All Poems
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Conversation
© William Cowper
Though nature weigh our talents, and dispense
To every man his modicum of sense,
A Presentiment
© Robert Fuller Murray
It seems a little word to say -
FAREWELL-but may it not, when said,
Be like the kiss we give the dead,
Before they pass the doors for aye?
Sonnet 35: What May Words Say
© Sir Philip Sidney
What may words say, or what may words not say,
Where truth itself must speak like flattery?
Within what bounds can one his liking stay,
Where Nature doth with infinite agree?
Piccolo Valzer Viennese
© Federico Garcia Lorca
A Vienna ci sono dieci ragazze,
una spalla dove piange la morte
e un bosco di colombe disseccate.
C'e' un frammento del mattino
nel museo della brina.
C'è un salone con mille vetrate.
The Onlooker
© Edith Nesbit
If I could make a pillow for your head,
Soft, pleasant, filled with every pretty thought;
If I could lay a carpet where you tread
Of all my life's most radiant fancies wrought,
And spread my love as canopy above you,
Your sleep, your steps should know how much I love you.
A War Wedding
© John Jay Chapman
THE dreamy earth is flooded o'er
With warm and hazy light,
September's latest boon, before
She feels the hoar frost in the night;
And, pausing with a sober frown,
Nips the first floweret from her summer crown.
Who Santy-Claus Wuz
© James Whitcomb Riley
Jes' a little bit o' feller--I remember still--
Ust to almost cry fer Christmas, like a youngster will.
The Death of a Soldier
© Wallace Stevens
Life contracts and death is expected,
As in season of autumn.
The soldier falls.
Pippa Passes: Part II: Noon
© Robert Browning
You by me,
And I by you; this is your hand in mine,
And side by side we sit: all's true. Thank God!
I have spoken: speak you!
From an Italian Sonnet
© Samuel Rogers
Love, under Friendship's vesture white,
Laughs, his little limbs concealing;
And oft in sport, and oft in spite,
Like pity meets the dazzled sight,
From Gotz Von Berlichingen
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dan Cupid on flies;
With victory laden,
To vanquish each maiden
Consolation
© Edgar Albert Guest
SO YOU 'RE sobbin' in the night time, an' you 're sighin' through the day,
An' your heart is ever callin' for the loved one gone away;
An' you're lonely, oh, so lonely! an' there's nothin' friends can do,
That will start the old light shinin' in those tender eyes of blue.
O World, Be Nobler
© Robert Laurence Binyon
O WORLD, be nobler, for her sake!
If she but knew thee what thou art,
Sonnet XXXI: Oft Do I Muse
© Samuel Daniel
Oft do I muse whether my Delia's eyes
Are eyes, or else two fair bright stars that shine;
The Naval Reserve
© Evelyn Underhill
From the undiscovered deep
Where the blessed lie at ease --
Since the ancient navies keep
Empire of the heavenly seas --
Back they come, the mighty dead,
Quick to serve where they have led.
The Ape
© Charles Lamb
An Ape is but a trivial beast,
Men count it light and vain;
But I would let them have their thoughts,
To have my Ape again.
Spring Song
© Bliss William Carman
Like a whim of Grieg's or Gounod's,
This same self, bird, bud, or Bluenose,
Some day I may capture (Who knows?)
Just the one last joy I lack,
Waking to the far new summons,
When the old spring winds come back.
Sunday Morning Bells
© Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
FROM the near city comes the clang of bells:
Their hundred jarring diverse tones combine
In one faint misty harmony, as fine
As the soft note yon winter robin swells.--
