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…
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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…
Into the Twilight (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
Into the Twilight By William Butler Yeats Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, …
On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair (Poem by Robert Burns)
On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair By Robert Burns The lamp of day, with ill-presaging glare, Dim, cloudy, sunk beneath the western wave; Th…
The Farewell (Poem by Robert Burns)
The Farewell (1) By Robert Burns Farewell, old Scotia’s bleak domains, Far dearer than the torrid plains Where rich ananas blow! Farewell, a mot…