Ye Wearie Wayfarer [A Dedication to the author of Holmby House” (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Fytte IBy Wood and Wold"Beneath the greenwood bough." — W. Scott.Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows, Though ...
Poems about fairs (21 Poems)
An Alphabet Zoo (Carolyn Wells Poems)
A was an apt Alligator, Who wanted to be a head-waiter; He said, "I opine In that field ...
A Poetic Descant Upon A Private Musick–Meeting (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Muse! Rise, and plume thy Feet, and let's convers This Mor'n together: Let's rehers Last Evening's Sweets; and run one ...
The Blackbird (Frederick Tennyson Poems)
How sweet the harmonies of afternoon:The Blackbird sings along the sunny breezeHis ancient song of leaves, and summer boon;Rich breath ...
The Two Little Skeezucks (Eugene Field Poems)
There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea;They clambered and rollicked in ...
To Lallie (Outside the British Museum.) (Amy Levy Poems)
UP those Museum steps you came, And straightway all my blood was flame, ...
The Temptation (Edith Nesbit Poems)
YOU bring your love too late, dear, I have no love to buy it,I spent my love on worthless toys, ...
WHO’LL BUY GODS OF LOVE? (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
OF all the beauteous wares Exposed for sale at fairs, None will give more delight Than those that to your ...
The two little skeezucks (Eugene Field Poem)
There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea; They clambered and rollicked ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Reply to Some Verses of J.M.B. Pigot, Esq. (Lord Byron Poem)
Why, Pigot, complain of this damsel's disdain, Why thus in despair do you fret? For months you may try, yet, ...
86. The Auld Farmer’s New-Year-Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare, Maggie (Robert Burns Poems)
A GUID New-year I wish thee, Maggie! Hae, there's a ripp to thy auld baggie: Tho' thou's howe-backit now, an' ...
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 ...
Quarrel (Elinor Wylie Poems)
Let us quarrel for these reasons: You detest the salt which seasons My speech . . . and all my ...
Meditations In Time Of Civil War (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I. Ancestral Houses Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ...
Hymn 75 (Isaac Watts Poems)
The description of Christ the beloved. SS 5:9-16. The wond'ring world inquires to know Why I should love my Jesus ...
Salut au Monde. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
A Wanderer (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
When Watkin shifts the burden of his cares And all that irked him in his bound employ, Once more become ...
To Gnedich (Alexander Pushkin Poems)
With Homer you conversed alone for days and nights, Our waiting hours were passing slowly, And shining you came down ...
Juggling Jerry (George Meredith Poems)
Pitch here the tent, while the old horse grazes: By the old hedge-side we'll halt a stage. It's nigh my ...
The Tropics in New York (Claude McKay Poems)
Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root, Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit, Fit ...