Poems about cowl (20 Poems)
The Prophecy Of Merlin (Anne Bannerman Poems)
FOR three long nights had King Arthur watch’d,The light from the turret shone !For three long nights had King Arthur wak’d,He pass’d them all alone ! On the fourth, at the first hour’s summon bell,As the warder walk’d his round,A … Continue reading
The Two Bears (Carolyn Wells Poems)
Prince Curlilocks remarked one day To Princess Dimplecheek, “I haven’t had a real good play For more than ‘most a week.” Said Princess Dimplecheek, “My dear, Your majesty forgets– This morning we played grenadier With grandpa’s epaulets. “And yesterday we … Continue reading
The Poet’s Euthanasia (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
November: 1674 Cloked in gray threadbare poverty, and blind,Age-weak, and desolate, and beloved of God;High-heartedness to long repulse resign’d,Yet bating not one jot of hope, he trodThe sunless skyless streets he could not see;By those faint feet made sacrosanct to … Continue reading
The Tide River (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Clear and cool, clear and cool,By laughing shallow and dreaming pool;Cool and clear, cool and clear,By shining shingle and foaming weir;Under the crag where the ouzel sings,And the ivied wall where the church-bell rings,Undefiled, for the undefiled;Play by me, bathe … Continue reading
Ballade (Francoise Villon Poems)
I know flies in milkI know the man by his clothesI know fair weather from foulI know the apple by the treeI know the tree when I see the sapI know when all is oneI know who labors and who … Continue reading
Sonnet XI. The Printing-Press. (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
IN boyhood’s days we read with keen delightHow young Aladdin rubbed his lamp and raisedThe towering Djin whose form his soul amazed,Yet who was pledged to serve him day and night.But Gutenberg evoked a giant spriteOf vaster power, when Europe … Continue reading
The Angel Of The Sombre Cowl (Alma Frances McCollum Poems)
WHEN sight and sound, by Pain’s oppressive hand, Were dimmed, and low the shaded night-light burned, A Presence came beside my bed, and yearned To clasp and bear me to another land. But whispered gently, ‘It is not so planned.’ … Continue reading
A Roxbury Garden (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Hoops Blue and pink sashes, Criss-cross shoes, Minna and Stella run out into the garden To play at hoop. Up and down the garden-paths they race, In the yellow sunshine, Each with a big round hoop White as a … Continue reading
two spanish poems (Rg Gregory Poem)
(a) orihuela-time the sun in orihuela calms the dust and people glide about the streets at ease (problems left indoors to cool themselves) time has grown fat and no one cares to pin each minute to its proper place the … Continue reading
The Problem (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
I like a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see, Would I that cowled … Continue reading