How To Not Settle It (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I LIKE, at times, to hear the steeples' chimesWith sober thoughts impressively that mingle;But sometimes, too, I rather like--don't you?--To ...
Poems about herrick (21 Poems)
Black Lizzie (Henry Kendall Poems)
THE GLOVED and jewelled bards who sing Of Pippa, Maud, and Dorothea,Have hardly done the handsome thing For you, my inky Cytherea.Flower ...
England (John Russell Hayes Poems)
(To C. and M.)The day is fair, the breeze is free, The ship has crossed the bar,And you are fleeting o'er ...
The Sun-Dial (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
'Tis an old dial, dark with many a stain; In summer crowned with drifting orchard bloom,Tricked in the autumn with the ...
De Libris (William Cosmo Monkhouse Poems)
True - there are books and books. There's Gray,For instance, and there's Bacon;There's Longfellow, and Monstrelet,And also Colton's " Lacon,"With ...
Knickerbocke (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
Shade of Herrick, Muse of Locker,Help me sing of Knickerbocker!Boughton, had you bid me chantHymns to Peter Stuyvesant,Had you bid ...
The Name On The Tree (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I saw a name carved on a tree -"Julia";A simpler name there could not be-Julia:But seeing it I seemed to ...
To Hilda Of Her Roses (Grace Hazard Conkling Poems)
ENOUGH has been said about rosesTo fill thirty thick volumes;There are as many songs about rosesAs there are roses in ...
False Nightmare (Allen Tate Poems)
I give the yawp barbaricOf piety and pelf(Who now reads Herrick?)And contradict myselfNo matter, the verse is large.My five-and-ten cent ...
Clerihew – Herrick (Edmund Clerihew Bentley Poems)
Inspiration visited HerrickDuring a mixed foursome at North Berwick.When his partner had sliced into a drainHe wrote "To Anthea, Who ...
THE APPARITION OF HIS, MISTRESS,CALLING HIM TO ELYSIUM (Robert Herrick Poem)
THE APPARITION OF HIS, MISTRESS, CALLING HIM TO ELYSIUM DESUNT NONNULLA-- Come then, and like two doves with silvery wings, ...
UPON HIMSELF (Robert Herrick Poem)
Thou shalt not all die; for while Love's fire shines Upon his altar, men shall read thy lines; And learn'd ...
HIS LAST REQUEST TO JULIA (Robert Herrick Poem)
I have been wanton, and too bold, I fear, To chafe o'er-much the virgin's cheek or ear;-- Beg for my ...
An Ode to Master Endymion Porter, Upon His Brother’s Death (Robert Herrick Poems)
Not all thy flushing suns are set, Herrick, as yet ; Nor doth this far-drawn hemisphere Frown and look sullen ...
UPON THE LOSS OF HIS MISTRESSES (Robert Herrick Poem)
I have lost, and lately, these Many dainty mistresses:-- Stately Julia, prime of all; Sapho next, a principal: Smooth Anthea, ...
TO ROBIN RED-BREAST (Robert Herrick Poem)
Laid out for dead, let thy last kindness be With leaves and moss-work for to cover me; And while the ...
His Prayer To Ben Jonson (Robert Herrick Poem)
When I a verse shall make, Know I have pray'd thee, For old religion's sake, Saint Ben to aid me. ...
To Julia (Robert Herrick Poem)
Julia, when thy Herrick dies, Close thou up thy poet's eyes; And his last breath, let it be Taken in ...
New Hampshire (Robert Frost Poem)
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
Asking For Roses (Robert Frost Poem)
A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master, With doors that none but the wind ever closes, Its floor all ...
March 30 (David Lehman Poems)
Eighty-one degrees a record high for the day which is not my birthday but will do until the eleventh of ...