All Silver-Laced With Web (Patience Worth Poems)
All silver-laced with web and crystal-studded,Hangs a golden lily cup,As airy as a dancing sprite.The moon hath caught a fleeting ...
Poems about coaxing (21 Poems)
The Singing Wood (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
I FOLLOWED far from the roadway After my golden ball(How could I tell the way it went Where it might lie or ...
Epitaph : From “The Fading Rose” (Philip Morin Freneau Poems)
Here-for they could not help but die-The daughters of the Rose-Bush lie:Here rest, interred without a stone,What dear Lucinda gave ...
They Have Bound Us (Edwin James Brady Poems)
THE round world glows in its green and rose, And the full buds burst to bloom: The earth is ours ...
A Legend of St. Patrick (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I heard this old legend a few days ago— A legend so quaint Of Ireland's saint, That to lighten my ...
The Huntsman (Billy Bennett Poems)
Give me the life of a huntsman,It wants a lot of beating...I know, I've served my apprenticeshipWith that famous hunter, ...
The Fever-Dream (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
IT was a fever-dream; I lay Awake, as in the broad bright day, But faint and worn I drew my ...
The Mother’s Heart (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Poems)
I.WHEN first thou camest, gentle, shy, and fond, My eldest-born, first hope, and dearest treasure, My heart received thee with ...
The “Coming Man” (Anonymous Americas Poems)
A pair of very chubby legsEncased in scarlet hose;A pair of little stubby bootsWith rather doubtful toes;A little kilt, a ...
Little Miss Laugh-A-Lot (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
LITTLE Miss Laugh-a-Lot, Saucy the way you've got, Dancing with glee are the bright eyes of you; Lips like the ...
SPROUT (James Lee Jobe Poem)
It could be Valley Oak or Snap-bean, Elderberry, or Cattail rising out of the creek; all began the same, a ...
The Movement of Their Arms (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
As if in the breeze, stopping even momentarily able to see the movement of their arms swaying in the morning ...
An Unseen Hand, an Unheard Whisper (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Pushed forward, that's how she put it, our lives for God's special purpose pushed forward by an unseen hand, an ...
Smell of Autumn (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Another smell of autumn sweet sweet smell of Concord grapes warming ripening ready to burst with flavor strong urgent smell ...
Sheltered Garden (Hilda Doolittle Poem)
I have had enough. I gasp for breath. Every way ends, every road, every foot-path leads at last to the ...
The Wife of the Mind (Charles Webb Poems)
Sharecroppers' child, she was more schooled In slaughtering pigs and coaxing corn out of The ground than in the laws ...
M’Fingal – Canto IV (John Trumbull Poems)
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
Jug (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE SHALE and water thrown together so-so first of all, Then a potter's hand on the wheel and his fingers ...
The Sentry (Wilfred Owen Poems)
We'd found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew, And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell Hammered on ...
To A Sad Daughter (Michael Ondaatje Poems)
All night long the hockey pictures gaze down at you sleeping in your tracksuit. Belligerent goalies are your ideal. Threats ...