Archives for 1900s
Where-Away by James Whitcomb Riley

Where-Away by James Whitcomb Riley

Published On Sunday, May 08, 2011. Under: 1900s, Riley, James Whitcomb.
  Where-Away by James Whitcomb Riley O the Lands of Where-Away! Tell us—tell us—where are they? Through the darkness and the dawn We have journeyed on and on— From the cradle to the cross— From possession unto loss,— Seeking still, from day to day, For the lands of Where-Away. When our baby-feet were first Planted where the ...
Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot

Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot

Published On Saturday, May 07, 2011. Under: 1900s, Eliot, T. S..
Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin. Daffodil bulbs instead of balls Stared from the sockets of the eyes! He knew that thought clings round dead limbs Tightening its lusts ...
The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon

The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon

Published On Tuesday, May 03, 2011. Under: 1900s, Sassoon, Sigfried.
  The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon Snug at the club two fathers sat, Gross, goggle-eyed, and full of chat. One of them said: "My eldest lad Writes cheery letters from Bagdad. But Arthur's getting all the fun At Arras with his nine-inch gun." "Yes," wheezed the other, "that's the luck! My boy's quite broken-hearted, ...
Memorial Day by Joyce Kilmer

Memorial Day by Joyce Kilmer

Published On Monday, May 02, 2011. Under: 1900s, Kilmer, Joyce.
Memorial Day by Joyce Kilmer "Dulce et decorum est" The bugle echoes shrill and sweet, But not of war it sings to-day. The road is rhythmic with the feet Of men-at-arms who come to pray. The roses blossom white and red On tombs where weary soldiers lie; Flags wave above the honored dead And martial ...
Tavern by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Tavern by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Published On Saturday, April 30, 2011. Under: 1900s, Millay, Edna St. Vincent.
  Tavern by Edna St. Vincent Millay I'll keep a little tavern Below the high hill's crest, Wherein all grey-eyed people May set them down and rest. There shall be plates a-plenty, And mugs to melt the chill Of all the grey-eyed people Who happen up the hill. There sound will sleep the traveller, And dream his ...
Love and a Question by Robert Frost

Love and a Question by Robert Frost

Published On Sunday, April 24, 2011. Under: 1900s, Frost, Robert.
Love and a Question by Robert Frost A STRANGER came to the door at eve, And he spoke the bridegroom fair. He bore a green-white stick in his hand, And, for all burden, care. He asked with the eyes more than the lips For a shelter for the night, And he turned and ...
His Dream by W. B. Yeats

His Dream by W. B. Yeats

Published On Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Under: 1900s, Yeats, W. B..
His Dream by W. B. Yeats I swayed upon the gaudy stern The butt end of a steering oar, And everywhere that I could turn Men ran upon the shore. And though I would have hushed the crowd There was no mother’s son but said, “What is the figure in a shroud Upon ...
The Past-Present by Walt Whitman

The Past-Present by Walt Whitman

Published On Sunday, April 10, 2011. Under: 1900s, Whitman, Walt.
The Past-Present by Walt Whitman I was looking a long while for the history of the past for myself, and for these chants—and now I have found it. It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither accept nor reject;) It is no more in the legends ...
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

Published On Saturday, April 02, 2011. Under: 1900s, Thomas.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Wild Asters by Sara Teasdale

Wild Asters by Sara Teasdale

Published On Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Under: 1900s, Teasdale, Sara.
Wild Asters by Sara Teasdale In the spring I asked the daisies If his words were true, And the clever little daisies Always knew. Now the fields are brown and barren, Bitter autumn blows, And of all the stupid asters Not one knows.
Indifference by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Indifference by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Published On Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Under: 1900s, Millay, Edna St. Vincent.
Indifference by Edna St. Vincent Millay I said,—for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,— "I'll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in bed; But I'll never leave my pillow, though there be some As would let him in—and take him in with ...
Inspiration by Aldous Huxley

Inspiration by Aldous Huxley

Published On Sunday, March 27, 2011. Under: 1900s, Huxley.
Inspiration  by Aldous Huxley Noonday upon the Alpine meadows  Pours its avalanche of Light  And blazing flowers: the very shadows  Translucent are and bright.  It seems a glory that nought surpasses—  Passion of angels in form and hue—  When, lo! from the jewelled heaven of the grasses  Leaps a lightning of sudden blue.  Dimming the ...
In a Library by Emily Dickinson

In a Library by Emily Dickinson

Published On Friday, March 25, 2011. Under: 1900s, Dickinson, Emily.
In a Library by Emily Dickinson A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to ...
The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats

The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats

Published On Monday, March 21, 2011. Under: 1900s, Yeats, W. B..
The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while ...
Poets by Joyce Kilmer

Poets by Joyce Kilmer

Published On Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Under: 1900s, Kilmer, Joyce.
Poets  by Joyce Kilmer      Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells       That the wind sways above a ruined shrine.      Vainer his voice in whom no longer dwells       Hunger that craves immortal Bread and Wine.      Light songs we breathe that perish with our breath       Out of our ...
Exposure by Wilfred Owen

Exposure by Wilfred Owen

Published On Sunday, March 13, 2011. Under: 1900s, Owen, Wilfred.
Exposure by Wilfred Owen I Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us . . . Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent . . . Low drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient . . . Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous, But ...
Helen of Troy by Sara Teasdale

Helen of Troy by Sara Teasdale

Published On Sunday, March 13, 2011. Under: 1900s, Teasdale, Sara.
Helen of Troy by Sara Teasdale Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn The flames' red wings soar upward duskily. This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead That sparkled so the day I saw it first, And darkened slowly after. I am she Who loves all beauty—yet I wither ...
Preludes by T. S. Eliot

Preludes by T. S. Eliot

Published On Sunday, March 06, 2011. Under: 1900s, Eliot, T. S., Uncategorized.
Preludes by T. S. Eliot I The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of ...
The Dream by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Dream by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Published On Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Under: 1900s, Millay, Edna St. Vincent.
The Dream by Edna St. Vincent Millay Love, if I weep it will not matter, And if you laugh I shall not care; Foolish am I to think about it, But it is good to feel you there. Love, in my sleep I dreamed of waking,— White and awful the moonlight ...
Beauty and Beauty by Rupert Brooke

Beauty and Beauty by Rupert Brooke

Published On Monday, February 21, 2011. Under: 1800s, 1900s, Brooke, Rupert.
  Beauty and Beauty by Rupert Brooke When Beauty and Beauty meet All naked, fair to fair, The earth is crying-sweet, And scattering-bright the air, Eddying, dizzying, closing round, With soft and drunken laughter; Veiling all that may befall After—after— Where Beauty and Beauty met, Earth's still a-tremble there, And winds are scented yet, And memory-soft the air, Bosoming, ...
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