THE WALKING BELL (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
A CHILD refused to go betimes To church like other people; He roam'd abroad, when rang the chimes On Sundays ...
Poems about hastening (21 Poems)
The Deserted Village (Oliver Goldsmith Poem)
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
Yesterday and Today XII (Khalil Gibran Poem)
The gold-hoarder walked in his palace park and with him walked his troubles. And over his head hovered worries as ...
Joy Along the Way (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Joy in each moment in the unfolding of the story in the coming of Christ anew to the earth The ...
Blond Hair Shimmering (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The blond hair shimmering in the morning sunlight the sun hidden, not visible behind the house across the street Only ...
Hastening to Bethlehem (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Maybe, in this modern age, the best way to think of the journey to the Christ child the season of ...
Nobody knows this little Rose (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Nobody knows this little Rose -- It might a pilgrim be Did I not take it from the ways And ...
Mazeppa (Lord Byron Poem)
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
The Rock Cries Out to Us Today (Maya Angelou Poem)
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry ...
The Old Man’s Comforts and how he gained them (Robert Southey Poems)
You are old, Father William, the young man cried, The few locks which are left you are grey; You are ...
Ruins of Rome, by Bellay (Edmund Spenser Poems)
1 Ye heavenly spirits, whose ashy cinders lie Under deep ruins, with huge walls opprest, But not your praise, the ...
The Triumph of Life (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his ...
Remembrance (George William Russell Poems)
THERE were many burning hours on the heartsweet tide, And we passed away from ourselves, forgetting all The immortal moods ...
Deliciae Sapientiae de Amore (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Love, light for me Thy ruddiest blazing torch, That I, albeit a beggar by the Porch Of the glad Palace ...
Fugue (Howard Nemerov Poems)
You see them vanish in their speeding cars, The many people hastening through the world, And wonder what they would ...
Hanchen, the Maid of the Mill (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Near the village of Udorf, on the banks of the Rhine, There lived a miller and his family, once on ...
And Doth Not a Meeting Like This (Thomas Moore Poems)
And doth not a meeting like this make amends For all the long years I've been wandering away -- To ...
Thee, Thee, Only Thee (Thomas Moore Poems)
The dawning of morn, the daylight's sinking, The night's long hours still find me thinking Of thee, thee, only thee. ...
Paradise Lost: Book 12 (John Milton Poems)
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Perfidy (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Hollow rang the house when I knocked on the door, And I lingered on the threshold with my hand Upraised ...