The Child and the Mariner (William Henry Davies Poem)
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
When April scatters charms of primrose gold Among the copper leaves in thickets old, And singing skylarks from the meadows ...
You dare to say with perjured lips, "We fight to make the ocean free"? You, whose black trail of butchered ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
Marry, and love thy Flavia, for she Hath all things whereby others beautious be, For, though her eyes be small, ...
Oh, let me not serve so, as those men serve Whom honour's smokes at once fatten and starve; Poorly enrich't ...
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents ...
I am a little world made cunningly Of elements, and an angelic sprite; But black sin hath betrayed to endless ...
Let me pour forth My tears before thy face, whilst I stay here, For thy face coins them, and thy ...
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey ...
Read -- Sweet -- how others -- strove -- Till we -- are stouter -- What they -- renounced -- ...
Is the current rate of global warming a serious and cogent warning? Do we need to think about the fact ...
Marking time in pencil strokes across a virgin page and waiting for coincidence of heart-beat and second-hand, keying to the ...
Talk to me of love with wonder in your eyes, of limber magic flying through the veiling air and soft-edged ...
To the tune of "Bodhisattva Aliens" Soft breezes, mild sunshine, spring is still young. The sudden change of the light ...
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
In Virgynë the sweltrie sun gan sheene, And hotte upon the mees did caste his raie; The apple rodded from ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
The ladye she stood at her lattice high, Wi' her doggie at her feet; Thorough the lattice she can spy ...
With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong Such ...
I wonder how it all got started, this business about seeing your life flash before your eyes while you drown, ...
The earth is full of rhythms so precise the octave of the crystal can produce a trillion oscillations, yet not ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
At the end of a long-walled garden in a red provincial town, A brick path led to a mulberry- scanty ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Phoebus make haste, the day's too long, be gone, The silent night's the fittest time for moan; But stay this ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
I am a shell. From me you shall not hear The splendid tramplings of insistent drums, The orbed gold of ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
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