Marriage (Gregory Corso Poems)
Should I get married? Should I be Good?Astound the girl next door with my velvet suit and faustaus hood?Don't take ...
Marriage Poems (684 Poems)
Advice And Warning To The Adulterer (Rees Prichard Poems)
HEAR my advice, Adulterer obscene!And often in thy mind these precepts roll,E'er thou dost haste with appetite unclean,And headlong passion ...
Colhorn (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
Lo, a castle, tall, lake-mirrored, Ringed around by mountain forms,Roofless, ruined, still defying Summer's rains and winter's storms.Every shattered lifeless window, Every stone ...
After the Golden Wedding (Three Soliloquies) (James Kenneth Stephen Poems)
I. The husband's. She's not a faultless woman; no! She's not an angel in disguise: She has her rivals here below: She's not an ...
The Pariah (James Edwin Campbell Poems)
Owned her father all the fact'ries Which their black'ning smoke sent up,Miles and miles all 'round the country, From the town by ...
The Indiscreet Confessions (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
FAMED Paris ne'er within its walls had got,Such magick charms as were Aminta's lot,Youth, beauty, temper, fortune, she possessed,And all ...
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 ...
The Contract (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid,In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid;The fertile subject never will be dry:'Tis ...
Motherhood, 1951 (Ai Ogawa Poems)
Dear Saint Patrick, this is Peggy,Or maybe it's Pegeen to you,Well, I'm really Stella Mae.Peggy's my nickname,But anyway, will you ...
Lines To A Parrot (Joanna Baillie Poems)
IN these our days of sentimentWhen youthful poets all lamentSome dear lost joy, some cruel maid;Old friendship changed and faith ...
Colin’s Mistakes. Written In Imitation Of Spenser’s Style (Matthew Prior Poems)
Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred,(Ye Nymphs, for every guard that sacred stream)To Wimple's woody shade his ...
The Hasteners (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
The last walls of shame fell,And we rejoiced…And we danced…And we were blessed with the signing of the peace of ...
The Shepherd’s Week : Wednesday; or, The Dumps (John Gay Poems)
Sparabella.The wailings of a maiden I recite,A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight.Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat,Nor the ...
The Mice. A Tale – To Mr. Adrian Drift (Matthew Prior Poems)
Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion,And, what is more, good education,Frolic and gay, in infant yearsEqually shared their parents' ...
Epilogue to Schiller’s Song of the Bell (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
To this city joy reveal it! Peace as its first signal peal it! (Song of the Bell—concluding lines.)AND so it proved! The ...
Black Lizzie (Henry Kendall Poems)
THE GLOVED and jewelled bards who sing Of Pippa, Maud, and Dorothea,Have hardly done the handsome thing For you, my inky Cytherea.Flower ...
The Quaker Widow (James Bayard Taylor Poems)
THEE finds me in the garden, Hannah,-come in! 'T is kind of theeTo wait until the Friends were gone, who ...
The Clyster (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try;To found our tales on what we can rely;Th' experiment repeatedly I've made,And ...
The New Reformation (John Banim Poems)
Oh, did you hearWhat roaring cheer,What brave new coats ...
Heine In Paris (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
LATE: a cold smear of sunlight bathes the room;The gilt lime of winter, a sun grown melancholy old,Streams in the ...
In The Harbour: The Poet’s Calendar (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
JANUARYJanus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and belowI count, as god of avenues and gates, The years ...
The Demon Of The Study (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The Brownie sits in the Scotchman's room,And eats his meat and drinks his ale,And beats the maid with her unused ...
Making Home (John O Brien Poems)
No, you don't quite get the meaning when the fun is at its heightWith the neighbours at the breakfast, and ...
Broken Song (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Kasinath the new young singer fills the hall with sound:The seven notes dance in his throat like seven tame birds.His ...
Friendship And Single Life, Against Love And Marriage (John Denham Poems)
Love! in what poison is thy dart Dipp'd, when it makes a bleeding heart? None know but they who feel the smart.It ...
The Teak Forest (Laurence Hope Poems)
Whether I loved you who shall say?Whether I drifted down your wayIn the endless River of Chance and Change,And you ...
King Cophetua And The Beggar-Maid (Henry Morley Poems)
I read that once in Africa A princely wight did reign,Who had to name Cophetua, As poets they did feign:From nature's laws ...
From “Odi Barbare” (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
XXIVWhat is far hence led to the den of making:Moves unlike wildfire; not so simple-happyPloughman hammers ploughshare his durum dentemDigging ...
Everyday Characters II – Quince (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
Fallentis semita vit*. - Hor.Near a small village in the West,Where many very worthy peopleEat, drink, play whist, and do ...
Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex (Larry Levis Poems)
In the Borghese, Caravaggio, painter of boy whores, street punk, exile & murderer,Left behind his own face in the decapitated, ...