The Muses Threnodie: Sixth Muse (Henry Adamson Poems)
As we arrived at our Lady's Steps,Incontinent all men reversed their caps,Bidding us welcome home, and joining hand,They ask from ...
Smiling Poems (5687 Poems)
The Captivity (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
AN ORATORIOTHE PERSONS.FIRST ISRAELITISH PROPHET.SECOND ISRAELITISH PROPHET.ISRAELITISH WOMAN.FIRST CHALDEAN PRIEST.SECOND CHALDEAN PRIEST.CHALDEAN WOMAN.CHORUS OF YOUTHS AND VIRGINS.SCENE - The Banks ...
Laurance – [Part 3] (Jean Ingelow Poems)
And after that, though oft he sought her door,He might not see her. First they said to him,"She is not ...
The Island: Canto IV. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.White as a white sail on a dusky sea,When half the horizon 's clouded and half free,Fluttering between the dun ...
Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
Christ’s Triumph after Death : Canto IV. Christ’s Victory and Triumph (Giles Fletcher Jr Poems)
I.But now the second Morning, from her bow'r,Began to glister in her beams, and nowThe roses of the day began ...
Childhood (Henry Kirke White Poems)
PART I.Pictured in memory's mellowing glass, how sweetOur infant days, our infant joys, to greet;To roam in fancy in each ...
Bomb (Gregory Corso Poems)
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you Do I ...
Essay On War (Nathaniel Bloomfield Poems)
Man's sad necessity, destructive War,Sweeps to the grave the surplus of his sons,Where'er the kindly clime and soil inviteTo Love; ...
Festus – Proem (Philip James Bailey Poems)
This time is equal to all time that's goneOf like extent, nor heeds to hide its faceBefore the future: each ...
The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto I (Richard Savage Poems)
Fain would my verse, Tyrconnel, boast thy name,Brownlow, at once my subject and my fame!Oh! could that spirit, which thy ...
Mac Duff’s Cross (Joanna Baillie Poems)
MAC DUFF'S CROSS,A DRAMA.PRELUDE.NAY , smile not, lady, when I speak of witchcraft,And say that still there lurks amongst our ...
The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto II (Richard Savage Poems)
While thus a mind humane, and wise, he shows,All-eloquent of truth his language flows.Youth, tho' depress'd, thro' all his form ...
Laurance – [Part 2] (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Thus all were satisfied, and day by day,For two sweet years a happy course was theirs;Happy, but yet the fortunate, ...
Otho The Great – Act V (John Keats Poems)
SCENE I. A part of the Forest.Enter CONRAD and AURANTHE.Auranthe. Go no further; not a step more; thou artA master-plague ...
The Children’s Dance (John Wilson Poems)
How calm and beautiful the frosty nightHas stolen unnoticed like the hush of sleepO'er Grassmere-vale! Beneath the mellowing lightHow sinks ...
A Poem On The African Slave Trade. Addressed To Her Own Sex. Part I (Mary Birkett Card Poems)
OPPRESSION! thou, whose hard and cruel chain,Entails on all thy victims woe and pain;Who gives with tyrant force and scorpion ...
The Blind Girl Of Castel Cuille (Jacques Jasmin Poems)
Only the Lowland tongue of Scotland mightRehearse this little tragedy aright;Let me attempt it with an English quill;And take, O ...
Festus – III (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Follows a starry nightWhere in the talk of man and spirit we seeForeproven, the all--grasping mind's inordinate loveFor marvels, mysteries, ...
Shakuntala Act II (Kalidasa Poems)
ACT IISCENE - A PLAIN, with royal pavilions on the skirt of the forest.Madhavya. (Emperor's court jester)STRANGE recreation ...
The Kings Prophecie (Joseph Hall Poems)
What Stoick could his steely brest containe(If Zeno self, or who were made besideOf tougher mold) from being torne in ...
Contest Between Beauty And Wealth, (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
For the Sovereignty of the Island of Barbados.WHERE high Olympus lifts his head in clouds,And his majestic form in darkness ...
The Apollyonists – Canto 1 (Phineas Fletcher Poems)
IOf men, nay beasts; worse, monsters; worst of all,Incarnate fiends, English Italianate;Of priests, O no! mass-priests, priests-cannibal,Who make their Maker, ...
Fingal – Book IV (James Macpherson Poems)
ARGUMENT.The action of the poem being suspended by night, Ossian takes the opportunity to relate his own actions at the ...
Lathmon (James Macpherson Poems)
ARGUMENT.Lathmon, a British prince, taking advantage of Fingal's absence on an expedition to Ireland, made a descent on Morven, and ...
The Muses Threnodie: First Muse (Henry Adamson Poems)
Of Mr George Ruthven the tears and mournings,Amidst the giddie course of fortune's turnings,Upon his dear friend's death, Mr John ...
A Dialogue At Fiesole (Alfred Austin Poems)
HE.Halt here awhile. That mossy-cushioned seatIs for your queenliness a natural throne;As I am fitly couched on this low sward,Here ...
Lines On The Death Of The Princess Charlotte (John Anster Poems)
Weep!--for the wrath of God is over us!Weep!--for his arm is lifted to destroy!Famine hath thinned the land! in Autumn's ...
By The Seaside : The Building Of The Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind ...
Berrathah (James Macpherson Poems)
ARGUMENT.Fingal, in his voyage to Lochlin, whither he had been invited by Starno, the father of Agandecca, touched at Berrathon ...