To A Poet (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine By William Butler Yeats You say, as I have often given …
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Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors By William Butler Yeats What they undertook to do They brought to pass; All things hang like a drop of dew Upon…
The Balloon of the Mind (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
The Balloon of the Mind By William Butler Yeats Hands, do what you’re bid: Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its …
Sydney (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
Sydney By Rudyard Kipling Greeting! My birth-stain have I turned to good; Forcing strong wills perverse to steadfastness; The first flush of the…
The Book-Worms (Poem by Robert Burns)
The Book-Worms By Robert Burns Through and through the inspir’d leaves, Ye maggots, make your windings; But oh! respect his lordship’s taste, …
Rangoon (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
Rangoon By Rudyard Kipling Hail, Mother! Do they call me rich in trade? Little care I, but hear the shorn priest drone, And watch my silk-clad l…
The Nineteenth Century and After (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
The Nineteenth Century and After By William Butler Yeats Though the great song return no more There’s keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pe…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Inscription for a Crucifix (Poem by Victor Hugo)
Inscription for a Crucifix [1] By Victor Hugo Ye weepers, the Mourner o'er mourners behold! Ye wounded, come hither — the Healer enfold! Ye gloo…
On a Celebrated Ruling Elder (Poem by Robert Burns)
On a Celebrated Ruling Elder By Robert Burns Here souter Hood in death does sleep; — To h — ll, if he’s gane thither, Satan, gie him thy gear t…
To the Men and Brethren of the Masonic Lodge at Tarbolton (Poem by Robert Burns)
To the Men and Brethren of the Masonic Lodge at Tarbolton By Robert Burns Within your dear mansion may wayward contention Or withering envy ne’e…
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…
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…