The Kalevala – Rune II (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
WAINAMOINEN'S SOWING.Then arose old Wainamoinen,With his feet upon the island,On the island washed by ocean,Broad expanse devoid of verdure;There remained ...
Poems about cuckoos (21 Poems)
The Kalevala – Rune XXI (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
ILMARINEN'S WEDDING-FEAST.Louhi, hostess of the Northland,Ancient dame of Sariola,While at work within her dwelling,Heard the whips crack on the fenlands,Heard ...
Little Boy Blue (George MacDonald Poems)
Little Boy Blue lost his way in a wood—Sing apples and cherries, roses and honey:He said, "I would not go ...
Song of the Guitar. (Bai JuYi Poems)
In the tenth year of Yuanhe I was banished and demoted to be assistant official in Jiujiang. In the summer ...
My Wake (Albinas Zukauskas Poems)
If ever the time comes for me to dieTake a white birchwood table out there to the river,Set it up ...
The Charming Earth of Awadh (With English Translation) (Ali Sardar Jafri Poems)
GUZARTI BARSAAT AATEY JAADOn KE NARM LAMHEYHAWAAOn MEIn TITLIYOn KE MAANIND UD RAHEY HAInMAIn APNEY SEENEY MEIn DIL KI AAWAAZ ...
On Reading Ballads (Arthur Graeme West Poems)
We lay upon a flowery hill Close by the railway lines,Apollo dusted gold on us ...
In Autumn (Alice Meynell Poems)
The leaves are many under my feet,And drift one way.Their scent of death is weary and sweet.A flight of them ...
The Harp of Cnoc I’Chosgair (Anonymous Irish Poems)
Harp of Cnoc I'Chosgair, you who bring sleepto eyes long sleepless;sweet subtle, plangent, glad, cooling grave.Excellent instrument with smooth gentle ...
Wormwood (Cale Young Rice Poems)
(_In Old England_) What is he whispering to her there Under the hedge-row spray? "Spring, Spring, Spring?"--Is the world ...
To A Nun (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Please God, forsake your water and dry bread,And fling the bitter cress you eat aside.Put by your rosary. In Mary's ...
Here-now-our (Boris Pasternak Poems)
Here-now-our age of socialism!Here in the thick of life below.Today in the name of things to beInto the future forth ...
Sadness in Spring (Anonymous British Poems)
Maytime, loveliest season,Loud bird-parley, new growth green,Ploughs in furrow, oxen yoked,Emerald sea, land-hues dappled.When cuckoos call from fair tree-topsGreater grows ...
Oneata (Alan Seeger Poems)
A hilltop sought by every soothing breeze That loves the melody of murmuring boughs, Cool shades, green acreage, and antique ...
With Primroses (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
WITHIN a wood, no farther from the sea Than you might hear the waves dash audibly, These flowers grew; the ...
Merrow Down (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There runs a road by Merrow Down-- A grassy track to-day it is-- An hour out Guildford town, Above the ...
The Rambler (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I do not see the hills around, Nor mark the tints the copses wear; I do not note the grassy ...
A Message to Commissioner Li At Zizhou (Wang Wei Poems)
From ten thousand valleys the trees touch heaven; On a thousand peaks cuckoos are calling; And, after a night of ...
The Deserted Garden (Alan Seeger Poems)
I know a village in a far-off land Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain With tinted walls a space on ...
The Cuckoo (Ogden Nash Poems)
Cuckoos lead Bohemian lives, They fail as husbands and as wives, Therefore they cynically disparage Everybody else's marriage. (Ogden Nash)
On the Same (John Milton Poems)
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a ...