from: Black Combe White (Norman Nicholson Poems)
Sixty mile back,Edging the ooze of the estuary mosses - sheepOne side on fire from the level sun; hedgesClinkering ginger; ...
Poems about chapels (21 Poems)
Reservoirs (R S Thomas Poems)
There are places in Wales I don't go:Reservoirs that are the subconciousOf a people, troubled far downWith gravestones, chapels, villages ...
Fairy Song (Thomas Randolph Poems)
We the fairies blithe and antic,Of Dimensions not gigantic,Though the moonshine mostly keep us,Oft in orchards frisk and peep us,Stolen ...
The Disciple (George MacDonald Poems)
I.The times are changed, and gone the dayWhen the high heavenly land,Though unbeheld, quite near them lay,And men could understand.The ...
Under The Olives (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
SEATED in a Moorish garden On the Sahel of Algiers, Wandering breezes brought the burden Of its history in past ...
From The Wreck (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Turn out, boys! — "What's up with our super. to-night? The man's mad — Two hours to daybreak I'd swear ...
Eclogue Of The Shepherd And The Townie (Anthony Hecht Poems)
SHEPHERD Not the blue-fountained Florida hotel, Bell-capped, bellevued, straight-jacketed and decked With chromium palms and a fromage of moon, Not ...
The May Term (E W Bowling Poems)
I wish that the May Term were over, That its wearisome pleasures were o'er, And I were reclining in ...
Rain (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
Long as unending threads, the long-drawn rainInterminably, with its nails of grey, Athwart the dull grey day, Rakes ...
On the Great Plateau (Edith Wyatt Poems)
In the Santa Clara Valley, far away and far away, Cool-breathed waters dip and dally, linger towards another day- Far ...
The Name (Donald Marquis Poems)
IT shifts and shifts from form to form, It drifts and darkles, gleams and glows; It is the passion of ...
November In Ireland (Alice Guerin Crist Poems)
November days in Ireland The skies are dull and grey,But Oh! The clear strong flame of love, That burns by ...
Loci Dulcedo (Francis Maitland Poems)
Once again in thy meadows of Christ Church, Through thy chapels and gardens again I walk as of old, while ...
The Explosion (Philip Larkin Poem)
On the day of the explosion Shadows pointed towards the pithead. In the sun the slagheap slept. Down the lane ...
Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poem)
We, the Fairies, blithe and antic, Of dimensions not gigantic, Though the moonshine mostly keep us, Oft in orchards frisk ...
The World State (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Oh, how I love Humanity, With love so pure and pringlish, And how I hate the horrid French, Who never ...
Cornish Cliffs (John Betjeman Poem)
Those moments, tasted once and never done, Of long surf breaking in the mid-day sun. A far-off blow-hole booming like ...
519. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election-No. 2 (Robert Burns Poems)
FY, let us a' to Kirkcudbright, For there will be bickerin' there; For Murray's light horse are to muster, And ...
Forgive Me (Judith Skillman Poems)
Poem by Anne-Marie Derése, translated by Judith Skillman. Forgive me if I have laughed in your chapels, forgive me if ...
Poem In October (Dylan Thomas Poems)
It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled ...
Perseus (Sylvia Plath Poems)
The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering Head alone shows you in the prodigious act Of digesting what centuries alone digest: ...