All Poems
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The Lonely Land
© Madison Julius Cawein
A RIVER binds the lonely land,
A river like a silver band,
To crags and shores of yellow sand.
It is a place where kildees cry,
An Ultimatum To Myrtilla
© Franklin Pierce Adams
Ah, Myrtilla mine, you said--
And your tone was earnest, very--
You would never deck your head
With this vernal millinery.
Spring (Fragment 3)
© Boris Pasternak
Is it only dirt you notice?
Does the thaw not catch your glance?
As a dapple-grey fine stallion
Does it not through ditches dance?
To A Friend Estranged From Me
© Edna St. Vincent Millay
Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sun
That will not rise again.
Today has seen the setting, in your eyes cold and senseless as the sea,
Of friendship better than bread, and of bright charity
That lifts a man a little above the beasts that run.
An Impromptu
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
THE clock has struck noon; ere it thrice tell the hours
We shall meet round the table that blushes with flowers,
And I shall blush deeper with shame-driven blood
That I came to the banquet and brought not a bud.
Ode XIV: To The Honourable Charles Townshend: From The Country
© Mark Akenside
I.
Say, Townshend, what can London boast
Bring Her Again, O Western Wind
© William Ernest Henley
Bring her again, O western wind,
Over the western sea!
Gentle and good and fair and kind,
Bring her again to me!
On Tweed River
© Sir Walter Scott
Merrily swim we, the moon shines bright,
Both current and ripple are dancing in light.
The Butterfly
© Joseph Skipsey
The butterfly from flower to flower
The urchin chasd; and, when at last
Earthborn
© Peter McArthur
HURLED back, defeated, like a child I sought
The loving shelter of my native fields,
Rosamond's Song Of Hope
© Robert Bloomfield
Sweet Hope, so oft my childhood's friend,
I will believe thee still,
For thou canst joy with sorrow blend,
Where grief alone would kill.
Fit The Fifth - The Beavers Lesson
© Lewis Carroll
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They threatened its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.
Joys Within Reach
© Edgar Albert Guest
You needn't be rich to be happy,
You needn't be famous to smile;
On a Spanish Cathedral
© Henry Kendall
DEEP under the spires of a hill, by the feet of the thunder-cloud trod,
I pause in a luminous, still, magnificent temple of God!
Pictures In The Smoke
© Dorothy Parker
Oh, gallant was the first love, and glittering and fine;
The second love was water, in a clear white cup;
The third love was his, and the fourth was mine;
And after that, I always get them all mixed up.
Written On The Anniversary Of Our Father's Death
© Hartley Coleridge
STILL for the world he lives, and lives in bliss,
For God and for himself. Ten years and three
Trio
© Victoria Mary Sackville-West
So well she knew them both! yet as she came
Into the room, and heard their speech
Epitaph I
© Sydney Thompson Dobell
On A Portrait Presented To J. Y. Simpson, M.D. (Afterwards Sir James Simpson)
The Decimal Point
© Norman Rowland Gale
When first sent to School (now the Station was Rugby)
I fancied my masters and took to the boys;
