All Poems
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The Attribute of Venus
© William Shenstone
Yes; Fulvia is like Venus fair,
Has all her bloom, and shape, and air;
But still, to perfect every grace,
She wants-the smile upon her face.
Take Me Under Your Wing
© Hayyim Nahman Bialik
Take me under your wing,
be my mother, my sister.
Take my head to your breast,
my banished prayers to your nest.
Safe And Sound
© Ezra Pound
My name is Nunty Cormorant
And my finance is sound,
I lend you Englishmen hot air
At one and three the pound.
The Gravedigger
© Bliss William Carman
OH, the shambling sea is a sexton old,
And well his work is done.
With an equal grave for lord and knave,
He buries them every one.
Weak Is The Will Of Man, His Judgement Blind
© William Wordsworth
'WEAK is the will of Man, his judgment blind;
'Remembrance persecutes, and Hope betrays;
'Heavy is woe;--and joy, for human-kind,
'A mournful thing, so transient is the blaze!'
Invective Against Swans
© Wallace Stevens
The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
And far beyond the discords of the wind.
Messianic
© Judson Jerome
Consider the chalice: both what I seek
And where I find, believing Savior's blood
The Purple Thread
© Katharine Lee Bates
"The priests distributed various coloured silken threads to weave for the veil of the sanctuary; and it fell to Mary's lot to weave purple."
The Book of the Bee, ch. XXXIV.
The Washers of the Shroud
© James Russell Lowell
Along a riverside, I know not where,
I walked one night in mystery of dream;
A chill creeps curdling yet beneath my hair,
To think what chanced me by the pallid gleam
Of a moon-wraith that waned through haunted air.
The Nobleman's Wedding
© William Allingham
I once was a guest at a Nobleman's wedding;
Fair was the Bride, but she scarce had been kind,
And now in our mirth, she had tears nigh the shedding
Her former true lover still runs in her mind.
The Secret
© James Russell Lowell
I have a fancy: how shall I bring it
Home to all mortals wherever they be?
Say it or sing it? Shoe it or wing it,
So it may outrun or outfly ME,
Merest cocoon-web whence it broke free?
Tekel
© Edith Nesbit
WHEN on the West broke light from out the East,
Then from the splendour and the shame of Rome--
The Oldest Inhabitant
© Augusta Davies Webster
"AND when came I to this town?" did he say!
A question asked for the asking's sake,
"Up! Everything that God has made"
© Hans Adolph Brorson
Up! Everything that God has made,
His glory now be praising,
The smallest creature too is great,
And proves his might amazing.
William House and Family
© Julia A Moore
Come all kind friends, both far and near,
Come listen to me and you shall hear -
It's of a family and their fate,
All about them I will relate.
The First Kiss
© Norman Rowland Gale
On Helens heart the day were night!
But I may not adventure there:
On The Report That A Wooden Bridge Was To Be Built At Westminster
© James Thomson
By Rufus' hall, where Thames polluted flows,
Provoked, the Genius of the river rose,
The Pride That Comes After
© Henry Lawson
It knows it all, it knows it all,
The world of groans and laughter,
