Inspirational Poems (597 Poems)
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Resignation Pt 2 (Edward Young Poems)
But what in either sex, beyondAll parts, our glory crowns?‘In ruffling seasons to be calm,And smile, when fortune frowns.’ Heaven’s choice is safer than our own;Of ages past inquire,What the most formidable fate?‘To have our own desire.’ If, in your … Continue reading
The Lay Of Marie – Canto Third (Matilda Betham Poems)
“Careless alike who went or came, I seldom ask’d the stranger’s name, When such a being came in view As eagerly the question drew. ‘The Lady Osvalde,’ some one cried, ‘Sir Eustace’ late appointed bride, His richest ward the king’s behest Gives to the bravest and the … Continue reading
Vision Of Columbus – Book 8 (Joel Barlow Poems)
And now the Angel, from the trembling sight,Veil’d the wide world-when sudden shades of nightMove o’er the ethereal vault; the starry trainPaint their dim forms beneath the placid main;While earth and heaven, around the hero’s eye,Seem arch’d immense, like one … Continue reading
M’Fingal – Canto III (John Trumbull Poems)
Now warm with ministerial ire,Fierce sallied forth our loyal ‘Squire,And on his striding steps attendsHis desperate clan of Tory friends.When sudden met his wrathful eyeA pole ascending through the sky,Which numerous throngs of whiggish raceWere raising in the market-place.Not higher … Continue reading
Resignation Pt 1 (Edward Young Poems)
The days how few, how short the yearsOf man’s too rapid race!Each leaving, as it swiftly flies,A shorter in its place. They who the longest lease enjoy,Have told us with a sigh,That to be born seems little moreThan to begin … Continue reading
The Minstrel; Or, The Progress Of Genius : Book I. (James Beattie Poems)
I.Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climbThe steep where Fame’s proud temple shines afar!Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublimeHath felt the influence of malignant star,And wag’d with Fortune an eternal war!Check’d by the scoff … Continue reading
Paradise Regain’d : Book I. (John Milton Poems)
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sungBy one man’s disobedience lost, now singRecovered Paradise to all mankind,By one man’s firm obedience fully triedThrough all temptation, and the Tempter foiledIn all his wiles, defeated and repulsed,And Eden raised in the waste … Continue reading
The Feast Of The Virgins – The Feast Of The Virgins (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
The sun sails high in his azure realms;Beneath the arch of the breezy elmsThe feast is spread by the murmuring river.With his battle-spear and his bow and quiver,And eagle-plumes in his ebon hair,The chief Wakawa himself is there;And round the … Continue reading
Carmen Seculare. For the Year 1700. To The King (Matthew Prior Poems)
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, Superior to the rest;Aera’s deriv’d, and Chronicles begunFrom Empires founded, and from Battels won:Show all the Spoils by valiant Kings … Continue reading
Vision Of Columbus – Book 4 (Joel Barlow Poems)
In one dark age, beneath a single hand,Thus rose an empire in the savage land.Her golden seats, with following years, increase,Her growing nations spread the walks of peace,Her sacred rites display the purest plan,That e’er adorn’d the unguided mind of … Continue reading
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