Poems begining by N
/ page 13 of 55 /Near Lanivet 1872
© Thomas Hardy
There was a stunted handpost just on the crest,
Only a few feet high:
She was tired, and we stopped in the twilight-time for her rest,
At the crossways close thereby.
Nature And Art. To My Friend Charles Booth Nettleton
© Paul Laurence Dunbar
I.
THE young queen Nature, ever sweet and fair,
Need alone, Diophantus, imparts
© Theocritus
Need alone, Diophantus, imparts
The knowledge of arts,
And is the mistress of labor,
For corroding cares take everything
Natural Progress
© Benjamin Jonson
So we died:
what else was there to do?
But in all faith, we did our part!
Nemesis
© Arthur Henry Adams
All things must fade. There is for cities tall
The same tomorrow as for daffodils:
Time's wind, that casts the seed, the petal spills.
Grim London's ruined arches yet shall fall
Natalias Resurrection: Sonnet XXIV
© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
And, feeling round him, lo, upon the mould
A pick and spade cast down by accident.
And Adrian laughed when in those engines cold
He guessed the furtherers of his heart's intent.
"Now that I have won"
© Robert Laurence Binyon
Now that I have won
Long despaired of peace,
And those fears are flown
That vext so my heart's ease;
Night Lyric
© Bliss William Carman
ON the world's far edges
Faint and blue,
Where the rocky ledges
Stand in view,
National Anniversay Ode
© Wilcox Ella Wheeler
Ho! for the day in the whole year the brightest!
Long may it live in the heart of the nation!
Neds Delicate Way
© Henry Lawson
Ned knew I was short of tobacco one day,
And that I was too proud to ask for it;
He hated such pride, but his delicate way
Forbade him to take me to task for it.
No Message
© Mary Hannay Foott
She heard the story of the end,
Each message, too, she heard;
And there was one for every friend;
For her alone - no word.
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
© Alfred Tennyson
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font;
The firefly wakens, waken thou with me.
Naturesometimes sears a Sapling
© Emily Dickinson
Naturesometimes sears a Sapling
Sometimesscalps a Tree
Her Green People recollect it
When they do not die
No Life Vain
© Hartley Coleridge
LET me not deem that I was made in vain,
Or that my being was an accident,
Next Of Kin
© Edgar Albert Guest
I notice when the news comes in
Of one who's claimed eternal glory,
Narcissus
© Robert Laurence Binyon
By white St. Martin's, where the fountain shone
And plashed unheard in the busy morning air,
March, with rippling shadow and sudden sun,
Laughing riotous round the gusty square,
Now Neath the Cool Stars
© Leon Gellert
Now neath the cool stars
I know thee more.
Here where the world wars
By the winding shore.