John Crowe Ransom Poems on Heaven Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

THE country farmer has his joys Of little city girls and boys When brother Thomas brings his brood Of motherless brats in Christmas ...

SHE would not keep at home, the foolish woman, She would not mind her precious girls and boys, She had to go, ...

IF the power of God were mine, and the ample turn, I never could dwell in my law, which is 'stablished ...

A GREAT green spread of meadow land, (Must rest his weight on an ample base), A secret water moving on, A clean blue ...

SAVOR of love is thick on the April air, The blunted boughs dispose their lacy bloom, And many sorry steeds dismissed to ...

HE feigned a fine indifference To be so prodigal of light, Knowing his piteous twisted things Would lose the crooked marks of spite When ...

Two that could not have lived their single livesAs can some husbands and wivesDid something strange: they tensed their vocal ...

The friar had said his paternosters duly And scourged his limbs, and afterwards would have slept; But with much riddling ...

Full of her long white arms and milky skin He had a thousand times remembered sin. Alone in the press ...

John Crowe Ransom Poems on Heaven (9 Poems)