Pretence. Part II – The Library (John Kenyon Poems)
ARGUMENT. REFUGE IN A LIBRARY. CONVERSE WITH BOOKS.-POLEMICAL WRITERS.-POETS- BOOKS READ OVER AGAIN. THE WORLDLY CONTINUALLY TAKES PLACE OF THE ...
Poems about luckier (20 Poems)
The Pigeons (John Freeman Poems)
The pigeons, following the faint warm light,Stayed at last on the roof till warmth was gone,Then in the mist that's ...
Arms And The Politician; Or, The Pilgrims’ Progress (John Collings Squire Poems)
OUR ears had grown familiar with"Mr. Money" and "Mr. Smith"When, in the war's first anxious hour,Bellona, thy transmuting power,That we ...
Eurydice (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Heaven's cup held down to me I drain,The sunshine mounts and spurs my brain;Bathing in grass, with thirsty eyeI suck ...
Bec’s Birth-Day Nov. 8, 1726 (Jonathan Swift Poems)
This day, dear Bec, is thy nativity;Had Fate a luckier one, she'd give it ye.She chose a thread of greatest ...
A child said, What is the grass? (Walt Whitman Poems)
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with fullhands;How could I answer the child?. . . ...
Studies at Delhi, 1876 (Alfred Comyn Lyall Poems)
<i>I.--The Hindu Ascetic.</i>Here as I sit by the Jumna bank,Watching the flow of the sacred stream,Pass me the legions, rank ...
On Somme (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Suddenly into the still air burst thuddingAnd thudding and cold fear possessed me all,On the gray slopes there, where Winter ...
Justification (John Freeman Poems)
From far-off it came nearDeep-charactered and clear,Until I saw the features close to mineAnd the eyes unhappy shine.It was Sorrow's ...
An Inventor (Augusta Davies Webster Poems)
Not yet! I thought this time 'twas done at last, the workings perfected, the life in it; and there's the ...
The Gypsy (Edward Thomas Poems)
A fortnight before Christmas Gypsies were everywhere:Vans were drawn up on wastes, women trailed to the fair.'My gentleman,' said one, ...
The Metamorphose (Ben Jonson Poems)
The fairy beam upon you, The stars to glister on you; A moon of light ...
Tarrant Moss (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I closed and drew for my love's sake That now is false to me, And I slew the Reiver of ...
The Metamorphosed Gypsies (excerpt) (Ben Jonson Poem)
The fairy beam upon you, The stars to glister on you; A moon of light In the noon of night, ...
The Isle Of Portland (A. E. Housman Poem)
The star-filled seas are smooth tonight From France to England strown; Black towers above Portland light The felon-quarried stone. On ...
Ripened Summer Fruit (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Oh how fitting, a lectionary story caught in the summer months, hot and harsh for ripe summer fruit ripening even ...
Devonshire Street W.1 (John Betjeman Poem)
The heavy mahogany door with its wrought-iron screen Shuts. And the sound is rich, sympathetic, discreet. The sun still shines ...
Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation (William Butler Yeats Poems)
How should the world be luckier if this house, Where passion and precision have been one Time out of mind, ...
Enoch Arden (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red ...
Geraint And Enid (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...