All Poems
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Ole Tam On Bord-A-Plouffe
© William Henry Drummond
I lak on summer ev'ning, w'en nice cool win' is blowin'
An' up above ma head, I hear de pigeon on de roof,
To bring ma chair an' sit dere, an' watch de current flowin'
Of ole Riviere des Prairies as she pass de Bord-a Plouffe.
Sonnet XI "Which Are the Clouds, and Which the Mountains? See"
© Henry Timrod
Which are the clouds, and which the mountains? See,
They mix and melt together! Yon blue hill
I'm cededI've stopped being Theirs
© Emily Dickinson
Baptized, before, without the choice,
But this time, consciously, of Grace
Unto supremest name
Called to my FullThe Crescent dropped
Existence's whole Arc, filled up,
With one small Diadem.
The Sisters
© Lesbia Harford
They used to say
Our mother brought us up like hot-house flowers,
From day to day
Such wondrous cares were ours
Someone Ate The Baby
© Sheldon Allan Silverstein
Someone ate the baby it's rather sad to say
Someone ate the baby so she won't be out to play
We'll never hear her whiney cry or have to feel if she is dry
We'll never hear her asking why why why someone ate the baby
Iris By Night
© Robert Frost
One misty evening, one another's guide,
We two were groping down a Malvern side
The Stream Of Life
© William Cullen Bryant
Oh silvery streamlet of the fields,
That flowest full and free!
Guy Of The Temple
© John Hay
Night hangs above the valley; dies the day
In peace, casting his last glance on my cross,
And warns me to my prayers. _Ave Maria!
Mother of God! the evening fades
On wave and hill and lea_,
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. Interlude I.
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Yes, well your story pleads the cause
Of those dumb mouths that have no speech,
Dara
© James Russell Lowell
When Persia's sceptre trembled in a hand
Wilted with harem-heats, and all the land
Was hovered over by those vulture ills
That snuff decaying empire from afar,
Then, with a nature balanced as a star,
Dara arose, a shepherd of the hills.
Danksagung
© Stefan Anton George
Die sommerwiese dürrt von arger flamme.
Auf einem uferpfad zertretnen klees
Back From A Two-years' Sentence
© James Whitcomb Riley
Back from a two-years' sentence!
And though it had been ten,
The Father
© Katharine Tynan
Ever his eyes are fixed on a glorious sight.
A boy is leading, calls his men to come on:
Light as a deer he leaps, slender and bright,
Up the hill, irresistible: it is won!
The Gypsy
© Guillaume Apollinaire
The gypsy knew in advance
Our two lives star-crossed by night
We said farewell to her and then
from that deep well Hope began
Epithalamium : Another Version
© Percy Bysshe Shelley
O joy! O fear! what will be done
In the absence of the sun?
Come along!
The Psalm Of Adonis - excerpt from Idyll XV.
© Theocritus
O Queen that loves Golgi, and Idalium,
And the steep of Eryx,
O Aphrodite, that playes with gold,
Lo, from the stream eternal of Acheron
Lines To The Wash Woman
© Edgar Albert Guest
LADY, when you say you'll come
Tuesday morn to do our washing,
Tell us if there isn't some
Way to know if you are joshing?
Satire I
© John Donne
Away thou fondling motley humorist,
Leave mee, and in this standing woodden chest,
