Beechenbrook – V (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
"To-morrow is Christmas!"--and clapping his hands, Little Archie in joyful expectancy stands, And watches the shadows, now short and now tall, That momently ...
Christmas Poems (618 Poems)
Years After the War In Australia (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Big rough boys from the runs out back were first where the balls flew free,And yelled in the slang ...
Funeral Music (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk: beheaded 1450John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester: beheaded 1470Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers: beheaded 14831Processionals ...
When The War Is Over (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
A CHRISTMAS LAY.I. Ah! the happy Christmas times! Times we all remember;-- Times that flung a ruddy glow O'er the gray December;-- Will they never ...
A Christmas Carol (George Wither Poems)
So now is come our joyful'st feast, Let every man be jolly. Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with ...
Our Willie (Henry Timrod Poems)
'Twas merry Christmas when he came,Our little boy beneath the sod;And brighter burned the Christmas flame,And merrier sped the Christmas ...
The Old Carrier (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
("Old Lucia", who for many years walked back and forth, every day and inall weathers, between Azzano and Menaggio, a ...
The Christmas Sheaf (Phoebe Cary Poems)
"Now, good-wife, bring your precious hoard,"The Norland farmer cried,"And heap the hearth, and heap the board,For the blessed Christmas-tide."And bid ...
Christmas Creek (Henry Kendall Poems)
Phantom streams were in the distance — mocking lights of lake and pool —Ghosts of trees of soft green lustre ...
Christmas (Henry Timrod Poems)
How grace this hallowed day?Shall happy bells, from yonder ancient spire,Send their glad greetings to each Christmas fire Round which the ...
Seele Im Raum (Randall Jarrell Poems)
It sat between my husband and my children.A place was set for it-a plate of greens.It had been there: I ...
The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
IWhere's your kingdom, little king? Where the land you call your own, Where your palace and your throne?Fluttering lightly on the wing Through ...
A Character (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
A.HE is a man whose complex characterFew can decipher rightly; but for meI have found the key at last!B.What make ...
Good Friday (John Keble Poems)
Is it not strange, the darkest hour That ever dawned on sinful earth Should touch the heart with softer power For comfort than ...
October Journey (Margaret Walker Poems)
Traveller take heed for journeys undertaken in the dark ofthe year. Go in the bright blaze of Autumn's equinox.Carry protection ...
Saint Brandan (Matthew Arnold Poems)
Saint Brandan sails the northern main;The brotherhood of saints are glad.He greets them once, he sails again;So late!-such storms!-The Saint ...
A Christmas Carol (Alfred Austin Poems)
Hark! In the air, around, above,The Angelic Music soars and swells,And, in the Garden that I love,I hear the sound ...
The Match Girl (John Hartley Poems)
Merrily rang out the midnight bells, Glad tidings of joy for all;As crouched a little shiv'ring child, Close by the churchyard wall.The ...
John Alden And Percilly (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
We got up a Christmas-doin's Last Christmas Eve-- Kindo' dimonstration 'At I railly believe Give more satisfaction-- Take it up and down-- Than ary intertainment Ever come ...
St. Nicholas (Horatio Alger Jr Poems)
In the far-off Polar seas,Far beyond the Hebrides,Where the icebergs, towering high,Seem to pierce the wintry sky,And the fur-clad EsquimauxGlides ...
Childhood Ideogram (Larry Levis Poems)
I lay my head sideways on the desk,My fingers interlocked under my cheekbones,My eyes closed. It was a three-room schoolhouse,White, ...
Who Santy-Claus Wuz (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Jes' a little bit o' feller--I remember still--Ust to almost cry fer Christmas, like a youngster will.Fourth o' July's nothin' ...
The Silken Shoe (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
THE firelight danced and waveredIn elvish, twinkling gleeOn the leaves and crimson berriesOf the great green Christmas Tree;And the children ...
All On A Christmas Morning (John Hartley Poems)
The wind it blew cold, and the ice was thick, Deeper and deeper the snowdrifts grew;A young mother lay in her ...
Quintetto (Thomas Love Peacock Poems)
RECITATIVE. MR. PAPERSTAMP:Jack Horner's CHRISTMAS PIE my learned nurseInterpreted to ...
At a Pantomime. By a Bilious One (William Schwenck Gilbert Poems)
An Actor sits in doubtful gloom,His stock-in-trade unfurled,In a damp funereal dressing-roomIn the Theatre Royal, World.He comes to town at ...
Thoughts Of Christmas-Day In India (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
IT is Christmas, and the sunshineLies golden on the fields,And flowers of white and purpleYonder fragrant creeper yields.Like the plumes ...
Christmas Greetings 1941 (Marie Under Poems)
I walk the silent, Christmas-snowy path,that goes across the homeland in its suffering.At each doorstep I would like to bend ...
Our Oldest Friend (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
I GIVE you the health of the oldest friendThat, short of eternity, earth can lend,--A friend so faithful and tried ...
Christmas Eve (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
From church and chapel and dome and tower, Near--far and everywhere,The merry bells chime loud and clear Upon the frosty air.All down ...