459. Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddell : : By Robert Burns NO more, ye warblers of the wood! no more; Nor pour your descant grating on my soul; Thou young-eyed Spring! gay in thy verdant stole,More welcome were to me grim Winter’s wildest roar. How can ye charm, ye flowers, with all yourContinue reading “On The Death Of Robert Riddell : Robert Burns : : Bird Poems : :”
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With how sad steps, O moon : From Astrophil and Stella : Sonnet ( 31 ) : : Sir Philip Sidney : : Moon Poems : :
how sad steps, O moon, thou climb’st the skies; 1 How silently, and with how wan a face. 2 What, may it be that even in heavenly place 3That busy archer his sharp arrows tries? 4Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes 5Can judge of love, thou feel’st a lover’s case; 6I read it in thy looks;Continue reading “With how sad steps, O moon : From Astrophil and Stella : Sonnet ( 31 ) : : Sir Philip Sidney : : Moon Poems : :”
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Sonnet : : Darkness Poems : :
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day’By Gerard Manley Hopkins : (1844 – 1889) : : ::I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.What hours, O what black hours we have spentThis night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went!And more must, in yet longer light’s delay. With witnessContinue reading “I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Sonnet : : Darkness Poems : :”
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free : William Wordsworth : : Evening Poems : :
It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free : : BY William Wordsworth ( 1770 – 1850 ) : : : : It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,The holy time is quiet as a NunBreathless with adoration; the broad sunIs sinking down in its tranquility;The gentleness of heaven broods o’er the Sea;Listen! theContinue reading “It is a beauteous evening, calm and free : William Wordsworth : : Evening Poems : :”
January : Hilaire Belloc : : January Poems : : Sonnet : : Months Poems : :
Hilaire Belloc JanuaryIt freezes- all across a soundless sky 1The birds go home. The governing dark’s begun: 2The steadfast dark that waits not for a sun; 3The ultimate dark wherein the race shall die. 4Death, with his evil finger to his lip, 5Leers in at human windows, turning spy 6To learn the country where hisContinue reading “January : Hilaire Belloc : : January Poems : : Sonnet : : Months Poems : :”
January : Dante Gabriel Rossetti : : Sonnet : : January Poem : : Months Poems : :
January –by Dante Gabriel Rossetti : For January I give you vests of skins,And mighty fires in hall, and torches lit; 2Chambers and happy beds with all things fit;Smooth silken sheets, rough furry counterpanes; 4And sweetmeats baked; and one that deftly spinsWarm arras; and Douay cloth, and store of it; 6And on this merry mannerContinue reading “January : Dante Gabriel Rossetti : : Sonnet : : January Poem : : Months Poems : :”
Ozymandias : Percy Bysshe Shelley : Sonnet : : School Poems : :
Ozymandias BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYI met a traveller from an antique land, 1Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone 2Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, 3Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, 4And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, 5Tell that its sculptor well those passionsContinue reading “Ozymandias : Percy Bysshe Shelley : Sonnet : : School Poems : :”
The Starlight Night : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Sonnet : : Star Poems : :
The Starlight NightBY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINSLook at the stars! look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!2 The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! 3Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves’-eyes! 4The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies! 5 Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles setContinue reading “The Starlight Night : Gerard Manley Hopkins : Sonnet : : Star Poems : :”
Bright Stars , Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art : John Keats : Sonnet : : Star Poems : :
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou artBY JOHN KEATSBright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— 1 Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night 2 And watching, with eternal lids apart, 3 Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike task 5 Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,Continue reading “Bright Stars , Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art : John Keats : Sonnet : : Star Poems : :”
The Stars are Mansions Built by Nature’s Hand : William Wordsworth : Sonnet : : Star Poems : :
The Stars Are Mansions Built By Nature’s Hand Poem by William Wordsworth : : : : The stars are mansions built by Nature’s hand, 1And, haply, there the spirits of the blest 2Dwell, clothed in radiance, their immortal vest; 3Huge Ocean shows, within his yellow strand,A habitation marvellously planned, 5For life to occupy in loveContinue reading “The Stars are Mansions Built by Nature’s Hand : William Wordsworth : Sonnet : : Star Poems : :”
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