A Pause of Thought by Christina Rossetti
A Pause of Thought by Christina Rossetti I looked for that which is not, nor can be, And hope deferred
A Poem A Day
A Pause of Thought by Christina Rossetti I looked for that which is not, nor can be, And hope deferred
The Warrior by John McCrae He wrought in poverty, the dull grey days, But with the night his little lamp-lit
The Honey Room by Donal Mahoney Brother Al, in his hood, is out in his field making love
Where-Away by James Whitcomb Riley O the Lands of Where-Away! Tell us?tell us?where are they? Through the darkness and
Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin;
The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon Snug at the club two fathers sat, Gross, goggle-eyed, and full of chat. One
Memorial Day by Joyce Kilmer “Dulce et decorum est” The bugle echoes shrill and sweet, But not of war it
Tavern by Edna St. Vincent Millay I’ll keep a little tavern Below the high hill’s crest, Wherein all grey-eyed
Love and a Question by Robert Frost A STRANGER came to the door at eve, And he spoke the bridegroom
His Dream by W. B. Yeats I swayed upon the gaudy stern The butt end of a steering oar, And
Sonnet VI by William Shakespeare Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface, In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill’d:
Kindliness by Rupert Brooke When love has changed to kindliness Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press So tight that
Hap by Thomas Hardy If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou
The Figure-Head by Herman Melville The Charles-and-Emma seaward sped, (Named from the carven pair at prow,) He so smart, and
Nightingales Robert Bridges Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come, And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom