Sports poems

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The Thaw

© William Henry Ogilvie

Have lost the white burden that weighted them
down.
The silence that came with the fall of the frost

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The Forest Greeting

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

GOOD hunting! — aye, good hunting,

Wherever the forests call;

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Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3.

© William Cowper

Eve.  Adam, my best beloved!
My guardian and my guide!
Thou source of all my comfort, all my joy!
Thee, thee alone I wish,
And in these pleasing shades
Thee only have I sought.

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The Lady of the Lake: Canto V. - The Combat

© Sir Walter Scott

I.
Fair as the earliest beam of eastern light,
When first, by the bewildered pilgrim spied,
It smiles upon the dreary brow of night

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A Description Of The Countreys Recreations

© Sir Henry Wotton

Quivering fears, Heart-tearing cares,

Anxious sighs, Untimely tears,

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The Season

© Alfred Austin

So sings the river through the summer days,
And I, submissive, follow what I praise.
What if my boyish blood would rather stay
Where lawns invite, where bonnibels delay,
Though but a youth and not averse from these,
To conflict called, I abdicate my ease,

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The Shepherd's Calendar - October

© John Clare

Nature now spreads around in dreary hue

A pall to cover all that summer knew

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The Aeneid of Virgil: Book 9

© Publius Vergilius Maro

WHILE these affairs in distant places pass’d,  

The various Iris Juno sends with haste,  

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An Australian Girl

© Ethel Castilla

"She's pretty to walk with,
  And witty to talk with,
  And pleasant, too, to think on."
  Sir John Suckling.

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Sporting Acquaintances

© Siegfried Sassoon

I ventured "Ages since we met," and tried
My candid smile of friendship; no success.
One scratched his hairy thigh, while t'other sighed
And glanced away. I saw they liked me less
Than when, on Epsom Downs, in cloudless weather,
We backed The Tetrarch and got drunk together.

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Sonnet 53: In Martial Sports

© Sir Philip Sidney

In martial sports I had my cunning tried,
And yet to break more staves did me address:
While, with the people's shouts, I must confess,
Youth, luck, and praise, ev'n fill'd my veins with pride;

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A Vote (excerpt)

© Abraham Cowley



 This only grant me: that my means may lie

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The Cyclops

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

SILENUS.
ULYSSES.
CHORUS OF SATYRS.
THE CYCLOPS.

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Alfred And Janet

© Robert Bloomfield

At thirteen she was all that Heaven could send,
My nurse, my faithful clerk, my lively friend;
Last at my pillow when I sunk to sleep,
First on my threshold soon as day could peep:
I heard her happy to her heart's desire,
With clanking pattens, and a roaring fire.

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The Beau to the Virtuosos

© William Shenstone

Hail curious wights, to whom so fair
The form of mortal flies is!
Who deem those grubs beyond compare,
Which common sense despises.

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The Plea Of The Midsummer Fairies

© Thomas Hood

I
'Twas in that mellow season of the year
When the hot sun singes the yellow leaves
Till they be gold,—and with a broader sphere

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There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind

© Thomas Ford

There is a lady sweet and kind,
 Was never face so pleas'd my mind;
 I did but see her passing by,
 And yet I love her till I die.

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The Aeneid of Virgil: Book 4

© Publius Vergilius Maro

BUT anxious cares already seiz’d the queen:  

She fed within her veins a flame unseen;  

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The Australiad

© Mary Hannay Foott

Meanwhile the hardy Dutchmen came,—as ancient charts attest,—
Hartog, and Nuyts, and Carpenter, and Tasman, and the rest,
But found not forests rich in spice, nor market for their wares,
Nor servile tribes to toil o’ertasked ’mid pestilential airs,—
And deemed it scarce worth while to claim so poor a continent,
But with their slumberous tropic isles thenceforward were content.

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The Three Warnings

© Hester Lynch Piozzi

The tree of deepest root is found

Least willing still to quit the ground;