Avignon (John Buchan Poems)
Hearts to break but nane to sell,Gear to tine but nane to hain;—We maun dree a weary spellEre our lad ...
Garden Poems (2523 Poems)
The Nun’s Prayer (Peter John Allan Poems)
BLUE-EYED saint from heaven low bending, Grant, oh, grant a mortal's prayer,From her broken heart ascending Through the silent midnight air.Thou, O ...
To-Day’s Singing (Ina Donna Coolbrith Poems)
WEAVE me a rhyme to-day:No pleasant roundelay,But some vague, restless yearning' of the heartShaped with but little artTo broken numbers, ...
Her Vesper Song (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
The _Summer_ lightning comes and goes In one pale cloud above the hill, As if within its soft repose A burning heart were ...
Signs (Larry Levis Poems)
All night I dreamed of my home,of the roads that are so longand straight they die in the middle-among the ...
Fate (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
Ruth was a laughing-eyed prattler, Thoughtless, and happy, and free;She planted a seed in the garden, And said: "It will grow to ...
The Garden (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
THERE were many flowers in my mother's garden, Sword-leaved gladiolus, taller far than I,Sticky-leaved petunias, pink and purple-flaring, Velvet-painted pansies staring at ...
The Last Bargain (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
. "Come and hire me," I cried, while in the morning I was walking on the stone-paved road. Sword in hand, ...
A Sudden Shower (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Barefooted boys scud up the street Or skurry under sheltering sheds;And schoolgirl faces, pale and sweet, Gleam from the shawls about their ...
Christ Is Arisen (Lucy Larcom Poems)
VAINLY We make for Thee a grave apart,Each in the lonely garden of his heart: -Thou, who the Life and ...
Anniversary Song (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
WHY pacest thou, my neighbour fair,The garden all alone?If house and land thou seek'st to guard,I'd thee as mistress own.My ...
A Ghost Of Yesterday (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
THERE is a house beside a way,Where dwells a ghost of Yesterday:The old face of a beauty, faded,Looks from its ...
Song II (Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski Poems)
Why flatter thyself, Tyrant,In ways great in evil?The Lord's goodness ceases notKeeping watch on the pious.Keener yet than the keenestBlade, ...
The Haunted Garden (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
THERE a tattered marigoldAnd dead asters manifold,Showed him where the garden oldOf time bloomed:Briar and thistle overgrewCorners where the rose ...
Song–Distance From The Place Of Our Nativity (Matilda Betham Poems)
Since I married Palemon, though happy my lot, Though my garden is pleasant, and lightsome my cot, Though love's smile, like a ...
The Cats (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
Babels of blocks to the high heavens toweringFlames of futility swirling below;Poisonous fungi in brick and stone flowering,Lanterns that shudder ...
The Lost Garden (Dana Gioia Poems)
If ever we see those gardens again,The summer will be gone-at least our summer.Some other mockingbird will concertizeAmong the mulberries, ...
Woman’s Easter (Lucy Larcom Poems)
WITH Mary, ere dawn, in the garden,I stand at the tomb of the Lord;I share in her sorrowing wonder;I hear ...
Flowers Of The Dust (John Oxenham Poems)
The Mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small--So soft and slow the great wheels go they scarcely ...
Spinning in April (Josephine Preston Peabody Poems)
Moon in heaven's garden, among the clouds that wander, Crescent moon so young to see, above the April ways, Whiten, ...
Adam (John Newton Poems)
On man, in his own image made,How much did GOD bestow?The whole creation homage paid,And owned him LORD, below!He dwelt ...
LIX. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
Every misfortune that befell me, throughout the whole period of my life,When examined carefully, I found it was all the ...
Memory (Zora Bernice May Cross Poems)
Late, late last night, when the whole world slept,Along to the garden of dreams I crept.And I pulled the bell ...
Written In May, 1813. (Isabella Lickbarrow Poems)
SHE comes, the poet's fav'rite theme,The pride of all the circling year;She comes, but tearful is her eye,No smiles upon ...
Happy Days (Kate Greenaway Poems)
"ARE you going next week to see Phillis and Phoebe? Phillis on Monday will be just fourteen.She says we shall all ...
Homage To Life (Jules Supervielle Poems)
It's good to have chosenA living homeAnd housed timeIn a ceaseless heartAnd seen my handsAlight on the world,As on an ...
The Garden (John Newton Poems)
A Garden contemplation suits,And may instruction yield,Sweeter than all the flow'rs and fruitsWith which the spot is filled.Eden was Adam's ...
Nebuchadnezzar’s Fall (Robert Graves Poems)
Frowning over the riddle that Daniel told,Down through the mist hung garden, below a feeble sun,The King of Persia walked: ...
Lines On A Poet. (George Pope Morris Poems)
How sweet the cadence of his lyre! What melody of words!They strike a pulse within the heart Like songs of forest-birds,Or tinkling ...
The Old Barrel Organ (Innokentii Fedorovich Annensky Poems)
We almost lost our minds through that mad sky:It blinds us with its fire or its snow,And, baring teeth, like ...