Love: An Elegy (Mark Akenside Poems)
Too much my heart of Beauty's power hath known,Too long to Love hath reason left her throne;Too long my genius ...
Kings & Queens Poems (6567 Poems)
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 01 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
THE ARGUMENT.The camp at great Jerusalem arrives:Clorinda gives them battle, in the breastOf fair Erminia Tancred's love revives,He jousts with ...
That It Is In Vain To Pray For The Dead (Rees Prichard Poems)
My dear Relation, and the Friend I love,You've put to me a question I approve:I therefore think myself in duty ...
The Return From The Quest (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
Argument:Hark! hark!The dogs do bark;Beggars are coming to town.Some in rags,And some in tags,And some in velvet gown.The summer brooded ...
To the Spirit of Music (Henry Kendall Poems)
IThe cool grass blowing in a breeze Of April valleys sooms and sways;On slopes that dip to quiet seas Through far, faint ...
The Lily Of Malud (John Collings Squire Poems)
The lily of Malud is born in secret mud.It is breathed like a word in a little dark ravineWhere no ...
Cathloda – Duan III (James Macpherson Poems)
Ossian, after some general reflections, describes the situation of Fingal, and the position of the army of Lochlin. - The ...
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 ...
The King’s Missive (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
UNDER the great hill sloping bareTo cove and meadow and Common lot,In his council chamber and oaken chair,Sat the worshipful ...
The Day Of Judgment (Goronwy Owen Poems)
Almighty God thy heavenly aid bestow,O'er my rapt soul bid inspiration flow;Let voice seraphic, mighty Lord, be mine,Whilst I unfold ...
The Speeding Of The King’s Spite (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A king--estranged from his loving Queen By a foolish royal whim--Tired and sick of the dull routine Of matters surrounding him--Issued a ...
The Bard Of Wales (Janos Arany Poems)
Edward the king, the English king, Bestrides his tawny steed, "For I will see if Wales," said he, "Accepts my rule indeed. "Are stream ...
A Fantasy of War (Henry Lawson Poems)
From Australia.OH, tell me, God of Battles! Oh, say what is to come!The King is in his trenches, the millionaire ...
Death Of A Factory Child (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Hear me! ye firm and uncorrupted few,Followers of freedom! and of virtue too!Ye, who are pleading with a noble zealFor ...
Written In The National Gallery, (George W Sands Poems)
at the city of Washington, on looking at a Mummy, supposed to have belonged to a race extinctbefore the occupation ...
Grongar Hill (John Dyer Poems)
Silent Nymph, with curious eye,Who the purple ev'ning lieOn the mountain's lonely van,Beyond the noise of busy man,Painting fair the ...
To Charles Cowden Clarke (John Keats Poems)
Oft have you seen a swan superbly frowning,And with proud breast his own white shadow crowning;He slants his neck beneath ...
Hours With Nature (James Avis Bartley Poems)
When smiling spring, an angel fair! Walks o'er the verdant plain,And breathes a soft and balmy air, From isles beyond the main:When ...
To Eliza On Her Marriage (Hector MacNeill Poems)
You're now, Eliza, fix'd for life;In other words, you're now -- a wife;And let me whisper in your ear,A wife, ...
Dreams Of Heaven (Mary Jane Jewsbury Poems)
Bright must they be, for there are none that die,And none that weep, and none that say farewell.Mrs. Hemans.LEAVES may ...
AN ELEGY Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (Henry King Poems)
Like a cold fatal sweat which ushers deathMy thoughts hang on me, & my lab'ring breathStopt up with sighs, my ...
The Wedding-Ring (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
PART IChildren should not leave aboutAnything that's small and bright,Lest the fairies spy it out,And fly off with it at ...
He Prayed and the Plague Ceased (John Quarles Poems)
Prayer and the Plague are two most pow'rful things,Being both derived from the King of Kings;The Plague is sent to ...
The Eel Pie (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find,It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind:Brown bread as well as white must be for ...
Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 02 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XVISoon was the prey out of their hands recovered,By step and step the Frenchmen gan retire,Till on a little hill ...
A Rehearsal Of Christ’s Love Towards The World (Rees Prichard Poems)
COME, hear me relate our Redeemer's vast love,When to purchase our souls he first came from above;That love bear in ...
In Capacity (Maurice Thompson Poems)
You ask me whyI long to flyOut from your palace to the dreamy woodsAnd the summer solitudes,Why I pineIn this ...
The Six Burghers Of Calais (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
The burghers six of Calais,True were they and brave;To save their fellow-townsmenTheir lives they freely gave.Will ye hear their story?Come ...
Alfred the Harper (John Sterling Poems)
Dark fell the night, the watch was set,The host was idly spread,The Danes around their watchfires met,Caroused, and fiercely fed.The ...
The Ballad Of The Battle Of Gibeon (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
Five kings rule o'er the Amorite,Mighty as fear and old as night;Swathed with unguent and gold and jewel,Waxed they merry ...