Ode To A Nightingale : John Keats : : Bird Poems : :

Ode to a Nightingale : : By John Keats ( 1795 – 1821 ) My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being tooContinue reading “Ode To A Nightingale : John Keats : : Bird Poems : :”

To The Skylark : William Wordsworth : ( 1 ) : : Skylark’s Singing & Chirping Video In Spring : Wildlife World : ( 2 ) : : Bird Poems : :

https://youtu.be/ssEZWMsQg_8?si=vUXMKJiPc-yt0bEN To the Skylark : : By William Wordsworth Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound?Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eyeBoth with thy nest upon the dewy ground?Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will,Those quivering wings composed, that music still! Leave to the nightingaleContinue reading “To The Skylark : William Wordsworth : ( 1 ) : : Skylark’s Singing & Chirping Video In Spring : Wildlife World : ( 2 ) : : Bird Poems : :”

Beeny Cliff : Thomas Hardy : : March Poems : : Month Poems : :

Beeny Cliff by Thomas HardyO the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea, 1And the woman riding high above with bright hair flapping free – 2The woman whom I loved so, and who loyally loved me. 3 The pale mews plained below us, and the waves seemed far away 4In a nether sky,Continue reading “Beeny Cliff : Thomas Hardy : : March Poems : : Month Poems : :”

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day ? : William Shakespeare : : School Poems : :

Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREShall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;And everyContinue reading “Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day ? : William Shakespeare : : School Poems : :”

Among School Children : W B Yeats : : School Poems : :

Among School ChildrenBY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;A kind old nun in a white hood replies;The children learn to cipher and to sing,To study reading-books and history,To cut and sew, be neat in everythingIn the best modern way—the children’s eyesIn momentary wonder stare uponA sixty-year-old smiling public man. II IContinue reading “Among School Children : W B Yeats : : School Poems : :”

The Kingfisher : W H Davies : : Rainbow Poems : :

The Kingfisher : By William Henry Davies : ( July 3 , 1871 – September 26 , 1940 ). : : : : : : It was the Rainbow gave thee birth,And left thee all her lovely hues; 2 And, as her mother’s name was Tears,So runs it in my blood to choose 4For hauntsContinue reading “The Kingfisher : W H Davies : : Rainbow Poems : :”

The Rainbow : James Thompson : : Rain/ Rainbow Poems : :

The Rainbow Poem by James Thomson : : : : Moist, bright, and green, the landscape laughs around.Full swell the woods; their every music wakes,Mix’d in wild concert, with the warbling brooksIncreased, the distant bleatings of the hills,And hollow lows responsive from the vales,Whence, blending all, the sweeten’d zephyr springs. ( 6 ) : StanzaContinue reading “The Rainbow : James Thompson : : Rain/ Rainbow Poems : :”

A Prayer For My Daughter : W B Yeats : : Daughter’s Poems : : ( 1 ) : :

A Prayer for my DaughterW. B. Yeats Once more the storm is howling, and half hidUnder this cradle-hood and coverlidMy child sleeps on. There is no obstacleBut Gregory’s wood and one bare hillWhereby the haystack- and roof-levelling wind,Bred on the Atlantic, can be stayed;And for an hour I have walked and prayedBecause of the greatContinue reading “A Prayer For My Daughter : W B Yeats : : Daughter’s Poems : : ( 1 ) : :”

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