Korean Mums (James Schuyler Poems)
beside me in this gardenare huge and daisy-like(why not? are notoxeye daisies a chrysanthemum?),shrubby and thick-stalked,the leaves pointing upthe stems ...
Birds Poems (5078 Poems)
Li’l’ Gal (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Oh, de weathah it is balmy an' de breeze is sighin' low. Li'l' gal, An' de mockin' bird is singin' in de ...
Sweet Fern (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The subtle power in perfume foundNor priest nor sibyl vainly learned;On Grecian shrine or Aztec moundNo censer idly burned.That power ...
Water!–Oh! Water For Me (John Pierpont Poems)
Oh! water for me—bright water for me!And wine for the tremulous debauchee!It cooleth the brow, it cooleth the brain,It maketh ...
September Melodies (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
IThe summer is over!'Tis windy and chilly.The flowers are dead in the dale.All beauty has faded,The rose and the lilyIn ...
The Cemetery Nightingale (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
In the hills' embraces holden, In a valley filled with glooms,Lies a cemetery olden, Strewn with countless mould'ring tombs.Ancient graves o'erhung with ...
The Life Beyond (Gerald Massey Poems)
ALTHOUGH its features fade in light of unimagined bliss,We have shadowy revealings of the Better World in this.A little glimpse, ...
She Slumbers Still (Mary Ann H T Bigelow Poems)
On a midsummer's eve she lay down to sleep,Wearied and toil-worn the maiden was then;How deep was that slumber, how ...
The Wood-Cutter’s Night Song (John Clare Poems)
Welcome, red and roundy sun, Dropping lowly in the west;Now my hard day's work is done, I'm as happy as the best.Joyful ...
The Humming-Bird (Harriet Monroe Poems)
What a boom! boom!Sounds among the honeysuckles!Saying, "Room! room!Hold your breath and mind your knuckles!"And a fairy birdling brightFlits like ...
Chorus [From Lincoln] (John Drinkwater Poems)
You who have gone gatheringCornflowers and meadowsweet,Heard the hazels glancing downOn September eves,Seen the homeward rooks on wingOver fields of ...
Prologue To A Charade.–“Damn-Ages” (Horace Smith Poems)
In olden time--in great Eliza's age,When rare Ben Jonson ruled the humorous stage,No play without its Prologue might appearTo earn ...
Anne’s Book (Mary Webb Poems)
And so, Anne Everard, in those leafy JunesLong withered; in those ancient, dark Decembers,Deep in the drift of time, haunted ...
After Working Sixty Hours Again for What Reason (Bob Hicok Poems)
The best job I had was moving a stonefrom one side of the road to the other.This required a permit ...
Malediction (John Drinkwater Poems)
Thrush, across the twilightHere in the abbey close,Pouring from your lilac-boughNote on pebbled note,Why do you sing so,Making your song ...
The Sower (Mathilde Blind Poems)
The winds had hushed at last as by command;The quiet sky above,With its grey clouds spread oer the fallow land,Sat ...
Cupid Kissed Me (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
Took a walk together;O, how beautiful the wayThrough the blooming heather!Far-off bells rang matin-chimes,Birds sang, silver-voicing,And our happy hearts beat ...
Stone Horse Shoals (Malcolm Cowley Poems)
"TO wade the sea-mist, then to wade the seaJL at dawn, let drift your garments one by one,follow the clean ...
My Desire (Laurence Hope Poems)
Fate has given me many a gift To which men most aspire,Lovely, precious and costly things, But not my heart's desire.Many a ...
The West Wind (John Masefield Poems)
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries;I never hear the west wind but tears are in ...
Bells Of St. Michael (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Come and listen to the chimingOf St. Michael's merry bells,When the joyous Christmas morning,All of Bethlehem's story tells.When they sweetly ...
Starlight (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
The evening star will twinkle presently. The last small bird is silent, and the bee Has gone into his hive, and the ...
At Port Royal (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The tent-lights glimmer on the land, The ship-lights on the sea;The night-wind smooths with drifting sand Our track on lone Tybee.At last ...
Looking for Work (Alison Luterman Poems)
Consider the pigeons of the city,how in their filthy swoop and dive they fattenon dusty Dorito crumbs;consider their evolutionthrough generations ...
In Kentucky (James H. Mulligan Poems)
The moonlight falls the softestIn Kentucky;The summer days come oftestIn Kentucky;Friendship is the strongest,Love's light glows the longest;Yet, wrong is ...
For I Must Sing of All I Feel and Know (James B.V. Thomson Poems)
For I must sing of all I feel and know,Waiting with Memnon passive near the palms,Until the heavenly light doth ...
Spring (Lord Alfred Douglas Poems)
Wake up again, sad heart, wake up again !(I heard the birds this morning singing sweet.)Wake up again ! The ...
A Gallery To The Temple. Vivacitye (Ralph Knevet Poems)
When Phoebus is ascendent in the morne, With the old Archer, or cold Capricorne, The world remaines forlorne: The Birds, are then as ...
Lullaby (Patience Worth Poems)
Strum, strum!Ah, wee one,Croon unto the tendril tipped with sungilt,Nodding thee from o'er the doorsill there.Strum, strum!My wheel shall sing ...
The Army Of The Sidhe (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
Laegaire, son of the king of Connacht, was out one day with the kinghis father near Loch na-n Ean, the Lake ...