Poems begining by A
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An Epitaph (From The Greek)
© William Cowper
My name -- my country -- what are they to thee!
What, whether base or proud my pedigree?
A Girl's Sin - In Her Eyes
© Francis Thompson
Cross child! red, and frowning so?
'I, the day just over,
Gave a lock of hair to--no!
How DARE you say, my lover?'
A Triad
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Three sang of love together: one with lips
Crimson, with cheeks and bosom in a glow,
Autumn Feelings.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Up the trellis'd vine on high!
May ye swell, twin-berries tender,
Juicier far,--and with more splendour
After Sixty Years
© Edith Nesbit
RING, bells! flags, fly! and let the great crowd roar
Its ecstasy. Let the hid heart in prayer
A Green Cornfield
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
The earth was green, the sky was blue:
I saw and heard one sunny morn
A skylark hang betweent he two,
A singing speck above the corn;
A Letter From Italy
© Joseph Addison
Salve magna parens frugum Saturnia tellus,
Magna virûm! tibi res antiquæ laudis et artis
Answers In A Game Of Questions.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
THE LADY.IN the small and great world too,What most charms a woman's heart?
It is doubtless what is new,For its blossoms joy impart;
Nobler far is what is true,For fresh blossoms it can shootEven in the time of fruit.THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN.With the Nymphs in wood and caveParis was acquainted well,
Till Zeus sent, to make him rave,Three of those in Heav'n who dwell;
A Summer Ramble
© William Cullen Bryant
The quiet August noon has come,
A slumberous silence fills the sky,
The fields are still, the woods are dumb,
In glassy sleep the waters lie.
At Midnight Hour.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[Goethe relates that a remarkable situation
he was in one bright moonlight night led to the composition of this
sweet song, which was "the dearer to him because he could not say
whence it came and whither it would."]
A Song Of Christmas
© Katharine Tynan
THE Christmas moon shines clear and right;
There were poor travellers such a night
Had neither fire nor candle-light.
At Cheshire Cheese
© Paul Laurence Dunbar
When first of wise old Johnson taught,
My youthful mind its homage brought,
And made the pond'rous crusty sage
The object of a noble rage.
A Confession
© Agnes Louise Storrie
You did not know, - how could you, dear, -
How much you stood for? Life in you
Authors.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
His throbbing heart brooks no delaying.
His maiden then comes--oh, what ecstasy!
Thy flowers thou giv'st for one glance of her eye!
A Symbol.
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(This fine poem is given by Goethe amongst a
small collection of what he calls Loge (Lodge), meaning thereby
Masonic pieces.)
At Burgos
© Arthur Symons
Miraculous silver-work in stone
Against the blue miraculous skies,
The belfry towers and turrets rise
Out of the arches that enthrone
That airy wonder of the skies.
An Autumn Garden
© Bliss William Carman
For the ancient and virile nurture
Of the teeming primordial ground,
For the splendid gospel of color,
After Many Days
© Robert Fuller Murray
The mist hangs round the College tower,
The ghostly street
Is silent at this midnight hour,
Save for my feet.
A Tune
© Arthur Symons
A foolish rhythm turns in my idle head
As a windmill turns in the wind on an empty sky.
