The Shepherds Calendar – July (John Clare Poems)
Daughter of pastoral smells and sightsAnd sultry days and dewy nightsJuly resumes her yearly placeWi her milking maiden faceRuddy and ...
Poems about hodge (21 Poems)
Hymn To Life (James Schuyler Poems)
The wind rests its cheek upon the ground and feels the cool dampAnd lifts its head with twigs and small ...
Rural Morning (John Clare Poems)
Soon as the twilight through the distant mistIn silver hemmings skirts the purple east,Ere yet the sun unveils his smiles ...
The Shepherd’s Week : Wednesday; or, The Dumps (John Gay Poems)
Sparabella.The wailings of a maiden I recite,A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight.Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat,Nor the ...
A Reverie (Joanna Baillie Poems)
Beside a spreading elm, from whose high boughsLike knotted tufts the crow's light dwelling shows,Where screen'd from northern blasts, and ...
A Disappointme (Joanna Baillie Poems)
On village green, whose smooth and well worn sod,Cross-path'd with every gossip's foot is trod;By cottage door where playful children ...
A Letter (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Poems)
After W. M. P.Dear Kitty,At length the term's ending;I 'm in for my Schools in a week;And the time that ...
The Squatter, Three Cornstalks, and the Well (Henry Lawson Poems)
THERE WAS a Squatter in the land- So runs the truthful tale I tell-There also were three cornstalks, and There also was ...
A Fable (William Cowper Poems)
A raven, while with glossy breastHer new-laid eggs she fondly press'd,And, on her wicker-work high mounted,Her chickens prematurely counted(A fault ...
The War Budget (Jessie Pope Poems)
HODGE waded through the weekly news,"The Income Tax, he said,"That's nowt to me, I shallunt lose,'Twill hit the boss instead.Lloyd ...
Greatness (John Henry Brown Poems)
What most men hunger for yet none achievesSave him who greatly cares not to be great,Who knows the loom of ...
Farm Breakfast (John Clare Poems)
Maids shout to breakfast in a merry strife,And the cat runs to hear the whetted knife,And dogs are ever in ...
Evening (Anne Batten Cristall Poems)
GERTRUDE.IN clouds drew on the evening's close, Which cross the west in ranges stood, As pensive GERTRUDE sought the wood, ...
Empire Building (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Somehow I never liked you, John, your ways were crude Your smile was pharisaical, your manners rude; Although you prospered ...
Dean’t mak gam o’ me (Florence Tweddle Poems)
I went last week to Stowslay Fair, My sweetheart for to see; She promis'd she would meet me there- ...
The King’s Experiment (Thomas Hardy Poems)
It was a wet wan hour in spring, And Nature met King Doom beside a lane, Wherein Hodge trudged, all ...
The Dead Drummer (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest Uncoffined--just as found: His landmark is a kopje-crest That breaks the veldt ...
Drummer Hodge (Thomas Hardy Poem)
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest Uncoffined -- just as found: His landmark is a kopje-crest That breaks the ...
The Cook’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. THE Cook of London, while the Reeve thus spake, For joy he laugh'd and clapp'd him on the ...
Blind Man’s Buff (William Blake Poems)
When silver snow decks Susan's clothes, And jewel hangs at th' shepherd's nose, The blushing bank is all my care, ...
The Mistletoe (A Christmas Tale) (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
A farmer's wife, both young and gay, And fresh as op'ning buds of May; Had taken to herself, a Spouse, ...