All Poems
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The Voice Of Authority: A Language Game
© Kingsley Amis
Do this. Don't move. O'Grady says do this,
You get a move on, see, do what I say.
Look lively when I say O'Grady says.
The Elder's Rebuke
© Emily Jane Brontë
"Listen! When your hair, like mine,
Takes a tint of silver gray;
When your eyes, with dimmer shine,
Watch life's bubbles float away:
Shakespeare and Milton
© Walter Savage Landor
THE TONGUE of England, that which myriads
Have spoken and will speak, were paralyzd
Hereafter, but two mighty men stand forth
Above the flight of ages, two alone;
Retaliation: A Poem
© Oliver Goldsmith
What pity, alas! that so lib'ral a mind
Should so long be to news-paper essays confin'd;
Who perhaps to the summit of science could soar,
Yet content 'if the table he set on a roar';
Whose talents to fill any station were fit,
Yet happy if Woodfall confess'd him a wit.
O Beauty, Passing Beauty!
© Alfred Tennyson
O beauty, passing beauty! Sweetest sweet!
How can thou let me waste my youth in sighs?
Shamrock Song
© Katharine Tynan
O, the red rose may be fair,
And the lily statelier;
But my shamrock, one in three,
Takes the very heart of me!
The Old Grey Squirrel
© Alfred Noyes
A great while ago there was a schoolboy
who lived in a cottage by the sea,
Fragment XI
© James Macpherson
The boat is broken in twain by the
waves. Armor plunges into the sea, to
rescue his Daura or die. Sudden a blast
from the hill comes over the waves.
He sunk, and he rose no more.
The Pilgrim of Life.
© Caroline Norton
PILGRIM, who toilest up life's weary steep,
To reach the summit still with pleasure crowned;
The Spirit Of Shakespeare
© George Meredith
Thy greatest knew thee, Mother Earth; unsoured
He knew thy sons. He probed from hell to hell
Choices
© Laura Sewell
i prefer smooth peanut butter
to crunchy
mind you
crunchy is all right
but i prefer smooth.
The Heroes Of Dovrefeld (From The Old Danish)
© George Borrow
On Dovrefeld, in Norway,
Were once together seen
The twelve heroic brothers
Of Ingeborg, the queen:
An Officer Bewails The Neglect With Which He Is Treated
© Confucius
It floats about, that boat of cypress wood,
Now here, now there, as by the current borne.
Peace Not Permanence
© Robert Herrick
Great cities seldom rest; if there be none
T' invade from far, they'll find worse foes at home.
Ghazal 314
© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
You who are not kept anxiously awake for love's sake, sleep on.
In restless search for that river, we hurry along;
you whose heart such anxiety has not disturbed, sleep on.
Love's place is out beyond the many separate sects;
The Polar Quest
© Richard Francis Burton
UNCONQUERABLY, men venture on the quest
And seek an ocean amplitude unsailed,
A Wreath Of Sonnets (13/14)
© France Preseren
Send but your rays their glory to renew
And let me not look for dawn's light in vain
In your dear face, to hold back night's domain
And calm the wildest storms that ever blew.
