British Georgics. January (James Grahame Poems)
The labours of the plough, the various toilsThat, still returning with the changeful year,Demand the husbandman's and cottar's care;The joys ...
Poems about grandam (21 Poems)
The Orphin Twins. A Tale (James Hurdis Poems)
'Twas on a lofty mountain's side Half up the verdant steep, A gen'rous Vicar wedded, died, And left his spouse to weep. And still ...
Menotomy Lake (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
THE INDIAN CAMP.OUT from the Northern forest, dim and vast;Out from the mysteryOf yet more shadowy times, a pathless past,Untracked ...
How The Women Went From Dover (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
THE tossing spray of Cocheco's fallHardened to ice on its rocky wall,As through Dover town in the chill, gray dawn,Three ...
Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph’s (Grace Fallow Norton Poems)
IWITH cassock black, baret and book, Father Saran goes by;I think he goes to say a prayer For one who has to ...
Colin And Alexis (Janet Little Poems)
NOW from before Aurora's rays,Stern darkness with its horror flies;The mountain tops begin to blaze,And Phoebus gilds the eastern skies.See ...
To My Aunty (Janet Little Poems)
MY ever dear an' worthy aunty,Wha ne'er o' wit nor lear was vaunty;Yet often could, like honest grandam,Unravel dreams; an' ...
What The Sleepless Grandam Thinks (Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov Poems)
All through the cold night, beating wings shadowy Sweep o'er the church-village poor,--Only one Grandam a hundred years hoary, Findeth her slumber ...
After London (J D.C Pellow Poems)
London Bridge is broken down; Green is the grass on Ludgate Hill;I know a farmer in Camden Town Killed a brock by ...
Sir Pavon And St. Pavon (E Foxton Poems)
Part 1. St. Mark's hushed abbey heardThrough prayers a roar and din;A brawling voice did shout, "Knave shaveling, let me ...
Adams Complaint (Francis Sabie Poems)
New formed Adam of the reddish earth, Exilde from Eden, Paradice of pleasure By Gods decree cast down to woes ...
The Sinless Child Part 5 (Elizabeth Oakes Smith Poems)
The loud winds rattled at the door-The shutters creaked and shook,While Eva, by the cottage hearth,Sat with abstracted look.With every ...
Humanity’s Stream. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
I stood upon a crowded thoroughfare,Within a city's confines, where were metAll classes and conditions, and surveyed,From a secluded niche ...
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 ...
To Mrs. Goodchild (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
The night-wind's shriek is pitiless and hollow, The boding bat flits by on sullen wing, And I sit ...
As when a child… (Charles Lamb Poems)
As when a child on some long winter's night Affrighted clinging to its Grandam's knees With eager wond'ring and perturbed ...
Sonnet VIII (Charles Lamb Poems)
As when a child on some long winter's nightAffrighted clinging to its Grandam's kneesWith eager wond'ring and perturb'd delightListens strange ...
Snowbound, a Winter Idyl (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
A Valentine’s Song (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
MOTLEY I count the only wear That suits, in this mixed world, the truly wise, Who boldly smile upon despair ...
The Granny Grey, a Love Tale (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
DAME DOWSON, was a granny grey, Who, three score years and ten, Had pass'd her busy hours away, In talking ...
Sow (Sylvia Plath Poems)
God knows how our neighbor managed to breed His great sow: Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid In ...