Poems by Anonymous
Ay Me, Ay Me, I Sigh the Scythe A-field
... alas! ay me, alas, come, Time, take everything away, For all is thine, be it good or bad, that grows ...
Barbara Allan
... make my bed! O make it saft and narrow!Since my love died for me to-day, I 'll die for him to-morrow ...
Be Kind to Your Web-footed Friends
... Be kind to your web-footed friendsFor a duck may be somebody's motherBe kind to your friends in the swampWhere the weather is very cold and dampYou may think that this is the endWell, it's not, because there's one more chorusBe kind to your friends in the swampWhere the weather is very cold and damp. ...
Beauty Sat Bathing by a Spring
... mber then I fell, When fond imaginationSeemed to see, but could not tell, Her feature or her fashion ...
The Bells of Hell
... a-lingFor you but not for me:And the little devils how they sing-a-ling-a-lingFor you but not for me ...
Beowulf
... wa begnornodon Geata leode Thus made their mourning the men of Geatland,hlafordes/ hryre/, heorð ...
Blow, Northerne Wind
... aunterne a nyht,Hire bleo blykyeth so bryht: So feyr heo is ant fyn!A suetly suyre heo hath to hold{ ...
Bonnie James Campbell
... ."The meadow lies green, the corn is unshorn,But bonnie George Campbell will never return ...
A Book and a Jug and a Dame
... "And I don't care a damn," Said Omar Khayyam,"What you say, it's a great little game ...
The Braes of Yarrow
... er John, And tell your sister sorrow,--To come and lift her leafu' lord On the dowie banks o' Yarrow ...
Cleanness
... oute werk more,By vch fygure, as I fynde, as oure Fader lykes:Mane, Techal, Phares: merked in þ ...
Clerk Saunders
... clame the wall and followed him,Untill she came to a green forest, On this she lost the sight of him ...
Corallina
... Mother said, ."Oh, what a bore!Now the kitchen fire won't draw ...
Cuckoo Song
... Sing, cuccu, nu! Sing, cuccu! Sing, cuccu! Sing, cuccu, nu! Sumer is icumen in ...
The Djinns
... more Fades it now, As on shore Ripple's flow, -- As the plaint Far and faint Of a saint Murmured low ...
