All Poems
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The Colonel's Soliloquy
© Thomas Hardy
"The quay recedes. Hurrah! Ahead we go! . . .
It's true I've been accustomed now to home,
And joints get rusty, and one's limbs may grow
More fit to rest than roam.
Esse Et Posse
© Sydney Thompson Dobell
The groan of fallen Hosts; a torrid glare
Of cities; battle-cries of Right and Wrong
Marmion: Introduction to Canto IV.
© Sir Walter Scott
An ancient minstrel sagely said,
"Where is the life which late we led?"
Sonnet 6
© Richard Barnfield
Sweete Corrall lips, where Natures treasure lies,
The balme of blisse, the soueraigne salue of sorrow,
Tom O'Roughley
© William Butler Yeats
"THOUGH logic-choppers rule the town,
And every man and maid and boy
The Translated Way
© Franklin Pierce Adams
Thou art like to a Flower,
So pure and clean thou art;
I view thee and much Sadness
Steals to me in the Heart.
A Similitude
© Charles Harpur
FAIR as the nightwhen all the astral fires
Of heaven are burning in the clear expanse,
To Mary In Heaven
© Robert Burns
Thou lingering star, with less'ning ray,
That lov'st to greet the early morn,
Frederick Henry Hedge D. D. On His 80th Birthday, Dec. 12, 1885
© Christopher Pearse Cranch
WHAT lapse or accident of time
Can dull that soul's sonorous chime
Which owns the priceless heritage
Youth's summer warmth in wintry age?
You are disappointed? You thought...
© Boris Pasternak
You are disappointed? You thought that in peace we
Would part to the sound of a requiem, a swan-song?
You counted on grief, with your pupils dilated,
Their invincibility trying in tears on?
The Wounded Eagle
© Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Eagle! this is not thy sphere!
Warrior-bird, what seek'st thou here?
Floridian
© Madison Julius Cawein
The cactus and the aloe bloom
Beneath the window of your room;
Your window where, at evenfall,
Beneath the twilight's first pale star,
You linger, tall and spiritual,
And hearken my guitar.
Among School Children
© William Butler Yeats
I WALK through the long schoolroom questioning;
A kind old nun in a white hood replies;
Edwin and Eltruda, a Legendary Tale
© Helen Maria Williams
Where the pure Derwent's waters glide
Along their mossy bed,
Close by the river's verdant side,
A castle rear'd its head.
A Shamrock From The Irish Shore
© Denis Florence MacCarthy
O postman! speed thy tardy gait-
Go quicker round from door to door;
Oh, What A Bump!
© George Ade
" That was the tackiest time I've had
In twenty years or more.
The crowd was jay and the tea was bad
And the whole affair a bore!"
Cui Bono?
© Henry Kendall
A CLAMOUR by day and a whisper by night,
And the Summer comeswith the shining noons,
With the ripple of leaves, and the passionate light
Of the falling suns and the rising moons.
Fishers Of Men
© Alfred Noyes
Long, long ago, He said,
He who could wake the dead
And walk upon the sea-
"Come, follow Me.
