Poems begining by A

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Allegory

© Thomas Hood

I had a gig-horse, and I called him Pleasure
Because on Sundays for a little jaunt
He was so fast and showy, quite a treasure;
Although he sometimes kicked and shied aslant.

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A Lake And A Fairy Boat

© Thomas Hood

A lake and a fairy boat
To sail in the moonlight clear, -
And merrily we would float
From the dragons that watch us here!

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A Glee For Winter

© Alfred Domett

HENCE, rude Winter! crabbed old fellow,  

Never merry, never mellow!  

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A Riddle

© William Cowper

I am just two and two, I am warm, I am cold,
And the parent of numbers that cannot be told.
I am lawful, unlawful -- a duty, a fault,
I am often sold dear, good for nothing when bought;

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A Hero

© Katharine Tynan

He was so foolish, the poor lad,
  He made superior people smile
Who knew not of the wings he had
  Budding and growing all the while;
Nor that the laurel wreath was made
Already for his curly head.

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A Widow's Hymn

© George Wither

How near me came the hand of Death,

When at my side he struck my dear,

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A Ballad Of Santa Claus

© Henry Van Dyke

For the St. Nicholas Society of New York

Among the earliest saints of old, before the first Hegira,

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All Lovely Things

© Conrad Aiken

All lovely things will have an ending,
All lovely things will fade and die,
And youth, that's now so bravely spending,
Will beg a penny by and by.

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A Letter From Li Po

© Conrad Aiken

Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind
announces autumn, and the equinox
rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon.
Somewhere beyond the Gorge Li Po is gone,

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A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme

© Benjamin Jonson

Rhyme, the rack of finest wits,

 That expresseth but by fits

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A Poem For Children With Thoughts On Death

© Jupiter Hammon

O ye young and thoughtless youth,
Come seek the living God,
The scriptures are a sacred truth,
Ye must believe the word.

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Ashes

© Dimitris P. Kraniotis

The fireplace
was eager
to put a fullstop,
in the sentence

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An Answer

© George Frederick Cameron

So, say:–It must be good to die, my friend!
  It must be good and more than good, I deem;
'Tis all the replication I may send–
  For deeper swimming seek a deeper stream.

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A Parable

© Friedrich Rückert

In Syria walked a man one day

  And led a camel on the way.

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A New Year's Song

© Edgar Albert Guest

Love and laughter lead you

Down the pathways of the year,

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A Lover

© Amy Lowell

If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly

I could see to write you a letter.

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An Autograph

© John Greenleaf Whittier

I write my name as one,
On sands by waves o'errun
Or winter's frosted pane,
Traces a record vain.

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A Word for the Hour

© John Greenleaf Whittier

The firmament breaks up. In black eclipse
Light after light goes out. One evil star,
Luridly glaring through the smoke of war,
As in the dream of the Apocalypse,

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At The Summer Cottage

© Edgar Albert Guest

Father’s in the woodshed,

Cleaning forty fish;

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A Song to David (excerpt)

© Christopher Smart

Sweet is the dew that falls betimes,
And drops upon the leafy limes;
Sweet Hermon's fragrant air:
Sweet is the lily's silver bell,
And sweet the wakeful tapers smell
That watch for early pray'r.