Life poems

 / page 708 of 844 /
star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Song And The Sigh

© Henry Lawson

The creek went down with a broken song,
  'Neath the sheoaks high;
The waters carried the song along,
  And the oaks a sigh.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

A Parable

© Friedrich Rückert

In Syria walked a man one day

  And led a camel on the way.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Pleasures of Melancholy

© Thomas Warton

Mother of musings, Contemplation sage,
Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock
Of Teneriffe; 'mid the tempestuous night,
On which, in calmest meditation held,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Vesta

© John Greenleaf Whittier

O CHRIST of God! whose life and death
Our own have reconciled,
Most quietly, most tenderly
Take home thy star-named child!

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Sycamores

© John Greenleaf Whittier

In the outskirts of the village
On the river's winding shores
Stand the Occidental plane-trees,
Stand the ancient sycamores.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Pumpkin

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun,
The vines of the gourd and the rich melon run,
And the rock and the tree and the cottage enfold,
With broad leaves all greenness and blossoms all gold,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Pipes At Lucknow

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Pipes of the misty moorlands,
Voice of the glens and hills;
The droning of the torrents,
The treble of the rills!

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Sea Change

© John Masefield


"Goneys an' gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea
  They ain't no birds, not really", said Billy the Dane.
"Not mollies, nor gullies, nor goneys at all", said he,
  "But simply the spirits of mariners livin' again."

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Norsemen ( From Narrative and Legendary Poems )

© John Greenleaf Whittier

GIFT from the cold and silent Past!
A relic to the present cast,
Left on the ever-changing strand
Of shifting and unstable sand,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Eternal Goodness

© John Greenleaf Whittier

O Friends! with whom my feet have trod
The quiet aisles of prayer,
Glad witness to your zeal for God
And love of man I bear.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Dorothy Q.

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

GRANDMOTHER's mother: her age, I guess,

 Thirteen summers, or something less;

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Dregs Of Love

© Alfred Austin

Think you that I will drain the dregs of Love,

I who have quaffed the sweetness on its brink?

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Stanzas for the Times

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Is this the land our fathers loved,
The freedom which they toiled to win?
Is this the soil whereon they moved?
Are these the graves they slumber in?
Are we the sons by whom are borne
The mantles which the dead have worn?

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Snowbound, a Winter Idyl

© John Greenleaf Whittier

To the Memory of the Household It DescribesThis Poem is Dedicated by the Author"As the Spirit of Darkness be stronger in the dark, so Good Spirits, which be Angels of Light, are augmented not only by the Divine light of the Sun, but also by our common Wood Fire: and as the Celestial Fire drives away dark spirits, so also this our fire of Wood doth the same."
Cor. Agrippa, Occult Philosophy, Book I, ch. v.
"Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Our Limitations

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

Eternal Truth! beyond our hopes and fears
Sweep the vast orbits of thy myriad spheres!
From age to age, while History carves sublime
On her waste rock the flaming curves of time,
How the wild swayings of our planet show
That worlds unseen surround the world we know.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Randolph Of Roanoke

© John Greenleaf Whittier

O Mother Earth! upon thy lap
Thy weary ones receiving,
And o'er them, silent as a dream,
Thy grassy mantle weaving,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

My Triumph

© John Greenleaf Whittier

The autumn-time has come;
On woods that dream of bloom,
And over purpling vines,
The low sun fainter shines.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Maud Muller

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Maud Muller on a summer's day
Raked the meadow sweet with hay. Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth
Of simple beauty and rustic health. Singing, she wrought, and her merry gleee
The mock-bird echoed from his tree. But when she glanced to the far-off town

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Laus Deo

© John Greenleaf Whittier

It is done!
Clang of bell and roar of gun
Send the tidings up and down.
How the belfries rock and reel!
How the great guns, peal on peal,
Fling the joy from town to town!

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

To A Buddha Seated On A Lotus

© Sarojini Naidu

LORD BUDDHA, on thy Lotus-throne,
With praying eyes and hands elate,
What mystic rapture dost thou own,
Immutable and ultimate?
What peace, unravished of our ken,
Annihilate from the world of men?