The Iliad: Book 12 (Homer Poems)
So the son of Menoetius was attending to the hurt of Eurypyluswithin the tent, but the Argives and Trojans still ...
Security Poems (91 Poems)
Rhodon And Iris. Act III (Ralph Knevet Poems)
SCEN. 1.Clematis Solo Well, if I were but once rid of her service, If I ever serv'd love-sicke mistris againe, I would feed all ...
The Believer’s Jointure : Chapter I. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
Containing the Privileges of the Believer that is espoused to Christ by faith of divine operation.Sect. I.The Believer's perfect beauty, ...
Europe : Lines On The Present War (Reginald Heber Poems)
At that dread season when th' indignant NorthPour'd to vain wars her tardy numbers forth,When Frederic bent his ear to ...
Under The Old Elm (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Poem Read At Cambridge On The Hundredth Anniversary Of Washington's Taking Command Of The American ArmyIWords pass as wind, but ...
A Postscript unto the Reader (Michael Wigglesworth Poems)
And now good Reader, I return againTo talk with thee, who hast been at the painTo read throughout, and heed ...
The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter III. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
The Fruits of the Believer's Marriage with Christ, particularly gospel-holiness and obedience to the Law as a rule.Sect. I.The sweet ...
The Conflict For Civil Rights (Henry McNeal Turner Poems)
I.A Golden House on golden columns raised,In redly tinted skies bespangled blazed;With opening doors diffused a gladsome light,And glorious gleams ...
Otho The Great – Act IV (John Keats Poems)
SCENE I. AURANTHE'S Apartment.AURANTHE and CONRAD discovered.Conrad. Well, well, I know what ugly jeopardyWe are cag'd in; you need not ...
The Fovrth Booke Of Qvodlibets (Robert Hayman Poems)
1. To the Reader.Sermons and Epigrams haue a like end,To improue, to reproue, and to amend:Some passe without this vse, ...
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 Falcon (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed,The sort of lover, avaricious named;And if in opposites we reason see,The liberal in ...
I Am With Terrorism (Nizar Qabbani Poems)
We are accused of terrorism:if we defended rose and womanand the mighty verse...and the blueness of sky...A dominion... nothing left ...
The Spiritual Canticle (St John of the Cross Poems)
ITHE BRIDEWhere have You hidden Yourself,And abandoned me in my groaning, O my Beloved?You have fled like the hart,Having wounded ...
Meditation on the Inconstancy and Vanity of the World (Mary Stuart Poems)
When it is meet for rest to be our guideAnd for a while set every care aside,A memory of my ...
PARADOX. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man (Henry King Poems)
Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?He may as useful, and more constant prove.Experience shews you that maturer ...
Reflection (Riann Erucolii Poems)
The light that spills through the crack in the doorIllumines only her faceAnd my grandmother smilesIf only all of life ...
The Naini Tal Catastrophe Of The 18th September, 1880 (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
The morning broke with streams of welcome rain,Such as the two preceding ones had brought.Rain, that in tropic climes means ...
The Death of Parson Caldwell’s Wife (Mercy Warren Poems)
THE outrage of innocence in instances too numerous to be recorded, of the wanton barbarity of the soldiers of the ...
Summer: Friday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Hour after hour steals rapidly away,Bearing past pleasures on its airy wings,E'en like the sunny clouds, which evening's rayGilds with ...
A Legal Mouse (Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer Poems)
A lawyer had a legal mouse,A naughty one they say,That took possession of his houseAnd papers ev'ry day,His books and ...
Fear of the Inexplicable (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
But fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverishedthe existence of the individual; the relationship betweenone human being and another ...
The Dawning (Henry Vaughan Poems)
Ah! what time wilt Thou come? when shall that cry,"The bridegroom's coming," fill the sky?Shall it in the evening run,When ...
Religion (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
AN ESSAY IN COUPLETS.WHAT blesses yet is difficult,This--goodness: worship, the result.What man doth worship man doth love,And what he loveth ...
Th’ Lad ‘At Loves His Mother (John Hartley Poems)
Aw like to see a lot o' lads All frolicsome an free,An hear ther noisy voices, As they run an shaat wi' ...
The Prostitute (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Woman of weeping eye, ah! for thy wretched lot,Putting on smiles to lure the lewd passenger,Smiling while anguish gnaws at ...
The Escape (John Freeman Poems)
Like one who runsFearful at night, he knows not why,Dreading the loneliness, yet shunsThe highway's casual company; Wherefore he hastes,The friendly ...
Written In Zimmermanns Solitude. (Matilda Betham Poems)
HAIL, melancholy sage! whose thoughtful eye,Shrunk from the mere spectator's careless gaze,And, in retirement sought the social smile,The heart-endearing aspect, ...
A Wise Man–builds upon a Rock (John Bowring Poems)
He builds his house upon the sand, Who builds, great God! on aught but Thee!He is a wanderer in the land,Who ...
The Rhythm Of Life (Jewell Miller Poems)
O youth, with your eager right hand up-flungAbove Time's level line,With the wine of life in your rippling limbsAnd hope-lit ...