The Kalevala – Rune XVI (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
WAINAMOINEN'S BOAT-BUILDING.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,The eternal wisdom-singer,For his boat was working lumber,Working long upon his vessel,On a fog-point jutting seaward,On an ...
Poems about nestlings (21 Poems)
The Anyksciai Grove (Antanas Baranauskas Poems)
Stump-littered hillocks, desolate and bare,Can anyone believe you once were fair?Where are your former charms? Where did they go?Where is ...
Missing (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
IShe was spoken off Saint Vincent, outward bound . . .Some lumber-laden barque from Puget Sound,Heaving her sodden deck-load through ...
Grand Chorus Of Birds (Aristophanes Poems)
Come on then, ye dwellers by nature in darkness, and like to the leaves' generations, ...
Occasional Address (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Written for the benefit of a distressed Player, detainedat Brighthelmstone for Debt, November 1792. WHEN in a thousand swarms, the ...
A Cry In The World (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Kine, kine, in the meadows, why do you low so piteously? High is the grass to your knees and wet ...
The Fugitive King (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
August 7: 1645Cold blue cloud on the hill-tops,Cold buffets of hill-side rain:--As a bird that they hunt on the mountains,The ...
The Robins’ Nest (Carolina Oliphant Poems)
Air — "Lochiel's awa' to France."Their nest was in the leafy bush,Sae soft and warm, sae soft and warm,And Robins ...
The Grey Fantail (C J Dennis Poems)
The bushmen call me "Cranky Fan," Because my strange erratic flightSeems to uncomprehending man Sign of a wit not over-bright;But ...
The Rose and the Bee (C J Dennis Poems)
Well, what tidings today? said the bee To the burgeoning rose."You are young, yet already you see Much of life, ...
The Two Nests (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
The wise thrush, the wise thrush, she choseth well her tree, Made her nest in the laurel's leafy shade. But ...
The Hen’s Complaint (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Beside an incubator stoodThe would-be mother of a brood.With drooping wings and nodding head,These are the clucked-out words she said:"O, ...
On Seeing A Wolf Come Down Through The Woods To The Water’s Edge (Sonnet VI.) (George Jehoshaphat Mountain Poems)
SAY did the scent of flesh thy feet allure, Gaunt wolf? — go back, no prey for thee is here:Track ...
Swallow’s Return (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Poems)
HOW mony times have I told theeNiver to fasten t' stable doorAt t' edge o' dark on t' shortenin' neets?Leave ...
The Fountain (Clinton Scollard Poems)
A Triton, drowsy as the god of Sleep, From horn uplifted pours a limpid stream Athwart whose falling drops the ...
Ditty (Thomas Hardy Poem)
(E. L. G.) BENEATH a knap where flown Nestlings play, Within walls of weathered stone, Far away From the files ...
Weathers (Thomas Hardy Poem)
This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; ...
The Giaour (Lord Byron Poem)
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
416. Song-Logan Braes (Robert Burns Poem)
O LOGAN, sweetly didst thou glide, That day I was my Willie's bride, And years sin syne hae o'er us ...
The Uses Of Poetry (William Carlos Williams Poems)
I've fond anticipation of a day O'erfilled with pure diversion presently, For I must read a lady poesy The while ...
Bird Watcher (Robert William Service Poems)
In Wall Street once a potent power, And now a multi-millionaire Alone within a shady bower In clothes his valet ...