Smile poems

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The Forsaken

© Thomas Hood

The dead are in their silent graves,
And the dew is cold above,
And the living weep and sigh,
Over dust that once was love.

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Mother and Daughter- Sonnet Sequence

© Augusta Davies Webster

  Oh goddess head! Oh innocent brave eyes!
Oh curved and parted lips where smiles are rare
And sweetness ever! Oh smooth shadowy hair
Gathered around the silence of her brow!
  Child, I'd needs love thy beauty stranger-wise:
And oh the beauty of it, being thou!

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If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem

© Jean Ingelow

 'Many,' methought, 'and rich
They must have been, so long their chronicle.
Perhaps the world was fuller then of folk,
For ships at sea are few that near us now.'

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Rural Elegance, An Ode to the Late Duchess of Somerset

© William Shenstone

While orient skies restore the day,
And dew-drops catch the lucid ray;
Amid the sprightly scenes of morn
Will aught the Muse inspire?
Oh! peace to yonder clamorous horn
That drowns the sacred lyre!

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The Two Dreams

© Algernon Charles Swinburne

I WILL that if I say a heavy thing

Your tongues forgive me; seeing ye know that spring

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The Kosa

© Thomas Pringle

The free-born Kosa still doth hold

  The fields his fathers held of old;

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King David

© Stephen Vincent Benet

David sang to his hook-nosed harp:
"The Lord God is a jealous God!
His violent vengeance is swift and sharp!
And the Lord is King above all gods!

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To Alice--Sit--By--The--Hour II

© Franklin Pierce Adams

Lady in the blue kimono,
  Although deadly hot the day,
Don't you think--(alas! we know no
  Way to put what we would say!)

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Solomon

© Thomas Parnell

But long expectance of a bliss delay'd
Breeds anxious doubt, and tempts the sacred maid;
Then mists arising strait repel the light,
The colour'd garden lies disguis'd with night,
A pale-horn'd crescent leads a glimm'ring throng,
And groans of absence jarr within the song.

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Glory

© Katharine Lee Bates

At the crowded gangway they kissed good-bye.
He had half a mind to scold her.
An officer's mother and not keep dry
The epaulet on his shoulder.

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Wanderlieder

© John Hay

I stand at the break of day

In the Champs Elysees.

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A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet IV

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Behold the deed is done. Here endeth all
That bound my grief to its ancestral ways.
I have passed out, as from a funeral,
From my dead home, and in the great world's gaze

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The Meeting Of The Centuries

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

A CURIOUS vision, on mine eyes unfurled
In the deep night. I saw, or seemed to see,
Two Centuries meet, and sit down vis-a-vis,
Across the great round table of the world.

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Sonnet VI. To G. A. W.

© John Keats

Nymph of the downward smile and sidelong glance!
In what diviner moments of the day
Art thou most lovely? -- when gone far astray
Into the labyrinths of sweet utterance,

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Muscadines

© Paul Hamilton Hayne

SOBER September, robed in gray and dun,
Smiled from the forest in half-pensive wise;
A misty sweetness shone in her mild eyes,
And on her cheek a shy flush went and came,

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The Scout Toward Aldie

© Herman Melville

Nine Blue-coats went a-nutting
  Slyly in Tennessee-
Not for chestnuts - better than that-
  Hugh, you bumble-bee!
Nutting, nutting -
  All through the year there's nutting!

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The Angel In The House. Book II. Canto IX.

© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

III Disappointment
  ‘The bliss which woman's charms bespeak,
  ‘I've sought in many, found in none!’
  ‘In many 'tis in vain you seek
  ‘What can be found in only one.’

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Questions And Answers

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

WHERE, oh where are the visions of morning,
Fresh as the dews of our prime?
Gone, like tenants that quit without warning,
Down the back entry of time.

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Invocation

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Through Thy clear spaces, Lord, of old,
Formless and void the dead earth rolled;
Deaf to Thy heaven's sweet music, blind
To the great lights which o'er it shined;
No sound, no ray, no warmth, no breath,--
A dumb despair, a wandering death.

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Aldaran

© Annie Campbell Huestis

ALDARAN, who loved to sing,

  Here lieth dead.