Reflections On Having Left a Place of Retirement By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sermoni propriora. —Hor. Low was our pretty Cot: our tallest Rose Peep’d at the chamber-window. We could hear At silent noon, and eve, and early morn, The Sea’s…
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Pied Piper of Hamelin By Robert Browning Hamelin Town’s in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied; But, when begins my ditty,…
Parsley
Parsley By Rita Dove The Cane Fields There is a parrot imitating spring in the palace, its feathers parsley green. Out of the swamp the cane appears to haunt us, and we cut it down. El General searches for a…
Faith Healing
Faith Healing By Philip Larkin Slowly the women file to where he stands Upright in rimless glasses, silver hair, Dark suit, white collar. Stewards tirelessly Persuade them onwards to his voice and hands, Within whose warm spring rain of loving…
Let America Be America Again
Let America Be America Again By Langston Hughes Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never…
The Dream
The Dream By John Donne Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream; It was a theme For reason, much too strong for fantasy, Therefore thou wak’d’st me wisely; yet My dream thou brok’st…
Christmas Bells
Christmas Bells By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come,…
Casey at the Bat
Casey at the Bat By Ernest Lawrence Thayer The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day: The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play, And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows…
Sonnet 70
Sonnet 70: That Thou Art Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect By William Shakespeare That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander’s mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that…
Sonnet XXXVIII
Sonnet XXXVIII By William Shakespeare How can my muse want subject to invent, While thou dost breathe, that pour’st into my verse Thine own sweet argument, too excellent For every vulgar paper to rehearse? O! give thy self the thanks,…
Romeo And Juliet, Act I Prologue
Romeo And Juliet, Act I Prologue By William Shakespeare Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the…
On the Ning Nang Nong
On the Ning Nang Nong By Spike Milligan On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! and the monkeys all say BOO! There’s a Nong Nang Ning Where the trees go Ping! And the tea pots jibber jabber…
The Manhunt
The Manhunt By Simon Armitage After the first phase, after passionate nights and intimate days, only then would he let me trace the frozen river which ran through his face, only then would he let me explore the blown hinge…
Counter Attack
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…
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…
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…
