All Poems
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© Daniel Decatur Emmett
I wish I was in de land ob cotton,
Old times dar am not forgotten;
The Holy of Holies
© Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Elder father, though thine eyes
Shine with hoary mysteries,
On A True Friend (From The Greek)
© William Cowper
Hast thou a friend? thou hast indeed
A rich and large supply.
Treasure to serve your every need,
Well managed, till you die.
Sunlight And Sea
© Alfred Noyes
Give me the sunlight and the sea
And who shall take my heaven from me?
Murder
© Leon Gellert
Upon the threshold, red-eyed Murder stands,
Fresh from his slaughter-house of human meat,
Flower-Life
© Henry Timrod
I think that, next to your sweet eyes,
And pleasant books, and starry skies,
Litany for Dictatorships
© Stephen Vincent Benet
For all those beaten, for the broken heads,
The fosterless, the simple, the oppressed,
The ghosts in the burning city of our time ...
Lemnos Harbour
© Leon Gellert
The island sleeps,-but it has no delight
For em, to whom that sleep has been unkind.
My thoughts are long of what seems long ago,
And long, too, are my dreams. I do not know
These trailing glories of the star-strewn night
Or the slow sough of the wind.
My Darling, We Sat Together
© Heinrich Heine
My darling, we sat together,
We two, in our frail boat;
The night was calm o'er the wide sea
Whereon we were afloat.
As She Passes
© Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
When I am sitting at the window,
Through the panes, which the snow blurs,
I see the lovely images, hers, as
She passes… passes… passes by…
Once For All
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
I said: This is a beautiful fresh rose.
I said: I will delight me with its scent,
To Mrs. Henry Siddons
© Frances Anne Kemble
O lady! thou, who in the olden time
Hadst been the star of many a poet's dream!
The Man Im For
© Edgar Albert Guest
I'M for the happy man every time,
The man who smiles as he goes his way,
Fragment X
© James Macpherson
It is night; and I am alone, forlorn
on the hill of storms. The wind is
heard in the mountain. The torrent
shrieks down the rock. No hut receives
me from the rain; forlorn on the hill of
winds.