chestnut Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

A Japanese Wood-Carving (Amy Lowell Poem)

High up above the open, welcoming door It hangs, a piece of wood with colours dim. Once, long ago, it ...

Cut Grass (Philip Larkin Poem)

Cut grass lies frail: Brief is the breath Mown stalks exhale. Long, long the death It dies in the white ...

To Failure (Philip Larkin Poem)

You do not come dramatically, with dragons That rear up with my life between their paws And dash me butchered ...

The Building of the Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)

"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...

The Hermit Goes Up Attic (Maxine Kumin Poem)

Up attic, Lucas Harrison, God rest his frugal bones, once kept a tidy account by knifecut of some long-gone harvest. ...

The Abduction (Stanley Kunitz Poem)

Some things I do not profess to understand, perhaps not wanting to, including whatever it was they did with you ...

A Calendar of Sonnets: September (Helen Hunt Jackson Poem)

O golden month! How high thy gold is heaped! The yellow birch-leaves shine like bright coins strung On wands; the ...

The Unpromised Land, Montgomery, Alabama (Andrew Hudgins Poem)

Despite the noon sun shimmering on Court Street, each day I leave my desk, and window-shop, waste time, and use ...

The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux (A. E. Housman Poem)

The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away, The doors clap to, ...

The Dorchester Giant (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)

THERE was a giant in time of old, A mighty one was he; He had a wife, but she was ...

Weathers (Thomas Hardy Poem)

This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; ...

crematorium-return (Rg Gregory Poem)

(to where the ashes of both my parents are strewn) i) ok the pair of you lie still what's disturbing ...

The Sick Stockrider (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)

Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. Old man, you've had your work ...

Gerontion (T. S. Eliot Poem)

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, ...

Story (Stephen Dunn Poem)

A woman's taking her late-afternoon walk on Chestnut where no sidewalk exists and houses with gravel driveways sit back among ...

The Jay his Castanet has struck (Emily Dickinson Poem)

The Jay his Castanet has struck Put on your muff for Winter The Tippet that ignores his voice Is impudent ...

How fits his Umber Coat (Emily Dickinson Poem)

How fits his Umber Coat The Tailor of the Nut? Combined without a seam Like Raiment of a Dream -- ...

The Parting (Anne Bronte Poem)

1 The chestnut steed stood by the gate His noble master's will to wait, The woody park so green and ...

Autumn moonlight (Matsuo Basho Poem)

Autumn moonlight-- a worm digs silently into the chestnut. (Matsuo Basho)

Four Haiku (Matsuo Basho Poem)

Spring: A hill without a name Veiled in morning mist. The beginning of autumn: Sea and emerald paddy Both the ...

Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)

'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...

Mesmerism (Robert Browning Poem)

I. All I believed is true! I am able yet All I want, to get By a method as strange ...

A Letter From Li Po (Conrad Aiken Poem)

Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...

The House Of Clouds (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)

I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low ...

Rio Grande’s Last Race (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)

Now this was what Macpherson told While waiting in the stand; A reckless rider, over-bold, The only man with hands ...

Rio Grande (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)