The Temple of Friendship (Voltaire Poems)
Sacred to peace, within a wood's recess,A blest retreat, where courtiers never press,A temple stands, where art did never tryWith ...
Voltaire Poems (11 Poems)
Thelema and Macareus (Voltaire Poems)
Thelema's lively, all admireHer charms, but she's too full of fire;Impatience ever racks her breast,Her heart a stranger is to ...
The Padlock (Voltaire Poems)
I triumphed, love's victorious powerPrevailed, and near approached the hourWhich should have crowned our mutual flame,Just then your tyrant husband ...
Azolan (Voltaire Poems)
At village lived, in days of yore,A youth bred in Mahomet's lore;His well-turned limbs were formed with grace,With blooming beauty ...
On the Death of Adrienne Lecouvreur, A Celebrated Actress (Voltaire Poems)
Hat sight of woe thus harrows up my soul!Must those love-darting eyes in anguish roll?Shall ghastly death such charms divine ...
The Origin of Trades (Voltaire Poems)
When with a skilful hand Prometheus madeA statue that the human form displayed,Pandora, his own work, to wed he chose,And ...
To a Lady Very Well Known to the Whole Town (Voltaire Poems)
Phillis, how much the times are changed,Since in a hack the town you ranged,Since without finery or train you shone,Conspicuous ...
To the Queen of Hungary (Voltaire Poems)
Princess, descended from that noble raceWhich still in danger held the imperial throne,Who human nature and thy sex dost grace,Whose ...
To Her Royal Highness, the Princess of *** (Voltaire Poems)
Abeauteous princess often mayLanguish in pleasure's season gay;The empty forms of haughty stateOft make life tedious to the great.It must ...
From Love to Friendship (Voltaire Poems)
If you would have me love once more,The blissful age of love restore;From wine's free joys, and lovers' cares,Relentless time, ...
In Camp Before Philippsburg (Voltaire Poems)
Without a bed we now sleep soundAnd take our meals upon the ground;And though the blazing atmosphereMust dreadful to the ...