To Mirth by Tobias Smollett
Parent of joy! heart-easing Mirth! Whether of Venus or Aurora born; Yet goddess sure of heavenly birth, Visit benign a son of Grief forlorn; Thy glittering colours gay, Around him, Mirth, display; And o’er his raptured sense Diffuse thy living influence; So shall each hill, in purer green array’d, And, flower-adorn’d, in new-born beauty glow; […]
To Independence by Tobias Smollett
Strophe. Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty! whose look sublime Hath bleach’d the tyrant’s cheek in […]
“To fix her!-’twere a task as vain” by Tobias Smollett
To fix her!-’twere a task as vain To count the April drops of rain, To sow in Afric’s barren soil, Or tempests hold within a toil. I know it, friend, she’s light as air, False as the fowler’s artful snare, Inconstant as the passing wind, As winter’s dreary frost unkind. She’s such a miser, too, […]
The Tears of Scotland by Tobias Smollett
Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish’d peace – thy laurels torn! Thy sons, for valour long renown’d, Lie slaughter’d on their native ground; Thy hospitable roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become they prey of […]
The Tears of Scotland by Tobias Smollett
Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish’d peace – thy laurels torn! Thy sons, for valour long renown’d, Lie slaughter’d on their native ground; Thy hospitable roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become they prey of […]
Reproof: A Satire. by Tobias Smollett
POET. Howe’er I turn, or wheresoe’er I tread, This giddy world still rattles round my head! I pant for silence e’en in this retreat- Good Heaven! what demon thunders at the gate? FRIEND. In vain you strive, in this sequester’d nook, To shroud you from an injured friend’s rebuke. POET. An injured friend! who challenges […]
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Love Elegy (in imitation of Tibullus) by Tobias Smollett
Where now are all my flattering dreams of joy? Monimia, give my soul her wonted rest; Since first thy beauty fix’d my roving eye, Heart-gnawing cares corrode my pensive breast. Let happy lovers fly where pleasures call, With festive songs beguile the fleeting hour; Lead beauty through the mazes of the ball, Or press her, […]
“Let the nymph still avoid and be deaf to the swain” by Tobias Smollett
Let the nymph still avoid and be deaf to the swain Who in transports of passion affects to complain, For his rage, not his love, in that frenzy is shown, And the blast that blows loudest is soon overblown. But the shepherd whom Cupid has pierced to the heart Will submissive adore, and rejoice in […]
To Independence by Tobias Smollett
Strophe. Thy spirit, Independence, let me share, Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty! whose look sublime Hath bleach’d the tyrant’s cheek in […]
“From the man whom I love, though my heart I disguise,” by Tobias Smollett
From the man whom I love, though my heart I disguise, I will freely describe the wretch I despise; And, if he has sense but to balance a straw, He will sure take a hint from the picture I draw. A wit without sense, without fancy a beau, Like a parrot he chatters, and struts […]
“Come listen, ye students of every degree” by Tobias Smollett
Come listen, ye students of every degree; I sing of a wit and a tutor perdie, A statesman profound, a critic immense, In short, a mere jumble of learning and sense; And yet of his talents though laudably vain, His own family arts he could never attain. His father, intending his fortune to build, In […]
Blue-Eyed Ann by Tobias Smollett
When the rough North forgets to howl, And Ocean’s billows cease to roll; When Libyan sands are bound in frost, And cold to Nova Zembla’s lost! When heavenly bodies cease to move, My blue-eyed Ann I’ll cease to love. No more shall flowers the meads adorn; Nor sweetness deck the rosy thorn; Nor swelling buds […]
Advice: A Satire. by Tobias Smollett
–Sed podice levi Caeduntur tumidæ, medico ridente, mariscæ. O proceres! censore opus est, an haruspice nobis? JUVENAL. –Nam quis Peccandi finem posuit sibi? quando recepit Ejectum semel atteritâ de fronte ruborem? Ibid. POET. Enough, enough; all this we knew before; ‘Tis infamous, I grant it, to be poor: And who, so much to sense and […]
You Will Forget! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
You will go hence, sweetheart, and leave me, And may forget We ever met- And that it is, alas! will grieve me! And, yet, the past- How could it last! And could I know you would deceive me! The fleeting hours we spent together- The rambles far ‘Neath sun and star In peaceful calm and […]
Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune
There is rapture in the thought, From thy words of constance caught, That the world contains no prize Like the peace thy love supplies. And I ponder o’er and o’er Words of love forevermore, As they come in tenderest tone From thy heart-which is my own. ————— The End And that’s the End of the […]
What Is Woman But A Song! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
There was love, and there was beauty, In the face upturned to me; And her hair was long and golden, Soft to touch and good to see; Her blue eyes were full of laughter As they burned into my own, Glowing like a priceless diamond- Fascinating as that stone. What is life but love, devotion!- […]
The Squirrel by Todd H. C. Fischer
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The Pulling Away by Timothy Cole
Some roads rise To meet the men who have set their way. It’s the years that turn around to say goodbye. It’s the setting sun that sends it away. Where is wisdoms light In a future that never came. In bright eyes that once dared to fight It’s an empty wind that calls my name […]
The moon at noon by Tom Mukasa
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems The moon will come out at noon, it will stand in one place, many will raise their heads, to behold the show, the sun will throw its coldness, the chill will burn holes in bones, laments will come out […]
The Leather Suitcase by Tom Berman
They don’t make suitcases like that any more. Time was, when voyage meant train, steamship distances unbridgeable waiting for a thinning mail weeks, then months, then nothing Time was, when this case was made solid, leather, heavy stitching with protective edges at the corners. Children’s train, across the Reich stops and starts again… Holland a […]
