Dawn (Poem by Emily Dickinson)
Dawn By Emily Dickinson Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door; Or has it feathers like a bird, Or billows like a shore? Poem…
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Hong-Kong (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
Hong-Kong By Rudyard Kipling Hail, Mother! Hold me fast; my Praya sleeps Under innumerable keels to-day. Yet guard (and landward) or to-morrow s…
Statistics (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
Statistics By William Butler Yeats ‘Those Platonists are a curse,’ he said, ‘God’s fire upon the wane, A diagram hung there instead, More women born…
A Grace (Poem by Robert Burns)
A Grace By Robert Burns Lord, we thank and thee adore, For temp’ral gifts we little merit; At present we will ask no more, Let William Hyslo…
As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing (Poem by Walter Whitman)
As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing By Walter Whitman As I watch’d the ploughman ploughing, Or the sower sowing in the fields, or the harvester harve…
Epitaph (Poem by Robert Burns)
Epitaph By Robert Burns Here brewer Gabriel’s fire’s extinct, And empty all his barrels: He’s blest — if, as he brew’d, he drink — In uprigh…
Hobart (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
Hobart By Rudyard Kipling Man's love first found me; man's hate made me Hell; For my babes' sake I cleansed those infamies. Earnest …
Bessie and the Bunyip (Poem by C. J. Dennis)
Bessie and the Bunyip By C. J. Dennis Bessie met a bunyip down along the track, In his hand a billy and a swag upon his back. And you wi…
Impromptu to Miss Ainslie (Poem by Robert Burns)
Impromptu to Miss Ainslie By Robert Burns Fair maid, you need not take the hint, Nor idle texts pursue: — ’Twas guilty sinners that he meant, …
On a Suicide (Poem by Robert Burns)
On a Suicide By Robert Burns Earth’d up here lies an imp o’ hell, Planted by Satan’s dibble — Poor silly wretch, he’s damn’d himsel’ To save…
For Gavin Hamilton (Poem by Robert Burns)
For Gavin Hamilton By Robert Burns The poor man weeps — here Gavin sleeps, Whom canting wretches blam’d: But with such as he, where’er he be, …
On Miss Jessy Lewars (Poem by Robert Burns)
On Miss Jessy Lewars By Robert Burns Say, sages, what’s the charm on earth Can turn Death’s dart aside? It is not purity and worth, Else Jes…
Youth and Age (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
Youth and Age By William Butler Yeats Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting…
On a Noisy Polemic (Poem by Robert Burns)
On a Noisy Polemic By Robert Burns Below thir stanes lie Jamie’s banes: O Death, it’s my opinion, Thou ne’er took such a blethrin’ b — ch In…