Poems begining by Y

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You Will Not Come Again

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

The green has come to the leafless tree,

The earth brings forth its grain;

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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.

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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.

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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,

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You're

© Sylvia Plath

Clownlike, happiest on your hands,

Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,

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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.

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Yin And Yang

© Kenneth Rexroth

It is spring once more in the Coast Range

Warm, perfumed, under the Easter moon.

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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.

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Youth

© Edgar Albert Guest


If I had youth I'd bid the world to try me;

I'd answer every challenge to my will.

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Young Sycamore

© William Carlos Williams

I must tell you
this young tree
whose round and firm trunk
between the wet

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You left me—Sire—two Legacies

© Emily Dickinson

You left me—Sire—two Legacies—
A Legacy of Love
A Heavenly Father would suffice
Had He the offer of—

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"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.

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Youth Sings A Song Of Rosebuds

© Countee Cullen

Since men grow diffident at last,

And care no whit at all,

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Young Lambs

© John Clare

The spring is coming by a many signs;

  The trays are up, the hedges broken down,

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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.

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You Say You Love

© John Keats

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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!

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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--

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Yarrow Unvisited

© William Wordsworth

. From Stirling castle we had seen

 The mazy Forth unravelled;

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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