A Legend Of Buckingham Village (Nora Pembroke Poems)
PART IAway up on the River aux Lievres, That is foaming and surging always,And from rock to rock leaping through rapids, Which ...
Forgiveness Poems (1956 Poems)
From “To a Writer of the Day” (Langdon Elwyn Mitchell Poems)
TECHNIQUE Could but this be broughtInto your ken,-that the technique is thought!Escape from "Style," the notion men can useWords without thoughts,-so ...
Another, On The Same Occasion (Rees Prichard Poems)
Thou ruler of heaven, of earth, and the main,Of wind, and of weather, of tempests, and rain,O, list to the ...
Sangar (John Reed Poems)
SOMEWHERE I read a strange, old, rusty taleSmelling of war; most curiously namedThe Mad Recreant Knight of the West.Once, you ...
The Braes of Yarrow (William Hamilton Poems)
'BUSK ye, busk ye, my bonnie, bonnie bride!Busk ye, busk ye, my winsome marrow!Busk ye, busk ye, my bonnie, bonnie ...
One that had a frowarde Husband, makes complaynt to her mother (Humfrey Gifford Poems)
And is there any wight aliue, That rightly may compare,Or goe beyond me silly wretch, In sadnesse and in care?Some such may ...
Advice, To Guard Against The Temptations Of The Devil (Rees Prichard Poems)
SHOU'D Satan promise thee, or house or land,If thou wou'dst kneel and worship at his feet :Tell him, he has ...
Advice To The Sick (Rees Prichard Poems)
THY mortal part shou'd sickness chance to seize,Consider, whence the fi'ry dart was sent,Consider, who inflicted the disease,And to what ...
A Portrait (Richard Brinsley Sheridan Poems)
Tell me, ye prim adepts in Scandal's school,Who rail by precept, and detract by rule,Lives there no character, so tried, ...
From The Conspirator (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SCENE..CATHARINE.Art thou prepared to risk ...
A Poem Dedicated To The Blessed Memory Of Her Late Gracious Majesty Queen Mary (George Stepney Poems)
Once more, my Muse,-we must an Altar raise,-May it prove Lasting, as Maria's Praise;And, the Song ended, be the Swan's ...
Festus – XLIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Man's final doom conceive: the award to allEarth's tribes of souls by spirits elect, their chiefsSaintly, themselves through purifying ruleOf ...
The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter IV. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
A Caution to all against a Legal Spirit; especially to those that have a Profession without Power, and Learning without ...
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 ...
A Spiritual Manifestation (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
To-day the plant by Williams setIts summer bloom discloses;The wilding sweethrier of his prayersIs crowned with cultured roses.Once more the ...
A Prayer, Against The Oppression Of One’s Foe. (Rees Prichard Poems)
Awake, awake, why wilt thou sleep, my God!Never before hast thou been known to nod!Thou art not Baal! — thy ...
John Adams Monarchical Ideas (Mercy Warren Poems)
SIR:- You complain that I have asserted that a partiality for monarchy appeared in your conduct. This fact you deny, ...
Subh-I-Kazib (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
I.SEE where the man wakes late from his dreaming,Late in the night from the sleep that has been;See where regret ...
The Pigeons (John Freeman Poems)
The pigeons, following the faint warm light,Stayed at last on the roof till warmth was gone,Then in the mist that's ...
The Substitute (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
PART I.How say'st, thou? die to-morrrow? Oh! my friend!The bitter, bitter ...
Advice To Those Who Are Desirous Of Obtaining God’s Favour, And Forgiveness Of Their Sins (Rees Prichard Poems)
Whoe'er would have the sins forgiven,Whereby he has offended heaven,He must with diligence pursueThose useful Precepts, that ensue.Thou, first of ...
The Lament Of Yasmini, The Dancing-Girl (Laurence Hope Poems)
Ah, what hast thou done with that Lover of mine? The Lover who only cared for thee?Mine for a handful of ...
A Dedication (Robert Burns Poems)
Expect na, sir, in this narration,A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication,To roose you up, an' ca' you guid,An' sprung o' great an' ...
An American Tale (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
"Ah! pity all the pangs I feel, If pity e'er ye knew;—An aged father's wounds to heal, Through scenes of death I ...
Funeral Music (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk: beheaded 1450John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester: beheaded 1470Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers: beheaded 14831Processionals ...
Lines Written in August (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
The day of tumult, strife, defeat, was o'er;Worn out with toil, and noise, and scorn, and spleen,I slumbered, and in ...
The Child And The Dew-Drops (in memory of a lost son). (John Critchley Prince Poems)
"O dearest mother! tell me, pray, Why are the dew-drops gone so soon?Could they not stay till close of day,To sparkle ...
The Fight Of The General Armstrong (James Jeffrey Roche Poems)
Tell the story to your sonsOf the gallant days of yoreWhen the brig of seven gunsFought the fleet of seven ...
Three Valentines to the Wide World (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
IThe child disturbs our view. Tow-head bent, shestands on one leg and folds up the other. She is listeningto the ...
The Black Destrier. A Ballad Of The Third Crusade (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
FIRST 'mid the lion Richard's host,Sir Aymer fought in Holy Land;And they loved him well for his honest heart,And they ...