Pygmaeo-gerano-machia: The Battle Of The Pygmies and Cranes (James Beattie Poems)
From the Latin of Addison.The pygmy-people, and the feather'd train,Mingling in mortal combat on the plain,I sing. Ye Muses, favour ...
Pride Poems (3589 Poems)
The Princess Of Peru (James Avis Bartley Poems)
Far to the wilds of rich Peru,Gonzalo came--of pallid hue,Strange in these Western lands of night,Where nought, save woman's eyes, ...
An Epistle To Dr. Moore (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
Whether dispensing hope, and easeTo the pale victim of disease,Or in the social crowd you sit,And charm the group with ...
The Hard Strait Of The Feinne (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
Now of the hard strait of the Feinne this legend's verse shall tell:When Fionn's men had fought and won, and ...
The Misanthrope Reclaimed – Act III (George W Sands Poems)
Scene I. Near the place of the damned. Enter Werner and Spirit.Werner.What piercing, stunning sounds assail my ear!Wild shrieks and ...
A Story Of Doom: Book VIII. (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Then one ran, crying, while Niloiya wrought,"The Master cometh!" and she went withinTo adorn herself for meeting him. And ShemWent ...
A Contrast (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Trained tenderly by Heaven and Earth,Up grew she to her gentle height,-Grew to the level of the lightThat shines by ...
A Letter To Monsieur Boileau Despreaux, Occasioned By The Victory At Blenheim (Matthew Prior Poems)
Since hired for life, thy servile Muse must singSuccessive conquests and a glorious King;Must of a man immortal vainly boast,And ...
The Quaker Alumni (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
From the well-springs of Hudson, the sea-cliffs of Maine,Grave men, sober matrons, you gather again;And, with hearts warmer grown as ...
A Shower In War-Time (Sydney Thompson Dobell Poems)
Rain, rain, sweet warm rain,On the wood and on the plain!Rain, rain, warm and sweet,Summer wood lush leafy and loud,With ...
The Island: Canto III. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.The fight was o'er; the flashing through the gloom,Which robes the cannon as he wings a tomb,Had ceased; and sulphury ...
Love’s Triumph (Nathaniel Bloomfield Poems)
AN ELEGIAC BALLAD.[The Expostulation.--Continued.--Fears ofPoverty.--Encouragement.--Baldwin's Song.--Deceitfulness of visionsindulgence.--Tormenting distressing Passions.--Comforts of a lowFortune.--Poverty in England contrasted with other Countries.--TheQuestion.... The ...
The Tent On The Beach (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
I would not sin, in this half-playful strain,--Too light perhaps for serious years, though bornOf the enforced leisure of slow ...
Sir Maurice (Joanna Baillie Poems)
SIR MAURICE was a wealthy lord,He liv'd in the north countrie,Well would he cope with foe-man's sword,Or the glance of ...
A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton (James Thomson Poems)
Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth,To mingle with his stars; and every muse,Astonish'd into silence, shun the ...
How Long (James Monroe Whitfield Poems)
How long, oh gracious God! how long Shall power lord it over right?The feeble, trampled by the strong, Remain in slavery's gloomy ...
The Youthful Villager And The Hermit (James Madison Bell Poems)
Once on a clear autumnal day, With weary heart and spirit bowed,I sought a silent scene away From all the turmoil of ...
Ginevra (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Wild, pale, and wonder-stricken, even as oneWho staggers forth into the air and sunFrom the dark chamber of a mortal ...
The Old Play (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
IIN an old play-house, in an old play,In an old piece that has been done to death,We dance, kind ladies, ...
“Now Summer with her wanton court is gone” (John Armstrong Poems)
Now Summer with her wanton court is goneTo revel on the south side of the world,And flaunt and frolic out ...
Policeman X (John Oxenham Poems)
IF HE WOULD BUT DAREI stood, unseen, within a sumptous room,Where one clothed all in white sat silently.So sweet his ...
Protestant Popery: Or, The Convocation – Canto II (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Whither, oh! whither must the Christian turn?From whom in this momentous Crisis learn?When shall the Church from worldly Pomps be ...
Blind (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
You think it is a sorry thing That I am blind. Your pitying Is welcome to me; yet indeed, I think I have but ...
The Conquest Of England (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
PART FIRSTDuke William stood on the Norman shore,With all his merry men round;And he will sail the blue seas o'er,To ...
Edwin and Angela, A Ballad (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
'Turn, gentle hermit of the dale,And guide my lonely way,To where yon taper cheers the valeWith hospitable ray.'For here, forlorn ...
The Fan : A Poem. Book II. (John Gay Poems)
Olympus' gates unfold: in heaven's high towersAppear in council all the immortal powers;Great Jove above the rest exalted sate,And in ...
Madness (Henry James Pye Poems)
An Epistle Yes, yes, my friend, I quit the fond pretence To cool reflection, and unbiass'd sense; Your hands have torn away the ...
Metamorphosis VIII, 611-724 (Ovid Poems)
Baucis and PhilemonTHUS Achelous ends: his audience hearWith admiration, and admiring, fearThe pow'rs of heav'n; except Ixion's son,Who laugh'd at ...
Beauty. Part II (Henry James Pye Poems)
Of all that Nature's rural prospects yield, The chrystal fountain and the flow'ry field, Enough, my Muse!-the force of Beauty trace Now in ...
Told By “The Noted Traveler” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Coming, clean from the Maryland-endOf this great National Road of ours,Through your vast West; with the time to spend,Stopping for ...