Summer Winds (John Clare Poems)
The wind waves oer the meadows green And shakes my own wild flowersAnd shifts about the moving scene Like the life of ...
Poems about bents (20 Poems)
From A Flemish Graveyard (January, 1915) (Iolo Aneurin Williams Poems)
A year hence may the grass that wavesO'er English men in Flemish graves,Coating this clay with green of peaceAnd softness ...
The Yellowhammer (John Clare Poems)
When shall I see the white-thorn leaves agen, And yellowhammers gathering the dry bentsBy the dyke side, on stilly moor or ...
Autumn (John Clare Poems)
The thistledown's flying, though the winds are all still,On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill,The spring from ...
Sir Cauline (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
The First Part.In Ireland, ferr over the sea,There dwelleth a bonnye kinge;And with him a yong and comlye knighte,Men call ...
Lovers And A Reflection (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
In moss-prankt dells which the sunbeams flatter (And heaven it knoweth what that may mean;Meaning, however, is no great matter) ...
Oh, For Those Days (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Oh, for those days that had no doubt, When I, a simple village laddie,Sang with much glee the rhyme about ...
Corryong (C J Dennis Poems)
The cattle-lands of Corryong, The maiden of the snows(Where silver streams the winter longSing pleasantly their tinkling song) Not many ...
Offa’s Dyke (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Down in the dyke of the ancient folk,Hard by the rampart crowned with oak,My foot sank deep in the drift ...
Scotch Song (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Oh, forth she went like a braw, braw brideTo meet her winsome groom,When she was aware of twa bonny birdsSat ...
Yorla Intake (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Poems)
UP on Yorla intake,Lookin' doon thoo seesLang blue back of Hamble HillAboon wind-crooked trees;Round thee lapwings call;Black-faced moorland flocksShelter nigh ...
A PASTORAL SUNG TO THE KING (Robert Herrick Poem)
MONTANO, SILVIO, AND MIRTILLO, SHEPHERDS MON. Bad are the times. SIL. And worse than they are we. MON. Troth, bad ...
CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMAS EVE (Robert Herrick Poem)
Down with the rosemary and bays, Down with the misletoe; Instead of holly, now up-raise The greener box, for show. ...
The Task: Book V, The Winter Morning Walk (excerpts) (William Cowper Poem)
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
Evening (John Clare Poem)
'Tis evening; the black snail has got on his track, And gone to its nest is the wren, And the ...
The Hon. Sec. (John Betjeman Poem)
The flag that hung half-mast today Seemed animate with being As if it knew for who it flew And will ...
A Bay In Anglesey (John Betjeman Poem)
The sleepy sound of a tea-time tide Slaps at the rocks the sun has dried, Too lazy, almost, to sink ...
Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came (Robert Browning Poem)
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
Four Songs Of Four Seasons (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND OUTSIDE the garden The wet skies harden; The gates are barred on The summer side: "Shut ...
Ballade at Thirty-five (Dorothy Parker Poems)
This, no song of an ingénue, This, no ballad of innocence; This, the rhyme of a lady who Followed ever ...