A revelation came on Jane,
The widow of a labouring swain:
And first her body trembled sharp,
Then all the woman was a harp
With winds along the strings; she heard,
Though there was neither tone nor word.

J'ai cueilli cette fleur pour toi sur la colline

© Victor Marie Hugo

J'ai cueilli cette fleur pour toi sur la colline.
Dans l'âpre escarpement qui sur le flot s'incline,
Que l'aigle connaît seul et seul peut approcher,
Paisible, elle croissait aux fentes du rocher.

June

© Hilaire Belloc

Rise up, and do begin the day's adorning;
The little eastern clouds are dapple grey:
There will be wind among the leaves to-day;
It is the very promise of the morning.
Lux Tua Via Mea: your light's my way -
Then do rise up and make it perfect day.

Jonathan to John

© James Russell Lowell

It don't seem hardly right, John,

When both my hands was full,

Just Half Of That, Please

© Edgar Albert Guest

Grandmother says when I pass her the cake:

"Just half of that, please."

Jezebel Mort

© Arthur Symons

Now in the hospital grey, whose walls were built by no priest,
Where, a white glare shines in on one's very self in one's bed,
Drifting over one's skin, touching the hair on one's head;

Jo is shor se Mir

© Meer Taqi Meer

jo is shor se 'Mir' rota rahega

to ham-saya kahe ko sota rahega

Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - part 02

XI

Thus when the Lord discovered had, and seen

Just After The War

© Anonymous

O! I am a conscript
O! how I do wish
That I had stayed away up North
And kept out of the "milish."

Judging Distances

© Henry Reed

Not only how far away, but the way that you say it
Is very important. Perhaps You may never get
The knack of judging a distance, but at least you know
How to report on a landscape: the central sector,
The right of the arc and that, which we had last Tuesday,
And at least you know