Time poems
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The Task: Book IV. -- The Winter Evening
© William Cowper
Hark! tis the twanging horn oer yonder bridge,
That with its wearisome but needful length
Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: LVII
© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
This was my term of glory. All who know
Something of life will guess untold the end.
In love, one ever kisses for his woe,
One lends his cheek, alas! or seems to lend,
Hos Ego Versiculos
© Francis Quarles
The Rose withers, the blossome blasteth,
The flowre fades, the morning hasteth:
The Sunne sets, the shadow flies,
The Gourd consumes, and man he dies.
Olney Hymn 21: Sardis
© William Cowper
"Write to Sardis," saith the Lord,
"And write what He declares,
The Prophecy Of Capys
© Thomas Babbington Macaulay
X.
So marched they along the lake;
They marched by fold and stall,
By cornfield and by vineyard,
Unto the old man's hall.
Pharsalia - Book I: The Crossing Of The Rubicon
© Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
First of such deeds I purpose to unfold
The causes - task immense - what drove to arms
A maddened nation, and from all the world
Struck peace away.
Sister Jones's Confession
© James Whitcomb Riley
I thought the deacon liked me, yit
I warn't adzackly shore of it--
Prelude
© Steen Steensen Blicher
The time approaches for me to part!
Now winters voice is compelling;
A bird of passage, I know my heart
In other climes has its dwelling.
Sonnet XC: Retro Me, Sathana!
© Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Get thee behind me. Even as, heavy-curled,
Stooping against the wind, a charioteer
Once Below A Time
© Dylan Thomas
My silly suit, hardly yet suffered for,
Around some coffin carrying
Birdman or told ghost I hung.
And the owl hood, the heel hider,
Claw fold and hole for the rotten
Head, deceived, I believed, my maker,
Australia's Vision
© Roderic Quinn
ALL still! and, high above, the sun
In cloudless, golden reign
A mirage in the quivering west
A horseman on the plain!
The Wistful Lady
© Thomas Hardy
'Love, while you were away there came to me -
From whence I cannot tell -
A plaintive lady pale and passionless,
Who bent her eyes upon me critically,
And weighed me with a wearing wistfulness,
As if she knew me well.'
Ode
© William Wordsworth
I
IMAGINATION--ne'er before content,
But aye ascending, restless in her pride
From all that martial feats could yield
The Ancestors
© Allen Tate
When the night's coming and the last light falls
A weak child among lost shadows on the floor,
The Change
© Henry King
Il sabio mude conseio: Il loco persevera.
We lov'd as friends now twenty years and more:
Is't time or reason think you to give o're?
When though two prentiships set Jacob free,
In Exitum Cuiusdam
© Ezra Pound
On a certain one's departure
Time's bitter flood'! Oh, that's all very well,
Golf Pride
© Edgar Albert Guest
As a golfer I'm not one who cops the money,
I shall always be a member of the dubs;
Warning And Reply
© Emily Jane Brontë
In the earth-the earth-thou shalt be laid,
A grey stone standing over thee;
Black mould beneath thee spread,
And black mould to cover thee.
