Poems begining by S
/ page 90 of 287 /Sir Henry Wotton, and Serjeant Hoskins Riding On The Way
© Sir Henry Wotton
Ho. Noble, lovely, vertuous Creature,
Purposely so fram'd by Nature
To enthral your servants wits.
Sun of My Soul
© John Keble
Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear,
It is not night if Thou be near;
O may no earthborn cloud arise
To hide Thee from Thy servants eyes.
Soft, Low and Sweet
© Johannes Carl Andersen
Soft, low and sweet, the blackbird wakes the day,
And clearer pipes, as rosier grows the gray
Of the wide sky, far, far into whose deep
The rath lark soars, and scatters down the steep
His runnel song, that skyey roundelay.
Sleeping on a Night of Autumn Rain
© Bai Juyi
It's cold this night in autumn's third month,
Peacefully within, a lone old man.
Shooter's Hill
© Robert Bloomfield
Health! I seek thee;-dost thou love
The mountain top or quiet vale,
Sonnet To Love
© Helen Maria Williams
AH , Love! ere yet I knew thy fatal power,
Bright glow'd the colour of my youthful days,
Sonnet
© Nicholas Breton
The worldly prince doth in his sceptre hold
A kind of heaven in his authorities;
St. Martin's Summer
© John Greenleaf Whittier
Though flowers have perished at the touch
Of Frost, the early comer,
I hail the season loved so much,
The good St. Martin's summer.
Sonnet. Written In Disgust Of Vulgar Superstition
© John Keats
The church bells toll a melancholy round,
Calling the people to some other prayers,
Some other gloominess, more dreadful cares,
More hearkening to the sermon's horrid sound.
"`Shepherd swains that feed your flocks"
© Alfred Austin
`Shepherd swains that feed your flocks
'Mong the grassy-rooted rocks,
Sonnet LIV: Love's Fatality
© Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sweet Love,but oh! most dread Desire of Love
Life-thwarted. Linked in gyves I saw them stand,
Sunlight And Sea
© Alfred Noyes
Give me the sunlight and the sea
And who shall take my heaven from me?
Sur L'Herbe
© Paul Verlaine
"The abbe rambles."--"You, marquis,
Have put your wig on all awry."--
"This wine of Cyprus kindles me
Less, my Camargo, than your eye!"
Spring Bereaved 1
© William Henry Drummond
THAT zephyr every year
So soon was heard to sigh in forests here,
Sonnet 57: Woe, Having Made With Many Fights
© Sir Philip Sidney
Woe, having made with many fights his own
Each sense of mine; each gift, each power of mind
Grown now his slaves, he forc'd them out to find
The thoroughest words, fit for Woe's self to groan,
Santa Christina
© Henry Van Dyke
Saints are God's flowers, fragrant souls
That His own hand hath planted,