O wondrous mother! since the dawn of time
Was ever love, was ever grief, like thine?
O highly favored in thy joy's deep flow,
And favored, even in this, thy bitterest woe!

The Old Song

© Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I saw the kings of London town,
The kings that buy and sell,
That built it up with penny loaves
And penny lies as well:

The Boys' And Girls' Thanksgiving of 1892

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

Never since the race was started,
Had a boy in any clime,
Cause to be so thankful-hearted,
As the boys of present time.

Lucasta, Taking The Waters At Tunbridge.

© Richard Lovelace

I.
Yee happy floods! that now must passe
The sacred conduicts of her wombe,
Smooth and transparent as your face,
When you are deafe, and windes are dumbe.

To Bi Siyao

© Du Fu

Once stately figures in the art of rhyme,

Now sadly down at heels, our careers in ruin,

Purgatorio (English)

© Dante Alighieri

To run o'er better waters hoists its sail
The little vessel of my genius now,
That leaves behind itself a sea so cruel;

Winter's Approach

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

DE sun hit shine an' de win' hit blow,

Ol' Brer Rabbit be a-layin' low,

The Missing Star

© Augusta Davies Webster

WHY did the star leave the sky,

The far, pure sky?

Twilight

© Caroline Norton

When the mournful Jewish mother
Laid her infant down to rest,
In doubt, and fear, and sorrow,
On the water's changeful breast;

The Austral Months

January

The first fair month! In singing Summers sphere

Worn Out

You bid me hold my peace
And dry my fruitless tears,
Forgetting that I bear
A pain beyond my years.

The Monument Of Q.H.F.

Look you, the monument I have erected
High as the pyramids, royal, sublime,
During as brass--it shall not be affected
E'en by the elements coupled with Time.

Point Joe

Point Joe has teeth and has torn ships; it has fierce and solitary
beauty;
Walk there all day you shall see nothing that will not make part
of a poem.