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 milkmaids (16 Poems)
The Past (Margaret Holford Poems)
OH Earth! how fair thou art! With life, with mirth,With freshness, and with glory, teemest thou!Say, was the morn that ...
An Orchard Dance (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
All work is over at the farmAnd men and maids are ripe for glee;Love slips among them sly and warmOr ...
Lover’s Gifts XXII: I Shall Gladly Suffer (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
I shall gladly suffer the pride of culture to die out in my house,if only in some happy future I ...
A Letter of Advice (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
You tell me you're promised a lover,My own Araminta, next week;Why cannot my fancy discoverThe hue of his coat, and ...
Folk Song (John Charles McNeill Poems)
When merry milkmaids to their cattle call At evenfall And voices rangeLoud through the gloam from grange to quiet grange,Wild waif-songs from ...
Love in a Cottage (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
They may talk of love in a cottageand bowers of trellised vine-of nature bewitchingly simple,and milkmaids half divine;they may talk ...
First Things to Hand (Robert Pinsky Poems)
In the skull kept on the desk.In the spider-pod in the dust.Or nowhere. In milkmaids, in loaves,Or nowhere. And if ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXXII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
KULLERVO AS A SHEPHERD.Kullerwoinen, wizard-servantOf the blacksmith, Ilmarinen,Purchased slave from Untamoinen,Magic son with sky-blue stockings.,With a head of golden ringlets,In ...
Lob (Edward Thomas Poems)
At hawthorn-time in Wiltshire travellingIn search of something chance would never bring,An old man's face, by life and weather cutAnd ...
A Winter’s Tale (Dylan Thomas Poems)
It is a winter's taleThat the snow blind twilight ferries over the lakesAnd floating fields from the farm in the ...
The Champion (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Young and a conqueror, once on a day,Wild white Winter rode out this way;With his sword of ice and his ...
The Orotava Road (Basil Bunting Poems)
Four white heifers with sprawling hooves trundle the waggon. Its ill-roped crates heavy with fruit ...
The Owl (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground,And the far-off stream ...
Lover’s Gifts XXII: I Shall Gladly Suffer (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
I shall gladly suffer the pride of culture to die out in my house, if only in some happy future ...
The Owl (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is ...