Blue-Butterfly Day (Poem by Robert Lee Frost) Blue-Butterfly Day By Robert Lee Frost It is blue-butterfly day here in spring, And with these sky-flakes down in flurry on flurry There is more unm…
The Silence of Love (Poem by Duncan Campbell Scott) The Silence of Love By Duncan Campbell Scott My heart would need the earth, My voice would need the sea, To only tell the one half How dear …
From Beyond (Poem by Duncan Campbell Scott) From Beyond By Duncan Campbell Scott Here there is balm for every tender heart Wounded by life; Rest for each one who bore a valiant part Cr…
Toomai of the Elephants (Poem by Rudyard Kipling) Toomai of the Elephants By Rudyard Kipling I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chain. I will remember my old strength and all my f…
The Parting Ways (Poem by Frank Oliver Call) The Parting Ways By Frank Oliver Call We trod together pleasant ways; The earth was fair and blue the sky; Clear were the nights and bright the …
The Indifferent Ones (Poem by Frank Oliver Call) The Indifferent Ones By Frank Oliver Call Unmoved they sit by the stream of life And its blood-red tide to the sea goes down, While the hosts ar…
You Went Away in Summertime (Poem by Frank Oliver Call) You Went Away in Summertime By Frank Oliver Call You went away in summertime When leaves and flowers were young, And birds still lingered in the…
Loss of the Steamship Florizel (Poem by Edwin John Dove Pratt) Loss of the Steamship Florizel By Edwin John Dove Pratt What changed thy face from that of yesterday, Great Sea! that with thy mothering hands o…
Great Tides (Poem by Edwin John Dove Pratt) Great Tides By Edwin John Dove Pratt Great Tides! You filled the reaches Under the North's wild blow; Yet could not spare this smaller cup …
Mowgli's Brothers (Poem by Rudyard Kipling) Mowgli's Brothers By Rudyard Kipling Now Chil the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free — The herds are shut in byre a…
Thomas Conant (Poem by James McIntyre) Thomas Conant By James McIntyre Lines sent to Thomas Conant of Oshawa, a writer of Canadian sketches. We do greet thee Thomas Conant, You truthful p…
Autumn (Poem by Emily Dickinson) Autumn By Emily Dickinson The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town…
Mine (Poem by Emily Dickinson) Mine By Emily Dickinson Mine by the right of the white election! Mine by the royal seal! Mine by the sign in the scarlet prison Bars cannot conceal!…
Angels (Poem by Emily Dickinson) Angels By Emily Dickinson Angels in the early morning May be seen the dews among, Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying: Do the buds to them belong? A…
The Bride (Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke) The Bride By Rainer Maria Rilke Call me, Beloved! Call aloud to me! Thy bride her vigil at the window keeps; The evening wanes to dusk,…
The Ideal (Poem by Duncan Campbell Scott) The Ideal By Duncan Campbell Scott Let your soul grow a thing apart, Untroubled by the restless day, Sublimed by some unconscious art, Contr…
Screw-Gun Mules (Poem by Rudyard Kipling) Screw-Gun Mules By Rudyard Kipling As me and my companions were scrambling up a hill, The path was lost in rolling stones, but we went forward still…
A River Sunset (Poem by Frank Oliver Call) A River Sunset By Frank Oliver Call Red sunlight fades from wood and town, The western sky is crimson-dyed, Gaunt shadow-ships drift silent down…
On William Smellie (Poem by Robert Burns) On William Smellie By Robert Burns Shrewd Willie Smellie to Crochallan came, The old cock’d hat, the gray surtout, the same; His bristling beard jus…
On Seeing Miss Fontenelle (Poem by Robert Burns) On Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character By Robert Burns Sweet naiveté of feature, Simple, wild, enchanting elf, Not to thee, but than…