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Petrarch to Laura Mary Darby Robinson	Where curling incense round each taper twines; Where, thro' long aisles, seraphic PÆANS ring, And meek-ey'd virgins choral anthems...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Fan : A Poem. Book I. John Gay	No knotty limbs the taper body bears, Hung on each bough a single leaf appears, Which shrivell'd in its infancy...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Hunters moon Heather Lydia Thornhill	I dreampt of his taper lighting the candles preparing for the alter and my soul was at peace for his future as a child...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
A Ballad, Shewing How An Old Woman Rode Double, And Who Rode Before Her Robert Southey	Who day and night by the taper's light Their aid to me may...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Ballad, Shewing How An Old Woman Rode Double, And Who Rode Before Her. Robert Southey	Who day and night by the taper's light Their aid to me may...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Child Asleep Elizabeth Barrett Browning	As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour,--- ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lover's Confession Robert Fuller Murray	Like some poor...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Loving-Cup Song Oliver Wendell Holmes	For life's bright taper is the same Love tipped of old with rosy flame That heaven's own altar lent, my boys, To glow...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Night-piece on Death Thomas Parnell	By the blue taper's trembling light, No more I waste the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Wife in London (December, 1899) Thomas Hardy	Like a waning taper The street-lamp glimmers...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Wish. Samuel Rogers	And point with taper spire to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Accepted And Will Appear Parmenas Mix	Sir, by sunlight, gas, and taper, I've discovered of that poem not a solitary...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Again Endorsing the Lady, II Franklin P. Adams	Her hands are featly formed and taper; Her--well, the rest ought not be told In any modest family...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Amans Amare Daniel Henry Deniehy	The curtains closed, by taper clear To read some page divine, On winter nights, the hearth beside, Her soft, warm hand in...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
American Poetry Lucretia Maria Davidson	Thy glimmering taper to the holy flame:— Such honour, if no other, may be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
AN ELEGY Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus Henry King	As when the stuff That fed it failes, the Taper turns to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Beatrice. (From Dante. Purgatorio, XXX., XXXI.) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Like as a taper melts before a fire, Even such I was, without a sigh or tear, Before the song of those who...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Beauty And The Beast Charles Lamb	When glimmering through the vapours drear, A taper shew'd a dwelling...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Being Treated. To Ellinda Richard Lovelace	And then with helpe of sun and taper, Fill with his deeds twelve reames of paper, That Amadis, Sir Guy, and Topaz With his...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Being waked out of my sleep by a snuff of Candle which offended me, I thus thought Henry King	And as you see the dying taper waste, By such degrees does he to darkness...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Book Seventh [Residence in London] William Wordsworth	Clear-shining, like a hermit's taper seen Through a thick...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Book Tenth {Residence in France continued] William Wordsworth	With unextinguished taper I kept watch, Reading at intervals; the fear gone by Pressed on me almost like a fear to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Calling Lucasta From Her Retirement. Ode Richard Lovelace	lightning like a taper flyes, And guilds your chari't, but ashamed dyes, Seeing it selfe out-gloried by your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Charles Edward At Versailles William Edmondstoune Aytoun	When the taper faintly dwindles Like the pulse within the vein, That to gay and merry measure Ne'er may hope...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dedication Lola Ridge	Flames upward to the dream… Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)