To A Redbreast, That Flew In At My Window (James Grahame Poems)
From snowy plains, and icy sprays,From moonless nights, and sunless days,Welcome, poor bird! I'll cherish thee;I love thee, for thou ...
Birds Poems (5078 Poems)
The Nurse (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Such innocent companionshipIs hers, whether she wake or sleep,'Tis scarcely strange her face should wearThe young child's grave and innocent ...
Hymn #2 (Joanna Baillie Poems)
MY God! would that, from earthly trammels free,My thoughts could win their upward way to thee,And there a while in ...
Calm Surrender (John Lowe Poems)
Still waters run deep and life is deeper still,The meaning of time and the passing of days,Like the tranquil pond ...
A Hill Song (Helen M Merrill Poems)
THERE is a little hint of spring,A subtle, silent, unseen thingBy shadowed wall and open way,And I, a gypsy for ...
To His Fairest Valentine Mrs. A. l. (Richard Lovelace Poems)
'Come, pretty birds, present your lays,And learn to chaunt a goddess praise;Ye wood-nymphs, let your voices beEmploy'd to serve her ...
Buick (Karl Shapiro Poems)
As a sloop with a sweep of immaculate wing on her delicate spineAnd a keel as steel as a root ...
The Wrecked Aeroplane (Leon Gellert Poems)
Unhappy craft of Daedalus reborn,That liest prone with white wings torn,And, like some giant prehistoric bird, with throb-bing soundDoest beat ...
Waiting (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
The sun has slipped his tether And galloped down the west. (Oh, it's weary, weary waiting, love.) The little bird is sleeping In the ...
Two In August (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
Two that could not have lived their single livesAs can some husbands and wivesDid something strange: they tensed their vocal ...
Sir Henry De Vaux (Lady Caroline Lamb Poems)
Sir Henry De Vaux came across the sea, To visit his native clime;A face like an angel of light had he, But ...
I Walked Abroad… (Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig Poems)
I walked abroad one summer's day to hearsong of bird that through my heart might sear,in the deep, green dales,midst ...
Ma Lady’s Lips Am Like De Honey (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
(Negro Love Song)Breeze a-sighin' and a-blowin',Southern summer night.Stars a-gleamin' and a-glowin',Moon jes shinin' right.Strollin', like all lovers do,Down de lane ...
The Wanderer (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
Between the death of day and birth of night,By War's red light,I met with one in trailing sorrows clad,Whose features ...
The Frost (Hannah Flagg Gould Poems)
The Frost looked forth, one still, clear night,And he said, "Now I shall be out of sight;So through the valley ...
To Hear Her Sing (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
To hear her sing--to hear her sing-- It is to hear the birds of Spring In dewy groves on blooming sprays Pour out ...
Weddah (Raymond Garfield Dandridge Poems)
It wuz cole, de snow dun driftedHi' roun' 'bout de ole barn do';Dun blew thoo de cracks an' siftedLines ob ...
Ho, For The Kankakee! (Maurice Thompson Poems)
Ho, for the marshes, green with Spring,Where the bitterns croak and the plovers pipe,Where the gaunt old heron spreads his ...
The Harp of Cnoc I’Chosgair (Gofraidh Fion O Dalaigh Poems)
Harp of Cnoc I'Chosgair, you who bring sleepto eyes long sleepless;sweet subtle, plangent, glad, cooling grave.Excellent instrument with smooth gentle ...
North America and Her War Parsons (Janet Hamilton Poems)
"Angels and ministers of grace defend us,"Not airs from Heaven, quite the reverse you send us,Your priests who counsel war ...
The Visible Creation (James Montgomery Poems)
The God of nature and of graceIn all His works appears;His goodness through the earth we trace,His grandeur in the ...
Silence (John Lancaster Spalding Poems)
INAUDIBLE move day and night, And noiseless grows the flower;Silent are pulsing wings of light, And voiceless fleets the hour.The moon utters ...
Fantasia (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
The happy men that lose their heads They find their heads in heaven, As cherub heads with cherub wings, And cherub haloes even: Out ...
Fruitionless (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
AH! little flower, upspringing, azure-eyed, The meadow-brook beside, Dropping delicious balms Into the tender palmsOf lover-winds, that woo with light caress, In still ...
To His Valentine (Michael Drayton Poems)
Muse, bid the morn awake,Sad winter now declines,Each bird doth choose a mate,This day's St. Valentine's;For that good bishop's sakeGet ...
The Hymn Of Molling’s Guest, The Man Full Of Trouble (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
He is clean gold, he is Heaven about the sun, he is a silver vesselhaving wine in it; he is ...
Grand Rapids (Julia A Moore Poems)
Air — "Bright Alfaretta"Wild roved the Indians once On the banks of Grand River,And they built their little huts Down by that ...
Sumter In Ruins (William Gilmore Simms Poems)
I.Ye batter down the lion's den,But yet the lordly beast g'oes free;And ye shall hear his roar again,From mountain height, ...
To Iron-Founder (Gordon Bottomley Poems)
When you destroy a blade of grassYou poison England at her roots:Remember no man's foot can passWhere evermore no green ...
At The Papyrus Club (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
A LOVELY show for eyes to seeI looked upon this morning,--A bright-hued, feathered companyOf nature's own adorning;But ah! those minstrels ...