Category: Poems in History

The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon

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:

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

To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works by Phillis Wheatley TO show the lab’ring bosom’s deep

The Poet and the Lily by A. B. S. Tennyson A poet was born in a modern time, ‘Neath Saturn