Cen’lin, Prince Of Mercia (Matilda Betham Poems)
WHEN Britain many chiefs obey'd,And seven Saxon princes sway'd,The Mercian monarch, fam'd afar,In peace respected, fear'd in war,Favour'd by heav'n ...
Respect Poems (388 Poems)
From Mount Ebal (John Bunyan Poems)
Thus having heard from Gerizzim, I shallNext come to Ebal, and you thither call,Not there to curse you, but to ...
Advice To A Youth (Rees Prichard Poems)
... Begin, ere thou dost older grow,Thy Saviour and thy God to know,His Statutes keep, his Word desire;So shall thy ...
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 ...
Tribute To Rev. William Paul Quinn (James Madison Bell Poems)
Late Senior Bishop, African M. E. Church.Death is the common lot of all, Yet nothing do we so much dread;Nothing, that ...
The Quid Pro Quo; Or The Mistakes (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
DAME FORTUNE often loves a laugh to raise,And, playing off her tricks and roguish ways,Instead of giving us what we ...
The Believer’s Principles : Chap. III. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
The Believer's Principles concerning Justification and Sanctification, their Difference and Harmony.Sect. I.The difference between Justification and Sanctification; or, Righteousness Imputed ...
Advice To The Drunkard (Rees Prichard Poems)
IF thou'rt a drunkard, fond of ale and wine,And smokest vile mundungus without end,Cry out with speed, unto th' Pow'r ...
America (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
NOR War nor Peace, forever, old and young,But Strength my theme, whose song is yet unsung,The People's Strength, the deep ...
The Truckers (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
THE change of food enjoyment is to man;In this, t'include the woman is my plan.I cannot guess why Rome will ...
Sunset (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
I KNOW you are not cruel, And you would not willingly hurt anything in the world. There is kindness in your eyes, There ...
August (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Oh, such a funny August house-- It really was like a zoo, For animals roamed in all the rooms (Even a kangaroo); Such sociable, ...
An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. Burleigh, May 14, 1689 (Matthew Prior Poems)
Sir,As once a twelvemonth to the priest,Holy at Rome, here Antichrist,The Spanish king presents a jennetTo show his love, -- ...
The Choice (John Pomfret Poems)
If heaven the grateful liberty would giveThat I might choose my method how to live,And all those hours propitious fate ...
To The Memory Of Sir Thomas Taylor, Bart. Late Of Maidstone In Kent. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Whence does this sudden, fatal Change proceed?For lo! Despair on ev'ry Brow I read,All shake their mournful Heads and pensive ...
Medulla Poetarum Romanorum – VOL. I. (Education – Eloquence ) (Henry Baker Poems)
Education.See Example. Parents and Children.Let no indecent Speech, or Action vile,Be known within the Walls where Youth is bred:Far, far ...
The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Up and down the village streetsStrange are the forms my fancy meets,For the thoughts and things of to-day are hid,And ...
To Mrs. Ward. By The Same. (Mary Barber Poems)
O thou, my beauteous, ever tender Friend,Thou, on whom all my worldly Joys depend,Accept these Numbers; and with Pleasure hearUnstudy'd ...
My Namesake (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Addressed to Francis Greenleaf Allison of Burlington, New Jersey.You scarcely need my tardy thanks,Who, self-rewarded, nurse and tend--A green leaf ...
Vpon The Sufferings Of Our Sauiour Iesus, Two Questions Discussed. (Henry Arthington Poems)
The former, Sith we all confesse,Our selues still sinners for to be,And that (as Scripture doth expresse)We ought to die ...
Of Justice (John Denham Poems)
'Tis the first sanction Nature gave to man,Each other to assist in what they can;Just or unjust, this law for ...
An Exhortation To Give God Thanks For Our Redemption Through Christ (Rees Prichard Poems)
O Let's applaud with one accord,And bless, from day to day, the Lord,Who gave for us his only Son,When we ...
Song I (George Wither Poems)
Lordly gallants! tell me this (Though my safe content you weigh not),In your greatness, what one bliss Have you gained, that I ...
The Vagabonds (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
WE are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger 's my dog.-Come here, you scamp!Jump for the gentlemen,-mind your eye! Over the table,-look ...
From “To a Writer of the Day” (Langdon Elwyn Mitchell Poems)
TECHNIQUE Could but this be broughtInto your ken,-that the technique is thought!Escape from "Style," the notion men can useWords without thoughts,-so ...
Poetic Lines, Addressed To Four Children (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
FOUR beggars at once! each imploring a poet,If the muses inspire, on their persons to show it;But the Helicon's distant--and ...
The Vindication of a Right Honourable Gentleman (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
Arma virumque cano.-- ~Virg.Why should so many curses come onThe hoary head of P---st D---d?(I think his real name, M'Gr---r,Would ...
My Curate’s Motor Bike (John O Brien Poems)
Before the lad invested we had comfort here indeed;Our lives were as an open book, and he who ran might ...
Advice To The Sick (Rees Prichard Poems)
THY mortal part shou'd sickness chance to seize,Consider, whence the fi'ry dart was sent,Consider, who inflicted the disease,And to what ...
Celia To Damon (Matthew Prior Poems)
What can I say? What Arguments can proveMy Truth? What Colors can describe my Love?If it's Excess and Fury be ...