Poems begining by A
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A Last Prayer
© Helen Hunt Jackson
FATHER, I scarcely dare to pray,
So clear I see, now it is done,
That I have wasted half my day,
And left my work but just begun;
A Vision upon the Fairy Queen
© Sir Walter Raleigh
Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay,
Within that temple where the vestal flame
A New Song to an Old Tune - From Victor Hugo
© Robert Fuller Murray
If a pleasant lawn there grow
By the showers caressed,
A La Gracia Primitiva De Las Aldeanas
© Ramon Lopez Velarde
Hambre y sed padezco: Siempre me he negado
A satisfacerlas en los turbadores
gozos de ciudades flores de pecado.
Esta hambre de amores y esta sed de ensueño
Que se satisfagan en el ignorado
Grupo de muchachas de un lugar pequeño.
A une jeune fille
© Victor Marie Hugo
Vous qui ne savez pas combien l'enfance est belle,
Enfant ! n'enviez point notre âge de douleurs,
Où le coeur tour à tour est esclave et rebelle,
Où le rire est souvent plus triste que vos pleurs.
A Vision
© Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev
There is an hour at night full of an awesome wonder,
When universal silence o'er the whole world lies
And when the cosmic chariot rolls, wakening no thunder,
Into the sanctuary of the skies.
Always Saying "Don't!"
© Edgar Albert Guest
Folks are queer as they can be,
Always sayin' "don't" to me;
Art
© Washington Allston
O Art, high gift of Heaven! how oft defamed
When seeming praised! To most a craft that fits,
A World Worth Living In
© Wilcox Ella Wheeler
One who claims that he knows about it
Tells me the earth is a vale of sin;
All-Souls' Night
© Dora Sigerson Shorter
O MOTHER, mother, I swept the hearth, I set his chair and the white board spread,
I prayed for his coming to our kindly Lady when Death's doors would let out the dead;
A strange wind rattled the window-pane, and down the lane a dog howled on,
I called his name and the candle flame burnt dim, pressed a hand the door-latch upon.
Deelish! Deelish! my woe forever that I could not sever coward flesh from fear.
I called his name and the pale ghost came; but I was afraid to meet my dear.
At Candle-Lightin' Time
© Paul Laurence Dunbar
When I come in f'om de co'n-fiel' aftah wo'kin' ha'd all day,
It 's amazin' nice to fin' my suppah all erpon de way;
An' it 's nice to smell de coffee bubblin' ovah in de pot,
An' it 's fine to see de meat a-sizzlin' teasin'-lak an' hot.
A Lament
© Arlo Bates
Her mask, however gay,
Still covers cheeks tear-wet;
She cannot, in her singing, smile
Until she can forget.
A Bushranger
© Kenneth Slessor
Jackey Jackey gallops on a horse like a swallow
Where the carbines bark and the blackboys hollo.
When the traps give chase (may the devil take his power!)
He can ride ten mile in a quarter of an hour
A Father To A Mother
© George MacDonald
When God's own child came down to earth,
High heaven was very glad;
The angels sang for holy mirth;
Not God himself was sad!
At His Execution
© Rudyard Kipling
I am made all things to all men-
Hebrew, Roman, and Greek-
In each one's tongue I speal,
Suiting to each my word,
That some may be drawn to the Lord!
A Legal Mouse
© Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
A lawyer had a legal mouse,
A naughty one they say,
That took possession of his house
And papers ev'ry day,
An Alliance
© Gilbert Keith Chesterton
This is the weird of a world-old folk,
That not till the last link breaks,
