a home for captive beastsWhose world had dwindled to a cage,I noted in their mournful eyesSuch resignation, fear, and ...
Cousin Aggie: A Memory (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The seal of sixty summers now,Cousin Aggie, marks thy brow,If beneath Canadian skiesStill thou livest. Mayhap thou liesWithin the forest's ...
Decline And Fall (John Frederick Nims Poems)
We had a city also. Hand in handWandered happy as travellers our own land.Murmured in turn the hearsay of each ...
Golyer (John Hay Poems)
Ef the way a man lights out of this world Helps fix his heft for the other sp'ere,I reckon my old ...