Poems begining by S
/ page 174 of 287 /Seance
© Edouard Roditi
The stranger walks into the dark room where the two men sit at the table and talk of travel
Sonnet XXX: Still In the Trace
© Samuel Daniel
Still in the trace of my tormented thought,
My ceaseless cares must march on to my death;
September 1815
© William Wordsworth
WHILE not a leaf seems faded; while the fields,
With ripening harvest prodigally fair,
In brightest sunshine bask; this nipping air,
Sent from some distant clime where Winter wields
Sonnet LXXXIII: Barren Spring
© Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Once more the changed year's turning wheel returns:
And as a girl sails balanced in the wind,
Sonnet II.
© Christopher Pearse Cranch
PARTED by time and space for many a year,
Yet ever longing, hoping for a day
When, heart to heart, the happy weeks shall stay
Their flight for us, and all our sky be clear
Sonnet 86: "Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,"
© William Shakespeare
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too precious you,
Song of the Driftweed
© Jessie Mackay
HERES to the home that was never, never ours!
Toast it full and fairly when the winter lowers.
Summer Is Dying
© Hayyim Nahman Bialik
Summer is dying in the purple and gold and russet
of the falling leaves of the wood,
and the sunset clouds are dying
in their own blood.
Sympathy
© Emma Lazarus
Therefore I dare reveal my private woe,
The secret blots of my imperfect heart,
Safe Conduct
© Edgar Albert Guest
There isn't any danger in the kindly things you say,
There isn't any sorrow in the fine and manly deed,
No deep regret awaits you at the ending of the day,
There's always joy in knowing that you've played the friend in need.
Sonnet VII
© George Gascoigne
No haste but good, where wisdom makes the way,
For proof whereof behold the simple snail
Ships that Pass in the Night
© Paul Laurence Dunbar
Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing;
I look far out into the pregnant night,
Sea Longing
© Sara Teasdale
A thousand miles beyond this sun-steeped wall
Somewhere the waves creep cool along the sand,
Sonnets of the Empire: Nelson
© Archibald Thomas Strong
Thy name was lightning, and like lightning ay
Thine onset shivered, far and swift and fell:
Ever thy watchword holds us, and wheneer
The fierce Dawn breaks, and far along the sky
Roars the last battle, yet with us tis well
We keep the touch, thy hand and soul are there.
Soneto a Cervantes (With English Translation)
© Rubén Dario
Horas de pesadumbre y de tristeza
paso en mi soledad. Pero Cervantes
es buen amigo. Endulza mis instantes
ásperos, y reposa mi cabeza.