All Poems
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Unofficial
© Edith Nesbit
ONE morning, my heart can remember,
I sat dreaming there,
In the 'governor's' chair
In the office. The month was November,
And the weather a subject for prayer.
Erfahrung
© Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Ich kann so gut verstehen die ungetreuen Frauen,
So gut, mir ist, als könnt' ich in ihre Seelen schauen.
Hymn Written For The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Of The Reorganization Of The Boston Young Mens Christ
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
OUR Father! while our hearts unlearn
The creeds that wrong thy name,
Still let our hallowed altars burn
With Faith's undying flame!
To The Virgin Mary
© Mary Hannay Foott
Oh wisely was it that He chose,
Who the unwritten future reads,
To teach the after-world, through thee,
What cherishers Messiah needs.
As The Sparks Fly Upward
© Dora Sigerson Shorter
The little babe I held upon my knee
Had not yet banished from his sleeping eyes
Die Betruebnis
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Der Freund.
Freund! welches Unglueck, welche Reue
Macht dir so bittern Schmerz?
Dawn
© Dorothea Mackellar
At the dawning of the day,
To my happiness thus it fell:
That 1 went the common way,
And 1 witnessed a miracle.
Two
© Madison Julius Cawein
With her soft face half turned to me,
Like an arrested moonbeam, she
Stood in the cirque of that deep tree.
The Headless Trooper.
© James Brunton Stephens
NO; not another step, for all
The troopers out of hell!
The Figure-Head
© Herman Melville
The _Charles-and-Emma_ seaward sped,
(Named from the carven pair at prow,)
He so smart, and a curly head,
She tricked forth as a bride knows how:
Pretty stem for the port, I trow!
A Linnet In A Gilded Cage
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A linnet in a gilded cage, -
A linnet on a bough, -
Eagle: [Sas]
© Attila Jozsef
Eagle, gigantic, diving
heaven's echoey precipices!
What winged thing's this, arriving
from voids and nothingnesses!
The Author's Early Life
© Julia A Moore
I will write a sketch of my early life,
It will be of childhood day,
Memorias Del Circo
© Ramon Lopez Velarde
Los circos trashumantes,
De lamido perrillo enciclopédico
Y desacreditados elefantes,
Me enseñaron la cómica friolera
Y las magnas tragedias hilarantes.
A Thanksgiving Poem
© Paul Laurence Dunbar
The sun hath shed its kindly light,
Our harvesting is gladly o'er
Our fields have felt no killing blight,
Our bins are filled with goodly store.
Raiment
© Lesbia Harford
I cannot be tricked out in lovely clothes
All times, all days.
My mind has moods of hating pearl and rose
And jewel-blaze.
I Have Enchanted All Of Nature
© Fyodor Sologub
I have enchanted all of Nature
And forged each moment's quality.
And what a horrifying freedom
I found in such a sorcery!
