Death and Life (Poem by Emily Dickinson)
Death and Life By Emily Dickinson Apparently with no surprise To any happy flower, The frost beheads it at its play In accidental power. The blond a…
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The Spanish Lady's Love (Poem by Victor Hugo)
The Spanish Lady's Love By Victor Hugo To mount the hills or scaffold, we go to-morrow: Hernani, blame me not for this my boldness. Art thou min…
The Waking (Poem by Gilbert Parker)
The Waking By Gilbert Parker To be young is to dream, and I dreamed no more; I had smothered my heart as the fighter can: I toiled, and I looked…
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…
The Mother-Lodge (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
The Mother-Lodge By Rudyard Kipling There was Rundle, Station Master, An' Beazeley of the Rail, An' 'Ackman, Commissariat, An…
Our Lady of the Snows (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
Our Lady of the Snows (Canadian Preferential Tariff, 1897) By Rudyard Kipling A Nation spoke to a Nation. A Queen sent word to a Throne: "…
The Prairie (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
The Prairie By Rudyard Kipling 'I see the grass shake in the sun for leagues on either hand, I see a river loop and run about a treeless land — …
His Dream (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
His Dream By William Butler Yeats I swayed upon the gaudy stern The butt-end of a steering-oar, And saw wherever I could turn A crowd upon…
The Song of the Old Mother (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
The Song of the Old Mother By William Butler Yeats I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; An…