Poems begining by L
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L'archet
© Charles Cros
Elle avait de beaux cheveux, blonds
Comme une moisson daoût, si longs
Quils lui tombaient jusquaux talons.
LInconnue
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
Is thy name Mary, maiden fair?
Such should, methinks, its music be;
The sweetest name that mortals bear
Were best befitting thee;
And she to whom it once was given,
Was half of earth and half of heaven.
Le Satyre Et La Flute
© André Marie de Chénier
Toi, de Mopsus ami! Non loin de Bérécynthe,
Certain satyre, un jour, trouva la flûte sainte
Limerick:There was an Old Man with a beard
© Edward Lear
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who sat on a horse when he reared;
But they said, "Never mind!
You will fall off behind,
You propitious Old Man with a beard!"
Lacock Nunnery
© William Lisle Bowles
I stood upon the stone where ELA lay,
The widowed founder of these ancient walls,
Lockerbie Street
© James Whitcomb Riley
Such a dear little street it is, nestled away
From the noise of the city and heat of the day,
In cool shady coverts of whispering trees,
With their leaves lifted up to shake hands with the breeze
Which in all its wide wanderings never may meet
With a resting-place fairer than Lockerbie street!
Lines For Lizer-Jane's Album.
© Joseph Furphy
No two leaves that wave in Arden,
No two grass blades on the plain,
No two flowers that gem the garden,
Show as twins in form or vein,
No two grains of desert sand
Counterpart leave Nature's hand.
Love is a Magic Ray
© Khalil Gibran
Love is a magic ray
emitted from the burning core
of the soul
and illuminating
the surrounding earth.
Living Monuments
© Edgar Albert Guest
OUR children are our monuments,
The little ones we leave behind,
If they are good and brave and kind,
And labor here with true intents,
Our lives and work perpetuate
Far more than marble tablets great.
Lines Suggested By The Fourteenth Of February - II
© Charles Stuart Calverley
Darkness succeeds to twilight:
Through lattice and through skylight
The stars no doubt, if one looked out,
Might be observed to shine:
Lines.I cannot sleep
© Louisa Stuart Costello
I cannot sleepmy nights glide on
In one unbroken thought of thee;
Listening To Celestial Lays
© Louisa May Alcott
'"Listening to celestial lays,
Bending thy unclouded gaze
On the pure and living light,
Thou art blest, Aslauga's Knight!"
Lament
© Bliss William Carman
WHEN you hear the white-throat pealing
From a tree-top far away,
And the hills are touched with purple
At the borders of the day;
London To Folkestone (Half-Past One To Half-Past Five)
© Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A constant keeping-past of shaken trees,
And a bewildered glitter of loose road;
Lines On The Portrait Of A Celebrated Publisher
© John Greenleaf Whittier
A MOONY breadth of virgin face,
By thought unviolated;
A patient mouth, to take from scorn
The hook with bank-notes baited!
LA PIGGION DE CASA (The Rent)
© Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli
Nun pòi sbajà ssi vòi. Qua ssu la dritta,
Ner comincio der Vicolo der Branca,
Doppo tre o quattro porte a manimanca
Te viè in faccia una pietra tutta scritta.
Lines For Music
© Frances Anne Kemble
False Love, take hence thy roses,
Give me the bitter Rue
That on my heart reposes,
Sorrow at least is true.
Love Beyond Keeping
© Carl Sandburg
She had a box
with a million red bandanas for him.
She gave them to him
one by one or by thousands,
saying then she had not enough for him.
Lines -- Far, Far Away, O Ye
© Percy Bysshe Shelley
I.
Far, far away, O ye
Halcyons of Memory,
Seek some far calmer nest
Limerick:There was an Old Person of Chester
© Edward Lear
There was an Old Person of Chester,
Whom several small children did pester;
They threw some large stones,
Which broke most of his bones,
And displeased that Old Person of Chester.
