All Poems

 / page 2325 of 3210 /
star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Sonnet 123: "No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:..."

© William Shakespeare

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:

Thy pyramids built up with newer might

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Hughes’ Voice In My Head

© Barry Tebb

As soon as we crossed into Yorkshire

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Earlier Poems : Autumn

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

With what a glory comes and goes the year!

The buds of spring, those beautiful harbingers

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Philosophers

© Barry Tebb

Lavender musk rose from the volume I was reading through,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

A Dream

© James Whitcomb Riley

I dreamed I was a spider;

A big, fat, hungry spider;

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Play House

© Barry Tebb

We had a new house

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

A Tragic Story

© William Makepeace Thackeray

There lived a sage in days of yore,
And he a handsome pigtail wore;
But wondered much and sorrowed more,
Because it hung behind him.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Death Of A Poet

© Barry Tebb

for Wendy Oliver, who knew him

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Orotava Road

© Basil Bunting

Four white heifers with sprawling hooves

  trundle the waggon.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

To The Memory Of My Mother

© Barry Tebb

This is one spring you will not see.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Ebb Tide

© Sara Teasdale

When the long day goes by
And I do not see your face,
The old wild, restless sorrow
Steals from its hiding place.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Windsong

© Barry Tebb

I drowse and dream in this sleeping house

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

For A Fatherless Son

© Sylvia Plath

You will be aware of an absence, presently,

Growing beside you, like a tree,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

On First Reading John Goodby’s ‘irish Poetry Since 1950’

© Barry Tebb

Barbarous insult to Yeats’ memory and Claudel’s

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

When I Peruse The Conquer'd Fame

© Walt Whitman

WHEN I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes, and the victories of

  mighty generals, I do not envy the generals,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Winds

© William Lisle Bowles

When dark November bade the leaves adieu,

  And the gale sung amid the sea-boy's shrouds,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

A Call To Arms

© Barry Tebb

It was like chucking-out time

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

George Sand

© Dorothy Parker

What time the gifted lady took
Away from paper, pen, and book,
She spent in amorous dalliance
(They do those things so well in France).

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Leftovers

© Barry Tebb

Empty chocolate boxes, a pillowcase with an orange at the bottom,