All Poems
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Faris
© Adam Mickiewicz
In vain, in vain they threaten me!
I speed on with redoubled blows.
The haughty crags have I outgazed,
And, where such hostile front they raised,
Now in a long defile they flee,
Nor one behind another shows.
Sonnet To Henry Cowper, Esq.
© William Cowper
Cowper, whose silver voice, tasked sometimes hard,
Legends prolix delivers in the ears
(Attentive when thou read'st) of England's peers,
Let verse at length yield thee thy just reward.
The Dunciad: Book II.
© Alexander Pope
Not with more glee, by hands Pontific crown'd,
With scarlet hats wide-waving circled round,
Rome in her Capitol saw Querno sit,
Throned on seven hills, the Antichrist of wit.
Peace
© Rupert Brooke
Oh! we who have known shame, we have found release there,
Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending,
Nought broken save this body, lost but breath;
Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there
But only agony, and that has ending;
And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
I Have Lived and I Have Loved
© Charles Mackay
I have lived and I have loved;
I have waked and I have slept;
I have sung and I have danced;
I have smiled and I have wept;
The Calm Of The Sea
© Adam Mickiewicz
The flag on the pavilion barely stirs,
The water quivers gently in the sun
Life
© Frances Anne Kemble
At morna mountain ne'er to be climbed o'er,
A horn of plenty, lengthening evermore;
Sonnett - X
© James Russell Lowell
I cannot think that thou shouldst pass away,
Whose life to mine is an eternal law,
If All Were Rain And Never Sun
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
If all were rain and never sun,
No bow could span the hill;
If all were sun and never rain,
Thered be no rainbow still.
The Island Hunting-Song
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
No more the summer floweret charms,
The leaves will soon be sere,
A Vernal Hymn
© Paul Hamilton Hayne
THE fresh spring burgeons into bloom--
And Earth with all her vernal charms
Lies like a queenly bride enclasped
Within her heavenly bridegroom's arms;
L'Ennemi (The Enemy)
© Charles Baudelaire
Ma jeunesse ne fut qu'un ténébreux orage,
Traversé çà et là par de brillants soleils;
Le tonnerre et la pluie ont fait un tel ravage,
Qu'il reste en mon jardin bien peu de fruits vermeils.
Mary Ambree
© Andrew Lang
When captaines couragious, whom death cold not daunte,
Did march to the siege of the citty of Gaunt,
They mustred their souldiers by two and by three,
And the formost in battle was Mary Ambree.
Georges Et Jeanne
© Victor Marie Hugo
Moi qu'un petit enfant rend tout à fait stupide,
J'en ai deux ; George et Jeanne ; et je prends l'un pour guide
Oft Have I Vowd How Dearly I Did Love Thee
© John Wilbye
Oft have I vowd how dearly I did love thee,
And oft observd thee with all willing duty,
Paganis, November 8
© Ezra Pound
Suddenly discovering in the eyes of the very beautiful
Normande cocotte
The eyes of the very learned British Museum assistant.
The Galaxy
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Torrent of light and river of the air,
Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen
To Clementina Black
© Amy Levy
More blest than was of old Diogenes,
I have not held my lantern up in vain.
Not mine, at least, this evil-to complain:
"There is none honest among all of these."
