Love (Poem by Kahlil Gibran) Love By Kahlil Gibran They say the jackal and the mole Drink from the self-same stream Where the lion comes to drink. And they say the eagle and the…
The Old Man's Love (Poem by Victor Hugo) The Old Man's Love By Victor Hugo O mockery! that this halting love That fills the heart so full of flame and transport, Forgets the body while …
Faces (Poem by Walter Whitman) Faces (1) By Walter Whitman Sauntering the pavement or riding the country by-road, faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality…
To Frances S. Osgood (Poem by Edgar Allan Poe) To Frances S. Osgood By Edgar Allan Poe Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart From its present pathway part not; Being everything which now th…
Old Mother Laidinwool (Poem by Rudyard Kipling) Old Mother Laidinwool By Rudyard Kipling 'Old Mother Laidinwool had nigh twelve months been dead. She heard the hops was doing well, an' so …
Magaguadavic and Digdeguash (Poem by William Hodgson Ellis) Magaguadavic and Digdeguash By William Hodgson Ellis “Are not Abana and Pharpar rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel?” Let each …
To My Mother (Poem by Edgar Allan Poe) To My Mother By Edgar Allan Poe Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning term…
Happy is England (Poem by John Keats) Happy is England By John Keats Happy is England ! I could be content To see no other verdure than its own; To feel no other breezes than are…
The Blue-Eyed Lass (Poem by Robert Burns) The Blue-Eyed Lass (1) By Robert Burns I gaed a waefu’ gate yestreen, A gate, I fear, I’ll dearlie rue; I gat my death frae twa sweet een, T…