Pet poems
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The Borough. Letter VI: Professions--Law
© George Crabbe
"TRADES and Professions"--these are themes the Muse,
Left to her freedom, would forbear to choose;
The Angel In The House. Book II. Canto XI.
© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
IV Constancy rewarded
I vow'd unvarying faith, and she,
To whom in full I pay that vow,
Rewards me with variety
Which men who change can never know.
In Seditionem Horrendam, Corruptelis Gallicus Ut Fertue, Londini Nuper Exortam
© William Cowper
Perfida, crudelis, victa et lymphata furore,
Non armis, laurum Gallia fraude petit.
Venalem pretio plebem conducit, et urit
Undique privatas patriciasque domos.
The Flight Of Youth
© Hartley Coleridge
YOUTH, thou art fled, - but where are all the charms
Which, though with thee they came, and passed with thee,
Thespis: Act II
© William Schwenck Gilbert
Jupiter, Aged Diety
Apollo, Aged Diety
Mars, Aged Diety
Diana, Aged Diety
Mercury
Altiora Peto
© George Essex Evans
To each there came the passion and the fire,
The breadth of vision and the sudden light,
And for a moment on an earthly lyre
Quivered a tremor of the Infinite;
Yet to each poet of that deep-browed throng
Twas but the shadow of Immortal Song.
The Flower
© Grace Hazard Conkling
But the sun against the tall Pacific
Does not shine and triumph in my memory of that day
As do the leaf-shaped magenta petals
Of that flower you stole for me
From a roadside bougainvillea.
Paracelsus: Part IV: Paracelsus Aspires
© Robert Browning
Festus.
So strange
That I must hope, indeed, your messenger
Has mingled his own fancies with the words
Purporting to be yours.
Apparition (1)
© Louis Honoré Fréchette
J'étais allé parer ma chaloupe côtière,
Sur la pointe, là-bas, en amont des brisants,
Pour un voyage au Bic. D'après les médisants,
Dieu voulut me punir, car c'était un dimanche.
Pas plus de vent que sur la main ; mais en revanche,
Un brouillard, mes enfants, à couper au couteau.
The Squanderer
© Wilcox Ella Wheeler
God gave him passions, splendid as the sun,
Meant for the lordliest purposes; a part
The Moral Bully
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
YON whey-faced brother, who delights to wear
A weedy flux of ill-conditioned hair,
A Mathematical Problem
© Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This is now--this was erst,
Proposition the first--and Problem the first.
On a Wet Day
© Franco Sacchetti
As I walked thinking through a little grove,
Some girls that gathered flowers came passing me,
Sonnet XLIII: Thou Canst Not Die
© Samuel Daniel
Thou canst not die whilst any zeal abound
In feeling hearts that can conceive these lines;