The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Have you e’er heard, at early morn, The feathered poet sing his song, Clear as a huntsman’s clarion horn, Yet softer, sweeter, and as strong? Have you e’er felt his magic power Soothe, as a balm, your troubled breast, Change into mirth the gloomy hour, Cradle th’ enchanted sense to rest? Have you e’er heard […]
The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune
The heart that is pining for love that is vain Will outlive its sorrow and conquer its pain, Will seek where is hidden the balsam ‘gainst woe, And smile with the merry in pleasure’s glad flow. A few rashly seek to forget in red wine Th’ affection they strove with their love to entwine, But […]
The Clime Of My Birth by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Oh, take me again to the clime of my birth, The dearest, the fairest, to me on the earth, The clime where the roses are sweetest that bloom, And nature is bathed in the rarest perfume! Where the songs of the birds awake us at morn With a thrill of delight and pleasure new born; […]
The Bird Has Vanished by Timothy Thomas Fortune
The bird has vanished from its cage- Has left its prison house to me! It will not fill its song with rage Again-for it is free! Will it forget, can it forget, The love, the tender care, I gave, Or feel one throb of sad regret That ’tis no more my slave? Go, nameless one, […]
Taita Falcon above the Zambezi by Tom Mukasa
Menu+ Home 100 Poetry Monster Poets Directory Best Love Poems Free Poetry Quotes Publish your Poems A taita falcon, driven by hunger, or the scenic beauty, from its hidden perch, spreads, its expansive wings, it scans, the, numerous landmarks, the, smoking thundering waterfalls, in their fives, in their tens, whose puffs, turn from snow white, […]
Steeds of Autumn by Todd H. C. Fischer
Steeds of Autumn by Todd H. C. Fischer The wicker horse sits on the farm house veranda beside a straw-stuffed suit of clothes on a porch-swing corn stalks tied to the railing with bailing rope and grinning gourds with brains of flame Its black bead eyes gaze out over the fields watching hands and tractors […]
Sorry by Tom Mukasa
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Ribbons & Pearls by Timothy Cole
Ribbons and pearls, so tender is the age All dressed up with nowhere to go. I know your secrets to your hate and rage A little girl— one too many has tried to know. Deep behind the garden and around the bend Daddy’s hands always seem to find you there The tears of shame escapes […]
Racial Memories of a Chickadee by Todd H. C. Fischer
Racial Memories of a Chickadee by Todd H. C. Fischer The chickadee sat on a birdhouse perch and remembered A time when he was king, when he and his ruled the earth When the other denizens of the forest cowered in fear when he roared When he towered as tall as a tree instead of […]
My Miracle Valentine by Tirtha Raj Baral (Sanu Punatare)
I never make-believe that there can be this day, This is the day of love which could find its way. Every day I lookout the sunrise and the sunset, I enjoy the beauty of flowers bloom around me. I can float on the breeze and fly on the wind, I can travel the cosmos, watch […]
Mother’s Day, 1993 by Todd H. C. Fischer
Mother’s Day, 1993 by Todd H. C. Fischer A knock at the door and I’m pulled from bed, my brother calmly saying, “You better come upstairs.” Voices are raised in the bedroom; mom is pulling on a shirt, “Talk to him!” she yells. On the bed lies my father, covers rumpled, a wet spot on […]
Mother Earth; Her Beauty And Her Destruction by TMBedell
I awake to hear her voices, her smells bring me alive, and Mother Earth is all around me wanting for me to step outside. I see her creatures playing, the birds singing a tune, and the grasses are swaying to her sweet breaths perfume. Beauty is all around me, life in full bloom, waiting for […]
Manifestations by Tom Shea
i trace your face with this pencil tip and every time i miss your lips: the line of your jaw as you set your mind on an ideal that you could never find in a house as once upon a time as mine. i trace your face; i get it wrong. i look for you […]
Love’s Divinest Power by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Let mad ambition strive to gain The cherished wish that yields but pain; Let others seek for wealth alone, And with its cares their lives atone; But let me live my fleeting hour The slave of Love’s divinest power. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by topic […]
In Token Of The Love You Gave by Timothy Thomas Fortune
In token of the love you gave, The faith, the trust, reposed in me, When our young hearts were gay and free, I plant this flower upon thy grave! The world is far too poor to give A value like it took away! I nevermore a joyous day, Since you are gone, shall know or […]
Imbrium by Todd H. C. Fischer
Imbrium by Todd H. C. Fischer The horse of Hades with its pale white flesh flows across the ceiling its black plathian eyes staring fire that chills shadow blotting unicorns angels on strings quiver in its breath weirdfruit smell like a strung-out tortoise bear’s fur curls in fear under equine gaze wooden bars darken ragged […]
I Make My bed Of Roses by Timothy Thomas Fortune
I make my bed of roses sweet! I scorn the frowns of envious Fate! I will my careless song repeat While ’round may surge contending hate! For life is what we make it still, And I am master of my will. Then let me quaff life’s nectar wine And live, a lord, the passing hour; […]
Gentle Heart, Indulge Thy Dreaming by Timothy Thomas Fortune
Gentle heart, indulge thy dreaming! Wake not from thy peaceful mood! The great world around thee streaming Holds no joy one-half so good! Soon thy dreams must have an ending! Thou wilt wake some early morn And, o’er shattered idols bending, Find thy peace from thee is torn! ————— The End And that’s the End […]
Edgar Allan Poe by Timothy Thomas Fortune
I know not why, but it is true-it may, In some way, be because he was a child Of the fierce sun where I first wept and smiled- I love the dark-browed Poe. His feverish day Was spent in dreams inspired, that him beguiled, When not along his path shone forth one ray Of light, […]