Poems about shepherd (51 Poems)
From The First Act Of The Aminta Of Tasso (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Daphne’s Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to the snowy Ewe, in thy esteem, The Father of the Flock a Foe must seem, The faithful Turtles to their … Continue reading
A Pastoral Dialogue Between Two Shepherdesses (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
[Silvia] Pretty Nymph! within this Shade, Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid, Whilst the World dissolves in Heat, Take this cool, and flow’ry Seat: And with pleasing Talk awhile Let us two the Time beguile; Tho’ thou here no … Continue reading
Marksman Sam (Marriott Edgar Poem)
When Sam Small joined the regiment, ‘E were no’ but a raw recruit, And they marched ‘im away one wint’ry day, ‘Is musket course to shoot. They woke ‘im up at the crack o’ dawn, Wi’ many a nudge and … Continue reading
Sonnet LIII: Clear Anker (Michael Drayton Poem)
Another to the River Anker Clear Anker, on whose silver-sanded shore My soul-shrin’d saint, my fair Idea, lies, O blessed brook, whose milk-white swans adore The crystal stream refined by her eyes, Where sweet myrrh-breathing Zephyr in the Spring Gently … Continue reading
Idea LIII: To the River Ancor (Michael Drayton Poem)
Clear Ancor, on whose silver-sanded shore My soul-shrin’d saint, my fair Idea lies, O blessed brook, whose milk-white swans adore Thy crystal stream, refined by her eyes, Where sweet myrrh-breathing Zephyr in the spring Gently distills his nectar-dropping showers, Where … Continue reading
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli’d his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin’d: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni’d Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; … Continue reading
The White Bees (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, “I will make you keeper of my bees.” Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the … Continue reading
Longfellow (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
In a great land, a new land, a land full of labour and riches and confusion, Where there were many running to and fro, and shouting, and striving together, In the midst of the hurry and the troubled noise, I … Continue reading
God of the Open Air (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,– On mountain heights, In woodlands dim with many a dream, In valleys bright with springs, And on the curving capes … Continue reading
Going to Heaven! (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Going to Heaven! I don’t know when – Pray do not ask me how! Indeed I’m too astonished To think of answering you! Going to Heaven! How dim it sounds! And yet it will be done As sure as flocks … Continue reading