Poems begining by T
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The Volunteer
© Sir Henry Newbolt
He leap to arms unbidden,
Unneeded, over-bold;
His face by earth is hidden,
His heart in earth is cold.
The Rivers
© Felicia Dorothea Hemans
GO! trace th' unnumbered streams, o'er earth
That wind their devious course,
That draw from Alpine heights their birth,
Deep vale, or cavern source.
The Perfect Hat
© William Henry Ogilvie
The Bowler and the Wide-awake,
The Topper and the Straw,
The Homburg and the Helmet
The Ghost of Heaven
© Carolyn Forche
Sleep to sleep through thirty years of night,
a child herself with child,
for whom we searched
The Joy Of The Lord Is Your Strength
© John Newton
Joy is a fruit that will not grow
In nature's barren foil;
All we can boast, till Christ we know,
Is vanity and toil.
The Spirit Medium
© William Butler Yeats
POETRY, music, I have loved, and yet
Because of those new dead
That come into my soul and escape
Confusion of the bed,
Or those begotten or unbegotten
Perning in a band,
The Little Turtle
© Roald Dahl
There was a little turtle.
He lived in a box.
He swam in a puddle.
He climbed on the rocks.
The Snow Is Deep on the Ground
© Kenneth Patchen
The snow is deep on the ground.
Always the light falls
Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.
To The Honble. Miss Carteret, Now Countess Of Dysert.
© Mary Barber
Fair Innocence, the Muses lovelicst
On Acts of Mercy sound thy rising Fame.
Let others from frail Beauty hope Applause:
Plead thou the Fatherless, and Widow's Cause.
The Flâneur
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
Boston Common, December 6, 1882 during the Transit of Venus
I love all sights of earth and skies,
The Snail
© William Cowper
To grass, or leaf, or fruit, or wall,
The snail sticks close, nor fears to fall,
As if he grew there, house and all
Together.
the garden of delight
© Paul Celan
and for some
certain only of the syllables
it is the element they
search their lives for
The Lilies Of The Field
© Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Flowers! when the Saviour's calm benignant eye
Fell on your gentle beauty; when from you
The Name
© Gerald Stern
Having outlived Allen I am the one who
has to suffer New York all by myself and
The Eviction
© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Unruly tenant of my heart,
Full fain would I be quit of thee.
I've played too long a losing part.
Thou bringest me neither gold nor fee.
The Truth About Envy
© Edgar Albert Guest
I like to see the flowers grow,
To see the pansies in a row;
The Posture
© Lucretius
Of like importance is the posture too,
In which the genial feat of Love we do:
The Cry Of A Lost Soul
© John Greenleaf Whittier
In that black forest, where, when day is done,
With a snake's stillness glides the Amazon
Darkly from sunset to the rising sun,
