TO A CHILD (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee, With merry-making eyes and jocund smiles, Thou gazest at the painted tiles, ...
Poems about nursery (31 Poems)
Having it Out with Melancholy (Jane Kenyon Poem)
1FROM THE NURSERY When I was born, you waited behind a pile of linen in the nursery, and when we ...
The Poet in the Nursery (Robert Graves Poem)
The youngest poet down the shelves was fumbling In a dim library, just behind the chair From which the ancient ...
Babylon (Robert Graves Poem)
The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his. Truth and Reason show but dim, And all's poetry ...
A Child’s Nightmare (Robert Graves Poems)
Through long nursery nights he stood By my bed unwearying, Loomed gigantic, formless, queer, Purring in my haunted ear That ...
The Beach (Robert Graves Poem)
Louder than gulls the little children scream Whom fathers haul into the jovial foam; But others fearlessly rush in, breast ...
Wild Strawberries (Robert Graves Poem)
Strawberries that in gardens grow Are plump and juicy fine, But sweeter far as wise men know Spring from the ...
Elegy For My Father (Annie Finch Poem)
HLF, August 8, 1918-August 22, 1997 "Bequeath us to no earthly shore until Is answered in the vortex of our ...
Recognizing His Son (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like a father in the nursery the maternity ward seeing His Son before Him shouting a loving word Giving out ...
Lived Among Us (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like an adult enrolled in a nursery a Phi Beta Kappa God descending walking as a child Love descending grace ...
But He’s not wearing a tie (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
Have you ever heard the comment noticed the body language someone different maybe not in "church" attire the eyes saying, ...
New Things (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The challenge of the pastor asking us a series of questions silence in the first answer to "what new things ...
Room for Other Plants (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The little patch of dirt the garden in the yard soil prepared for them the flats from the nursery in ...
A Hundred Collars (Robert Frost Poem)
Lancaster bore him--such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn't see him often Of late years, though he ...
The Position (Russell Edson Poem)
They let me in. I went right up to the nursery and climbed into the crib, and assumed the famous ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages (T. S. Eliot Poem)
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Elegy III: Change (John Donne Poem)
Although thy hand and faith, and good works too, Have sealed thy love which nothing should undo, Yea though thou ...
“Mike Teavee…” (Roald Dahl Poem)
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
Television (Roald Dahl Poem)
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
Phantasmagoria CANTO IV ( Hys Nouryture ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
"OH, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped ...
Snow Day (Billy Collins Poem)
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow, its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished, not a ...
The Yak (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
As a friend to the children Commend me the Yak. You will find it exactly the thing: It will carry ...
A Letter From Li Po (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
Half-waking (William Allingham Poem)
I thought it was the little bed I slept in long ago; A straight white curtain at the head, And ...
From The Short Story Shadow-Children (Louisa May Alcott Poem)
Little shadows, little shadows Dancing on the chamber wall, While I sit beside the hearthstone Where the red flames rise ...
My Dearest Frank, I Wish You Joy (Jane Austen Poem)
My dearest Frank, I wish you joy Of Mary's safety with a Boy, Whose birth has given little pain Compared ...
Willow (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
And I grew up in patterned tranquillity, In the cool nursery of the young century. And the voice of man ...