Poetry

Sappers By  Rudyard Kipling When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear,     (“It's all one,” says the Sapper), The Lord He created t…

Spoils of the Dead By  Robert Lee Frost Two fairies it was     On a still summer day Came forth in the woods     With the flowers to play. The flower…

The Coming of Wisdom With Time By William Butler Yeats Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swa…

A Faery Song By William Butler Yeats We who are old, old and gay,* O so old! Thousands of years, thousands of years, If all were told: …

The Sorrow of Love By William Butler Yeats The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves, The brilliant moon and all the milky sky, And all th…

Girl's Song By  William Butler Yeats I went out alone To sing a song or two, My fancy on a man, And you know who. Another came in sight That on a…

Cavalry Horses By  Rudyard Kipling By the brand on my withers, the finest of tunes Is played by the Lancers, Hussars, and Dragoons, And it's swee…

Growing Up By  C. J. Dennis Little Tommy Tadpole began to weep and wail, For little Tommy Tadpole had lost his little tail;     And his mother didn&#…

Under the Moon By William Butler Yeats I have no happiness in dreaming of Brycelinde, Nor Avalon the grass-green hollow, nor Joyous Isle, …

Fallen Majesty By William Butler Yeats Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face, And even old men’s eyes grew dim, this h…

Love’s Tributaries By  Gilbert Parker I can say now, "There was the confluence Of all Love’s tributaries; there the sea Of Love spread out towar…

The Dying Man and the Vulture By  Kahlil Gibran Wait, wait yet awhile, my eager friend. I shall yield but too soon this wasted thing, Whose agony ove…

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…