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Part of Juvenal's Sixth Satire, Modernised In Burlesque Verse

DAME Chastity, without dispute,
Dwelt on the earth with good King Brute; [1]
When a cold hut of modern Greenland …

Henry Fielding
Partake as doth the Bee,

Partake as doth the Bee,
Abstemiously.
The Rose is an Estate — …
Pass to they Rendezvous of Light,

Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light,
Pangless except for us —
Who slowly for the Mystery …
A pastoral dialogue

SCENE---TOMHANICK.
1780.
SUSANNA. …

Ann Eliza Bleecker
Patience — has a quiet Outer —

Patience — has a quiet Outer —
Patience — Look within —
Is an Insect's futile forces …
Peace (Bleecker)

All hail vernal Phoebus! all hail ye soft breezes!
Announcing the visit of spring;
How green are the meadows! the air how it pleases! …

Ann Eliza Bleecker
Peace is a fiction of our Faith —

Peace is a fiction of our Faith —
The Bells a Winter Night
Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound …
Perception of an object costs

Perception of an object costs
Precise the Object's loss —
Perception in itself a Gain …

Emily Dickinson
Perhaps I asked too large —

Perhaps I asked too large —
I take — no less than skies —
For Earths, grow thick as …
Perhaps they do not go so far

Perhaps they do not go so far
As we who stay, suppose —
Perhaps come closer, for the lapse …
Perhaps you think me stooping

Perhaps you think me stooping
I'm not ashamed of that
Christ — stooped until He touched the Grave — …

Emily Dickinson
Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower,

Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower ?
But I could never sell.
If you would like to borrow …

Emily Dickinson
Peril as a Possession

Peril as a Possesssion
'Tis Good to hear
Danger disintegrates Satiety …

Emily Dickinson
Peter's Banquet, or, The Cavalier in the Dumps

An ancient Burrough in the West[1]
Was lately put unto the test,
Their loyalty and zeal to prove, …
Poems of Passion/A Picture

I strolled last eve across the lonely down;
One solitary picture struck my eye:
A distant ploughboy stood against the sky— …

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Pine Tree

In the wild north a pine tree stands alone
On the bare top of a mountain.
It slumbers and sways, covered with …

Mikhaïl Lermontov
Pink — small — and punctual —

Pink — small — and punctual —
Aromatic — low —
Covert — in April — …

Emily Dickinson
Playmates

God permits industrious angels
Afternoons to play.
I met one, — forgot my school-mates, …

Emily Dickinson
Poem Written to his Jailer

O Robert, Let us be fond
Of Virtue! Virtues abound
In every sort of good. …

Louis Riel
Poems (Botta)/Evening hymn

On the swift flying hours
Another bright day,
With its tears and its smiles, …

Anne Lynch Botta