Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Lonely Burial
There were not many at that lonely place,Where two scourged hills met in a little plain.The wind cried loud in gusts, then low again.Three pines..
© Stephen Vincent Benet
Love In Twilight
There is darkness behind the light -- and the pale light dripsCold on vague shapes and figures, that, half-seen loomLike the carven prows of proud..
© Stephen Vincent Benet
Elegy For An Enemy
(For G. H.)Say, does that stupid earthWhere they have laid her,Bind still her sullen mirth,Mirth which betrayed her?Do the lush grasses hold,Greenly..
© Stephen Vincent Benet
A Poem To His Magesty, Presented To The Lord Keeper. To The Right Hon. Sir John Somers, Lord Keeper
If yet your thoughts are loose from state affairs,Nor feel the burden of a kingdom's cares;If yet your time and actions are your own;Receive the..
© Joseph Addison
To Mr. Dryden
How long, great Poet, shall thy sacred laysProvoke our wonder, and transcend our praise?Can eneither injuries of time, or age,Damp thy poetic heat..
© Joseph Addison
An Ode For St. Cecilia's Day
I.Prepare the hallow'd strain, My Muse,Thy softest sounds and sweetest numbrs chuse;the bright Cecilia's praise rehearse,In warbling words,a nd..
© Joseph Addison
An Account Of The Greatest English Poets
Since, dearest Harry, you will needs requestA short account of all the Muse possest,That, down from Chaucer's days to Dryden's Times,Have spent their..
© Joseph Addison
Prologue To Steele's Tender Husband
In the first rise and infancy of farce,When fools were many, and when plays were scarceThe raw unpractis'd authors could, with ease,A young and..
© Joseph Addison
When All Thy Mercies, O My God
When all Thy mercies, O my God,My rising soul surveys,Transported with the view, I’m lostIn wonder, love and praise.Thy Providence my life..
© Joseph Addison
Psalm 23 : The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare
The Lord my pasture shall prepareAnd feed me with a shepherd's care;His presence shall my wants supplyAnd guard me with a watchful eye;My noonday..
© Joseph Addison
The Spacious Firmament
The Spacious Firmament on high,With all the blue Ethereal Sky,And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame,Their great Original proclaim:Th' unwearied Sun..
© Joseph Addison
A Song For St. Cecilia's Day, At Oxford
I.Cecilia, whose exalted hymnsWith joy and wonder fill the blest,In choirs of warbling seraphimsKnown and distinguish'd fom the rest;Attend..
© Joseph Addison
Spacious Firmament On High, The
The spacious firmament on high,With all the blue ethereal sky,And spangled heavens, a shining frameTheir great Original proclaim.Th’unwearied sun..
© Joseph Addison
The Spacious Firmament On High
The Spacious Firmament on high,With all the blue Ethereal Sky,And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame,Their great Original proclaim:Th' unwearied Sun..
© Joseph Addison
The Campaign, A Poem, To His Grace The Duke Of Marlborough
While crowds of princes your deserts proclaim,Proud in their number to enrol your name;While emperors to you commit their cause,And Anna's praises..
© Joseph Addison
Hymn
THE spacious firmament on high,With all the blue ethereal sky,And spangled heavens, a shining frame,Their great Original proclaim.Th' unwearied Sun..
© Joseph Addison
On The Lady Manchester
While haughty Gallia's dames, that preadO'er their pale cheeks, an artful red,Beheld this beauteous stranger thereIn native charms, divinely..
© Joseph Addison
The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare
The Lord my pasture shall prepareAnd feed me with a shepherd’s care;His presence shall my wants supplyAnd guard me with a watchful eye;My noonday..
© Joseph Addison
How Are Thy Servants Blest, O Lord!
How are Thy servants blest, O Lord!How sure is their defense!Eternal wisdom is their guide,Their help Omnipotence.In foreign realms, and lands..
© Joseph Addison
When Rising From The Bed Of Death
When rising from the bed of death,O’erwhelmed with guilt and fear,I see my Maker face to face,O how shall I appear?If yet, while pardon may be..
© Joseph Addison
Immortality
O Liberty! thou goddess, heavenly bright,profuse of bliss and pregnant with delight,Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,And smiling Plenty leads..
© Joseph Addison
A Letter From Italy
Salve magna parens frugum Saturnia tellus,Magna virûm! tibi res antiquæ laudis et artisAggredior, sanctos ausus recludere fontes.Virg. Geor. 2.While..
© Joseph Addison
Hope
Our lives, discoloured with our present woes,May still grow white and shine with happier hours.So the pure limped stream, when foul with stainsOf..
© Joseph Addison
Ode
The spacious firmament on high,With all the blue ethereal sky,And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame,Their great original proclaim:Th' unwearied Sun..
© Joseph Addison
He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth Shower
He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower,Alike they're needful for the flower:And joys and tears alike are sentTo give the soul fit nourishment.As comes to..
© Sarah Flower Adams