Poems begining by A
/ page 75 of 345 /A Granville, en 1836
© Victor Marie Hugo
Voici juin. Le moineau raille
Dans les champs les amoureux ;
Le rossignol de muraille
Chante dans son nid pierreux.
Autumn
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Mine avenue is all a growth of oaks,
Some rent by thunder strokes,
Some rustling leaves and acorns in the breeze;
Fair fall my fertile trees,
That rear their goodly heads, and live at ease.
A Glance Behind The Curtain
© James Russell Lowell
We see but half the causes of our deeds,
Seeking them wholly in the outer life,
Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed?
© Isaac Watts
Alas! and did my Savior bleed
And did my Sovereign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I?
Abba Thule's Lament For His Son Prince Le Boo
© William Lisle Bowles
I climb the highest cliff; I hear the sound
Of dashing waves; I gaze intent around;
A Good Time Going!
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
BRAVE singer of the coming time,
Sweet minstrel of the joyous present,
A Girl's Autumn Reverie
© Wilcox Ella Wheeler
We plucked a red rose, you and I
All in the summer weather;
A Birthday Trifle
© Henry Kendall
Here in this gold-green evening end,
While air is soft and sky is clear,
A Portrait
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
Thoughtful in youth, but not austere in age;
Calm, but not cold, and cheerful though a sage;
Too true to flatter and too kind to sneer,
And only just when seemingly severe;
So gently blending courtesy and art
That wisdomâs lips seemed borrowing friendshipâs heart.
A Zacinto
© Ugo Foscolo
Some will not return: I too
offend the powers that be, am banned
from home. Oh maternal land,
my words are all I have to send to you
A Sunset at Les Eboulements
© Archibald Lampman
Broad shadows fall. On all the mountain side
The scythe-swept fields are silent. Slowly home
Anticipation
© Madison Julius Cawein
Windy the sky and mad;
Surly the gray March day;
Bleak the forests and sad,
Sad for the beautiful May.
At The Seaside
© Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
O SOLITARY shining sea
That ripples in the sun,
O gray and melancholy sea,
O'er which the shadows run;
Angered Reason
© Robert Laurence Binyon
Angered Reason walked with me
A street so squat, unshapen, bald,
So blear--windowed and grimy--walled,
So dismal--doored, it seemed to be
Alma En Pena
© Ramon Lopez Velarde
¿Por qué, Fuensanta mía,
si mi pasión de ayer está ya muerta
y en tu rostro se anuncia los estragos
de la vejez temida que se acerca,
tu boca es una invitación al beso
como lo fue en lejanas primaveras?
A Christmas Carol
© Charles Kingsley
It chanced upon the merry merry Christmas eve,
I went sighing past the church across the moorland dreary-
A Wish
© Samuel Rogers
Mine be a cot beside the hill,
A bee-hive's hum shall sooth my ear;
A willowy brook, that turns a mill,
With many a fall shall linger near.