Wisdom (William Cowper Poem)
(Proverbs, viii. 22-31) "Ere God had built the mountains, Or raised the fruitful hills; Before he fill'd the fountains That ...
Proverbs Poems (82 Poems)
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The Cook’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. THE Cook of London, while the Reeve thus spake, For joy he laugh'd and clapp'd him on the ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
298. Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries (Robert Burns Poem)
NO song nor dance I bring from yon great city, That queens it o'er our taste-the more's the pity: Tho' ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
Press On (Calvin Coolidge Poem)
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men ...
Abide and Abide and Better Abide (Sir Thomas Wyatt Poems)
I abide and abide and better abide, And after the old proverb, the happy day; And ever my lady to ...
I Abide and Abide and Better Abide (Sir Thomas Wyatt Poems)
I abide and abide and better abide, And after the old proverb, the happy day; And ever my lady to ...
Tunbridge Wells (John Wilmot Poems)
At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head From Thetis' lap, I raised myself from bed, And mounting steed, ...
On The Death Of Mr. James Van Otton (William Strode Poems)
The first day of this month the last hath bin To that deare soule. March never did come in So ...
A Singing Lesson (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Far-fetched and dear-bought, as the proverb rehearses, Is good, or was held so, for ladies: but nought In a song ...
To A World-Reformer (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
"I Have sacrificed all," thou sayest, "that man I might succor; Vain the attempt; my reward was persecution and hate." ...
Words (Anne Sexton Poems)
Be careful of words, even the miraculous ones. For the miraculous we do our best, sometimes they swarm like insects ...
White (Charles Simic Poems)
A New Version: 1980 What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Walt Whitman One Out ...
Rosalind and Helen: a Modern Eclogue (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
ROSALIND, HELEN, and her Child. SCENE. The Shore of the Lake of Como. HELEN Come hither, my sweet Rosalind. 'T ...
An Evening in Dandaloo (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
It was while we held our races -- Hurdles, sprints and steplechases -- Up in Dandaloo, That a crowd of ...
Virgin In A Tree (Sylvia Plath Poems)
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...
The Prarie Battlements (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
(To Edgar Lee Masters, with great respect) HERE upon the prarie Is our ancestral hall. Agate is the dome, Cornelian ...
Strange Jokes (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Well: Death is a huge omnivorous Toad Grim squatting on a twilight road. He catcheth all that Circumstance Hath tossed ...