Poets (excerpt) (Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva Poems)
3What can I do, blind and outcastIn a world where all are fathered and sighted,Where passions go over anathemasAs if ...
Inspirational Poems (597 Poems)
The Assurance Of Ovid (Met. Sub Finem.) (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Now I have done my work! — which not Jove's ireCan make undone, nor sword, nor time, nor fire.Whene'er that ...
A Song. High State And Honours To Others Impart (John Henry Dryden Poems)
High state and honours to others impart,But give me your heart:That treasure, that treasure alone,I beg for my own.So gentle ...
Jack Cornstalk as a Poet (Henry Lawson Poems)
"Not from the seas does he draw inspiration,Not from the rivers that croon on their bars;But a wide, a world-old ...
To His Grace The Duke Of Chandos. (Mary Barber Poems)
Were Princes grac'd with Souls like thine,Princes had still been deem'd divine.Such Merit as we find in thee,First introduc'd Idolatry;When ...
Emma Alice Browne (James McCauley Poems)
Enraptured thoughts intuitive,Make haste to greet thy page.Melodious with sweet accord,And classic too with age.And ever may the sacred nine,Lead ...
A Poetical Epistle To Sir William Bennet, Bart. of Grubbat (James Thomson Poems)
My trembling muse your honour does address,That it's a bold attempt most humbly I confess;If you'll encourage her young fagging ...
Toussaint L’Ouverture (Raymond Garfield Dandridge Poems)
Through ages down Time's ceaseless span,An endless, vivid caravan,His mem'ry wends to ever beAn inspiration to the Free.Fearless, black, unlettered ...
The Dedication To “Shapes & Shadows” (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
_Ah, not for us the Heavens that hold_ GOD'S _message of Promethean fire! The Flame that fell on bards of old To hallow ...
To Dr. Mead, On His Cape Wine. (Mary Barber Poems)
Your Wine, by Southern Suns refin'd,Is a just Emblem of your Mind:Like You, the gen'rous Juice displaysIts Influence a thousand ...
Epigram III. (John Byrom Poems)
A Heated Fancy, or Imagination,May be mistaken for an Inspiration —True; but is this Conclusion fair to make,That Inspiration must ...
Leander And Hero (Elizabeth Scot Poems)
COME , SESTOS and ABYDOS , aid my song;To you these elegiac strains belong.Your griefs with mine, ye wretched cities, ...
Louisa: A Poetical Novel. Second Epsitle. (Anna Seward Poems)
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
The Temple of Fame (Alexander Pope Poems)
In that soft season, when descending show'rsCall forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;When op'ning buds salute the welcome ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Ninth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
All night in slumber deep the armies lay: But, while the eastern sky with first faint beam Yet dimly reddened; ...
The Restoration Of The Works Of Art In Italy (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
LAND of departed fame! whose classic plains Have proudly echo'd to immortal strains; Whose hallow'd soil hath given the great ...
Rape Of Florida: Canto I: Invocation (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
The poet hath a realm within, and throne,And in his own soul singeth his lament.A comer often in the world ...
The Painter Of Florence (Ernest Jones Poems)
THERE'S a mansion old 'mid the hills of the west,So old, that men know not by whom it was built;But ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXVI (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
ORIGIN OF THE SERPENT.Ahti, living on the island,Near the Kauko-point and harbor,Plowed his fields for rye and barley,Furrowed his extensive ...
The Disciple (George MacDonald Poems)
I.The times are changed, and gone the dayWhen the high heavenly land,Though unbeheld, quite near them lay,And men could understand.The ...
L’Invention (Andre Marie de Chenier Poems)
O fils du Mincius, je te salue, ? toi Par qui le dieu des arts fut roi du peuple-roi! Et ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twenty-Fifth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Far otherwise, within the Median camp, Had passed the changeful night. In dreamless sleep, Three portions had gone by: but, ...
The Ancient Banner (Anonymous Americas Poems)
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
A Faith On Trial (George Meredith Poems)
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
The Parish Register – Part II: Marriages (George Crabbe Poems)
DISPOSED to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay;There's great advantage in a small delay:Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise ...
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto XII (Edward Benlowes Poems)
THE SWEETNESSE OF RETIREMENT,OR The Happinesse of a Private Life.The Segregation.THE ARGUMENT. True Blisse! Thou know'st but Few, to Few ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twenty-Sixth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Resplendent as on that great morn he rose, When, from the inmost depth of heaven's immense, The bright eternal solitude ...
Louisa: A Poetical Novel. First Epsitle. (Anna Seward Poems)
LOUISATOEMMA,HER FRIEND IN THE EAST-INDIES.THEE EMMA , four slow-circling years have seenPress, with thy pensive foot, Savannas green;Seen thee, with ...
Abradates And Panthea. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
'Twas on the morning of that fateful day When Cyrus met on Thymbra's spacious plain The mighty host by wealthy ...
The Abencerrage : Canto I. (Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems)
Lonely and still are now thy marble halls,Thou fair Alhambra! there the feast is o'er;And with the murmur of thy ...