Art poems

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Chorus of Athenians

© Alexander Pope

Strophe I.

Ye shades, where sacred truth is sought;

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Metamorphoses: Book The Fifth

© Ovid

 The End of the Fifth Book.


 Translated into English verse under the direction of
 Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison,
 William Congreve and other eminent hands

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The Double-Headed Snake of Newbury

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Far away in the twilight time

Of every people, in every clime,

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The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 11

© William Langland

Thanne Scriptare scorned me and a skile tolde,
And lakked me in Latyn and light by me sette,
And seide, " Multi multa sciunt et seipsos nesciunt.'
Tho wepte I for wo andwrathe of hir speche
And in a wynkynge w[o]rth til I [weex] aslepe.

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The Dunciad: Book IV

© Alexander Pope

She mounts the throne: her head a cloud conceal'd,
In broad effulgence all below reveal'd;
('Tis thus aspiring Dulness ever shines)
Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.

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Palmyra (1st Edition)

© Thomas Love Peacock

  --anankta ton pantôn huperbal-
  lonta chronon makarôn.
  Pindar. Hymn. frag. 33

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Book Thirteenth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored Concluded]

© William Wordsworth

FROM Nature doth emotion come, and moods

Of calmness equally are Nature's gift:

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Sauve Patria

© Ramon Lopez Velarde

Yo que sólo canté de la exquisita
partitura del íntimo decoro,
alzo hoy la voz a la mitad del foro
a la manera del tenor que imita
la gutural modulación del bajo,
para cortar a la epopeya un gajo.

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The Courtship Of Miles Standish

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thereupon answered the youth:  "Indeed I do not condemn you;
Stouter hearts that a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter.
Yours is tender and trusting, and needs a stronger to lean on;
So I have come to you now, with an offer and proffer of marriage
Made by a good man and true, Miles Standish the Captain of Plymouth!"

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Cuaresmal

© Ramon Lopez Velarde

Tu paz -¡oh paz de cada día-
Y mi dolor que es inmortal,
Se han de casar, Amada mía,
En una noche cuaresmal.

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The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 10

© William Langland

Thanne hadde Wit a wif, was hote Dame Studie,

That lene was of lere and of liche bothe.

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The Muses Threnodie: Seventh Muse

© Henry Adamson

To Moncrieff eastern, then to Wallace town,
To Fingask of Dundas; thence passing down
Unto the Rynd, as martial men we fare;—
What life man's heart could wish more void of care?
Passing the river Earn, on the other side,
Drilling our sojers, vulgars were afraid.

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Prothalamion

© Horace Smith

Go, like St. Simon, on your lonely tower,
Wish to make all men good, but want the power.
Freedom you'll have, but still will lack the thrall,--
The bond of sympathy, which binds us all.
Children and wives are hostages to fame,
But aids and helps in every useful aim.

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L'Aveugle

© André Marie de Chénier

'Dieu dont l'arc est d'argent, dieu de Claros, écoute;
  O Sminthée-Apollon, je périrai sans doute,
  Si tu ne sers de guide à cet aveugle errant.'

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Notes To A Neophyte

© Sylvia Plath

Take the general mumble,
blunt as the faceless gut
of an anonymous clam,
vernacular as the strut
of a slug or a small preamble
by snail under hump of home:

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Thoughts Suggested By A College Examination

© George Gordon Byron

High in the midst, surrounded by his peers,
MAGNUS his ample front sublime up rears:
Placed on his chair of state, he seems a god.
While Sophs and Freshmen tremble at his nod.

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The Angler's Ballad

© Charles Cotton

AWAY to the brook,
All your tackle out look,
Here's a day that is worth a year's wishing;
See that all things be right,
For 'tis a very spite
To want tools when a man goes a-fishing.

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The Bard

© Thomas Gray

I. 1.

"Ruin seize thee, ruthless King!

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A Water-Color

© James Whitcomb Riley

Low hidden in among the forest trees
  An artist's tilted easel, ankle-deep
  In tousled ferns and mosses, and in these
  A fluffy water-spaniel, half asleep
  Beside a sketch-book and a fallen hat--
  A little wicker flask tossed into that.