London Lovers (Jan Struther Poems)
Country lovers play at loveIn a scene all laid for loving.Marriage-making stars aboveGossip and wink and look approving,While the moon ...
Property Poems (110 Poems)
A Gallery To The Temple. Vivacitye (Ralph Knevet Poems)
When Phoebus is ascendent in the morne, With the old Archer, or cold Capricorne, The world remaines forlorne: The Birds, are then as ...
The Farewell (Henry King Poems)
Splendidis longum valedico nugis.Farewell fond Love, under whose childish whip,I have serv'd out a weary Prentiship;Thou that hast made me ...
The Condition of Kings Human (Philip Massinger Poems)
Wherefore pay youThis adoration to a sinful creature?I am flesh and blood, as you are, sensibleOf heat and cold, as ...
Rough Country (Dana Gioia Poems)
Give me a landscape made of obstacles,of steep hills and jutting glacial rock,where the low-running streams are quick to floodthe ...
An Elegy On Ben Jonson (John Cleveland Poems)
WHO first reform'd our Stage with justest Lawes, And was the first best Judge in his owne Cause? Who (when ...
Dream Song 115: Her properties, like her of course & frisky & new (John Berryman Poems)
Her properties, like her of course & frisky & new:a stale cake sold to kids, a 7-foot weedinside in the ...
Insomnia (Dana Gioia Poems)
Now you hear what the house has to say.Pipes clanking, water running in the dark,the mortgaged walls shifting in discomfort,and ...
Farewell, Love (Sir Thomas Wyatt Poems)
Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever:Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.Senec and Plato call me from ...
Sonnet XII (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
I HATE the vast array of "modern" things,Gilt and pale purple, yellow, pink, and white;Dull imitations and a thousand lightAnd ...
Birds, Converging (Christianne Balk Poems)
Sun salved, we sit on the front porch, carefulwhen we speak, watching the crows swagger nearthe property line, dabbing - ...
The Boyes answer to the Blackmoor (Henry King Poems)
Black Maid, complain not that I fly,When Fate commands Antipathy:Prodigious might that union prove,Where Night and Day together move,And the ...
What is Liquid? (Margaret Cavendish Poems)
All that doth flow we cannot liquid nameOr else would fire and water be the same;But that is liquid which ...
Two Ways (Jacobus Revius Poems)
Ashen is between white and black,Tough is between soft and hard,Tepid is a property between hot and cold.But between curse ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Fifteenth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Joy was in Israel; for all hoped that, now, A three days' journey in the wilderness Verily should they go, ...
The Apology (Charles Churchill Poems)
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
A Voice From The Factories (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
WHEN fallen man from Paradise was driven, Forth to a world of labour, death, and care; Still, of his native ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Second (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
''Powers, erst of heaven; and, haply, yet again, As, with the years, we wiser, mightier grow, Thither, triumphant, destined to ...
The Poem of Antar (Anonymous Asian Poems)
Have the poets left in the garment a place for a patch to be patched by me;and did you know ...
The Ginestra, (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
OR THE FLOWER OF THE WILDERNESS. Here, on the arid ridge Of dead Vesuvius, Exterminator terrible, That by no other ...
The Duellist – Book II (Charles Churchill Poems)
Deep in the bosom of a wood,Out of the road, a Temple stood:Ancient, and much the worse for wear,It call'd ...
The Poem Of Antar (Antar Poems)
Have the poets left in the garment a place for a patch to be patched by me; and did you ...
The Poem of Zuhair (Anonymous Asian Poems)
Does the blackened ruin, situated in the stony groundbetween Durraj and Mutathallam, which did not speak to me,when addressed, belong ...
The Ridge Farm (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"The ridge is open to all moody weather: The bruisings of the blizzard leave it numb; From the scorched south ...
The Tallow Chandler (Charles Robert Forrester Poems)
Oh! sadly sing my weeping Muse 'Till Echo mourn again; An honest Tallow-Chandler's dirge, Should be a melting strain. Although ...
Brown’s Tram (C J Dennis Poems)
A city clerk was Henry Brown,Whose suburb knew nor tram nor train;And ev'ry morn he walked to town. From nine ...
To Cynthia On Her Coynesse (Francis Kynaston Poems)
What sweetnesse is in fruits, in Nectorine, Peach, cherry, apricocke, those lips of ...
The Legends Of The Rhine (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Beetling walls with ivy grown,Frowning heights of mossy stone;Turret, with its flaunting flagFlung from battlemented crag;Dungeon-keep and fortaliceLooking down a ...
Stacking The Straw (Amy Clampitt Poems)
In those days the oatfields' fenced-in vats of running platinum, the yellower alloy of wheat and barley, whose end, however ...
Fire Bugs (C J Dennis Poems)
Look 'ere. I'll bet a 'arf-a-crown To anythink you like to name (said Bushy Bill),If country fellers went to town,An' ...