Australian Engineers (Henry Lawson Poem)
Ah, well! but the case seems hopeless, and the pen might write in vain; The people gabble of old things ...
Poems about timber (31 Poems)
To An Old Mate (Henry Lawson Poem)
Old Mate! In the gusty old weather, When our hopes and our troubles were new, In the years spent in ...
The Roaring Days (Henry Lawson Poem)
The night too quickly passes And we are growing old, So let us fill our glasses And toast the Days ...
The Building of the Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
The Truce of the Bear (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go By the Pass called Muttianee, to shoot in the vale ...
The Story of Ung (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago, Ung, a maker of pictures, fashioned an image of snow. Fashioned ...
A Song In Storm (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Be well assured that on our side The abiding oceans fight, Though headlong wind and heaping tide Make us their ...
The Palace (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When I was a King and a Mason -- a Master proven and skilled -- I cleared me ground for ...
The Explorer (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There's no sense in going further -- it's the edge of cultivation," So they said, and I believed it -- ...
Faithless Nelly Gray (Thomas Hood Poem)
A Pathetic Ballad Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his ...
Virtue (George Herbert Poem)
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy ...
The Deacon’s Masterpiece Or, The Wonderful “One-Hoss Shay”: A Logical Story (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred ...
Denis (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit Caps occasion with an intellectual fit. Yet Arthur is a Bowman: his three-heeled ...
Repeat That, Repeat (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Repeat that, repeat, Cuckoo, bird, and open ear wells, heart-springs, delightfully sweet, With a ballad, with a ballad, a rebound ...
Spring (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little ...
ALL THINGS DECAY AND DIE (Robert Herrick Poem)
All things decay with time: The forest sees The growth and down-fall of her aged trees; That timber tall, which ...
The Sick Stockrider (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poem)
Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. Old man, you've had your work ...
On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
The Generations of Men (Robert Frost Poem)
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
Four Quartets 2: East Coker (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, ...
Hudson’s Last Voyage (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
Elegy IX: The Autumnal (John Donne Poem)
No spring nor summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnall face. Young beauties force our ...
Camping in a kitchen (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
To say we've done it all before is not to bend the truth and though we've lost our youth the ...
The House of Christmas (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Heritage (Countee Cullen Poem)
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
Westgate-On-Sea (John Betjeman Poem)
Hark, I hear the bells of Westgate, I will tell you what they sigh, Where those minarets and steeples Prick ...
The Plantster’s Vision (John Betjeman Poems)
Cut down that timber! Bells, too many and strong, Pouring their music through the branches bare, From moon-white church towers ...
My Orcha’d in Linden Lea (Ingeborg Bachmann Poems)
'Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleaded, By the woak tree's mossy moot, The sheenen grass-bleades, timber-sheaded, Now do quiver under voot; ...
My Orcha’d in Linden Lea (William Barnes Poems)
'Ithin the woodlands, flow'ry gleaded, By the woak tree's mossy moot, The sheenen grass-bleades, timber-sheaded, Now do quiver under voot; ...