The Two MP’s (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
MAGAZINE PUBLISHER AND MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT)BEING A TRUE AND PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE GRAND MILLING MATCH THAT DIDN'T TAKE PLACESAYS ...
Parliament Poems (108 Poems)
Lines Of Annexation (Nora Pembroke Poems)
We honour Brother Jonathan, For what he has done and dared;Nobly and firmly he hath stood His freeborn rights to guard.And when ...
Standhen’s Song (John Hartley Poems)
Thou grand old Church of England! Though others raise their voice, And try to stain thy spotless name, Thou still shall be my ...
Rebel Tam (Joseph Corrie Poems)
When Rebel Tam was in the pitHe tholed the very pangs o' HellIn fectin' for the Richts o' Man,And ga'e ...
Sir Orfeo (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
We often read and written find,as learned men do us remind,that lays that now the harpers singare wrought of many ...
Sotweed redivivus (Benjamin Colman Poems)
{TO THE Generous SUBSCRIBERS, &c}. The Author finding all Attempts prove vain,Those glittering Smiles from Fortune to obtain:That purblind Goddess ...
Chomei At Toyama (Basil Bunting Poems)
(Kamo-no-Chomei, born at Kamo 1154, died at Toyama on Mount Hino, 24th June 1216) Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! On ...
The Borough. Letter XIX: The Parish-Clerk (George Crabbe Poems)
WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;The like slow speech was ...
Locksley Hall (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
.Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn: Leave me here, and when you want ...
A Pangyre (Ben Jonson Poems)
On the happy entrace of Iames, our Soveraigne, to His first high Session of Parliament in this his Kingdome, the ...
Up The River (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
TIS April! 'Tis a holyday! and they shut close yester-even The golden gates of Sydenham with the clang of iron ...
Percy Vere, The Peer’s Story – Introduction (Ernest Jones Poems)
TO MY READERS,-MY Life has been a wild, strange life,Now lulled in love-now wrapt in strife;I've had my dreams as ...
The Philistine (C J Dennis Poems)
Smith is a very stupid man; He lives next door to me;He has no settled scheme or plan ...
Jones M.P. (C J Dennis Poems)
It was thus in the beginning: With a sporting chance of winning, Jones contested an election years ago.He was young, ...
A Message To America (Alan Seeger Poems)
You have the grit and the guts, I know; You are ready to answer blow for blow You are virile, ...
The New Bath Guide: Part I, LetterVIII (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. Mr. B---n---r---d goes to the Rooms. His Opinion of Gaming. ...
The Gambler (Billy Bennett Poems)
A gambler born was young BasilHis finances were all of a latherA wayward boy, but his mother's joyAnd likewise, the ...
The Sale of Rebellious House-hold Stuff. To the tune of Old Simon the King (Anonymous British Poems)
Rebellion hath broken up house,And hath left me old lumber to sell;Come hither and take your choice,I'll promise to use ...
In The First Elective Ministry (C J Dennis Poems)
In the neolithic age of our Australia, long ago,There dwelt a wise old chieftain, as you probably don't know;His royal ...
The tiresome winter now is gone (Ambrosius Stub Poems)
AriaThe tiresome winter now is goneThe day so short, the night so longAt gentle paceDo change their face,Now must dark ...
The Member of Parliament (Billy Bennett Poems)
I've just been elected to Parliament,At Westminster I'm the big cheese,I'm also a Knight of the Garter, it's right In ...
Other Ingredients (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
To make a perfect fish menu,The witches found they had to placeUpon this alcoholic baseGreat stacks of food and spices ...
The Princess’s Finger-Nail: (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
All through the Castle of High-bred Ease,Where the chief employment was do-as-you-please,Spread consternation and wild despair.The queen was wringing her ...
The Night-Walk (George Meredith Poems)
Awakes for me and leaps from shroudAll radiantly the moon's own nightOf folded showers in streamer cloud;Our shadows down the ...
An Interlude (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
He: Blue, blue eternally, dark waves and skyBlue - and beyond unending deeps of blue,This and the emerald earth, the ...
The Actress’s Ways And Means To Industriously Raise The Wind! (Elizabeth Beverley Poems)
A TRUE mirror now I'll show, If attention you'll bestow,--The present times pourtray'd with its follies, O; ...
An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey (Abraham Cowley Poems)
As to a northern people (whom the sun Uses just as the Romish church has done Her prophane laity, and ...
Gentlemen! (C J Dennis Poems)
Gentlemen! a politician,One who values his position,Stands, with easy confidence,Here before you on the fence.For he knows full well, good ...
Frank and his Little Bank (C J Dennis Poems)
When he was quite a small boy, Frank Was fond of useful playthings;So he was given a toy bank That ...
Slackers (Abner Cosens Poems)
We condemn, as selfish slackers, Those not willing to enlist To oppose the Prussian Kultur ...