A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Courage my Soul, now learn to wield The weight of thine immortal Shield. Close on thy Head thy Helmet bright. ...
Pleasure Poems (2903 Poems)
My Gentle Harp (Thomas Moore Poems)
My gentle Harp, once more I waken The sweetness of thy slumbering strain; In tears our last farewell was taken, ...
Oh! Blame Not the Bard (Thomas Moore Poems)
Oh! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers Where Pleasure lies, carelessly smiling at Fame; He was ...
Oh! Think Not My Spirits Are Always As Light (Thomas Moore Poems)
Oh! think not my spirits are always as light, And as free from a pang as they seem to you ...
One Bumper at Parting (Thomas Moore Poems)
One bumper at parting! -- though many Have circled the board since we met, The fullest, the saddest of any ...
Quick! We Have But a Second (Thomas Moore Poems)
Quick! we have but a second, Fill round the cup while you may; For time, the churl, hath beckon'd, And ...
Tis Sweet to Think (Thomas Moore Poems)
Tis sweet to think that, where'er we rove, We are sure to find something blissful and dear, And that, when ...
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love (Christopher Marlowe Poems)
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That hills and valleys, dales ...
Iceland First Seen (William Morris Poems)
Lo from our loitering ship a new land at last to be seen; Toothed rocks down the side of the ...
An Argument (Thomas Moore Poems)
I've oft been told by learned friars, That wishing and the crime are one, And Heaven punishes desires As much ...
Night (William Morris Poems)
I am Night: I bring again Hope of pleasure, rest from pain: Thoughts unsaid 'twixt Life and Death My fruitful ...
And Doth Not a Meeting Like This (Thomas Moore Poems)
And doth not a meeting like this make amends For all the long years I've been wandering away -- To ...
Song III: It Grew Up Without Heeding (William Morris Poems)
Love is enough: it grew up without heeding In the days when ye knew not its name nor its measure, ...
As a Beam O’er the Face of the Waters May Glow (Thomas Moore Poems)
As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below, ...
Song V: Through the Trouble and Tangle (William Morris Poems)
Love is enough: through the trouble and tangle From yesterday's dawning to yesterday's night I sought through the vales where ...
As Slow Our Ship (Thomas Moore Poems)
As slow our ship her foamy track Against the wind was cleaving, Her trembling pennant still look'd back To that ...
Song VIII: While Ye Deemed Him A-Sleeping (William Morris Poems)
Love is enough: while ye deemed him a-sleeping, There were signs of his coming and sounds of his feet; His ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 06 (John Milton Poems)
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Il Penseroso (John Milton Poems)
Hence, vain deluding Joys, ............The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested ............Or fill the fixed mind ...
Paradise Lost: Book 11 (John Milton Poems)
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Paradise Lost: Book 04 (John Milton Poems)
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Paradise Lost: Book 12 (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 08 (John Milton Poems)
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
Paradise Regained: The Fourth Book (John Milton Poems)
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
The Poet And His Book (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Down, you mongrel, Death! Back into your kennel! I have stolen breath In a stalk of fennel! You shall scratch ...
Green Fields (W. S. Merwin Poems)
By this part of the century few are left who believe in the animals for they are not there in ...
The Road That Runs Beside The River (Thomas Lux Poems)
follows the river as it bends along the valley floor, going the way it must. Where water goes, so goes ...