Category: 1900s

THE HIGHWAYMAN by Alfred Noyes

“The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes is a haunting narrative poem that tells a tragic tale of love and sacrifice in 18th-century England.

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

Wild Asters by Sara Teasdale In the spring I asked the daisies If his words were true, And the clever

Indifference by Edna St. Vincent Millay I said, for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come, “I’ll hear