Butterflies (Jose Asuncion Silva Poems)
In a fragile vaseIn your chamber arePreserved butterfliesThat when touched byA brilliant sun rayTurn to mother-of-pearl,Pieces of iridescentEvening skyOr opaline ...
Poems about velvety (21 Poems)
Bees (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
You voluble,VelvetyVehement fellowsThat play on yourFlying andMusical cellos,All goldenlyGirdled youSenerade clover,Each artist inBass but aBibulous rover!You passionate,PowderyPastoral bandits,Who gave you ...
Love Or Fame: Part V: Love (Fannie Isabelle Sherrick Poems)
And what is life?--a pleasure and a pain, A vision of the sun--a day of rain. And what is love?--a ...
The Child-Mother (George MacDonald Poems)
Heavily slumbered noonday brightUpon the lone field, glory-dight,A burnished grassy sea:The child, in gorgeous golden hours,Through heaven-descended starry flowers,Went walking ...
The Phantom Of Love (Fannie Isabelle Sherrick Poems)
She stood by my side with a queenly air, Her face it was young and proud and fair; She held ...
A Christmas Carol (Freeman Edwin Miller Poems)
The brazen bells of laughing lands In swelling echoes wildly ring, And over seas and ...
Tower Grove (Fannie Isabelle Sherrick Poems)
Oh tell me not of the lands so old Where the Orient treasures its hills of gold, And the rivers ...
The Little HandMaiden (Archibald Lampman Poems)
The King's son walks in the garden fair—Oh, the maiden's heart is merry!He little knows for his toil and care,That ...
Japonica (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Poems)
An old dalewoman speaks:"JAPONICA! Ay, it makes a brave show,But none on 'em grow as they used to grow!It's goin' ...
Symbols (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
IT is not the rose, though the rose is red, And as full of love as a flower can be, ...
Little Miss Six O’Clock (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
JUST at the edge of the night and the morning,Little Miss Six O'clock comes to my bed,A sweet little laugh ...
The Star Of Youth (Fannie Isabelle Sherrick Poems)
The sun sinks down in the crimson west, Oh, a beautiful sun is he; With his purple robes and his ...
Peach (D H Lawrence Poems)
WOULD you like to throw a stone at me?Here, take all that's left of my peach.Blood-red, deep;Heaven knows how it ...
Wallflowers (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Poems)
WALLFLOWERS i' my border!At t' hour when blackies singTheir sweetest sangs, what is therNor ye mair comfortin'?Menseful ye are an' ...
The Woodlark (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Teevo cheevo cheevio chee: O where, what can th?at be? Weedio-weedio: there again! So tiny a trickle of s?ng-strain; And ...
A Feathered Nest (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I smiled that spring morning thinking of the welcome the songbird got from his mate as he took flight once ...
Saturated Red (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wet red blooms catching the sunlight drinking in the color, overwhelm the senses rich smooth velvety red crimson flowers bursting ...
Luna Moth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
She was there in the morning holding fast to the porch screen bewitched by the indoor bulb in the outside ...
A Sweltering Day In Australia (Mark Twain Poems)
The Bombola faints in the hot Bowral tree, Where fierce Mullengudgery's smothering fires Far from the breezes of Coolgardie Burn ...
The Ballad Of The Brand (Robert William Service Poems)
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
Worms (Robert William Service Poems)
Worms finer for fishing you couldn't be wishing; I delved them dismayed from the velvety sod; The rich loam upturning ...