The Two Old Bachelors (Poem by Edward Lear)
The Two Old Bachelors By Edward Lear Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse. Said he who caught t…
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King Henry VII (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
King Henry VII And The Shipwrights By Rudyard Kipling Harry, our King in England, from London town is gone, And comen to Hamull on the Hoke in the c…
Madness (Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke)
Madness By Rainer Maria Rilke She thinks: I am — Have you not seen? Who are you then, Marie? I am a Queen, I am a Queen! To your knee, …
Sweet Sister (Poem by Victor Hugo)
Sweet Sister By Victor Hugo Sweet sister, if you knew, like me, The charms of guileless infancy, No more you'd envy riper years, Or smiles, more…
Sappers (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
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…
The Duffer's Elegy (Poem by William Hodgson Ellis)
The Duffer's Elegy By William Hodgson Ellis “Oh! put me on your waiting list I'll be a golfer if I may And learn the joys too long I've …
O Do Not Love Too Long (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
O Do Not Love Too Long By William Butler Yeats Sweetheart do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion L…
The Three-decker (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
The Three-decker "The three-volume novel is extinct" By Rudyard Kipling Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail. It cost a wat…
On the Birth of a Posthumous Child (Poem by Robert Burns)
On the Birth of a Posthumous Child By Robert Burns Sweet flow’ret, pledge o’ meikle love, And ward o’ mony a pray’r, What heart o’ stane wad tho…