The Decision Of Fortune (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Fortune well-Pictur'd on a rolling Globe, With waving Locks, and thin transparent Robe, A Man beholding, to his Neighbor cry'd, ...
Poems about courting (21 Poems)
Elegy (Charlotte Smith Poems)
DARK gathering clouds involve the threatening skies,The sea heaves conscious of the impending gloom,Deep, hollow murmurs from the cliffs arise;They ...
Doctor Goosegrease (Billy Bennett Poems)
Everybody knows me, Dr. Goosegrease, M.D. All the best paying patients, I've got 'em. Harley Street's my abode, No. 6 ...
Sailor, Sailor – (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
"Sailor, Sailor, why did you go — Why did you go for a sailor?Why didn't ...
Nun Snow (Alfred Kreymborg Poems)
A Pantomime of BeadsEarth VoiceISsheThoughtless of life,A lover of imminent death,Nun SnowTouching her strings of white beads?Is it her unseen ...
At Milking-Time (Emma Alice Browne Poems)
Coe, Berry-brown! Hie, Thistledown!Make haste; the milking-time is come!The bells are ringing in the town,Tho' all the green hillside is ...
Sixty Years Ago (Alice Guerin Crist Poems)
IThe double-blossomed peach-trees with rosy bloom were gayWhen grandpa rode beneath them upon his courting way,From the white gate to ...
Song #1 (Anne Batten Cristall Poems)
WANDERING in the still of eve, While songsters homeward cleave the air, With lively notes my voice I tun'd, To ...
Ship Models VII “Geordie Collier Brig” (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Here's the likeness of the Betsy: sometime in the eighteen thirtiesThey built her in Newcastle where the coaly dust and ...
They’re Coming Back (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
THEY 'RE coming home Thanksgiving Day,They 're coming back once more,And mother's smiles begin to playThe way they did beforeThe ...
Jack O’ Lanthorn (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
O bat's cry and mist-rack and dark o' the moon!O roving of wayfarers and wetting of gay shoon!Fen-pool and quagmire ...
VI: To The Same (Ben Jonson Poems)
Kisse mee, Sweet: The wary loverCan your favours keepe, and cover,When the common courting jayAll your bounties will betray.Kisse againe: ...
The Starlings (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Early in spring time, on raw and windy mornings,Beneath the freezing house-eaves I heard the starlings sing—'Ah dreary March month, ...
Crossing the Frontier (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
Crossing the frontier they were stopped in time, Told, quite politely, they would have to wait: Passports in order, nothing ...
The Alarm (Thomas Hardy Poem)
In Memory of one of the Writer's Family who was a Volunteer during the War with Napoleon In a ferny ...
Wooing Us (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Just as a bridegroom, God is courting us, wooing us back to Him to a loving relationship once more, again. ...
II. The Pauper Witch of Grafton (Robert Frost Poem)
Now that they've got it settled whose I be, I'm going to tell them something they won't like: They've got ...
80. The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata (Robert Burns Poems)
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
from The Tenth Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Ah, but the City of Pain: how strange its streets are: the false silence of sound drowning sound, and there--proud, ...
Ode To Meaning (Robert Pinsky Poems)
Dire one and desired one, Savior, sentencer-- In an old allegory you would carry A chained alphabet of tokens: Ankh ...
To Mrs. M. A. at Parting (Katherine Philips Poems)
I Have examin'd and do find, Of all that favour me There's none I grieve to leave behind But only ...