Poems begining by Y
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© Dora Sigerson Shorter
The green has come to the leafless tree,
The earth brings forth its grain;
Youth And Age
© Denis Florence MacCarthy
To give the blossom and the fruit
The soft warm air that wraps them round,
Oh! think how long the toilsome root
Must live and labour 'neath the ground.
Young Benjie
© Andrew Lang
Of all the maids of fair Scotland,
The fairest was Marjorie;
And young Benjie was her ae true love,
And a dear true love was he.
Ye Wearie Wayfarer [A Dedication to the author of Holmby House"
© Adam Lindsay Gordon
Fytte I
By Wood and Wold
[A Preamble]
Yonder He Goes!
© William Henry Ogilvie
Always our fathers were hunters, lords of the pitiless spear,
Chasing in English woodlands the wild white ox and the deer,
Your Awful Voice
© Thomas Shadwell
Your awful voice I hear and I obey,
Brother to Jove and monarch of the sea.
Come down, my blusterers, swell no more,
Your stormy rage give o'er.
Yin And Yang
© Kenneth Rexroth
It is spring once more in the Coast Range
Warm, perfumed, under the Easter moon.
You Have Let The Beauty Of The Day Go Over
© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
You have let the beauty of the day go over,
You have let the glory of the noon go by.
Clouds from the West have gathered close and cover
All but a remnant now of our proud sky.
Youth
© Edgar Albert Guest
If I had youth I'd bid the world to try me;
I'd answer every challenge to my will.
Young Sycamore
© William Carlos Williams
I must tell you
this young tree
whose round and firm trunk
between the wet
You left meSiretwo Legacies
© Emily Dickinson
You left meSiretwo Legacies
A Legacy of Love
A Heavenly Father would suffice
Had He the offer of
"You would have understood me, had you waited"
© Ernest Christopher Dowson
You would have understood me, had you waited;
I could have loved you, dear! as well as he:
Had we not been impatient, dear! and fated
Always to disagree.
Youth Sings A Song Of Rosebuds
© Countee Cullen
Since men grow diffident at last,
And care no whit at all,
Young Lambs
© John Clare
The spring is coming by a many signs;
The trays are up, the hedges broken down,
Your Feet
© Pablo Neruda
When I cannot look at your face
I look at your feet.
Your feet of arched bone,
your hard little feet.
You Say You Love
© John Keats
I
You say you love ; but with a voice
Chaster than a nun's, who singeth
The soft Vespers to herself
While the chime-bell ringeth-
O love me truly!
Ye Mariners of England
© Thomas Campbell
1 Ye Mariners of England
2 That guard our native seas,
3 Whose flag has braved, a thousand years,
4 The battle and the breeze--
Yowzah
© Sheldon Allan Silverstein
Well it wasn't too very long ago you know some folks walked with a hi-dee-ho
And other folks walked around kind of low
Sayin' Yowzah and Sho nuff and Yassuh boss
It was ashes to ashes and dust to dust and they didn't believe in makin' a fuss