Advice, Concerning The Government Of Our Thoughts (Rees Prichard Poems)
The mind of ev'ry man, alas!Is naturally vile and base,And thinks on nought, but what is bad,'Till it the second ...
Obedience Poems (836 Poems)
To the Lord Chancellor Hyde. Presented on New-Year’s Day, 1662 (John Henry Dryden Poems)
My Lord,While flattering crowds officiously appearTo give themselves, not you, an happy year,And by the greatness of their presents proveHow ...
Euphelia (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
As roam'd a pilgrim o'er the mountain drear, On whose lone verge the foaming billows roar,The wail of hopeless sorrow pierc'd ...
A Ballad, Shewing How An Old Woman Rode Double, And Who Rode Before Her (Robert Southey Poems)
The Raven croak'd as she sate at her meal,And the Old Woman knew what he said,And she grew pale at ...
The Rainbow (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
The shower is past, and the sky O'erhead is both mild and serene, Save where a few drops from on high, Like gems, ...
Ode To Napoleon Buonaparte (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
'Expends Annibalem:--quot libras in duce summoInvenies?~JUVENAL., Sat. X.I.Tis done--but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive--And now thou art ...
Advice To A Sinner, To Come To Christ (Rees Prichard Poems)
COME, thou vile wretch, thou veteran in sin,With faith and tears, come to the Son of God!'Tis He, the Son ...
The Blackfeet (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
I.Where the snow-world of the mountains Fronts the sea-like world of sward,And encamped along the prairies Tower the white peaks heavenward;Where they ...
Roman Elegies (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake?All ...
The Sufferings of Faro Parts I, II (Margaret Chalmers Poems)
The following lines were suggested by the circumstance of a boat, from the Faro Islands, stopping at Lerwick, on her ...
Festus – VIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Comes on a quarrel stormy and stern, if brief,'Tween the two foe friends, this demanding whatCannot be;--who immunity shall secure'Gainst ...
An Ode – Presented To The King, On His Majesty’s Arrival In Holland, After The Queen’s Death (Matthew Prior Poems)
At Mary's tomb (sad sacred place!)The Virtues shall their vigils keep,And every Muse and every GraceIn solemn state shall ever ...
Winter Thoughts (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Stern Winter! stormy, sullen, cold, and dun,Thou joyless outcast from the genial sun,Thou gloomiest offspring of the rolling year,With front ...
Lines (Judith Sargent Murray Poems)
LINES, Inscribed to an amiable, and affectionate Mother, upon the Death of her eldest Son, who fell a victim to ...
Winona – Death Of Winona (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Down the broad _Ha-Ha Wak-pa_ the band took their way to the Games at _Keoza_While the swift-footed hunters by land ran the ...
Lines, Inscribed To An Amiable, And Affectionate Mother (Judith Sargent Murray Poems)
Lines, Inscribed to an amiable, and affectionate Mother, upon the Death of her eldest Son, who fell a victim to ...
A Prayer For A Sick Person (Rees Prichard Poems)
O God of justice, health's immortal Sire!Thou Judge of all! thou raiser of the low!O hear my suit, and grant ...
An Exhortation To Give God Thanks For Our Redemption Through Christ (Rees Prichard Poems)
O Let's applaud with one accord,And bless, from day to day, the Lord,Who gave for us his only Son,When we ...
Abt Volger (Robert Browning Poems)
(after he has been extemporizing upon the musical instrument of his invention)</i>Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I ...
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 ...
An Earnest Prayer For Pardon Of Sins (Rees Prichard Poems)
O Lord, my God! who formedst me of nought!My Saviour, who from death his servant bought!O Holy Ghost! O Trinity ...
Life (Joanna Baillie Poems)
THE ministering spirits from aboveDescend with energy creative fraught,They breathe on nature with the breath of love,And lo! she wakens ...
Yusuf and Zuleikha (Excerpt 2) (Jami2 Poems)
O joy too great!—-O hour too blest!He comes—-they hail him—-now, more near,His eager courser's feet I hear.Oh heart! be hushed ...
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 Complaint And The Advice Of Dives, To His Five Brethren (Part 2) (Rees Prichard Poems)
A Deep and bottomless abyss,My drear and dismal dungeon is,And all its walls are rais'd so high,That none can o'er ...
Poetic Lines, Addressed To Four Children (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
FOUR beggars at once! each imploring a poet,If the muses inspire, on their persons to show it;But the Helicon's distant--and ...
Concluding Tale, In The Style Of Alphonso The Brave And Fair Imogene. (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
WHEN evening's pale light had retired from the plain,And night had the valley o'erspread;When the dew was converted to big ...
Ambition And Content: A Fable (Mark Akenside Poems)
"Optat quietem." -Hor.While yet the world was young, and men were few,Nor lurking fraud, nor tyrant rapine knew,In virtue rude, ...
Hans Carvel (Matthew Prior Poems)
Hans Carvel, impotent and old,Married a lass of London mould.Handsome? Enough; extremely gay;Loved music, company, and play:High flights she had, ...
A Scene In Italy And Switzerland (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
Suggested by a Dream.TRANSPORT me, Fancy, to those milder skies,Where "the whole year in gay confusion lies,"Where rich cascades in ...