Counter Attack By Siegfried Sassoon We’d gained our first objective hours before While dawn broke like a face with blinking eyes, Pallid, unshaven and thirsty, blind with smoke. Things seemed all right at first. We held their line, With bombers…
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Pippa’s Song
Pippa’s Song By Robert Browning The year’s at the spring, And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’s dew-pearled; The lark’s on the wing; The snail’s on the thorn; God’s in his Heaven — All’s right with the…
The Cry of The Children
The Cry of The Children By Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Pheu pheu, ti prosderkesthe m ommasin, tekna;” [[Alas, alas, why do you gaze at me with your eyes, my children.]]—Medea. Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the…
Shooting Stars
Shooting Stars By Carol Ann Duffy After I no longer speak they break our fingers to salvage my wedding ring. Rebecca Rachel Ruth Aaron Emmanuel David, stars on all our brows beneath the gaze of men with guns. Mourn for…
In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells]
In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells] By Lord Tennyson Alfred Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring…
Romans 10:9
Verse That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. – Romans 10:9 Meaning of Romans 10:9 One of the…
Romans 3:23
Verse For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; – Romans 3:23 Meaning of Romans 3:23 The verse Romans 3:23 from the book Roman is one of the most used verses to point out the inability…
Rose Symbolism
Symbolism of Rose in Literature Rose is the most used flower in literature. Rose as symbolism in literature can be seen extensively in artworks, both medieval and contemporary, where royal men or women hold a rose to represent love as…
London Bridge Is Falling Down
London Bridge Is Falling Down Nursery Rhyme London Bridge Is Falling Down, Falling down, falling down, London Bridge Is Falling Down, My fair Lady. Build it up with wood and clay, Wood and clay, wood and clay, Build it up…
Goosey Goosey Gander
Goosey Goosey Gander Nursery Rhyme Goosey goosey gander, Whither shall I wander? Upstairs and downstairs And in my lady’s chamber. There I met an old man Who wouldn’t say his prayers, So I took him by his left leg And…
A Sailor Went to Sea
A Sailor Went to Sea By Nursery Rhyme A sailor went to sea, sea, sea, To see what he could see, see, see. But all that he could see, see, see, Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea,…
Equality
Equality By Maya Angelou You declare you see me dimly through a glass which will not shine, though I stand before you boldly, trim in rank and marking time. You do own to hear me faintly as a whisper out…
Mock Orange
Mock Orange By Louise Gluck It is not the moon, I tell you. It is these flowers lighting the yard. I hate them. I hate them as I hate sex, the man’s mouth sealing my mouth, the man’s paralyzing body—…
On The Grasshopper and Cricket
On The Grasshopper and Cricket By John Keats The Poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the…
Ode To Psyche
Ode To Psyche B John Keats O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear, And pardon that thy secrets should be sung Even into thine own soft-conched ear: Surely I dreamt to-day, or did I…
High Flight
High Flight By John Gillespie Magee Jr. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things You have…
Spare
Spare By Joanna Klink in Texas, the thick nights. Sidewalks as the dusk darkens, the highway’s streaking lights. Some people are always in a hurry, beautifully— some stop to tilt their heads at a cloud or strange sound. You know…
The Laughing Heart
The Laughing Heart By Charles Bukowski Your life is your life Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. There are ways out. There is a light somewhere. It may not be much light but It…
Sonnet 125
Sonnet 125 By William Shakespeare Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy, With my extern the outward honouring, Or laid great bases for eternity, Which proves more short than waste or ruining; Have I not seen dwellers on form…
Sonnet 123
Sonnet 123 By William Shakespeare No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change: Thy pyramids built up with newer might To me are nothing novel, nothing strange; They are but dressings of a former sight. Our dates are…