The Days when we went Swimming (Henry Lawson Poems)
The breezes waved the silver grass, Waist-high along the siding,And to the creek we ne'er could pass Three boys on bare-back riding;Beneath ...
Swimming Poems (132 Poems)
The Kite (John Freeman Poems)
It was a dayAll blue and lifting white,When I went into the fields with FrankTo fly his kite. The fields were ...
The Dead (Kate Northrop Poems)
Their reward isthey become innocent again,and when they reappear in memorydeath has completely erasedthe blurs, given them boundaries. They riseand ...
Bird Song (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
Art thou not sweet,Oh world, and glad to the inmost heart of thee! All creatures rejoice With one rapturous voice. As I, with ...
The Incomparable Soporific Doctor (James Thomson Poems)
Sweet, sleeky Doctor! dear pacific soul!Lay at the beef, and suck the vital bowl!Still let the involving smoke around thee ...
An Craoibhin Complains Because He Is A Poet (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
IT'S my grief that I am not a little white duck,And I'd swim over the sea to France or to ...
The Old Spring (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
IUnder rocks whereon the roseLike a streak of morning glows;Where the azure-throated newtDrowses on the twisted root;And the brown bees, ...
Waters (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
THIS Water, like a sky that no one uses,Air turned to stone, ridden by stars and birdsNo longer, but with ...
Pictured (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
This is the face of her I've dreamed of long; Here in my heart's despair, This is the face of her Pictured in song. Look ...
First Lesson (Phyllis McGinley Poems)
The first thing to remember about fathers is, they're men.A girl has to keep it in mind.They are dragon-seekers, bent ...
Sonnet LXXVI. Arion. (Henry Alford Poems)
Not song, nor beauty, nor the wondrous power Of the clear sky, nor stream, nor mountain glen, Nor the wide Ocean, turn ...
Pleasures (Translation with the original German, (Bertolt Brecht Poems)
First look from morning's windowThe rediscovered bookFascinated facesSnow, the change of the seasonsThe newspaperThe dogDialecticsShowering, swimmingOld musicComfortable shoesComprehensionNew musicWriting, plantingTravelingSingingBeing ...
A Swimmer Is A Horseman (Paul Snoek Poems)
Swimming is licentiously sleeping in sprawling water.is making love with each still operable poreis endlessly being free and inwardly triumphing.And ...
How Did You Meet Your Wife? (Richard Jones Poems)
Swimming the English Channel,struggling to make it to Calais,I swam into Laura halfway across.My body oiled for warmth,black rubber cap ...
Her Song To Rouse Him From Sleep (Lady Augusta Gregory Poems)
The stag to the east is not asleep, he does not stop from bellowing;though he is in the woods of ...
“Little Fishes In Glass Dishes” (Laura Benet Poems)
Verdant and glassyIts sides rise sheerly.Light frothy bubblesFloat to its surface,And deep within itTransparent fishes,Tiny coiled sea-horsesSwim to and fro.Steadily ...
Flower Preferences (John Chipman Farrar Poems)
If I were a tiny fairy With nothing else to doBut to wriggle into flowers All the long day through,I'd dance among ...
Evening Dawn (Henrikas Radauskas Poems)
A young dancer lies near the heartOf the hoary world. A phonographScratches through a finished recordRustling like the wind. And ...
Spring Wish (John Chipman Farrar Poems)
A frog's a very happy thing,Cool and green in early spring,Quick and silver through the pool,With no thought of books ...
Undersea (Marchette Gaylord Chute Poems)
Beneath the watersGreen and coolThe mermaids keepA swimming school.The oysters trot;The lobsters prance;The dolphins comeTo join the dance.But the jellyfishWho ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twenty-Second (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
But not all unprepared were found the Medes. With restless foot, Belesis through the night, Still to and fro had ...
Hero And Leander. The Third Sestiad (George Chapman Poems)
New light gives new directions, fortunes new, To fashion our endeavours that ensue. More harsh, at least more ...
The Kalevala – Rune IV (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
THE FATE OF AINO.When the night had passed, the maiden,Sister fair of Youkahainen,Hastened early to the forest,Birchen shoots for brooms ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXIX (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
THE ISLE OF REFUGE.Lemminkainen, full of joyance,Handsome hero, Kaukomieli,Took provisions in abundance,Fish and butter, bread and bacon,Hastened to the Isle ...
The Trial Of Sarah—, Alias Slim Sal, For Privately Stealing (Edward Moore Poems)
The pris'ner was at large indicted, For that by thirst of gain excited, One day in July last, ...
The Kalevala – Rune XL (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
BIRTH OF THE HARP.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,Onward steered his goodly vessel,From the isle of Lemminkainen,From the borders of the village;Steered his ...
Inebriety (George Crabbe Poems)
The mighty spirit, and its power, which stainsThe bloodless cheek, and vivifies the brains,I sing. Say, ye, its fiery vot'ries ...
The Kalevala – Rune VII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
WAINIOINEN'S RESCUE.Wainamoinen, old and truthful,Swam through all the deep-sea waters,Floating like a branch of aspen,Like a withered twig of willow;Swam ...
The Kalevala – Rune XXVII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
THE UNWELCOME GUEST.I have brought young Kaukomieli,Brought the Islander and hero,Also known as Lemminkainen,Through the jaws of death and ruin,Through ...
The Kalevala – Rune XIV (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
DEATH OF LEMMINKAINEN.Lemminkainen, much disheartened,Deeply thought and long considered,What to do, what course to follow,Whether best to leave the wild-mooseIn ...