Category: Poems in History

Far Off-Shore by Herman Melville

Far Off-Shore by Herman Melville Look, the raft, a signal flying, Thin a shred; None upon the lashed spars lying,

Preludes by T. S. Eliot I The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’clock. The

A Dream by Matthew Aronold Was it a dream? We sail’d, I thought we sail’d, Martin and I, down the

“LUCY” by Oliver Wendell Holmes “Lucy.” The old familiar name Is now, as always, pleasant, Its liquid melody the

The Dream by Edna St. Vincent Millay Love, if I weep it will not matter, And if you laugh I

Beauty and Beauty by Rupert Brooke When Beauty and Beauty meet All naked, fair to fair, The earth is

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark

A Valentine by Lewis Carroll And cannot pleasures, while they last, Be actual unless, when past, They leave us shuddering

The Night March by Herman Melville With banners furled and clarions mute, An army passes in the night; And

Friends by W. B. Yeats Now must I these three praise Three women that have wrought What joy is