All Poems
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Sight
© Archibald Lampman
Ah brothers, still upon our pathway lies
The shadow of dim weariness and fear,
Yet if we could but lift our earthwood eyes
To see, and open our dull eyes to hear,
Then should the wonder of this world draw near
And life's innumerable harmonies.
Phoebus Mistaken
© Samuel Boyse
When Apollo pursu'd his coy Mistress of old,
If his Harp, as they tell us, was made of right Gold;
Away Down South In The Land of Traitors
© Anonymous
Away down South in the land of traitors,
Rattlesnakes and alligators,
Love-Trilogy
© Mathilde Blind
I.
SHE stood against the Orient sun,
Her face inscrutable for light;
A myriad larks in unison
Sang o'er her, soaring out of sight.
Naples And Venice
© Richard Monckton Milnes
Thou, who to that lofty terrace, lov'st on summer--eve to go,
Tell me, Poet! what Thou seest,--what Thou hearest, there below!
Song.When others saw thee
© Louisa Stuart Costello
When others saw thee gay and vain,
And saw my weakness too,
The Waterwitch
© Anonymous
A neat little packet from Hobart set sail,
For to cruise round the westard amongst the sperm whale;
Cruising the westard where the stormy winds blow,
Bound away in the Waterwitch to the westard well go.
Sonnet LXXXI: Rest with your dream inside my dream
© Pablo Neruda
Already, you are mine. Rest with your dream inside my dream.
Love, grief, labour, must sleep now.
Night revolves on invisible wheels
and joined to me you are pure as sleeping amber.
To James Norton Esq.
© Charles Harpur
Think you I have not skill to gather gold,
If I could love it as some others do?
On The Consequences Of Happy Marriages
© George Moses Horton
Hail happy pair from whom such raptures rise,
On whom I gaze with pleasure and surprize;
From thy bright rays the gloom of strife is driven,
For all the smiles of mutual love are Heaven.
My Inspiration
© Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov
O recollection of the heart! You're stronger
Than reason's cheerless recollection.
Love, Death, And Reputation
© Charles Lamb
Once on a time, Love, Death, and Reputation,
Three travellers, a tour together went;
And, after many a long perambulation,
Agreed to part by mutual consent.
To Marc Chagall
© Paul Eluard
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
L'Aube spirituelle (Spiritual Dawn)
© Charles Baudelaire
Quand chez les débauchés l'aube blanche et vermeille
Entre en société de l'Idéal rongeur,
Par l'opération d'un mystère vengeur
Dans la brute assoupie un ange se réveille.
Psalm LXXXII. (82)
© John Milton
God in the *great *assembly stands *Bagnadath-el
Of Kings and lordly States,
Among the gods* on both his hands. *Bekerev.
He judges and debates.
The Sky-Lark
© Felicia Dorothea Hemans
THE Sky-lark, when the dews of morn
Hang tremulous on flower and thorn,
And violets round his nest exhale
Their fragrance on the early gale,
To the first sunbeam spreads his wings,
Buoyant with joy, and soars, and sings.
Home Delights
© Charles Lamb
To operas and balls my cousins take me,
And fond of plays my new-made friend would make me.
A Wrangdillion
© James Whitcomb Riley
Dexery-tethery! down in the dike,
Under the ooze and the slime,
