A Lamentation (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WHERE ancient broken wall encloses round,From tread of lawless feet, the hallowed ground,And sombre yews their dewy branches wave,O'er many ...
Poems about basil (20 Poems)
In Praise of Mandragora (Muriel Stuart Poems)
O, MANDRAGORA, many sing in praiseOf life, and death, and immortality,--Of passion, that goes famished all her days,--Of Faith, or ...
The Moonbeam (Luis Gonzaga Urbina Poems)
MOONBEAM, come in! Thou art a welcome guest. 'Tis long since I have seen thy silver flame. Although I left the casement ...
The ‘Sad Ditty’ Born Of The Story Of Isabella (John Payne Poems)
Alack! ah who could the ill Christian beThat stole my pot away,My pot of basil of Salern, from me?'Twas thriv'n ...
Tubes (Donald Hall Poems)
1'Up, down, good, bad,' saidthe man with the tubesup his nose, ' there's lotsof variety.However, notionsof balance betweenextremes of fortuneare ...
By The Fireside : King Witlaf’s Drinking-horn (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Witlaf, a king of the Saxons, Ere yet his last he breathed,To the merry monks of Croyland His drinking-horn bequeathed,--That, whenever they ...
Alf’s Ninth Bit (Ezra Pound Poems)
Listen, my children, and you shall hearThe midnight activities of Whats-his Name,Scarcely a general now known to fameCan tell you ...
Full Moon (Juan Ramon Jimenez Poems)
The door is open,the cricket is singing.Are you going around nakedin the fields? Like an immortal water,going in and out of ...
Fragmentary Scenes From The Road To Avernus (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Scene I"Discontent"LAURENCE RABY.Laurence:I said to young Allan M'Ilveray, Beside the swift swirls of the North,When, in lilac shot through with ...
Eighteen Hundred And Eleven (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
Still the loud death drum, thundering from afar,O'er the vext nations pours the storm of war:To the stern call still ...
Vagabond’s House (Don Blanding Poems)
When I have a house . . . as I sometime may . . .I'll suit my fancy in every ...
Basil (Anne Bannerman Poems)
THE sobbings of the ocean wavesWere all the notes that Basil knew;He lov'd them since his ear could dwellWith gladness ...
The Gambler (Billy Bennett Poems)
A gambler born was young BasilHis finances were all of a latherA wayward boy, but his mother's joyAnd likewise, the ...
The Quails (Francis Brett Young Poems)
(In the south of Italy the peasants put out the eyes of a captured quailso that its cries may attract ...
Spring (Boris Pasternak Poems)
This spring the world is new and different;More lively is the sparrows' riot.I do not even try expressing it,How full ...
Romance Son?mbulo (Federico Garcia Lorca Poem)
Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on ...
Isabella or The Pot of Basil (John Keats Poem)
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
Endymion: Book IV (John Keats Poem)
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
Exiles (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
It goes on being Alexandria still. Just walk a bit along the straight road that ends at the Hippodrome and ...
Part 7 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...