Poems begining by T
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The Beggar's Child
© Padraic Colum
MAVOURNEEN, we'll go far away
From the net of the crooked town
Where they grudge us the light of the day.
The Burial Of Moses
© Cecil Frances Alexander
By Nebo's lonely mountain,
On this side Jordan's wave,
The Usurpation
© Abraham Cowley
Thou 'adst to my soul no title or pretence;
I was mine own, and free,
The Kindly Neighbor
© Edgar Albert Guest
I have a kindly neighbor, one who stands
Beside my gate and chats with me awhile,
They Lived Enamoured of the Lovely Moon
© Trumbull Stickney
They lived enamoured of the lovely moon,
The dawn and twilight on their gentle lake.
To Thomas Woolner
© Dante Gabriel Rossetti
First Snow, February
WOOLNER, to-night it snows for the first time.
The Watcher
© George MacDonald
From out a windy cleft there comes a gaze
Of eyes unearthly, which go to and fro
The King Goes To War
© Confucius
The wild geese fly the bushy oaks around,
With clamor loud. _Suh-suh_ their wings resound,
The Inquisitive Mans Dream
© Charles Baudelaire
Á Nadar
Do you know, as I do, delicious sadness
and make others say of you: Strange man!
- I was dying. In my soul, singular illness,
The Illuminated City
© Felicia Dorothea Hemans
THE hills all glow'd with a festive light,
For the royal city rejoic'd by night:
Taps At West Point
© John Jay Chapman
THE dim and wintry river lies
Torpid and ice-bound, like a giant snake;
The Pioneer
© Edgar Lee Masters
From the wide miles of autumn corn,
Here to this sun-lit hill,
The wind wails for a hope forlorn,
And the grief of a ruined will.
The Progress Of Refinement. Part II.
© Henry James Pye
CONTENTS OF PART II. Introduction.Sketch of the Northern barbarians.Feudal system.Origin of Chivalry.Superstition.Crusades. Hence the enfranchisement of Vassals, and Commerce encouraged. The Northern and Western Europeans, struck with the splendor of Constantinople, and the superior elegance of the Saracens.Origin of Romance. The remains of Science confined to the monasteries, and in an unknown language.Hence the distinction of learning.Discovery of the Roman Jurisprudence, and it's effects.Classic writers begin to be admiredArts revive in Italy.Greek learning introduced there, on the taking of Constantinople by the Turks.That event lamented.Learning encouraged by Leo X.Invention of Printing.The Reformation.It's effects, even on those countries that retained their old Religion. It's establishment in Britain.Age of Elizabeth. Arts and Literature flourish.Spenser.Shakespear. Milton.Dryden.The Progress of the Arts checked by the Civil War.Patronized in France. Age of Lewis XIV.Taste hurt in England during the profligate reign of Charles II.Short and turbulent reign of his Successor.King William no encourager of the Arts.Age of Queen Anne.Manners.Science and Literature flourish.Neglected by the first Princes of the House of Brunswick.Patronage of Arts by his present Majesty.Poetry not encouraged.Address to the King.General view of the present state of Refinement. Among the European Nations.France. Britain.Italy.Spain.Holland and Germany. Increasing Influence of French manners. Russia.Greece.Asia.China.Africa. America.Newly discovered islands.European Colonies.
The Pirate Poodle
© Carolyn Wells
Once there was a Pirate Poodle,
And he sailed the briny seas
From the land of Yankee Doodle
Southward to the Caribbees.
The Duel (The Gingham Dog And The Calico Cat)
© Eugene Field
The gingham dog and the calico cat
Side by side on the table sat;
Two Friends
© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
A certain person came to the Friend's door
and knocked.
"Who's there?"
"It's me."
The Friend answered, "Go away. There's no place
for raw meat at this table."
TO Mr.I.L.
© John Donne
OF that short roll of friends writ in my heart,
Which with thy name begins, since their depart,
