Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 03 – The World Is Not Eternal (Lucretius Poems)
And first,Since body of earth and water, air's light breath,And fiery exhalations (of which fourThis sum of things is seen ...
Power Poems (4499 Poems)
The Victory Of Suffering (John Conington Poems)
Oh for that Spirit, whose unearthly power Once deigned to rest on Patmos' desert clime, When the dire secrets of the future ...
Speranza (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Her younger sister, that Speranza hight.England puts on her purple, and pale, pale With too much light, the primrose doth but ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. II. (Patience – Perjury) (Henry Baker Poems)
Patience.See Consolation.--Where--e'er the FatesCall, or recall Us, let Us follow still:Whate'er it be, all Fortune is subdu'dBy Patience.--Evils, for which ...
The Nut-Brown Maid. A Poem. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Written three hundred years since.Be it right or wrong, these men amongOn women do complayne;Affyrmynge this, how that it isA ...
An After-Dinner Poem (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
(TERPSICHORE)Read at the Annual Dinner of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, atCambridge, August 24, 1843.IN narrowest girdle, O reluctant Muse,In ...
The Banker’s Secret (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THE Banker's dinner is the stateliest feastThe town has heard of for a year, at least;The sparry lustres shed their ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book II – Part 05 – Infinite Worlds (Lucretius Poems)
Once more, we all from seed celestial spring,To all is that same father, from whom earth,The fostering mother, as she ...
The Farewell (Khalil Gibran Poems)
And now it was evening.And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit that ...
The Island: Canto I. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.The morning watch was come; the vessel layHer course, and gently made her liquid way;The cloven billow flashed from off ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book V – Part 02 – Against Teleological (Lucretius Poems)
And walking nowIn his own footprints, I do follow throughHis reasonings, and with pronouncements teachThe covenant whereby all things are ...
The Haglets (Herman Melville Poems)
By chapel bare, with walls sea-beatThe lichened urns in wilds are lostAbout a carved memorial stoneThat shows, decayed and coral-mossed,A ...
Book V – Part 02 – Against Teleological Concept (Lucretius Poems)
And walking nowIn his own footprints, I do follow throughHis reasonings, and with pronouncements teachThe covenant whereby all things are ...
Peruvian Tales: Zilia, Tale III (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
PIZARRO takes possession of Cuzco—The fanaticism of VALVERDA , aSpanish priest—Its dreadful effects—A Peruvian priest put to the tor-ture—His Daughter's ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. II. (Magic – Man) (Henry Baker Poems)
Magic Power.See Circe. Enchantress.Charms ev'n from Heav'n can conjure down the Moon:Circe with Charms Ulysses' Mates transform'd:In Meadows the cold ...
Euterpe: A Cantanta (Henry Kendall Poems)
Argument.Hail to thee, Sound!-The power of Euterpe in all the scenes of life-in religion; in works of charity; in soothing ...
Down-Hall. A Ballad. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Tune. — "King John and the Abbot of Canterbury."I sing not old Jason who travell'd through GreeceTo kiss the fair ...
The Shepherd’s Calendar – August (John Clare Poems)
Harvest approaches with its bustling dayThe wheat tans brown and barley bleaches greyIn yellow garb the oat land intervenesAnd tawney ...
On the Bill Which Was Passed in England For Regulating the Slave-Trade (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
The hollow winds of night no moreIn wild, unequal cadence pour,On musing fancy's wakeful ear,The groan of agony severeFrom yon ...
The Brahmin’s Lament (Henry Hart Milman Poems)
The hostility of the kindred races of Pandu and Kuru forms one of the great circles of Indian fable. It fills ...
The Triumph Of Melancholy (James Beattie Poems)
1Memory, be still! why throng upon the thoughtThese scenes deep-stain'd with Sorrow's sable dye?Hast thou in store no joy-illumined draught,To ...
Thou Shalt Not Kill (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
A Memorial for Dylan Thomas IThey are murdering all the young men.For half a century now, every day,They have hunted them ...
Address To A Wild Deer In The Forest Of Dalness, Argyllshire (John Wilson Poems)
Magnificent Creature! so stately and bright!In the pride of thy spirit pursuing thy flight;For what hath the child of the ...
British Georgics. August (James Grahame Poems)
Intense the viewless flood of heat descendsOn hill, and dale, and wood, and tangled brake,Where, to the chirping grasshopper, the ...
Mazelli – Canto III (George W Sands Poems)
I.With plumes to which the dewdrops cling,Wide waves the morn her golden wing;With countless variegated beamsThe empurpled orient glows and ...
The Happy Cottagers (Patrick Branwell Bronte Poems)
One sunny morn of May, When dressed in flowery green The dewy landscape, charmed With Nature's fairest scene, In thoughtful mood I slowly strayed O'er hill ...
Elegy On The Enclosure Of Honington Green (Nathaniel Bloomfield Poems)
1 Improvement extends it's domain; The Shepherds of Britain deplore That the Coulter has furrow'd each plain, And their calling is needful no more. "Enclosing ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book III – Part 04 – Folly Of The Fear Of Death (Lucretius Poems)
Therefore death to usIs nothing, nor concerns us in the least,Since nature of mind is mortal evermore.And just as in ...
A Death in the Bush (Henry Kendall Poems)
The hut was built of bark and shrunken slabs,That wore the marks of many rains, and showedDry flaws wherein had ...
Emancipation (James Madison Bell Poems)
Harp of my soul, though thou hast hung Suspended from the willow boughTill much distorted, warped and sprung, And discord reigns within ...