To Certain Poets (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
Now is the rhymer's honest trade A thing for scornful laughter made. The merchant's sneer, the clerk's disdain, These are ...
Now is the rhymer's honest trade A thing for scornful laughter made. The merchant's sneer, the clerk's disdain, These are ...
1902 When the darkened Fifties dip to the North, And frost and the fog divide the air, And the day ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
Ponder my words, if so that any be Known guilty here of incivility; Let what is graceless, discomposed, and rude, ...
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Morns like these -- we parted -- Noons like these -- she rose -- Fluttering first -- then firmer To ...
I haven't told my garden yet -- Lest that should conquer me. I haven't quite the strength now To break ...
I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ? ...
LOVE, thou are absolute, sole Lord Of life and death. To prove the word, We'll now appeal to none of ...
Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the Thrones of Frost, through the absence of objects ...
Notus in fratres animi paterni. Hor. Carm. lib.II.2. A bless?d lot hath he, who having passed His youth and early ...
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip Of sullen light, no obscure ...
1 To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings, 2 Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun, 3 For my mean ...
In a blue series towards his sleepy eyes they slid like wonder, women tall & small, of every shape & ...
I. Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll ...
WHILE Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of Empires and the fall of Kings; While quacks of ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd, And secret passions labour'd in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz'd ...
Romance, who loves to nod and sing With drowsy head and folded wing Among the green leaves as they shake ...
When I am dead I would that ye make my bed On that low-lying, windy waste by the sea, Where ...
Ho, come out with the wind of spring, And step it blithely in woodlands waking; Friend am I of each ...
Great Sultan, how wise are thy state compositions! And oh, above all, I admire that Decree, In which thou command'st, ...
Tanagra! think not I forget Thy beautifully-storey'd streets; Be sure my memory bathes yet In clear Thermodon, and yet greets ...
On this thy natal day permit a friend - A brother - with thy joys his own to blend: In ...
I see it as it looked one afternoon In August,-by a fresh soft breeze o'erblown. The swiftness of the tide, ...
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