The Wolf And Shepherds. A Fable (James Beattie Poems)
Laws, as we read in ancient sages,Have been like cobwebs in all ages:Cobwebs for little flies are spread,And laws for ...
Sports Poems (878 Poems)
Eclogue VII (Virgil Poems)
MELIBOEUS, CORYDON, THYRSISDaphnis beneath a rustling ilex-treeHad sat him down; Thyrsis and CorydonHad gathered in the flock, Thyrsis the sheep,And ...
A Digger’s Tale (Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis Poems)
'My oath!' the Duchess sez. 'You'd not ixpectSich things as that. Yeh don't mean kangaroos?Go hon!' she sez, or words ...
Three Jolly Huntsmen (Jessie Pope Poems)
Three jolly, old huntsmen, Joe, Jerry, Jim,Took lunch at "The Three Cornered Hat";Now Jerry was lanky, but Joe wasn't slim,And ...
The Three Sons (John Moultrie Poems)
I have a son, a little son, a boy just five years old,With eyes of thoughtful earnestness, and mind of ...
To Sleep (Maria Logan Poems)
HASTE! gentle Sleep! in pity shedThy blessings on my weary head:Come! but do not come alone,Bring the partners of thy ...
The Double-Heade (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Far away in the twilight timeOf every people, in every clime,Dragons and griffins and monsters dire,Born of water, and air, ...
The Hindoo Lover’s Address (Laura Sophia Temple Poems)
To the EVENING BREEZE.Go, wanton Breeze, to Cashmere's wavey groves,Whose wild, and tangled haunts, my fair one loves ;There gaily ...
The Sorrows Of Memory (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
IN vain to me the howling deepStern Winter's awful reign discloses:In vain shall Summer zephyrs sleepOn fragrant beds of budding ...
The Captains (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Captains sailed from all the World-from all the world and Spain;And each one for his country's ease, her glory ...
The Pastor’s Complaint (Rees Prichard Poems)
What sorrows in my soul, O God! arise,The vast perverseness of mankind to see?Shou'd any strive to lead them to ...
Charles The Fifth’s Clocks (John Quincy Adams Poems)
With Charles the Fifth art thou acquainted, reader?Of Ferdinand and Isabel the grandson,In ages past of Europe's realms file leader,Among ...
The Foolish Traveller; Or, A Good Inn Is A Bad Home (Hannah More Poems)
There was a Prince of high degree,As great and good as Prince could be;Much power and wealth were in his ...
Verses Addressed To My Two Nephews (Helen Maria Williams Poems)
ON SAINT HELEN'S DAY, 1809.DEAR Boys!--dismiss'd awhile from school,From sober learning's thorny rule,--The annual race of glory run,The prize bestow'd, ...
The Teuton’s Battle-Song (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
The mighty Woden laughs upon his throne, And once more claims his children for his own. The voice of Thor resounds again ...
Of The Nature Of Things: Book II – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the windsRoll up its waste of waters, from the landTo watch another's labouring ...
Book II – Part 01 – Proem (Lucretius Poems)
'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the windsRoll up its waste of waters, from the landTo watch another's labouring ...
Christmas (Henry Timrod Poems)
How grace this hallowed day?Shall happy bells, from yonder ancient spire,Send their glad greetings to each Christmas fire Round which the ...
A Town (Jane Taylor Poems)
A BUSY town mid Britain's isle, Behold in fancy's eye ;With tower, and spire, and civic pile, Beneath a summer sky :And ...
The Logicians Refuted (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
IN IMITATION OF DEAN SWIFTLOGICIANS have but ill defin'dAs rational, the human kind;Reason, they say, belongs to man,But let them ...
The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IWhere's your kingdom, little king? Where the land you call your own, Where your palace and your throne?Fluttering lightly on the wing Through ...
Harvest-Home (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
WHO has not seen the chearful Harvest HomeEnliv'ning the scorch'd field, and greeting gayThe slow decline of Autumn ? All ...
Fragment VI (James Macpherson Poems)
Son of the noble Fingal, Oscian,Prince of men! what tears run downthe cheeks of age? what shades thymighty soul?Memory, son ...
Country Life (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
I. Against.Think not thou that fields and flowers,Copses and Arcadian bowers, Grow the crop of Peace :—In this model life of ...
A Pastoral Dialogue Between Two Shepherdesses (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade,Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid,Whilst the World dissolves in Heat,Take this cool, and ...
Spring: Saturday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Hours, days, weeks,—so our life-time flows—Gently, as melt the vernal snowsBeneath the sun; they pass away,Like dew-drops in the eye ...
The Sun Hath Twice (Henry Howard Poems)
The sun hath twice brought forth the tender green, And clad the earth in lively lustiness; Once have the winds the trees ...
Ugolino (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
INFERNO 33, 22-75.Now had the loophole of that dungeon, stillWhich bears the name of Famine's Tower from me,And where 'tis ...
The Southerly Buster (Henry Lawson Poems)
There's a wind that blows out of the South in the drought, And we pray for the touch of his breathWhen ...
An Hypothesis (Judith Sargent Murray Poems)
Last night unpleasing visions round my head,In horror clad, their baleful influence spread!Spectres most ghastly rose before my view,And every ...